Found this on floating around, thought I'd dust it off and post it. Probably could be better.

Some spoilers for The Parting of the Ways and ever smaller spoiler for The Impossible Planet. (Insofar as the first two minutes)

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So where's Jack? The thought flits through Roses mind along with a small ache the second she sees Welcome to Hell on the wall.

'See you in Hell.' They were the last words he ever said to her.

So, Roses mind reasons, he should be here. Waiting for them; wearing that cheeky grin that'd grow all the more cheeky as he takes in the Doctors new pretty boy appearance.

Oh, Rose isn't stupid. Nor is she naive enough, after all she's been through, to think that he survived on the Game Station, with thousands of Daleks, and wasn't exterminated.

Because, if she's honest with herself, she still doesn't even know how the Doctor survived. He regenerated, yes. But he wasn't exterminated.

All she had to go on was second hand accounts of singing. And besides, Jack would have been there, telling her his probably more lavishly detailed version had he survived.

She knows it's impossible, but it doesn't stop her mind from asking.

The wall says this is Hell, and there's no Jack; Rose can't help feeling that that's wrong. Like it's a promise he broke…

All this flies through Roses mind in a blink, though the ache lingers, drawing the instant out impossibly.

"Welcome to Hell," she reads; laughs at the Doctors response and nods towards the wall; tucks it all away.

The Doctor turns to read the words himself and she wonders if the same thought is going through his mind...

That smile, last words, the kiss, the ache: Jack…


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