Rose walked around in the place she once knew, where she used to live, laugh and just take for granted every day of her life. London. To be precise, her world, she had spent 5 years on Pete's world with the Human Doctor. Everything was going fine, they were having fun, and they were newlyweds, planning a family, trying for a baby. Then it all seemed to go wrong, one mission and it was all over. Rose shuddered and blocked the memories out; she couldn't face them right now. She was on her world, and she was going to adjust to it once again.

Luckily, she had money, lots of it, Pete had leant a lot of money to her to settle down in this world, start a new life from scratch, much to Jackie's arguing and disapproving, Rose remembered the moment she told them she was leaving:

"Rose Tyler don't you dare leave!" Jackie's piercing yell filled the silent room "you can't leave, not now! I thought you had adjusted to life here?"

"Mum, I have, but I can't stay here anymore, not now, it's too difficult, living a life day after day, on my own." Rose whispered at her and felt her eyes brimming with tears and you could hear it in her voice.

"rose, sweetheart, you can't just start from scratch, and what if it doesn't work, what if something goes wrong with the traveller dimension jump thing? What happens then? You'll be gone forever."

"Mum, I'm gonna be gone forever anyway, remember? Besides, Jake's figured it all out, it works. Besides, he's never let me down before." She smiled "you've got to let me go. Everyone leaves home in the end." She reassured, and her mind went back to when her and The Doctor went to the impossible planet, and they thought they were stuck there for good, at least then she was stuck there with him, this time she wasn't, this time there was no-one to make it any better.

"I know, but leaving home is something like moving to the other side of London, which you are already! But it's not leaving to another universe where I'll never see you again!"

"Mum, you've got a new life here, you've got Dad and Tony, I don't fit in anymore, and you've got a new family." Rose said and her eyes darted to Tony outside, who was playing in the garden with Jake.

"Rose, you're my daughter, you're still my family."

"Mum! Don't, be happy, yeah?"

"You're saying this as if it's goodbye, we've still got a while till you have to go right? A few months or weeks, yeah?" Jackie asked and her face fell as she saw Rose shake her head lightly.

"No Mum, I'm going tomorrow."

"What? No, you can't go Rose! I know this is because he's gone, but you can't go because of that. Do you really think going to another universe is going to make things better? Make it feel better inside?"

"It worth a shot Mum." Rose replied and gave her a light smile "I can be someone different, I can live a new life, forget about everything else."

"And what are you gonna live on?" Jackie asked, hoping that would scare her.

"I've got a bit of money saved up; hopefully it'll be enough to live off for a few months or so, just until I get a job or something."

"You've really thought it all through haven't you?" Jackie asked and Rose nodded, smiling.

"Yeah, I have, and I'm ready for my new life."

Rose jumped back to the present day, London hadn't changed that much since she'd been gone. She'd been to a newsagent and bought a paper, checking the date, it was only May 23rd 2010, not that long since she'd been there last, a year maybe, two years.

Slowly, she made her way to a hotel as it began to get dark and London was covered in darkness and the lights filled the city. She made her way in to the hotel lobby, looking as if she knew what she was doing, acting confident, and the beginning of a new and confident life, starting with an expensive hotel to stay in.

As soon as she found a hotel with a spare room, she soon realised that she no belongings or clothing with her except a mobile phone and a credit card with money on. After hours of being in her hotel room, watching TV programmes which she no longer understood, her mind began wandering back to the past, thinking about Pete's world and what had happened there all those months ago. All she remembered was seeing the blood, then the hospital bed, she couldn't quite remember everything, she could only pick out small parts of that night and she couldn't quite piece them all together.

Rose got up quickly and ran a hand through her hair, she needed to stop this. This was a new life, new her and new everything, she needed to forget everything from Pete's world, forget everything that had happened, and one way to do that, was going to the bar. Drink, always the solution.

She went down to the bar and sat herself on the stools, she found it wasn't too busy, which was just perfect for her, she didn't feel like she had to speak to someone when there wasn't so many people here.

Rose had been sat at the bar for a while when a young man, roughly in his 20s, or early 30s, wearing a bow tie, not exactly the normal dress code of someone young, walked over to her and sat down next to her. She took her moment and quickly downed her shot in one and faced the man, who was looking in the opposite direction.

"Hi." She introduced and smiled at him, who slowly turned around to face her, when he first saw her he stopped for a moment and Rose wasn't quite sure whether he was looking at her or not, so she looked around self consciously, no, he was definitely looking at her.

"Um, sorry, I'm John Smith," he introduced and Rose immediately tensed, the first person she had to meet on this world, and he was called John Smith, great she thought.

"Nice to meet you," she forced a smile and ordered another drink "Rose Tyler." She introduced and smiled at him.

"Pleasure." He smiled as Rose passed him a drink "cheers."

"Cheers." She smiled back and looked at him for a moment "sorry, I don't mean to sound rude but, what's with the bow tie?" she asked and laughed slightly as she asked it, realising she did sound quite rude.

"Don't knock it, bow ties are cool." He said and adjusted his tie slightly.