Rose Tyler had been looking for a way back to her world for over a year now, and finally, she found a way.
Rose had found herself at Cardiff, Wales, it seemed to be late a night, and there was barely anyone in the town at all.
She decided to talk around the city, make sure it was her world, for all she knew this could be the completely wrong dimension.
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Meanwhile, at Torchwood, Cardiff.
"Jack, there's some strange readings from the rift!" shouted Gwen, trying to get him to come down from his office.
"What is it?" said Jack and walked towards where Gwen was standing, looking at an image on the computer screen, which looked like CCTV.
"I dunno, there with this huge flash of light, then this" she said pointing to the screen, where a blonde woman, aged about 20 came running out from the light.
"Oh my god" whispered Jack
"What is it?"
"He said it was impossible"
"What? Jack what are you talking about?!"
"How long ago was this footage?"
"Erm –"
"How long?!"
"I dunno, about 10 minutes, 15 mins maximum!"
"Right then" said Jack and ran out of the hub and grabbed his military jacket quickly as Gwen shouted after him, and ran past Owen, Ianto and Tosh as he ran out
"Did we do something?" asked Owen jokingly.
Jack walked up to the city centre and scanned around looking for Rose
"Come on, come on, where are you Rose?" he whispered to himself, hoping some how she would answer. After a moment Jack tried to think about where she would go, they had only been to Cardiff once together, suddenly Jack thought of it and ran towards it.
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A few minutes later Jack was running towards a restaurant, as he got closer he decided to slow down, as he walked swiftly towards the restaurant, he could see a thin, blonde woman sitting by the window looking extremely bored, and picking at a plate of chips. 'Some things never change' thought Jack to himself, but then he looked at her properly and she had slightly changed, she looked slightly thinner and older, and her hair was a slightly darker shade of blonde then it had been before.
Jack walked in to the restaurant and tried think of what to say, he walked up to her and stood behind her.
"Is it me or does this young lady look an awfully lot like a certain Miss Tyler I know?" said Jack and Rose turned around to see Jack standing there, looking at her smiling.
"Jack?!" she asked
"The one and only"
"Oh my god it's you!" said Rose and leaped out of her seat and hugged him
"Woah there! It's nice to see you too" said Jack and sat down opposite her "Now, sorry to cut to te chase but, how are you even here?"
"Oh, well, I worked for Torchwood at the parallel universe and they're ahead of this universe and they just figured it out and it started working and I tested it and here I am"
"Just like that?"
"Yep, now what are you doing here?"
"Torchwood" said Jack as if it was obvious
"Right, of course, with the rift thing"
"Thing?"
"Y'know what I mean" said Rose picking up a chip
"Oooh, give us one" said Jack and reached and grabbed a handful of chips. "So what are you doing in Cardiff then?" said Jack with a mouthful of chips.
"I dunno, I just pressed the button and I ended up here, must be to do with Torchwood, brought me to the parallel Torchwood."
"I suppose"
"Yep"
Jack and Rose sat there in silence for a few minutes whilst eating chips
"So, how you gonna plan on finding him?" asked Jack, looking at Rose to see if this upset her.
"To be honest, I haven't thought that far ahead!"
"Well that's clever" said Jack sarcastically
"Yeah well, never claimed to be bright did I?"
"Nah, suppose not" said Jack "Do you want me to ring him?"
"What? You can ring him?"
"Yeah, Martha's got a phone on the TARDIS and I could ring her –"
"Who's Martha?"
"Erm-erm- just this person he knows"
"You mean travelling with?"
"I guess so, yeah"
"Right, shoulda known really" she whispered and leaned back in her chair.
"He still misses you Rose"
"Yeah right"
"He does!" insisted Jack
"Really?"
"Yes, when he told me what happened, he was nearly in tears, he misses you so much! He needs you in his life"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah"
"Now shall I ring and get him to get his skinny arse here?"
"Yeah"
"Alright then" said Jack and pulled his phone and started to dial the number.
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Meanwhile on the TARDIS
The Doctor, Martha and Donna were in the kitchen eating breakfast and discussing which destination they were going to go to next. Their conversation was soon ended when they heard Martha's phone ringing in her pocket, she picked it up and answered
"Hello?"
"Hi, Martha it's Jack"
"Oh HI Jack, what's up?"
"Not much, listen is The Doctor there, I really need to speak to him" said Jack
"Yeah sure, here he is" said Martha and passed the phone to The Doctor
"Jack?"
"Hi Doctor, listen I need you to come to Cardiff A.S.A.P, ok?"
"Ok, we'll be there in 5 minutes, what do you need me for by the way?"
"'Let's just say I've got a big surprise for you" said Jack with a smile on his when he looked at Rose.
"OK then, bye" said The Doctor, confused
"Bye, you better not be late!"
"I won't! That was one time!"
"Ok bye"
"Bye" said The Doctor and hung up and gave Martha her phone back
"What was that all about?" asked Donna
"I dunno, Jack said he's got some big surprise for me or something, anyway, let's go, I'll set the co-ordinates, we'll be in Cardiff in a couple of minutes" said The Doctor and set the co-ordinates and made sure they were correct and wondered what on Earth Jack had for him.