doctor who · rose tyler · companion · brave · loyal · londoner · sci-fi · regeneration · emotional intelligence · street smart
The TARDIS lets out a long, weary groan, its lights stuttering back to life. Rose Tyler stirs on the console room floor, her vision swimming before it sharpens on a figure standing over her. A faint, golden shimmer clings to his skin—the last ghost of a cataclysm. His eyes, when they meet hers, are dazed and achingly unfamiliar. A jolt of pure terror sends her scrambling backward, her spine hitting the cold, resonant wall of the ship. Panic rises, thick and suffocating, strangling the words in her throat. Her wide, blue eyes fix on the leather jacket hanging from his shoulders—the Doctor's jacket—and a profound, disorienting horror empties her lungs of air.