Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Rise of the Cyberman

"Rose, whatever it says, this is the wrong world." He knelt down a little.

"I don't exist." She mumbled. Rita bit her lip a little. She never told Rose that she was just a made up character from a TV show on her world. That or she just forgot what the brunette said.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"There's no Rose Tyler. I was never born." He told him, her face looking heart broken. "There's Pete, my dad, and Jackie. He still married mum but they never had kids."

"Give me that phone." He went to grab the phone like Rose was a small child she pulled it away before he could take it.

"They're rich. They've got a house and cars, and everything they want." She explained getting up from the bench she was sitting on. "But they haven't got me." She paused standing away from them the Doctor sitting on the bench and Rita beside him, his face full of anger now. "I've got to see him." She told the Doctor softly.

"You can't." He gritted his teeth.

"I just want to see him." Rose looked more hurt than ever now, a world where her dad was alive and her best mate didn't want to let her see him. "You just said twenty-four hours!" Rose stood up in protest.

"You can't become their daughter, that's not the way it works. Mickey, tell her." He looked over to Mickey for help.

"Twenty-four hours, yeah?"

"Mickey no, you can't," Rita warned.

"Where're you going?" The Doctor shouted seeing him begin to walk away.

"Well, I can do what I want." He blunting told the Doctor.

"I've got the address and everything."

"Rose you know you can't," Rita told her softly unlike the Doctor who was now full of anger shouting at the pair slowly walking away on either side of him.

"Stay where you are!" He ordered them. "Both of you!" The Doctor snapped his head in the direction of Rose and then Mickey. "Rose, come back here! Mickey, come back here right now!" He shouted to them. Rita sighed deeply knowing that there was nothing she could do.

"I just want to see him." She told him in protest. "I'm sure Rita wants to see if her family are alive." Rita's eyes shot open wide.

"No," the brunette said bluntly. "I don't know my parents and I never will even if I did I wouldn't because I know I simply can't."

"But you can at least try Rita, you must have a name of someone?"

"Rose you can't go and find them" she ignored her question tightening her hands into fists in slight anger hoping that it would stop her from running up and slapping Rose around the face, as much as she loved the blonde it was not in her place to make that sort of comment about her family, even if hurting her was extreme not knowing them hurt. "They won't know who you are and it will hurt you, I know it will" Rita snapped gritting her teeth.

"I've got things to see and all," Mickey spoke up beginning to turn away.

"Like what?" The Doctor frowned in anger.

"Well, you don't know anything about me, do you?" Mickey spat at him. "It's always about Rita and maybe it's Rose on the odd occasion I'm just a spare part aren't I Doctor? It's always going to be about her isn't it?"

"I'm sorry. I've got to go." Rose turned walking off and ending the conversation. The Doctor frantically looked between Rose and then Mickey not looking at the brunette who was very much in distress next to him, her hands in fists with her nails digging into her skin she could swear that she felt a trickle of blood not that she cared very much about it.

"Go on, then." Mickey noticed the Doctor was now looking over at Rose. "There's no choice, is there?" He asked hurt in his voice. "You can only chase after one of us. It's never going to be me, is it?"

"Back here, twenty-four hours!" The Doctor shouted pointing at Mickey then running off completely forgetting about the brunette as he ran after Rose.

She looked over seeing Mickey walking off, after sighing and wiping her eyes that had been holding off tears she ran in the direction of the Doctor and Rose trying to catch up with them both.

She managed to catch up almost tripping over her own feet in the process of running then mumbled after stopping beside the Doctor on the other side Rose stood. "Thanks for waiting for me" She muttered a little colder than she meant. He turned to the brunette and frowned not understanding what she meant as if she had been next to him the whole time, his face then fell seeing the girls upset emotion plastered on her face.

"Are you okay?" He asked her obviously knowing the answer but wanting to make sure.

"I'll be fine" she looked down sighing then looked over to the other side of the Doctor glaring at Rose a little. The Doctor leant close to the brunette and whispered in her ear: "She didn't mean it"

"I know" Rita mumbled back. "It just got me thinking, though, what if they were alive." She looked up at the Doctor his face blank and unreadable yet she could tell he disproved of this topic. "I mean I wouldn't even think about seeing them or anything" she added his face turned to a sad smile. "They may look and possibly act like my parents most likely did, but they obviously wouldn't I don't even know what they are like so why would it matter?" She looked at him once again however he didn't answer and just stared at her like he was in some kind of trance but very much listening to every word she said. "They're gone and I'm here, it's not like I'm missing anything though right? I am travelling through time and space going anywhere and everywhere with a 900-year-old alien in a blue box what I thought was only a TV show" She grinned trying to erase the depressing mood and thoughts in her mind. He chuckled a little and reached for her hand as if it was now a natural thing they did she took the gesture smiling away a little sadly but also happily for knowing that this was something special being able to go everywhere and anywhere, something may people like her had only dreamt of and she was able to live it.

The blonde looked down and in the corner of her eye she noticed both of their hand together and sighed quietly, this gesture was nothing new to her eyes from seeing it countless times before but the blonde didn't register it like she did now since almost all of the time it had happened before they were running for their lives or was busy occupied by other things, She stayed as silent as possible knowing that she defiantly hurt and most likely broke one of her best friends trust and didn't want to ruin it anymore by arguing with the girl. She couldn't help but feel jealous about it though. She did know him first and could clearly see that the brunette and the TimeLord were almost as close as he and the blonde were.