Disclamer: I own nothing but the pink laptop that this was typed up on for fun. No copyright infringement intended, I've gained nothing but my own smile for this work.
Note: I'm not sure if I will keep with this story or not, if not its a sweet one shot of Rose dealing with yet another change in her Doctor.
Forever at the Bay of the Bad Wolf
The Doctor reenters the TARDIS saying "It's time for one last trip. Dårlig Ulv Stranden. Better known as, Bad Wolf Bay."
As the group leaves the TARDIS Jackie says "OH, fat lot of good this is, back of beyond bloody Norway. I'm going to have to phone your father, he's still in the nursery room. I was pregnant do you remember? Had a baby boy."
"Aw brilliant, what did you call him?" asked the other Doctor.
"Doctor," replied Jackie.
After a pause, "Really?" asked the other Doctor.
"No, you plum. He's called Tony," Jackie replied with a smile.
"Hold on this is the parallel universe, right?" asked Rose.
"Your back home," said The Doctor.
"And the Walls of the World are closing now that the Reality Boom never happened. It's Dimensional retro closure, see I really get that stuff now." Said Donna.
"Yeah but I spent all that time trying to find you, I'm not going back now." Said Rose
"But you've got to, because we saved the universe but at a cost. And the cost is Him" said the Doctor looking at the other Doctor. "He destroyed the Daleks, he committed genocide. He's to dangerous to be left on his own."
"You made me," stated the other Doctor.
"Exactly you where born in battle full of blood and anger and revenge." Replied the Doctor and then asked Rose. "Remind you of someone? That's me when we first met. And you made me better and now you can do the same for him."
"But he's not you" Rose replied
"He needs you, that's very me." Said the Doctor.
"But its better then that though. Don't you see what he's trying to give you? Tell her going on" pushed Donna.
" I look like him, I think like him, same memories, same lot, same everything except I've only got one heart." Stated the other Doctor.
"Which means?" asked Rose.
"I'm part human, specifically the aging part. I'll grow old and never regenerate, I've only got one life Rose Tyler, I could spend it with you. If you want." Replied the other Doctor.
"You'll gro-grow old the same time as me?" stammered rose
"Together" said the other Doctor
Rose reaches out and feels the other Doctor's one heart beating. "Oh and don't forget this. This universe is in need of defending, chunk of TARDIS. Grow your own," said the Doctor as he tossed the piece to the other Doctor.
"But that takes thousands of years," stated the other Doctor.
"No because," started the Doctor.
"If you shatter fry the plasmic shell and modify the dimensional stabilizer to a fold back harmonic of 36.3, you accelerate the growth power by 59!" finished Donna.
"We never thought of that" said the Doctors after exchanging a look.
"I'm blooming brilliant" Donna smirked.
"The doctor, in the TARDIS with Rose Tyler, just as it should be," said the Doctor.
"But, what about you?" asked Rose.
"Oh I'm fine, I've got Madam." Replied the Doctor
"Human with a Time Lord brain, prefect combination." stated Donna "we can travel the universe forever, best friends and equals. Just what the old skinny boy needs, an equal!" The TARDIS signals and everyone looks.
"We've got to go, this reality is sealing its self off, forever." states the Doctor
"But," starts rose "its still not right cause the doctor's still you."
"And I'm him" replies the Doctor.
"Alright," said rose "both of you answer me this, when I last stood on this beach on the worst day of my life, what was the last thing you said to me? Go on say it."
The Doctor swallows and replied, "I said Rose Tyler"
"Yeah and how was that sentence going to end?" pushed Rose.
"Does it need saying," responded the Doctor.
"And you Doctor, what was the end of that sentence" Rose questions the other Doctor.
The other Doctor leaned in and whispered into Rose's ear "I'll always love you." As he pulls away she grabs his jacket and pulls him into a kiss as the Doctor heads for the TARDIS with Donna behind him.
Rose pulls away and tries to reach the TARDIS as the Doctor and Donna head back to their reality. "No," she whispered to the air as the other Doctor comes up behind her and grasps her hand.
"Rose," he started "you still have me."
She looked sideways and tried to focus on the mad that stood in front of her. Both Doctors said they were the same, yet her heart told her otherwise. But then, didn't she have the same misgivings when he had regenerated. Rose sighed and with a look from the other Doctor she explained with a smile and a tear "You won't me changing on me again."
"No, well except the aging part," quipped the other Doctor.
"Right, but we're doing that together," smiled Rose. Hand in hand they walked back to her mother where Jackie wasn't sure how to react to the whole situation. But she welcomed the other Doctor as her daughter's choice and though she was uneasy about the chunk of TARDIS that he held, at least it would be a while before it was a blue box that would take Rose away again.
As Rose walked hand in hand with this other Doctor she thought about the man she loved. She knew for the most part this was the same man but he was different and she couldn't shake that feeling. She had got herself so caught up in her own thoughts that she hadn't even noticed that her mother and the man next to her where waiting for an answer to some question till he shook her hand gently, "Earth to Rose," Jackie jibed.
"Sorry what?" asked Rose a tad puzzled and more than a bit embarrassed.
"I was asking where your communications panel was here, I know you and your Torchwood put one up here shortly after you took over." Her mother ribbed.
"Oh right, thought you where phoning Pete?" Rose asked with an air of annoyance about Torchwood being brought up in front of the Doctor.
"Battery is dead." Jackie said mater-of-factly. Rose just rolled her eyes and started up the path off the beach and to the road.
"Head of Torchwood" repeated the other Doctor, with his eye brow rasied.
"Yeah well they were impressed with my knowledge of other Aliens, after all they haven't had a companion of the Doctor dumped on them before," retorted Rose.
The Doctor flinched at her words, "I never ment for you to be," he started.
Rose just glared at him, "You sure had a funny way of showing it." And she stalked over the odd box in the middle of nowhere. When she opened the panel there was a vid screen along some dials and buttons.
"Oi, could you have made this thing any more complicated," cried Jackie who was close behind.
Without a reply to her mother Rose started dialing the vid phone, "Ianto Jones" started the smartly dressed man on the screan. "Ah, Director what can I do for you?"
"Ianto I need a flight from Bad Wolf Bay back to London," stated Rose.
"So the trip was successful then," questioned Ianto.
"The world isn't going to end today" replied an annoyed Rose.
Taking the hint Ianto signed off with "The Helicopter will be there shortly Ma'am"
"Torchwood was aware of the Reality Boom?" questioned the Doctor.
"Well yeah, it takes a team to jump realities without a blue box," replied Rose.
Taking Rose's hand the Doctor asked "How long until they arrive?"
"Around an hour or so," replied Rose confused.
Looking at Jackie he said "Do you mind?"
"No, no I'll just stay here" snipped Jackie a bit put off that already this Doctor was pulling her daughter away.
Not taking any notice of the bitter reply the Doctor led Rose back down to the beach. Unsure of where to start he continued to walk hand in hand with her a good way down the beach. It was Rose who started thing off when they got to the spot where the TARDIS had been she let go of his hand of fell to her knees with a sob. "Rose" he questioned.
"After all that time searching, trying to find my way back to him, I'm left for a seconded time on this beach." Tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked up at the Doctor, the other Doctor she told herself.
"Rose my beautifully brilliant Rose, I'm right here," started the other Doctor.
"But you're not him now are you! You aren't my Doctor," cried Rose. "No, my Doctor left with that now brilliant redheaded temp, to travel the stars with her human Time Lord mind."
"No," said the other Doctor slowly with pain evident on his face and in his voice. "No, he took her home to her Mother and Grandfather to relieve her mind of any knowledge of any of anything to do with him the TARDIS or any of their travels. She'll never be able to see him again; the human mind cannot handle Time Lord knowledge so he has to take that away from her before she burns up."
Rose sat their absorbing his words, "So, he… he'll be alone again?"
This Doctor nodded morning over the loss of yet another friend.
"Then why not take me? I could have stayed with him, why dump me back here?"
"Because of me, like he said I am a lot like I was when we first met. And it was kinder for you and easier for him if you were here to grow old with me. He won't age like you, or I will now. He could never settle down and have a life with you, and to watch you grow old and die would be too hard to bear again."
"Again?" questioned Rose.
"He, I. Told you that you died that day. Just a name among the dead. You haunted me, your memory made it hard to take anyone else on the TARDIS. Donna was the first by a freak accident on what should have been her Christmas day wedding."
Rose snorted "You're not very good with holidays are you?"
"No, no I'm not. But she didn't want to stay at first. So shortly thereafter there was Martha. And she was brilliant, but our run in with the Master sent her packing. I couldn't blame her, he had gone after her family after all. After that I ran in to Donna again. Oh and she was marvelous, just what I needed after losing you. She didn't want anything more than a friend something that was hard to get a crossed to Martha. All I wanted was you Rose. You where the one I always wished was there. I think Donna knew that I was hurting, she was a friend, my best mate." The Doctor looked at Rose hoping, pleading her to understand.
"He said you needed me, but he needs me too," Rose said miserably.
"Yes," the Doctor agreed, "But all I've ever wanted, all he was trying to give you, was a fantastic life. He thought that the best way for you to have that was with me, having jaunts among the stars with the TARDIS we will grow but mainly having the one adventure he can never have."
Rose looked at the Doctor, she wondered when she started thinking of this man as simply the Doctor. He was the Doctor, and though he wasn't her original dark Doctor or the second freer spirited Doctor he was a mix of the two and he was here, willing to share his life with her and never leave her behind. "Rose Tyler and the Doctor, forever," she said giving him a smile.
"Forever," he agreed grinning like a fool.