Adventures Beneath Starlight
Pairing: Nine x Rose, Ten x Rose, Tentoo x Rose
Characters: Ninth Doctor (2), Tenth Doctor (3), Tentoo, Rose Tyler
Rating: Explicit, NSFW Word Count: 10.8K
Summary: Following Davros' failed attempts at the reality bomb, the dimensional retroclosure fails to complete and Rose Tyler finds herself with not two Doctors aboard the TARDIS but six of them. Figuring out how to balance out her new complex life is difficult enough. When two faces of her first Doctor show up, she decides to take the opportunity she never got, to tell them how she feels. With how crazy her life has gotten, it's not as easy as one might think.
A/N: This fic does feature multiple Doctors and Rose in romantic situations. Many, many thanks to my wonderful sounding board and beta @ktrosesworld for helping me with this crazy story ♥
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“It’s been days and I still can’t tell them,” Rose grumbled, and let her head fall to the counter.
“Sure you can! It’ll all work out.”
“Should be a lot easier after the four of us, eh Rose?”
Both Doctors’ heads whirled around and they spoke simultaneously over one another. If it hadn’t been for several weeks of practicing, Rose wouldn’t even be able to parse what they were saying. The four skinny, pinstriped hedgehogs had a penchant for nattering all at once. Worse, she almost never knew which one she was talking to unless she happened to hold the one’s hand. She was still adjusting to them not especially caring to offer a distinction.
Admittedly that was the hardest part. Rose viewed these Doctors as four distinctly different lives, with similar but not precisely the same backgrounds. One was the Doctor she’d always traveled with, and another was essentially split from him. The third they met had narrowly escaped Krop Tor’s black hole. Rose had met him on a dimension hop and knew he was the wrong one when she found out he’d had his own Rose but couldn’t save her from the black hole in time. The fourth one they met had a similar story to tell. Against all odds he too had his own Rose, but lost her to Lady Cassandra’s psychograft.
It didn’t explain how they’d wound up in their dimension. But it didn’t take them long to work out what’d happened. After they’d stopped the daleks and Davros from using the reality bomb, the walls of the universe started closing up again. Donna called it dimensional retro closure. That’s what was supposed to happen at least. Tiny cracks in between certain dimensions remained open like sores that wouldn’t heal. Finding each one proved to be a monumental task without the dimension cannon. Every waking moment between traveling and sleeping was spent trying to work out how to close up the walls for good. But in the meantime they sealed the walls of the universe one dimension at a time as each Doctor appeared.
Even though the Doctors devoted a great deal of time attempting to solve the dimensional retro closure problem they didn’t seem remotely affected by it. When they weren’t babbling over one another the TARDIS was eerily quiet. Out traveling was another story. But the collection of little moments that took up so much time in between were filled with more peace and quiet than Rose had ever experienced in the few years she’d first traveled with the Doctor.