Comments: This is my first doctor who fic, so I hope you like it set just after the goodbye scene in final episode. Slight Spoilers

As Rose walked away from this very good looking drunken stranger, each step she took her steps felt heavier and her heart, she felt like pieces were breaking away. She stopped at the door to her building and turned back around, she couldn't walk away. Common sense would have normally told her to run but every other part of her told her to go back.

He was leaning against the wall with his eyes closed in what looked like pain. She ran up to him.

"Are you alright mister" she said concerned.

He opened his eyes and there she was his rose.

"You are beautiful" he said honestly.

She smiled and blushed at the intensity of his stare and bit her lip.

"You must be drunk" she said smiling and when he smiled back and she looked into his eyes, it was like a magnet was drawing them together. Like everything else in the world faded away apart from them.

She grabbed him by the tie in one of the most impulsive things she had probably every done, she kissed him, he kissed her back with just as much passion.

As she kissed him a gentle song played in her head, something so familiar yet so new, her eyes were closed as his lips crashed against hers but she felt like she was bathing in sunlight kissing him. And then her knees went weak and blackness took her.

The Doctor caught Rose just as she was about to hit the floor.

"ROSE" he shouted.

He listened to her, she was still breathing, he closed his eyes and listened to her mind and the song of the tardis played through her head. He looked in a puddle of melted snow and he was still the same doctor, he thought he had regenerated with the beam of light that he thought had come from him, but it had come from Rose, she had healed him and saved his life once more.

He lifted her up and walked towards the Tardis, he turned instinctively to see the Ood that had predicted his death standing there, and he held her tighter.

"Your song was meant to be ending today Doctor........but a new song is just beginning" the Ood said, he closed his eyes as if receiving a hidden message.

The Ood opened them "We shall meet again.... The Doctor and Rose the protectors of time" he said.

The Doctor smiled "Until we meet again" he said walking away.

He unlocked the Tardis and carried Rose in, he placed her down and began running scans on her.

After scans and pulling his hair out, he figured out that the energy from the Tardis that Rose had absorbed in the future, a small part had remained in her, when she kissed him she transferred the final bit of energy to him, enough to heal him and not regenerate.

Tears fell down from his face as he watched her sleep, he stroked her cheek. He was supposed to die today, he wanted to see her one last time, his reward, now his reward was a lot bigger than anything he could have imagined.

She would wake up in a few hours and he knew he should wipe this memory and take her back to her bed, waiting for another version of himself to meet her later this year.

But he couldn't, she had healed him not just now but before, he was never normally selfish but now in this room looking at the only person he had every truly loved , he closed his eyes. If she wanted he would do everything in his power to keep her with him.

Rose dreamed of monsters of friends and of the stranger she met in the street a man who in her dreams changed faces...... she dreamed of falling into darkness of aliens of laughing and of love.