Authors Note: Hello! This story is sort of a -what if the Doctor couldn't get back through the fireplace- based on the Girl in the Fireplace - type of thing... I've been sick today and so I watched Doctor Who, of course, and this is where my throbbing brain has taken me! Tell me if you like it! Reviews are love, and I love constructive criticism, too! Any ideas you may have are welcome, too! Thanks!!!

"Help me up, Rose," the Doctor indicated towards Arthur.

"What'ch you gonna do?"

"I'm going to save Reinette." The Doctor mounted Arthur.

"But you can't!" Rose shouted.

"There's no way back, Doctor!" Mickey reasoned. "You said it yourself!"

The Doctor ignored him. "I'm not gonna let her die."

"...Do you love her?" Rose asked.

The Doctor smiled sadly. "You were brilliant, Rose. And you, Mickey the Idiot. Even you." he kicked the Arthur's sides and the horse galloped forth into the last time window, glass smashing everywhere. And the window sealed itself, France replaced with cogs and humming machinery.

Rose stared into the wall where the Doctor had disappeared.

"What happened?" Mickey asked, "Where did the time window go? How's he gonna get back?" He looked around. "We can't fly the TARDIS without him. How's he gonna get back!?"

Rose looked through the glass panel into the stars. The same stars that the Doctor was looking through, three thousand years ago.

***

For minutes or hours, maybe even days, Rose sat in the Tardis, her one connection with the Doctor. Mickey wandered around the spaceship, looking for something, anything, to do. Maybe he could find a secret panel that he could send a distress call from, something that the repair droids never knew about.

Rose looked around the TARDIS for some food, and found a small refrigerator with some purple alien yogurt. She was starving and depressed. She had no way to contact the Doctor, and the Doctor had no way to contact her.

Then her mobile rang.

She flipped it open and saw an unidentified number. She pressed 'answer' and put the phone to her ear. "Doctor?" She asked, desperately.

Instead of the Doctor's voice, a woman's voice responded with an automated message. "The Time Agency has detected a mobile communication device on the ship, the SS Madame de Pompadour. This ship has been missing for a year. We are sorry for the inconvenience, as your Interspace Positioning System must have malfunctioned. We are now sending two agents, Captain Harkness and Captain Hart, to your vessel, to rescue any survivors. Expect them in roughly two hours. Thank you very much, and sorry again for the inconvenience." The phone bleeped off.

Rose's jaw dropped. 51st Century? Time agent Captain Harkness? This was brilliant. Even if the Doctor wasn't there, she'd be reunited with her closest time-traveling friend. Rose heard footsteps. "Oi, Mickey!"

Mickey Smith, her sort of boyfriend, turned around. "Yeah, Rose?"

Rose smiled. "We're gonna be saved."

^^, It will be updated soon!