This is a new story inspired by the impulse to continue the story from Rose's final scene in Journey's End. While RTD may have finished with Ten/Rose, he has opened up a new canon scenario for us writers to play with :D Please review.
Prologue
They just stood there, just staring at each other, for one long moment. The Doctor and his Rose, face to face, did little more in those first few seconds than gawk at each other in utter amazement, trying to take it all in. Not a soul stirred on Bad Wolf Bay as the Doctor swallowed hard to get his voice working,
"I... never dreamed..."
The enormity of their situation had by this time rendered Rose completely incapable of speech and scarcely able to keep herself upright. This man was the same and yet, in that immediate moment, so different.
The deafening silence of that moment was cut abruptly short by a loud refrain of "Crazy Frog" and the two of them whipped around to find themselves with a rather irritated Jackie Tyler.
"Pete! You lummock, where've you been eh? Down the pub, I'll bet! Here's me stuck in Norway... yes, Norway, and you've been at the booze again!"
The Doctor rolled his eyes and looked at Rose, who caught his eye and smiled, despite herself. Some things, she realised, never changed.
"Come on you two! Let's find a coffee shop somewhere..."
They both followed Jackie away from the sandy shore, content for now with each other's company. The few small words whispered in Rose's ear still echoed, resonant with meaning, between them; the Prologue had been said, but Act One was yet to begin.