Entry Eight - Bovinga (4)

Donna and I made our way back towards where Doctor 1 had landed the TARDIS laughing and chatting. I even bought some of the more interesting looking fruits to try later (after I asked the Doctor if they were safe, of course). The fireworks were well over and the sky was dark, but they had all these, sort of, lamps set up, like they would have in ancient China or something. It was really beautiful, and none of the commerce had stopped. I thought that if I didn't love Earth so much I could live on Bovinga, but then again, I say that about almost every planet. Well, not every planet, but you know what I mean. Anyway, when we got back to the spot Doctor 2 had evidently moved TARDIS 2 next to TARDIS 1 and I had to blink a bit to make sure I wasn't seeing double.


"Here they are," Doctor 1 called into TARDIS 2 and Doctor 2 popped his head out.

"I thought I said not to wander off!" Doctor 2 said, and he actually seemed a bit angry, I wasn't quite prepared for that. And I wasn't sure how I should address him. He was the same person, but I had no idea how long it'd been or anything. But either way he might've been talking to both me and Donna but he was looking at me.

"But you always say that," I said, popping my tongue between my teeth in that way I have a habit of doing and he just sort of smiled a me a minute and I smiled back and then he said; "Yeah I do, don't I?" and then we just looked at each other for a few more moments. I couldn't tell exactly what it was that he was thinking, but the expression on his face was a bit sad and happy at the same time.

"Well," Doctor 2 finally said and I suddenly became aware that Doctor 1 and Donna were still there, which was a little strange that I'd forgotten for a moment, "I guess we can go now. The TARDIS will fix all this once we take off, we," he gestured between himself and Doctor 1 "saw to that while you two were wandering about."

"But," Donna had a very confused look on her face, "that's it? We just leave, after all that?"

"Yes, that's it," Doctor 2 said and for about one point two seconds he looked a little sad about it but then he slapped on his regular grin and then took a step towards me a bit tentatively and I laughed because he looked so ridiculous and I took the other step and we hugged.


If you ever happen to meet the Doctor I suggest you get yourself a hug. They are really quite remarkable.

Then Donna gave me a hug and we laughed one more time over nothing. She was brilliant, Donna Noble. But I knew I'd never see her again, and that made me a bit sad. Then she went back and joined Doctor 2 who started to go into TARDIS 2 but then stopped and turned back once more and then came over and whispered something in my ear.

I'm not going to tell you what he said. But it didn't make any sense to me, so it guess it doesn't matter all that much. But for some reason, it felt like it meant a lot.

And then they went.


We both stood watching the TARDIS 2 dematerialise and then stood staring at where it'd been before.

"I like Donna," I said and he nodded smiling. Then, "Something happens to me."

The Doctor was silent for a moment and then turned to me and said, "Nothing's going to happen to you." And he had that same serious face that Doctor 2 had had for a moment but then, just like his future self he broke into a smile. "But anyway, let's go see the Towers of Boving, shall we? What we came for? Bit of fun. Oh, are those fruits from the market?" he started going through my bag, "Oooo! Maugnini Fruit, my favourite!"

We went to see the Towers then. They were very tall and very spiraly, just as he'd said. And we ran all the way to the top and yelled our names from the top (which is the tradition. The yelling, not the running). We sat up there a long time, either ruminating over what had just happened or waiting for some sort of catastrophe to happen (it didn't). Finally, it was time to go home. So we went back to the now lone TARDIS and he told me what buttons to press as we spun back into the Vortex.


Until next time.

Entry Six - Bovinga (2)

Doctor 2 stared at me. Ginger woman stared at Doctor 2. And then Doctor 1 started staring at Doctor 2. And I flicked between the three of them feeling very left out of some sort of loop that everyone else seemed to understand at least a bit.

And then Ginger turned her head and looked at me again, and this time I could tell that she was really sizing me up, like she was extremely curious or something. And I started thinking ‘well if this is the Doctor after I’m dead… did he mention me?’ and that sort of made me smile a bit and then I felt like a fool because I was smiling while everyone else appeared gobsmacked. And with two Doctors there… that’s some big gob to smack.

Finally, Doctor 1 cut past Ginger and took Doctor 2 by the arm, who then seemed to break out of whatever confusion it was that he had going on with his statue-like behavior and Doctor 1 said “I think that maybe we should talk,” and Doctor 2 nodded and said “Yeah that’s probably best.” Then Doctor 1 opened the TARDIS door and Doctor 2 didn’t seem remotely surprised to see it all lit up like the red light district but Ginger said “What have you done with the TARDIS?! That’s not some end of the world thing, oh you just try it.”

Doctor 1 look at her like she was nuts but Doctor 2 just sort of smiled before they both disappeared into the ship and shut the door behind them, but not before one of them shouted, “Don’t wander off!”

I wondered why it was that when I was in two places at once and I held myself as a baby the reapers appeared and a paradox ensued. I wondered why that didn’t happen with the two Doctors, but figured I’d ask later. For now Ginger had turned back round and was regarding me with one of the biggest smiles I’ve ever seen.

“Rose Tyler!” she said, “You can’t even imagine how well I’ve want to meet you!” Then she took the few steps that still remained between us and enveloped me in a gigantic hug. I was a little startled at first but I like to think that time and space has loosened a lot of my inhibitions. Well, when it comes to a lot of things. Not all, obviously. So we hugged for awhile even though we didn’t know each other and when I pulled back I decided that I liked this ginger woman quite a lot and I fully approved of all Doctor related adventures she’d have. But then again, I was still calling her Ginger in my head.

“I’m sorry,” I said, “What’s your name?”

“Oh!” she said, and laughed a jag, “Donna Noble. You’ve no idea how much I’ve heard about you. When we first met, oh my god! I’ve never seen anyone so-” She suddenly stopped speaking then, which I guess didn’t surprise me all that much.

I shuffled my feet a bit. “What happens to me? Do I die?”

I could see something flash across her face, but she must’ve known that she shouldn’t tell me much of anything, which was sort of frustrating. “I,” she shook her head, “I can’t…”

I nodded, knowing that she couldn’t, but then I scratched my head anyway, disheveling my hair a bit, and asked, “How long have I got?”

She was still for a moment and I tried to read her stillness but couldn’t quite manage. I wasn’t even sure how much she would even know. Finally, I forced a smile. “This is some crazy veg, huh?” I said, gesturing to the market.

“I would’ve loved to see my mum try to feed me that when I was young,” Donna said pointing towards a prickly looking green thing, I smiled. She smiled.

“Wanna go for a walk?” I asked and she nodded. Off we went.

More tomorrow.

Entry Five - Bovinga

Well I had a very weird couple of days, and when I say weird, I mean weird.

We stopped at a planet called Bovinga in the NGC 1300 galaxy, apparently the constellation of Eridanus (I get fed all kind of information). Apparently they have some very nice architecture that the Doctor wanted to show me, very tall and spiraly and all that, but the moment we set the TARDIS down, with it’s usual bumps and jolts along the way, the lights in the console room went red. And I mean red.

The time rotor was groaning like she wanted to leave and the humming in the back of my head got a bit louder. Even the Doctor looked confused. But if you know us at all, which I am assuming you might, you’ll know that we’re not exactly the type to take the safe route. Despite the TARDIS telling us that we needed to leave, and now, we went outside anyway.

Everything looked completely normal and felt completely normal. In fact it seemed like we’d landed in the middle of some sort of farmers market. They had all kinds of things, some of the weirdest vegetables I’d ever seen. In brilliant colours, I wanted to touch them all. But when I looked back at the Doctor I cold tell that there was something, indeed, wrong. Very wrong. All the colour had drained from his face and he looked like he was paralysed to the spot, unsure of whether to go back to the TARDIS immediately or continue on. It freaked me out a bit. He took about one step closer to me before he was practically accosted by an insane ginger human looking woman:

She went on with something like this: “It’s about time you turned back up; I’ve been looking for the TARDIS everywhere! You know better than to wander off when we’re at space bazaars!”

I stared, but her back was to me, and the Doctor stared. It was plainly obvious that he’d never met her before, but that didn’t really mean anything he is a time traveller after all. But then it got really weird when a moment later the Doctor opened his mouth to say something to the ginger woman and was interrupted by a very shrill but very familiar voice shouting “What, by Rassilon, are you doing here,” and there was the Doctor, again, looking much the same but wearing a very ill advised blue suit. They stared at each other and it suddenly made a lot of sense. The TARDIS not wanting to land and all.

The ginger woman looked just about as confused as I did, but she’s obviously a perceptive one cause she looked around and spotted me almost right away and said “Who’re you?” And then suddenly there were three pairs of eyes on me.

Now, I have seen a lot of things in this universe, and I like to think that my powers of deduction are good enough to figure out what was going on. Given the fact that the Doctor, my Doctor (the one I arrived with henceforth known at Doctor 1), didn’t recognise this woman meant it was in his future. The fact that she was with Doctor 2 meant that she was likely his companion. I asked him about aging once, his aging specifically, and he said that he does get older but a bit slower than humans. I wondered if this was him after I’d died, and if it was… how long was that?

Doctor 1 was looking at me like he always did, like ‘well this is Rose, we travel together’, the woman was looking at me curiously, and Doctor 2 looked like he’d suddenly and inexplicably turned into a wax statue like those ones at Madame Tussauds. I didn’t know what else to say, so I said, “I’m called Rose, Rose Tyler.”

And then the woman’s eyes got all big and she whipped around to look at her wax figurine friend and me and Doctor 1 both looked at them curiously. Doctor 2 opened his mouth, probably to say something, but all that came out was a little ‘eep’, and it was kind of funny, but I could tell that there was nothing funny to neither him nor ginger woman.

Said wax statue:

Actually… this story’s got quite long, more tomorrow shall we say?