AN: So here's the deal, my friend Kate challenged me to think of a prompt with the pairing Rose/Tentoo (Metacrisis; Ten duplicate; etc.) and here's the prompt :

so Tentoo and Rose have been dating since they got back to the parallel universe. finally after like four years they get married. well of course Tentoo becomes some kind of fiction writer or something and he is famous for it. then he starts meeting all these women and he has an affair and Rose is just like he's on a trip... and she denies and denies it and then she finds out and is heart broken...

Rose is telling her side backwards
Next John and the Tentoo are one in the same; John is going to tell it in a strait progression.
And John and Rose won't actually ever talk to each other until about halfway through, although there will be mention of interactions.
Finally enjoy!

Prologue

The End Comes as Quickly as the Start

~Rose~

It's been three months since John moved out, Mum keeps telling me to move on, find someone new to take his place. But she doesn't get that he was my life, John was the absolute last connection to my lovely Doctor… That's one of the reasons the split is my entire fault. I'm the one who couldn't let the Doctor go; John would always be a duplicate to me.

Maybe he's right, but I tried to make it work. I tried to be happy with him, he's the one running. So let him go and hide and run… He was always running, even when he was just that mad Doctor.

John told me he'd always tell me the truth, but I guess that meant the truth he thought I should know, not the entire truth. What if I could show him what he's done to me? All those scars that I did nothing to earn, but maybe there's my lesson in all this, you get hurt the most by those you love…

~John~

I stand at the console working alongside all of the friends and family I've gained between my ninth regeneration and this point. I take my other self aside to tell him my plan. "Rose should stay with me. I can have the life you never could with her, I'm going to grow old."

"No, I just got her back; you can't do this to me, or at least to her." He protests. "You can't just tell her to stay in that parallel universe, because she'll fight it."

"You know it's going to break you when she can't keep going." I charge knowing full well that I'm right.

"I know," he sighs. "But she's my Rose. My beautiful, wonderful, fantastic Rose. Rose Tyler, defender of the earth." He runs both hands down his face, too frustrated to do much more. We land to drop Martha and Jack off.

They all hug, isolating me, but I suppose it's that they know I'm different, not the real Doctor, yet still the mad man with the blue police box. Donna says goodbye and holds Jack in a hug a bit longer than she should. Even with the mind of a Timelord she's still utterly human, I am too, just more Timelord than human… I start fiddling with the console, someone comes to my side, "Doctor," Sarah Jane's sweet voice says as she places a hand on my shoulder.

"Ah Sarah," I say, "The ever faithful Sarah Jane Smith…"
"I know you aren't the original, but you still deserve to be happy." She says in that ever wise tone of hers.
"I'm going to be happy someday," I tell her. She smiles, and we're off to drop the entire group of us back "home".

AN: I'm sorry if you think the chapter is short, but this is only the beginning, there is so much more to come. I may start giving each a chapter, but this was to get it started. Just tell me what you think.