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What do you mean it’s the TARDIS? I shouldn’t be able to hear her! Right? Humans are psi-null?”
The Doctor swallowed and nodded to Rose. “Yeah, they are. I’ve never heard of this happening before.” Rose could practically hear the gears turning in the Doctor’s head. Wait, what if she was? “I need to get you to New Earth.”
“New Earth?” Rose asked. “Why?” She crossed her arms and stood next to her at the console.
“Best hospital in the universe there. Way better than the TARDIS infirmary.” She Doctor started to pace back and forth. She put her pointer finger and thumb to her chin. The buzzing in Rose’s head changed. She tried to convey through her thoughts that she wasn’t mad at the TARDIS. This was some side effect of what happened, clearly. This was her own fault.
“I don’t feel bad or anything,” Rose said. “I didn’t even notice anything different until today.” The Doctor turned to Rose with a grave expression on her face.
“You may not be hurting now, but you’re a Human, a pure-blooded Human, this just simply isn’t possible. We don’t know what’s going to happen next.” Again, Rose noticed the worry simply radiating from the Doctor. She walked up and stopped the Doctor from pacing any further.
“We’re going to be fine, you and me. If getting me to this New Earth hospital will make you feel better, then we can go. Alright?”
The Doctor wrapped her up in a hug. “Good,” the Doctor said as she pulled away. She ran to the console and set the coordinates in. She gave off an excitable energy and almost danced around the console. She pressed a final button and they were off to time and space.
“Oh, I missed this,” Rose said, as they landed.
The Doctor shot Rose a happy look. “Me too.”
Rose grabbed the Doctor’s hand. She rubbed her thumb soothingly without even thinking about it. “We’re going to be ok. I’ll be fine. I’m sure of it.” Rose was lying of course, but she needed the Doctor to be on her wits. The Doctor faintly blushed and took her hand away from Rose.
“Let’s go!” And the pair walked towards the doors and stepped out onto New Earth. The doors open and Rose felt her senses be filled with the scents and sound of another planet. There was this fresh scent that made her smile wide as can be. She ran out and jumped onto the grass of the hill they landed, trying to get a feel for the planet’s gravity. It was the same as Earth. She took a deep sigh.
“Traveling with you? I love it, I’ll never stop. Different ground, different air!” She spun around with her arms outstretched. “I love it!”
The Doctor smiled. She walked out to meet Rose. “New Earth, a few years after the Earth was swallowed up by the Sun, it’s children grew nostalgic and here it was. A planet almost exactly like it in every way.”
Rose smiled. “So where’s this hospital?”
The Doctor pointed ahead with her finger to the large building with the green crescent moon on it. “Universal symbol for hospitals.” The pair of them made their way to the hospital and Rose was pretty sure the Doctor delighted in Rose’s reaction to the cat nurses.
“They’re cats.”
“Don’t be rude,” the Doctor chastised. “Think about what you look like to them, all pink and yellow.”
Rose snorted. “You look pink and yellow too, missy.” She flicked her finger in the Doctor’s face. The Doctor burst out into laughter and went to the desk. A voice called to her.
“This way, Rose Tyler.” The voice was male and Rose had to stop herself from assuming it wasn’t a nurse. Of course male nurses existed. She was being silly in her apprehension. Rose followed the voice into the elevator and it went down on its own.
Rose should’ve known something was wrong, she told herself. She was too trusting on an alien planet. She shouldn’t have gone down on her own without the Doctor.
Those were her thoughts as Cassandra tricked her into the psychograft.