Title: There's always another way

Rating: K+

Summary: Post Doomsday. Crossover with Parallax. Rose meets two people who know all about travel between parallel universes.

Disclaimer: Don't own Doctor Who or Parallax.

Author's Note: Yes, this is another reunion fic. But I started it ages ago and just couldn't be bothered to type it out until now. Give it a chance. And don't worry if you haven't seen Parallax, I'll explain it.

There's always another way

Rose had just finished work at Torchwood. Interesting as it was looking at alien artefacts and things, it wasn't the same as being out there, experiencing it for real. Now she was home, watching TV.

"Rose? Are you in here?" asked Mickey from the doorway.

"Yeah," replied Rose. Mickey walked in.

"How was work?" he asked.

"Oh, fine," said Rose. "Sorry, but I'm trying to watch my show."

"What is it?" asked Mickey, taking a seat.

"Parallax," answered Rose. "It's about these two kids from parallel universes. They find out that they're brother and sister and their mum's a Guardian of the Parallax, which is like all the parallel universes. They have heaps of adventures and stuff."

"And you watch this because…?" said Mickey.

"Mystery, adventure, humour …" said Rose.

"Right, and nothing to do with the fact that they're doing something you'd give anything to do," said Mickey sarcastically. "You really need to get over it Rose." Rose turned to Mickey, a serious look on her face.

"Maybe I would get over it if it wasn't brought into every conversation," she said sternly. She then turned back to the TV.

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Ben and Katherine were exploring a section of the forest world they hadn't been to before. Katherine noticed a tree with a drawing of a 6 petal flower on it, which was the symbol for a pathway to another universe.

"Ben! Look at this!" she exclaimed.

"Whoa!" said Ben. "Another portal! I wonder where this one leads to?"

"We can't just go wandering into a universe we don't know about," said Katherine. "Let's find Mum and asked her."

"Where's your sense of adventure?" asked Ben, who walked past the tree and disappeared out of sight, into the other universe. Katherine sighed and followed him.

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"Where'd they go?" asked Mickey.

"They're in another universe now," explained Rose.

"Okay, so why isn't it showing it?" said Mickey. For the TV screen showed the area the kids had disappeared from, but not where they were now.

"Good question," admitted Rose. Suddenly they heard a noise coming from Rose's room.

"What was that?" whispered Mickey.

"How should I know?" said Rose, slowly standing up. She and Mickey walked to her room, Mickey carrying a chair, just in case. Rose opened the door to her room. The sound was coming from inside her wardrobe. She put her hand on the doorknob, opened the door and gasped.

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Cliffhanger!... but it's pretty darn obvious who's gonna be inside the wardrobe. What do you think so far?