A/N I started to think about what came after Journey's End? Then I was locked in a camper for a week with no internet, and this is what came out. Enjoy? Maybe? I've never written Doctor Who fic before, so please forgive any mistakes. (Thank you Rakey for drilling into my head "TARDIS not Tardis.") Oh, and I havn't seen the Specials just yet (waiting... waiting...), I know Billie comes back for a bit, but I don't know in what capacity, so if this contradicts those in any way. I am sorry.

DISCLAIMER; I do not own Doctor Who, I don't even live in the UK.

With one final screech, the TARDIS completely vanished. Leaving Rose, her mother, and the human Doctor standing alone in Bad Wolf Bay. For a few seconds Rose watched the empty space, and unwillingly silent tears spilled down her cheeks. She would never see that little blue box again...

"Rose." The human Doctor said her name, and it made her gasp a little. It felt almost wrong, to trade her Time Lord for a human. Even if they were practically the same person, and they looked the same, sounded the same, and loved her just as much. One fact remained.

The Doctor standing next to her did not have two hearts.

Still, her heart melted when he whispered her name just a few inches from her ear, "Rose. He's gone."

But every part of her screamed "No! You're still here. Right next to me!" Her mind conflicted with her heart, he was here. He was gone. He was here. He was gone. Ever since she had taken that first trip in the crazy blue box, Rose had come to accept impossible and strange things. But this left her spinning more than any possessed Ood.

Rose continued to stare at the indent in the sand. At the footprints leading to it. The only evidence that her Time Lord had been here and left. Evidence that would be washed away within a few hours.

"Sweetheart?" Jackie carefully put herself between the two, and forced Rose to look at her. "Come on. Let's go home."

Rose nodded, and wiped the tears of her face. Then she thought about something, "Mum. We havn't got our passports. Or a car, or anything." They were in Norway, 50 miles away from civilization. With no passports.

Jackie's face hardened, "That's just like him! Leaving us here."

The Doctor stepped forward, "Actually Jackie." He reached into his pockets and pulled out a familiar object.

"Psychic paper." Rose said before he even opened it. The Doctor nodded.

"And Rose has her phone. She can call Pete." The Doctor added, "I'm sure he can arrange something." He scratched the back of his head awkwardly at the mention of Rose's alternate father. Seeing the familiar movement, Rose turned away from him.

She called her father, who called a Torchwood operative to retrieve them immediately.

But that still left them on a deserted beach for a while.

After handing her phone over to Jackie, so she could talk to Pete, Rose wandered down the beach. Away from her chattering mother.

The Doctor followed her of course. But he didn't understand why she wouldn't look at him. Just ten minutes ago she had kissed him! But now she was ignoring him, or avoiding him. As much as someone on a deserted beach can.

After a bit Rose just sat down on the sand. She pulled her legs to her chest and stared at the water. The Doctor towered over her, unsure what to do. So he waited for some kind of sign from her. To go, or to stay. Never before had he been this unsure about what to do.

Then he heard her crying. Over the sound of the waves and birds, she was shaking and sobbing. The sound made his single human heart splinter.

"Rose." Again he just said her name, kneeling next to her and she buried her face into her knees like a child. Not wanting to see him or for him see her. She was just so confused.

The Doctor was confused too, what did he do? She wouldn't even look at him, so was it wrong to hold her? Would she just be even more upset and push him away? But the instinct to wrap her in his arms and soothe her was overwhelming. So he did just that.

She didn't pull away. Instead she tucked herself into him, mourning the other Doctor and his magical machine. Because she had to, had to finally let go.

Of course The Doctor that was with her didn't know that. All he knew, was that she wouldn't look at him, and that now Rose was sobbing into his shoulder.

He also knew that he was holding her. Really holding her. This wasn't just a big hug because once again they had faced death and conquered it. No, this was him being able to gather all of her in his arms and just hold her the way he had always wanted to.

Eventually her tears ran out. But she continued to sit there, huddled close in his arms. And the truth of the matter was that she really did not want to pull away. So the two of them stayed there for a while longer.

"Rose?" The Doctor broke the silence eventually, unable to hold back any longer.

She tilted her face up to look at him. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"I-" Rose paused, searching for a way to explain it, "You- he, left again and that hurts."

"But I'm here."

"I know."

"And I'm him."

"Not entirely." Rose pressed a hand against his chest, feeling the single heart beat.

"Does that mean then." The Doctor felt a little scared, "Do you want me to leave?"

"No!" Rose held onto him tighter at the thought, "No, I just, needed to get that out of my system. It's a bit of a mind twister. You there, you here."

"But I am here. I am The Doctor." He reiterated to her, "I just have a human body. Think of it as my final regeneration. Though I got to keep the same face." He smiled then, hoping she would return it.

And Rose did, "That's one way of putting it." And as she looked up at him, The Doctor considered pressing his lips to hers again. At the same instant, so did she. All those years, she had never kissed him, never pushing.

"Oi! Rose, you can have your phone back." Jackie interrupted the pair before either of them could move on their impulses.

The Doctor jumped half a mile into the air at the sound of Jackie's voice.

"Pete says Torchwood will be here soon."

"All right mum." Rose stood, brushing sand off herself.

"And he's going to find you some documentation." Jackie said to The Doctor, "Seeing as you're from another planet. What's your last name anyways? You can't keep going around telling everyone you're The Doctor."

"John Smith." The Doctor said.

"Oh come on that's not your real name." Jackie rolled her eyes.

"Well, that's a normal human name. And it's one I sometime used to go by. It will do." The Doctor shrugged, and Jackie gave up.

"Hopeless he is." Jackie said to Rose. She looked at him, as the Doctor looked at the sky in exasperation, and just smiled.

"But he's mine." Then she kissed him, and The Doctor forgot about Jackie as his mouth tasted Rose again.

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