Never Forgotten Chapter 1 : Rose

Summary : It's been almost 5 years since Rose Tyler and her family arrived in the parallel universe. The whole family had been happy - up unitl a fortnight ago. Rose has been having the same dream as she had when she first arrived in this universe, and she is hearing her name being whispered again.

Rose stood in the bathroom, in front of the mirror. Her little sister was banging on the door, wanting to get in. She was only 5, and was always in the bathroom for 1 ½ hours preparing for primary school. Rose stood in her pink fluffy slippers, and her pink fluffy dressing gown. She stared at herself, and shook her head.

She hadn't been able to sleep for the last fortnight, and it was showing on her face. 4 ½ years ago she had the same dream. Someone was calling for her, calling her name. She had tried telling Mickey and her parents again. But they said it was impossible, to take some night nurse and go to bed. But she knew it was real, she had seen him in her dreams.

"Doctor." She whispered. Her sister called through the locked door.

"Stop saying that! Mummy told you to. Daddy did to. They said that it was swearing. That's not even a real name. Doctors have names. For example, Mummy's doctor was called Terry when he helped her give birth to Seany. Mickey's girlfriend's doctor had a name when he helped her give birth too. I think it was Fred, but I'm not sure. Anyway – I WANT THE BATHROOM NOW."

Baby Seany started crying when she shouted. Rose sighed heavily, and unlocked the door. She yelled at her sister.

"Ella! See what you have done know! You have woken up Seany. Now get in the bathroom, get ready, and then I will take you to school." But Ella ignored her and ran down the stairs. After all that, and waking up the baby, she just ignored her.

Rose sighed heavily again as she went into her little brothers room, and picked him up. She managed to settle him.

"ROSE!" shouted Pete Tyler. "I WANT A WORD!" Seany started to cry again. Rose shushed him and put him back in his cot. He immediately fell back to sleep again. He had never done that before. Rose thought that this was very strange, but she then thought that he was up watching double Teletubbies on television until 7.30pm.

She went out of his room and shut the door quietly. She quietly went downstairs. Not to Rose's surprise, Ella was there, and evidently had told her dad that Rose had used the "Doctor" word. Both Jackie and Pete looked where looking at her with irritated faces.

Rose chose to not make eye contact with her parents, but look around the kitchen instead. It was exactly the same as the kitchen as the one in the Queen Vic on Eastenders. Jackie had planned it all out and had monitored the scenes in the kitchen for weeks to get it precise. Pete had to call in his contacts, proper professionals. But they weren't good enough for Jackie. Jackie asked them to tear out the kitchen and to start again twice. The first time was because the colour of the cupboards and table weren't the correct colour. They where one shade wrong. The second time was even more minor than the first. The blinds opened the wrong way. Of course by using logic, the builders could have easily taken the blinds out and turned them around so that they did open the correct way. Both Pete and Rose tried to tell her that, but Jackie 'didn't want a kitchen that was built incorrectly', so it was built again.

Since they had moved to the parallel universe, the Tyler's had come into money, because of Rose's job at Torchwood. She had just been made head 3 months ago, the same day that Seany had been born. So that meant that they could afford to do the kitchen again, but Pete thought that some of the money should have gone into a bank account to pay for Ella's and Seany's university fees. Jackie thought that was ridiculous, because it would be 13 years until Ella went and 18 until Seany went, and that they would have bucket loads of money by then because of both Rose's and Pete's job.

Rose somehow lost her train of thought when she looked at the fridge, on which was a post – it. Written on it said "Doctor." Rose knew Jackie meant Ella's doctors appointment was coming up for her verruca, but it still made her think about her times travelling.

She gazed at the note, and thought that she heard her name whispered, like in her dreams, 4½ years ago.

"Rose." It whispered.

"Rose. Rose!" Pete said loudly. Rose snapped out of it. She took a double take to look at Pete. The first time she looked at him with a smile on her face, like she always did when she was travelling. But the second time she looked at him her smile faded, as she realised the whisper she thought was the Doctor's, was actually Pete's.

"Yes?" she replied teasingly.

"Ella, can you leave the room darling? Can you give Seany a tickle or something?" Jackie said to Ella, and with that, Ella skipped out of the kitchen, poking her tongue out to Rose and she skipped up the stairs singing "Rose is getting told off." In a sing – song way.

"Rose, we know you liked the Doctor, and enjoyed travelling with him, but its time for you to move on." Pete explained.

"Move on? Oh come on! How do you think that you have the right to tell me that? I'm not even technically your daughter! The only thing in this universe that actually belonged here was a dog called Rose Tyler. Until we came here anyway. And we came here because of him! You two where reunited because of him, and did you ever thank him?" Rose yelled.

"We didn't need to – he was so humble… and he didn't want thanks." Jackie said.

"Was? Oh, so we have moved onto the past tense now have we? There is no was when we are talking about the Doctor, mum, he is still alive, travelling the universe, saving lives, without me." Her voice broke, and the she started crying, but she carried on. "He has saved the universe many times, and no one has ever thanked him. That is why she is humble, because he does it out of the goodness of his heart, and not for the title Sir if everyone knew about him."

Jackie was crying now. "We understand that Rose darling but - " Then they heard a deafening scream. So high pitched that people over the age of 21 shouldn't be able to hear, but Pete and Jackie definitely hade done.

Rose immediately ran upstairs, with Jackie and Pete close behind her. She saw that Seany's bedroom door was open. Rose ran inside, and saw Ella holding Seany, and she was crying. Pete and Jackie caught onto what had happened before Rose, because Rose didn't want to believe it. There, in Ella's arms was Seany. But Seany definitely wasn't alive.