Warnings: SPOILERS FOR 'THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR' 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

Summary: 10 gets his question ("Wait, did you say Bad Wolf?") answered. Bad Wolf wants to see the stars- and she knows just who to ask. 10xRose, 10xBad Wolf

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who.

Part I

The War Doctor threw his head back and his arms in the air. "Bad Wolf Girl, I could kiss you!"

The smirking blonde who only he could see shook her head and chuckled. "Yeah, like that's ever going to happen."

The Doctor in the brown suit jumped and looked around. "Wait, did you say 'Bad Wolf'?"

The War Doctor nodded, joy in his eyes. "A girl from my future. The Moment chose her as the interface. She brought you here. She helped me to make the right choice."

The Doctor in the bow tie shook his head. "We agreed to bring the TARDIS here. And I'm pretty sure that I'd remember if Rose was the Moment interface. And we need to go now."

"She's sitting right there," the youngest Time Lord said, ignoring his older self and pointing to the crate on which the interface was sitting. She wasn't paying much attention to the men in front of her, too busy swinging her grey-stockinged legs to care. She glanced up and her sparkling amber eyes suddenly met those of the two confused men in front of her. "I think she's only choosing to appear to me right now."

One Doctor ground the toe of his Converse sneaker into the loose sand and gulped at the idea of Rose sitting a few feet away from him and not being able to see her. The other Doctor tried to suppress the emotions that the mention of her name still brought to him, mostly so that his younger self would think that he was over her.

The Moment was suddenly hit with the force of their emotions. Regret, sadness, friendship, loss… love? These men were centuries old, had met thousands of people, and had lost nearly that many. Their focus on the girl who she was manifesting was intriguing. She sifted through their memories and bit her simulated lip. The War Doctor looked confused and a bit antsy to get on his way. She shrugged and grinned with her tongue between her teeth. If she wanted to do any experimentation, it could happen later.

She tilted her head toward the TARDIS. "Time to get going, isn't it?" she asked the War Doctor. He nodded.

"What did she say?" the Doctor with the Converse asked as all three men and Clara jogged into their ships.

The three Doctors grinned at each other. They had saved their home and their friends, and it was time for them to go their separate ways.

"Maybe we can make that our new destination," the one with the Converse suggested, "because when it comes to Trenzalore, I don't want to go."

The Moment winced from her position in the corner. She was invisible to all three men now, but she was still psychically linked to them. The one with the chin was shuddering on the inside with the pain and desperation that that phrase didn't yet hold for the younger version of himself.

She directed her partially-physical form to skip into the TARDIS behind the Doctor who had spoken. While her physical form was safe in the time-locked haven of "Gallifrey Falls No More," she hadn't been able to shrug the memory of the deep sorrow which remained in the Doctor's heart because of this Bad Wolf- or, rather, the human form named Rose Tyler.

She realized that she could either stay in the horrible, dusty warehouse where she had been kept for so long, or she could keep this form for a while longer and get out and see the universe. In this way, she felt a connection to the young human who had jumped at the same opportunity… when? She still had problems with linear time.

As the blue door swung shut behind her, she closed her eyes and let her mind expand to reach all of the minds and devices on Earth. In one shuddering jolt, she "downloaded" everything to do with the Rose Tyler that the Doctor had known, including all of his own memories. She practiced smiling and pouting to herself a few times, then altered her appearance slightly to look more like the 21st-Century human that she was trying to imitate. The she made herself visible to the Doctor.

He didn't notice her at first, but it was obvious when he did. "Gallifrey saved, 2.47 billion children who never died. Brilliant. Well, I suppose I am, aren't I? I just… ROSE!"

The Moment smiled but didn't advance, and neither did the Time Lord. Tendrils of shimmering happiness reached unabashedly towards her, but she could tell that he was still being cautious. She could have timed it just right and reappeared as his memory was being erased, and then her whole job would have been done. But she had seen into the Doctor's mind. She knew him. And she wanted to give him a choice.

"I am not Rose Tyler. I am also not the Bad Wolf. I am the Moment."

The Doctor gulped and the tendrils of happiness retracted. "Are you here to erase my memories?"

"No." The girl with the blue-jeans and ponytail wandered closer to the heart of the console room, where she could feel the TARDIS trying to cope with the strange mix of two familiar minds. "I am here to try and escape the painting for a while. In a few minutes, your memory of today's events will be gone. I can then implant a false memory of your Rose Tyler finding a way to get back to you. You won't have any idea that it's not the real Rose. All of the things you wished you had said to her, all of the places you wanted to take her…" The Moment paused as she rummaged through her new memories. "Barcelona? With the dogs with no noses?" She smiled the tongue-between-teeth smile that she knew made the Time Lord's hearts beat double time. "Otherwise, you could ask me to leave now. I would erase my semi-physical form and return to Gallifrey within the painting. Either way, I would go back there eventually. I can't maintain this form forever. You would have to lose Rose Tyler again, but this time you would be prepared."

The Doctor's mind raced and tumbled, too caught up in the cries of "Rose! Rose!" to allow him to think over things the way he wanted to. As much as he knew that it wouldn't be the real Rose (was it selfish for him to have her when she couldn't have him?), it wasn't more than a few seconds before he croaked out "Yes. I want… I want to have a little more time with her. I just have one request."

"Of course."

"Only stay with me for a week. And if I ever meet the real Rose Tyler again, you have to permanently erase my memories of this time."

The Moment thought for… well, a moment. She had hoped to get away for longer than a week, but the opportunity to play human and see the stars was too good to pass up. She grinned again, switching to Rose's accent. "You've got yourself a deal."

The Doctor grimaced, knowing deep down that he was cheating somehow. He was just beginning to question whether the Moment had an ulterior motive when a burst of regeneration-like energy obscured his eyes. He staggered backwards into the console, waving his hands and trying to eradicate the buzzing that had filled his head. A pair of familiar, warm hands caught him.

"Rose?"