A/N This is actually my first fanfiction lol, so be nice, please review, and it's also complete but i'm going to updte it in installments, probably one a night.
Disclaimer: i don't own Doctor Who... but boy do i wish i did!
Prologue
2 years after The Doctor and Rose's final meeting, Rose appears to be getting on with life. She now has a very high status in alternative Torchwood, and has a loving family that is helping her get over her crushing loss. However, sometimes she has involuntary flashbacks which cause her to relapse and cry in her room for days…
Rose was getting home from work on a Tuesday night. She called to her mother, Jackie Tyler. "Home!" Jackie replied with an absent minded "ok sweetie, what do you want for tea?"
"I don't know. Chips?"
"Ok, but you know too many chips will make you fat." Said Jackie jokingly.
"I do NOT eat too many chips! Once a week I have chips, just for a treat. The rest of the time, it's all healthy!"
At this, Rose went upstairs to sling her bag into her room, and stopped in her tracks…
FLASHBACK
Rose waited on the freezing cold beach anxiously, the wind pitilessly thrashing her tearstained cheeks and whipping her hair across her face.
Suddenly, to the left of her, a man stood.
"Rose…" He called. It was the doctor.
Rose turned around and slowly walked towards the doctor.
"Where are you?" she asked him in wonder.
"Inside the TARDIS, there's a tiny gap still left in the Universe just about to close. It takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova, I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye." He gave her a small smile, but it had no humour left in it, it was just the smile of somebody trying to contain their grief.
"You look like a ghost…" Rose was saddened by his semitransparent appearance, and the Doctor could tell. He got out his sonic screwdriver.
"Hold on." The Doctor became more solid in form.
"Can I…?" Rose reached out a tentative hand.
"I'm still just an image, no touch." A flicker of sorrow passed over both the Doctor and Rose's face at these words, but both tried to hide it, for the other's sake.
"Can't you come through properly?"
"The whole thing would fracture, two Universes would collapse."
"So?" Rose was desperate, he had come through here before, and surely he could do it again somehow.
"Where are we? Where did the gap come out?"
"We're in Norway."
"Norway, right."
"About 50 miles out of Bergen, it's called Darlig Ulv Stranden."
"Dalek!"
"Darlig, it's Norwegian for bad, translates as bad wolf bay." The doctor gave a brief grin at this irony.
"How long have we got?"
"About two minutes"
"I can't think of what to say." Rose wished she could think of something to say, anything that would mean something.
"You've still got Mr. Mickey then?"
"There's five of us now, mum, dad, Mickey and the baby."
"You're not?" The doctor looked horrified at this statement, and his eyes immediately flicked to Rose's stomach.
"No, it's Mum, she's three months gone, more Tylers on the way."
"But what about you? I mean…"
"Yeah I'm back working in the shop…"
"Oh, good for you…" Rose could see the disappointment in The Doctor's eyes, disappointment for Rose, imagining how she must feel.
"Shut up! No I'm not. See the Torchwood on this planet is open for business. Think I know a thing or two about aliens."
"Rose Tyler, defender of the Earth. You're dead officially back home you know… so many people died that day and you've gone missing, you're on the list of the dead. Yet here you are, living a life day after day, the one adventure I can never have." The sad smile that had been playing on The Doctor's lips vanished, and this was the final straw for Rose.
"Am I ever going to see you again?" She sobbed, losing all thoughts of trying to act like she was ok in front of the Doctor.
"You can't" the Doctor said quietly and with a lot of regret.
"But what are you gonna do?"
"Oh I've got the TARDIS, same old life last of the time lords." Rose could see the angst in his eyes, the loneliness, and she couldn't bear it.
"On your own?"
"I…" Rose knew what she had to say, and she didn't have much time left to say it in.
"I love you", she choked out through her weeping
"Quite right too..."
"And I suppose if it's my last chance to say it….Rose Tyler…"
He didn't get to finish what he wanted to say. Rose broke down and fell onto her knees, no longer caring about the weather or where she was, and as her mother fell to comforting her, all she could think about was that the man she loved most in the whole wide world – all of them - was gone forever.
2 years later, Rose broke down sobbing in front of her bedroom door.
