New story because I was missing writing Rose and Eleven. Rose-receives-a-blue-envelope type story. Post doomsday, no journeys end.

Prolouge

Rose Tyler sighed to herself as she sat in her office at Torchwood. Every day she would try so hard not to think of him, but her mind would always wander back eventually. Work and life in general all ran as a blur for her, she signed paperwork, organised teams, ate salads, but the main focus on her life was the dimension canon. It was code named 'The Bad Wolf Project' ironically, as Pete had chosen the name. Her team hadn't been exactly successful since the project began six months ago, but it was early days. They alerted her if she was needed for any tests or practice runs, but besides that she didn't tend to venture out of her office unless requested. It was the one place she almost felt at home.

It was covered in glossy white wooden floors, and the walls were painted TARDIS blue, which made her smile. The lights glowed golden at night when she turned them on, and during the day the office was light by the massive window her desk faced, which served as a wall. It was nice, she had to admit to herself, and was the closest thing she had to the TARDIS. She missed the TARDIS almost as much as she missed The Doctor, almost. Rose had noticed after she had been sealed away that her connection with the TARDIS faded greatly, but there was still a weak hum in the very depths of her mind, which she used as comfort if she felt nostalgic.

Since arriving in the parallel universe and joining Torchwood, her main priority had been to get back to The Doctor. It took four months of pleading for Pete to actually agree to her plans and fund her product, much to the worry and dismay of her mother. Jackie honestly wanted the best for Rose, her only daughter and wanted to keep her safe, but deep down she knew that Rose would never be truly happy until she was with The Doctor.

In the sixth months following the start of her project, she had ran through the Torchwood ranks quickly, soon being promoted to assistant director. Pete of course was the sole director and owner of torchwood, but everything he did and received was ran through Rose first. Many of the workers envied Rose's position, but she honestly just felt like a glorified secretary. She was hardly ever commissioned for field work, and the only time she truly felt that she was helping out, was when she was identifying alien artefacts that had come crashing to earth. Most were harmless, as she had learnt from The Doctor, but some were useful to Torchwood. This Torchwood had seemed to adopt the same message as the Torchwood back in her home universe, 'If it's alien, it's ours' which was okay, as there was no doctor in this universe to stop it. So Rose desperately tried to keep the moral high ground, and act as resourceful yet respectable to other members of the galaxy as she could. This is what really kept her sane as she worked.

She sat at her desk and leafed through the marginally more interesting field reports, chuckling lightly at the thought of Frederick Owens being vomited on by a rather distressed Slitheen. Suddenly there came a knock at her door. "Come in!" she called, signing the bottom of the paper. She looked up to see Mickey Smith, her best friend, enter her office and sit down at one of the posh leather swivel chairs opposite her desk. He appeared to be clutching some kind of envelope in his hand, and Rose raised her eyebrow.

"What can I do for you Mickey?" she asked, eyeing the paper suspiciously.

"Something came through the void for you" Mickey said. Rose sat up abruptly, now this had caught her attention. Mickey placed the TARDIS blue envelope down on the table and Rose picked it up gently.

"Through the void?" she said, rotating it in her hands "Interesting. Has it been scanned?"

"Yep" Mickey said "Nothing but void stuff. No fingerprints, no DNA traces, not even an energy signature. Just a blue envelope with a zero on the back, addressed to you."

Rose nodded and flicked the envelope over in her hands, studying the front label.

Rose Tyler

(The Bad Wolf)

It red in a messy scrawl. The person writing it must have been in a rush, judging by the slanted letters and the pressure put on the pen. The stamp in the corner registered as twenty first century, but definitely parallel as it had a picture of Queen Elizabeth the second on the front. The stationary seemed to be simple earth stationary too.

"It's from a parallel universe, possibly ours" Mickey said.

"But what is it? A letter from a friend? A threat? Who would bother sending a letter through the void addressed to me for no reason?" Rose wondered aloud.

"Well here's a thought," Mickey said sarcastically "Why don't you open it?"

Rose just sighed and smiled, "Mickey, Mickey, Mickey. Always thinking of the easy way out. First of all, I have to study the outside, it could be very important." Rose said, twiddling the envelope round in her fingers again, spinning it as she held two of the opposite corners. "Like this zero on the back? What does that mean?" she said, staring at it intently.

"Oh for god sake Rose, just open the poxy thing"

"fine, fine, take the fun out of everything" Rose said, smiling and peeling the letter open delicately and pulling out the single white card inside. Rose read the card, eyebrows furrowed. It held a date, a time and co-ordinates.

"April 22nd 2011, and Utah, by the look of the area code on those co-ordinates."

"2011? But it's 2014 now?" Mickey said.

"Parallel universe Mickey, we're three years ahead of the universe back home. Someone sent this recently. But no signature?" Rose said, she skim-read the note again, and noticed the line at the bottom. Turn over it read. Rose obeyed the command and turned the note over sceptically, her eyes widening as she read what was written.

"What Rose?" Mickey asked "What is it?"

Rose was quickly grabbing pens and paper and scribbling down what was written on the back of the note. "It's instructions Mickey!" she said, beaming "It's instructions on how to fix the dimension cannon to send me back. It must be The Doctor, TARDIS blue envelope, the lot. He's figured out how to bring me back."

"I don't know Rose, this seems fishy. What if it's some old enemy of The Doctor trying to lure you in or something?"

"Who cares Mickey? I'll be home. Worst comes to worst, I'll escape and find him." She said adamantly, standing up to head to the dimension canon testing area to give them the instructions. "But Rose wait," Mickey said, standing up facing her "Are you sure about this? A mysterious summons, and you're just gonna go?"

"I have to Mickey. If it means I'll see him. You know that?"

"Of course I do," Mickey sighed "It's always going to be you and him isn't it, even if a universe separates you, you'll never stay away for long."

"I'm sorry Mickey" Rose said, reaching out to touch his face "But when you love someone, you just have to go when they call. No matter what."

And with that Rose Tyler left her office, content at the thought that within days she could be back in her home universe, being with the man that she loved most in the universe.