Hi all. This popped into my head a few days back and I thought I might write it down. This is all I have so far but if you all like it and I get good response I may continue on with it. Again, this all depends on you guys, so let me know. Reviews are to an author like... water is to a man dying of thirst. So please read and review.

I definitely do not own Doctor Who. All rights belong to the BBC and any of their writers. I just like to play with their characters.

This is Eleven and Rose because even if 10/rose is my OTP... the Doctor/Rose is my second. Because, honestly, Rose would love him no matter what he looked like. Thank you or reading this little part and on to the story.

The Doctor strode up to the astronaut who stood on the shore's edge of Lake Silencio. Funny that, after the entire ordeal with the silence, he should die on a beach named for them. It almost reminded him of one he'd lost, a long ways back. About two years to be exact. Two years... that was the amount of time she had been away from him before she showed up again the last time. It was like the universe enjoyed breaking his hearts and tearing them to shreds – piece by piece. Last time though, it had been his own undoing; when he'd not given her a choice; when he'd sent her away with another. Even though it broke him again, he believed it best for her and hadn't even given her a say in the matter.

As he walked, this thought caused him to remember what Dorium Maldovar had said to him the last time they'd spoken. The Doctor had asked what "silence will fall when the question is asked" had meant. The man had told him the first question; the very first question, and it had shaken the Doctor to the core. The first question in the universe.

But now, if his knowledge and instincts were anything to go by, then she was back. And she was back to kill him. But after everything he had gone through – without his three companions behind him, for he was so much further in the timeline than them – he was ready. Everything was figured out and when he survived this, he would have her back.

The Doctor walked forward some more and then came to stand in front of the astronaut who still had its visor down. He stared into the golden sheen of the glass, trying to make out if it really was her behind it. He didn't have to wait long. A hand rose and slid the glass pane upwards, revealing the woman the Doctor had been hoping for.

"I knew it would be you." He stated, his voice full of emotion. "Never can stay away for more than a couple years." She gave him a soft smile but didn't say anything, so he kept talking. "I don't know why you don't forget me. You could be happy, living out your life, getting married, having children; living the one adventure I never could."

"You've told me that before." She said after a short moment of silence. The Doctor nodded, looking away. "I did, you know. I got married." His eyes refocused on hers. "But we never had any children. Because for me, it's been a lot longer than two years." He looked at her quizzically. "It's been about half a century for me." His eyes grew way past what was normal.

"That's impossible." He said. She gave a short laugh.

"How many times have you told me that something was impossible? In fact, how many times have you told anyone that something was impossible and then they turn around and the impossible thing comes to pass? Hmm?" He looked taken aback at that question. "Just because you think something is improbable, does not mean that it is impossible."

"But... then – what I mean is, how?" He stuttered. She gave him a faintly amused look.

"Let me tell you a story." The Doctor looked like he was about to refuse but she treaded on. "Once upon a time, there lived a big Bad Wolf." The Doctor's eyes grew again. "Now, this Bad Wolf had been around since the very beginning of time. She could see the future, had the ability to know what was to come. One day, she looked and saw a man. A man who would come from so very far away and be so very alone. She saw what he would go through, all of the strains and the heartache. But she also saw what good would come because of it. She saw all of the good in his heart, his capability of forgiveness, of compassion and of love.

"Another thing about the Bad Wolf was that she had the power to input herself into the time stream. She could go anywhere, do anything and not cause any disruptions within any set point. And so, she decided, that this man, who would live for generations upon generations, should have someone who could stay by him and never have to leave his side. So she looked farther in the stream and saw someone else. A young woman.

"This woman was nineteen and had gone through a tough period in her life. She had dropped out of high school for a boy, lived with her mother and worked in a shop. But she also saw that this woman would meet the man and she would learn how to live her life to its fullest. And so, she decided that she should be his companion for all of time. Using only a small percentage of the powers she had, she transferred a piece of immortality into this young woman's life that would come out a year after her meeting with the lonely man.

"What the Bad Wolf didn't expect, was for the man to take the wolf from the woman, thereby erasing the memory from her head and ending one of the man's lives.

"For the next year, she watched as the new man and the woman grew closer but never acting upon any of the feelings they shared. The man because he thought the woman would eventually leave him and the woman because she was afraid that, were she to act upon her feelings, that the man would send her away.

"The Bad Wolf decided that they needed to learn what life was like without each other again. So two years after their first meeting, the woman was taken from the man and sent to live a different life, in a different world.

"The man grew sad and angst-y. He took two new companions in the space of two years but neither of them filled the void of the woman he'd lost. After those two years, the woman was returned to the man, albeit under dire circumstances, but at the end, he pushed her away again, leaving her with a half of a man. During these years, the Bad Wolf had not put any more of herself into the woman for fear that the man would only take it from her again. But when the man pushed her away yet again and then left, the Bad Wolf gave the young human girl immortality and powers beyond her belief. She got married to the half-man but nothing ever came from it. And when that man died, five years after his "birth", that was when the Bad Wolf actually showed herself to the woman.

"For the next forty five years, the Bad Wolf taught her everything she needed to know and how to use the powers unto which she was bestowed. After that time frame, the Bad Wolf told the woman what she was to do; to go back to the world where she once came from and follow the path laid out for her. And after she did this, the man and the woman would live happily ever after." The woman smiled "The end."

The Doctor was gaping at the woman in front of him. Everything he thought impossible died.

At least, any having to do with the woman in front of him did.

Many a time she had done the unexpected. She had beaten all of his preconceived notions and everything he had ever been taught. This woman had defied his logic, had defied any logic. And now she was here, telling him a story which in everything he knew should have been impossible, but once again she was just tearing it down.

"So what you're saying is, after we finish what you are here to do, you get to stay. No more big battles, no more me sending you off-"

"You will never send me off again." She said with finality. "I make my own choices and if you try then Rassilon help you." Then she smiled at him and he gave her a soft smile in return. "But in answer to your question, yes. I get to stay. I plan on staying. I know that this isn't really you and that you're in there." She said, pointing at the Doctor's head. "So when this is done, you teleport away, your companions behind us burn the Teselecta, I go back into the lake and I'll meet you back in the TARDIS." The Doctor smiled.

"Deal." A ball of green energy began to coalesce in the glove of the woman's suit. Two seconds later, it hit him point blank in the chest. The Teselecta Doctor stumbled back and gripped at his hearts, his body beginning to glow. "Oh, and Rose Tyler," he said, staring up into her eyes and ignoring the cries of his companions behind him. "I love you." The woman's – Rose's – eyes grew as the second ball of energy began to power up. The Teselecta turned its head to face Amy, Rory and River and then was impacted with the second jet of energy. He crumpled to the ground and Rose closed her visor, backing into the lake Silencio.

It was then that River and Rory let Amy go and they all three ran over to the now believed dead Doctor. Amy fell to her knees beside the empty shell they would later discover to be the Teselecta, though they wouldn't know that the Doctor would use it in this fashion. River shot the disappearing astronaut but the bullets would not pierce the suit. Rory knelt beside his wife, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder. Amy was lying on the Doctor's chest, begging for him to come back. But nothing happened, the Doctor stayed as he was, and the old man that had shown up came down with a jug of gasoline.

"You'll need this." He said, placing it before River and tipping his baseball cap. "There are a lot of beings in this universe who would kill just to get a piece of the Time Lord." And so, it was about 14 minutes later that the Teselecta was aflame and drifting through the waters of Lake Silencio. Rory was holding Amy as she cried in his side while River and the unnamed man stood back.

"Who are you?" River asked. The man looked at her for a minute before replying.

"Canton Everett Delaware the third." He handed River his envelope from the Doctor, asking for his presence here at this time. River noticed that his TARDIS-blue letter had a four on it. Curious, she pulled her own out of her jacket and noticed the three.

"Amy, Rory. Come over here." Rory walked over and, with great reluctance, so did Amy. When they reached River, Canton was gone but they paid no notice. "Let me see your envelope, the one the Doctor sent you."

"What for-"

"Just let me see it." Rory pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to River.

"Two." She said. "He numbered the envelopes..." and so the circle began again.

Back in the TARDIS, the one belonging to the future Doctor who had lived through what Amy, Rory and River were all now going through and more, one Rose Tyler was leaning against the console waiting for the new new new Doctor to walk through the doors. She didn't have long to wait.

The doors were flung open and the Doctor came almost running in. He stopped when he was but a foot in front of her. "Rose." He said quietly. She spent a few moments struggling with her emotions. It had been fifty years since she had seen the Doctor and during that time she had thought of the speech she would give him and the slap he had earned. But the look on her face in that moment told the Doctor everything he needed to know. Taking a step forward, he eliminated all of the space between them and bent down to capture her lips with his own. His left hand rose to cup her cheek and his right settled on the top of her left arm.

Rose started in surprise and nearly jerked away before remembering who it was that was kissing her and how abnormal it was for him to do this sort of thing. Her left hand came up to hold the Doctor's elbow and her free hand gripped his left forearm. After a second's hesitation she kissed him back. When the Doctor got his confirmation that this was okay, he pulled Rose tighter against him. His right arm curled the rest of its way around her back and his left tangled in her soft blonde hair. Rose's hands were wound in his own chestnut locks as her body arched up to meet his.

Rose was on cloud nine. Finally she was back and the Doctor still wanted her. He hadn't forgotten, though he had only been through one twenty-fifth of the time that she had. He loved her, he'd said as much on Silencio. And she hadn't said it back. But she would... right after this.

The Doctor couldn't be any happier. His one true love was back and had told him that she could be with him forever; that she would stay despite whatever he said. And that was just fine with him; never would he tell her to leave him again. He loved her with all of his hearts and he wouldn't let go, not now and not ever. Finally, he had said those three words that he should have said before; that he should have said within the first two years that he'd known her; when he was his ninth and his tenth self.

The Doctor dragged his tongue against her lips, asking for entrance to which she immediately granted. Their tongues met and fought for dominance and didn't give to the other. The kiss soon died down from lustful and rushed, to slow and passionate as they both realized that the other wasn't going anywhere. Rose explored the Doctor's mouth as she had wanted to even when he'd had the big nose and floppy ears. Even more so when he'd had the spiky, untameable brown hair and tall figure. But now, he had brown, floppy hair, wore tweed and a bow tie and she still loved him. The Doctor was the Doctor no matter how he looked.

In turn, the Doctor got to explore her own mouth. He ran his tongue over hers and across her cheeks. Soon his mouth drifted from hers and trailed across her jaw line. Her grip on his hair tightened slightly as she held him closer to herself. He grinned in her neck and placed a trail of kisses from her jaw and downwards. He nipped at her pulse point which drew a moan from her throat. He went further down to her collar bone and kissed there as well.

"I love you too." She said breathily. He drew back and looked into her half-lidded eyes. They opened a bit wider and she gave him a smile that could light up... everything. He smiled just as brightly and brought both of his hand to her cheeks, kissing her on the lips once more. This time it was short but sweet and they both smiled, leaning their foreheads against the other.

"Rose Tyler." He said. "Come with me." She nodded against his head and brought her hands up to fix his tie. Noticing it again, she poked her tongue out of the side of her mouth between her teeth before saying, "nice bow tie."

"Bow ties are cool." He answered self consciously. She gave a short laugh.

"Not really. But on you," she hummed. "It fits." He smiled at her before they both began to laugh. Nothing about the situation was funny, really, but just thinking about everything, about both of their pasts, their lives. Everything just seemed so ridiculous that they needed to get it out. Soon enough they were both slumped of the floor of the TARDIS and their backs leaning against the console. The Doctor's left arm was curled around Rose's shoulders and her arm was around his back. Her head settled in the crook of his neck and his was leaning against hers.

"So, you really are the Bad Wolf now." He mumbled into her hair, tracing patterns on her upper arm. She nodded into his shoulder. "And you really want to stay with me when you could do," he let out a scoff. "Anything?" She, again, nodded. "Why? After everything, why would you want to stay with me?" Rose pulled her head back and looked into his grey-green eyes.

"Did you not hear me, earlier, when I told you I loved you? That means that I will never leave you no matter what happens. Through regenerations, through bad times, through good times. Through everything, I will be by your side even if you don't want me there." The Doctor's gaze softened and he pulled her tighter to him in a one armed hug. He rested his chin on the top of her head.

"I will never not want you with me, my Rose. Forever now, like we promised each other what seems like a lifetime ago." Rose laughed.

"It was a lifetime ago. For the both of us. But the rest of our lifetimes we will be promising each other that." The Doctor smiled.

"Forever."

Thanks for reading this. Like I said at the beginning (and if you didn't bother to read that bit) if you want more, tell me and I'll see what I can come up with. Please review because I love to hear what you guys think. Like always, constructive criticism is welcomed.

Also, I'm looking for a beta because honestly, I can edit someone else's story but for some reason, I don't do very well with my own. Have you ever experienced that?

Anyways, thanks again. Cheers! -BadWolf (You have no idea how much I love writing that)