Gallifrey
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When Gallifrey returned to the universe, their laws governing the passage between the universe returned with them. What was not possible before returned to the realm of the possible. It was therefore a great surprise to the Time Lords, who could not conceive of such technology being operated without their involvement, to learn that a Human woman was venturing between the universes already. This disapproval, paired with a belief that the Time Lords have the right to police the universes, saw Rose Tyler a prisoner on Gallifrey...
The Doctor hadn’t returned to Gallifrey since the incident with the Confession Dial and his goodbye to Clara. There was also one more rogue TARDIS floating about in the universe, an offense for which the Doctor felt rather sure the Time Lords would find blame in her. Which was why she was currently running.
The prisons on Gallifrey were not as prisons on other worlds, there was no waiting for release, only the possibility that, when they put you within a temporal stasis field, you might, one day, be pardoned and freed. Otherwise, time was suspended, and existence became a living death. At least they hadn’t put her in high security - those were really nasty.
The Doctor crept through the halls, both her hearts pounding and her sonic held tightly in hand, hid within the ostentatious Gallifreyan robes she’d donned for the occasion. It felt strange to wear them again - like walking in her past. The temporal stasis field didn’t stand a chance against her sonic - though she doubted anyone had ever considered someone would be ballsy enough to dare try to break someone out.
“Rose Tyler,” she grinned, as the temporal energy dropped away and left an old friend standing before her. The Doctor almost let herself forget that it was very unlikely that Rose would recognize her, particularly as she was draped from head to toe in a cloak and sporting a collar that could make the people of Elizabethan England think her tacky. “Heard you were back in town - fancy a lift?”
