The sun was shining bright and the summer breeze cooled the air as Rose walked home. It was a very nice day, for once. She hadn't had a nice day in what felt like a long time. She slowed down as she walked, she wanted to enjoy today, "today will be good." she reassured herself, but how many times had she told herself that already? As she made her way down King Street she noticed something out of the corner of her eye, across the road, she turned to see what it was.
She froze. She has to narrow her eyes for a moment because she couldn't quite believe what she was seeing. The TARDIS, which meant, him. She felt a spark of adrenaline and excitement. The same spark she felt when he took her hand all those years ago and said "run". Rose stood there her eye fixated on the blue box, she thought of The Doctor, all the adventures they has shared, everything they did together. She thought of her own life, with John, how it all was before last summer, her eyes began to tear up. "no, not like this" she told herself. Her eyes still fixed on the TARDIS she walked across the road, reached the doors of the box and stopped. A small smile creeped on to her face, she would be lying if she said she wasn't happy to see the old box. Rose opened the door and went inside.
The TARDIS was new, it was all silver and shiny, Rose had to take a moment to get her head around it, she didn't know the TARDIS could change too. She walked up to the console in the middle, even the buttons and leavers looked new, and slightly out of place. This wasn't her TARDIS, with her Doctor. Still smiling, she couldn't help it, for the first time in a year she smiled genuinely and remembered happiness, yet she couldn't help but feel a twinge of guilt.
"Hello there" a voice called from above her. She spun round searching for him, she knew it was him, it had to be.
"Doctor?" She called, hoping he'd come out and see her. She stopped, at the top of a small staircase stood a tall man, he was wearing a bow tie. "yep, that's him." she stared, anxious of what he might say.
He had regenerated, he wasn't the same Doctor, Rose felt slightly saddened by that of her Doctor suffering through another regeneration alone. Now The Doctor was younger than before, he still had hair, which was good, Rose always liked The Doctor's hair. His eyes looked the same, those eyes that looked young but were so old. Rose took a sharp breath, thinking of how she looked to him she became a tad embarrassed, " I must look much older to him".
"Rose Tyler..." The Doctor said in a whisper, Rose held her breath.
"Doctor.." She replied.
"How are you?" He asked, as he slowly made his way down the stairs towards her, his eyes fixed on her.
"Good, fine, great. You?" She asked, her eyes fixed on him, he stopped in front of her. They were an arms length apart.
"You know, same old life" He assured her.
There was an awkward atmosphere between them, Rose was still getting used to the regeneration, but all her old feelings came flooding back. She shouldn't be feeling like this, not after everything that happened with John. The Doctor was the same, he thought he would never see Rose again, not properly meet her again anyway, and even after everything with River, he still felt, something.
The Doctor smiled at Rose, He couldn't believe that she was standing there, in the TARDIS. He never imagined they would meet again after Davros and the meta-crisis. He looked at her, she was still the same Rose Tyler that he feel in love with. The woman that taught him to be a better person, who showed him how to be caring and compassionate yet never lost her fire. He felt a spark, the same intriguing spark that he felt when he grabbed her hand all those years ago and told her to run.
He slowly took her hand.
"Run" he said softly. The pair laughed, just like they used to. They were back, Rose and The Doctor in the TARDIS.
"So, how comes you can get through to parallel worlds now?" Rose questioned, wanting to know if there was any chance he could have come and got her before, back at Tourchwood.
"I don't know" He answered, and he honestly didn't "To be honest, the TARDIS started playing up mid flight and just brought me here"
"Well I am glad it did" Rose smiled, she felt her old self coming back, her happy self. The Doctor smiled at Rose, he still couldn't believe it.
"Me to" He said.