Rose woke up like she always did at 7:30 in the morning. She climbs out of bed and is pleased at the realisation it is a Friday which meant after today she would be off work for the next 2 days.
Rose had been working in the same place for a couple of years now. She worked in a department store named Harricks and she hated it more than anything.
She goes to pick out her clothes today and decides to go with her typical hoodie, jeans and trainers, that was the only plus side of Harricks there was no uniform.
Rose walks into her kitchen to find that her mum had already put her toast in the toaster for her which meant it would pop out in the next matter of seconds. She grabs the toast and hastily put butter on it before eating it as quickly as she could. Once again she was going to be late for work.
She says goodbye to her mum who is sitting in her dressing gown watching the news. Rose had never been sure why her mum bothered getting up so early when she didn't have a job to attend.
Luckily Rose makes it through the doors of her work just in time which meant she couldn't be one step closer to being fired. Rose knew she was on thin ice with this job and to be frank she couldn't bring herself to care.
The day went on dull and as boring as ever with nothing more exciting than a couple of difficult customers who refused to pay full price.
That is just how life went for Rose Tyler from the Powell estate. She quit school so she had no A-levels and she was certain she would never amount to any more than a girl who worked in a shop, until she met The Doctor.
The Doctor was the last Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey and he saved her from her dull and boring life. For years they travelled to planets and travelled through time, Rose was determined that it would never end, never say never.
The Doctor could change his face when faced with death and she had fallen in love with his second one. He loved her too but neither of them admitted it, both for very different reasons.
Rose was afraid of rejection, she knew that she couldn't leave this life behind and if that meant never telling him how she felt then that was what was going to happen. She regretted not telling him sooner everyday of her life.
The Doctor on the other hand, being over 900 years old had fallen in love on a few occasions, none of which had ended well. He had been married, not that was for love it was an arranged marriage for his family to move higher in the political party, she along with his kids had died in the last time war. It was not the first time he had had feelings for his companions, like Ace and Sarah Jane but it was different this time, this time he wouldn't be cheating on anyone if he told her. Just like Rose the Doctor regretted his decision to not tell her he loved her.
After the battle of Canary Wharf Rose had been sucked into a parallel universe because of what the Doctor called Void Stuff. Rose had done everything she could to get back to the real world but the more she thought about, the more the reality that she couldn't get back became clearer. But then one day that reality changed and Torchwood came up with an idea. An idea so crazy it might actually work.
Her team at the Torchwood, where she now worked, had come up with idea of a dimension canon. It would take her from one universe to the other without too much damage to the fabric of reality. So she had jumped at the idea and began work straight away.
Her mum, Jackie, who had also been taken into the universe, was always complaining about how she was never home because she spent almost all her at the Torchwood facility. How could she not? Even if she would never admit it to his face the Doctor was her world and she would give up anything and everything to be with him again, including her family.
Rose barely slept for an hour a night, for two big reasons. The first reason being that the Dimension canon would take a lot of work and the more time they spent on it the sooner it would be done and the second reason being that her dreams, or nightmares rather were filled with white walls.
Even with all this overtime at work the canon still took a year and a half to complete. That was a year and a half without her Doctor and a year and a half for him to forget about her and get one or maybe even two new companions. Even through all these thoughts Rose still had faith that the Doctor wanted her back even after all this time.
But then came the problem, she wasn't read to say goodbye to her mother. She has supported her through thick and thin and helped her through the past year, it didn't seem right to just abandon her. When she thought about the life she would have here compared to her life with the Doctor there was no competition, the Doctor won every time. So she got over herself and said goodbye to her mother, step-father and her ex-boyfriend.
Rose arrived at Torchwood and stood on the canon. She said goodbye to her team and thanked them for their work, after all this time together they had also become her friends and she was extremely grateful for them and what they did for her.
The next thing Rose knew she was back in London. A smile came across her face once she recognised the familiar streets. She walks out of the alley and into the empty streets. She knew this was going to happen. London was once again under Dalek attack.
Now it was time to search for the Doctor, she looked in every street and every shop until it was about 10 o'clock and everywhere was still desolate. She was about to give up hope until she looked up to the top of a very long street and saw him, as well as a girl with red hair who she had come to know as Donna.
Then the Doctor was running, he was running as fast as he could and then some because when he saw Rose there was so much more hope in his life. Rose was getting to him as fast as she could but she had been supplied with a gun because of the situation in this world.
The Doctor was so close to her, no more than a few steps when out of nowhere a Dalek comes around the corner and shoots him. The Doctor falls on the floor, the pain shooting through him was like being shot and then be electrocuted all at once.
A thought that terrified him entered him mind, he was going to regenerate. It was a better alternative to dying but it sure as hell felt like you were and even worse he would be a new man and he had just gotten Rose back. What if he didn't feel the same way about her?
The Doctor feels himself being lifted into the TARDIS, he was frantically thinking of a way out. It's not like he could just not regenerate. He thinks of the layout of his console and more importantly, what usable objects there were. Then it occurs to him, he had his old hand.
If he could use his regeneration energy and only use enough to heal himself then he could put the rest into the hand.
"Brilliant!" he thought to himself.
And that is exactly what he did. He quickly jumps and explains what he did to everyone, the all looked impressed.
Later
The Doctor was trapped in a force field type thing with Rose beside him trapped in her own one. The Daleks were going to take over the world and the humans were about to go into war with them and what's even worse, the TARDIS was about to be destroyed with Donna in it.
Donna panics, she knew that if she didn't do anything soon she would die. She begins to remember all the adventures she had been on with the Doctor and wonders if they were worth dying like this.
"Yeah, I would choose to live a life with the Doctor and die here than go back to being a temp," she was saying it to herself as there was no one to listen.
She was crashing around the TARDIS, doing her best to keep a hold of something, until she crashed into the tank that the Doctor kept his hand in.
Donna gasped, what suddenly stood in front of her was some form of the Doctor and he was naked! He lands the TARDIS and runs away to get clothes.
"There was no way this was happening, there can't be two Doctors, it was impossible!" the thoughts were racing through her head.
Once the two of them left the TARDIS the other Doctor was able to destroy the Daleks. For most this was an achievement, for the original Doctor it was genocide plain and simple, genocide was always a bad thing in his book.
Bad Wolf Bay
The only five people left on the TARDIS were the real Doctor, the now called meta-crisis Doctor, Jackie, Rose and Donna. Once it had landed they all stepped out. Rose's face said it all, she was heartbroken.
"I tried so hard to find you," says Rose.
"I know but in saving the world there was a price to pay, him," he gestures toward the meat-crisis Doctor, "He committed genocide, he's filled with anger and fury."
"You made me!" the other Doctor says angrily.
"But can't you see what he is giving you? Go on tell her," says Donna though you could tell that she really did want Rose to come with them. She was part Doctor now which meant she must feel some of what the Doctor feels, Rose wasn't sure what to feel about that fact.
"I think like him, I feel like him, same memories, same everything only I've only got one heart."
"Fine," says Rose with a Doctor either side of her, "If you are really him then when I was left here last time, on the worst day of my life, what was the last thing you said to me?" she turns to the real Doctor first.
"I said Rose Tyler," he says doing his best to stop himself from just bringing her back into the TARDIS so she could travel with him again.
"Yeah and how was that supposed to end?" Says Rose determined to get the Doctor to say it.
"Isn't it obvious?" he says doing his best to get Rose to go with the meta-crisis version of himself.
The real Doctor prepared himself for Rose to ask his human version; he would undoubtedly say the words he has been longing to for so long. All he could think about was the fact that it wasn't fair that he had to give her up, here he had the perfect opportunity to tell her and he couldn't because once again he was putting others before himself.
The meta-crisis Doctor lowered himself down to whisper something into Rose's ear, it was very obvious what it was. Rose's reaction to it was not what either of the Doctors were expecting, instead of grabbing him and snogging him (which one Doctor was looking forward to more than the other) she just gave him a sad look and said "I'm sorry, I really am but you're not him," the other Doctor just nodded doing everything he could to be happy about her decision.
Jackie after witnessing everything that just went on decided that she should step in and help, she knew her daughter better than anybody and she also knew how stubborn she could be. If he wasn't the Doctor then she wouldn't be happy and to some degree it was perfectly acceptable. She had fallen in love again with her parallel Pete but it didn't mean that every other person would.
Jackie approaches the meta-crisis and puts her arm around his "I'll take care of this one, don't worry." Rose just nods, she had already said goodbye to her mother and her mother had already said goodbye to her.
The two remaining 'children of time' and the Doctor enter the TARDIS. Donna and Rose were happily talking to each other, they were looking forward to the future, the future only the Doctor knew would only come to one of them.
"Oooooooh where should we go now?" asks Donna excitedly, her new Time Lord (or Lady) mind was fully functioning which was making her very hyper. The Doctor's grim expression was making both Donna and Rose very nervous as he should have been happy and laughing with them, so why wasn't he?
The Doctor walks over to the console and flies it into the vortex. Rose had desperately missed clinging onto the railing of the TARDIS for dear life before inevitably falling with a crash onto its hard floors.
Rose jumps up along with Donna; the Doctor however had managed to stay standing. He was still wearing the same solemn expression this makes a thought occur in Rose's mind.
"What if he is sad because I am travelling with him again? What if he doesn't really want me here? Is that why he was pushing so hard for me to be with the meta-crisis?" all these thoughts spun around Rose's head.
She looked up to the Doctor who wasn't looking at anybody or anything for that matter; he was just staring into space. Then he walked around the console to Donna and looked at her.
"I thought maybe we could try the planet Phelspoon, I hear it has mountains that sway in the breeze, imagine that swaying mountains!" says Donna she was really liking this new brain of hers.
"And how do you know that?" asks the Doctor but not in the playful, happy way he normally does it is more like if understands why then it will be the worst thing in the world.
"Because if it's in your head then it's in mine," she says, impressed with herself.
"And how does that feel?" he asks.
"Brilliant! Fantastic! Molto bene! Great big universe packed into my brain! And y'know you could fix that chameleon circuit if you just try hot wiring the fragment links and super seeding the binary-binary-binary-binary," she gasps, "I'm fine!"
Rose was looking at the two of them; everything from the Doctor's facial expressions to the way he was standing was telling her that this, whatever it was, was not going to end well for Donna.
"You know what forget Phelspoon let's visiting Charlie Chaplin, I bet he's brilliant Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chester, Charlie Brown no he's fictional, fiction, fixing, mixing, rixton, Brixton." She gasped and said oh my god in between breathes.
The Doctor walks over to her "Do you know what's happening?"
"Yeah," she replies.
"There has never been a Time Lord and human meta-crisis before now and you know why?"
"Because there can't be," she states and starts fiddling with the TARDIS, "I want to stay," she says, the Doctor sighs.
"Donna, Donna, look at me," his eyes are soft and there was sadness written right across his face.
"I was going to be with you forever," she says there are tears now in her eyes.
"I know," the Doctor says.
"You, me and Rose travelling in the TARDIS for the rest of my life, as the Doctor-Donna," she begins to cry, "No, no I can't go back, don't make me go back, Doctor, please don't make me go back!"
"Donna," the Doctor says, "Oh Donna Noble I am so sorry but you know what? We had the best of times, the best," he pauses choking back tears, "Goodbye."
He puts his hands on her face as she continues to say "No! No! Please no!" with one last exclamation from Donna she collapses into the Doctors arms. He holds her for a couple of seconds before setting her on the jump seat and landing the TARDIS.
The Doctor looks over at Rose he doesn't have to say anything because she knows that right now he needs her more than ever. She is immediately by his side and pulls him into a hug, she can feel him crying and before she knows it she begins to cry too.
Rose pulls away to look at the Doctor "What did you do to her?" she asks.
"I had to wipe her memories of me and the TARDIS and pretty much anytime we spent with each other," Rose just nods as she is unsure of what to say to him.
The Doctor walks away from her and picks up Donna, Rose opens the TARDIS doors for him and once they approach the front doors of Donna's house she knocks. An elderly man opens the door his face is filled with excitement which in an instance gets turned into concern.
"Help me," the Doctor says and they lift her up the stairs and put Donna in her bed. Wilfred and Rose stand at the door whereas the Doctor stands over her, watching her because once she wakes up she won't know who he is.
Once he leaves her room Wilfred leads them down the stairs, while they are walking down them the Doctor takes Rose's hand and she squeezes it gently.
Donna's mother makes herself, Wilfred, the Doctor and Rose a cup of tea. Once they have all sat down the Doctor explains that she won't be able to remember anything that happened which involves the Doctor in the slightest.
"But that's not fair all those things she saw," says Wilfred.
"I know," says the Doctor, "But I want you to know that there are many planets out there alive and well, who sing songs of Donna Noble and for one shining second Donna Noble was the most important person in the universe,"
"She already is, she's my daughter," says her mother determinedly. The Doctor then gives her a look that could be very well described as a death stare.
"Then tell her once in a while," he says angrily.
Suddenly the living room door opens and Donna emerges from it "I was in my bed asleep with my clothes on like a child! Why'd you let me do that? I have got 37 new texts from Gina; gone mad she has talking about planets in the sky! Oh don't mind me, Donna," she says.
The Doctor stands up, "John Smith," he says holding out but Donna ignores her as she is still looking through her texts. Rose also stands up beside him, "Rose Tyler,"
"Nice to meet you two," says Donna before dialling Gina and walking into the kitchen.
"I think you two should get going," says Donna's mum. They both walk out the door and the Doctor pops his head round the kitchen door where Donna was.
"Rose and I were just leaving," he says.
Donna moves the phone away from her ear and says "Alright seeya then," before quickly going back to her call.
The Doctor and Rose walk out into the rain but before they can reach the TARDIS Wilfred stops them and says, "Take care of each other you two and I will be watching out for you each night,"
The Doctor nods takes Rose hands and walks away, Rose turns around and waves before entering the TARDIS. The Doctor flicks a few switches and takes the TARDIS into the vortex. The pair just stand there for a while without speaking to each other.
Rose walks over to the Doctor and hugs him; he hugs her back with all his strength. "I'm here if you need me," she says pulling away so she could put her hand on his cheek.
"Oh I'll always need you, Rose Tyler." He says and smiles at her.
The pair didn't know what to do after that, they couldn't decide. It was much too soon to travel to another planet and Rose no longer had family in this universe other than her Grandma but neither of them felt like visiting her because she hadn't even met the Doctor yet.
After extensive thinking they decide to hang out in the library. The Doctor got the TARDIS to light the fire while Rose got changed out of her wet clothes and into her jammies.
When Rose entered the library she found the Doctor lying on the sofa that was in front of the fireplace, he gestured for her to come over and she did. Rose cuddled up onto the Doctor's chest; he then reached behind him and lifted up the Harry Potter novel he had been reading her before they were separated.
"You actually kept the place we were at?" Rose asks surprised at the fact he hadn't moved on with the story.
"Of course I did Rose," he kisses the top of her head and she curses herself because of inevitability the Doctor felt her heart stop for a second. Rose looks up and for a second she thinks she saw him smirking. "Git," she thinks to herself.
The Doctor begins to read and Rose hadn't realised how much she had missed him to that moment and how much she wanted it to last forever.
A/N
Hello people! I'm sorry that this was pretty much a summary of Journeys End. I just had to show you the changes I made so that Rose could stay I was thinking of just making this an one shot but I have decided I am going to make it a full length story! Please, please, please review, it gives me so much more encouragement to keep writing! I will be seeing all hopefully soon!