A/N: I'm back! ;) Not long of a wait, like I promised you. Although I was planning on posting this sooner, but my allergies have been killing me and making me feel like crap and suffering with a slight writer's block only adds to it. That, and I've been in a constant state of fangirling from all of the pics and videos of DT and Billie Piper at Comic Con. It's just…beautiful. ^^

Anyways, the more important stuff. Following right where we left off in my last story. Now for any new viewers, welcome! If you haven't already, you should read An Unexpected Christmas Miracle and Weathering the Storm (especially that) to have a clear picture at what happened in the events leading up to this.

Now onto Five!

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or its characters (sadly), the BBC does. All rights belong to the owners and writers. No copyright infringement intended. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Time Crash

Previously

"What d'you reckon?" the Doctor asked. "Backwards or forwards?"

"Wherever you want," Rose answered with a smile that mirrored on his face.

With that he pulled the lever…and then they were thrown into the jump seat when the TARDIS violently jerked, spinning them around, a siren blaring throughout the room. Rose started feeling all sorts of dizziness as the Doctor held her to keep her from falling to the floor. He scrambled to his feet and quickly flipped a switch on the console.

"Stop it!" he shouted over the siren. A second later the TARDIS settled, smoke trickling out from the time rotor. He shook his head before turning back to Rose. "You okay?"

Rose nodded with her eyes still closed, feeling a little…off. "Yeah, just gimme a minute for my head to slow down. What happened?"

The Doctor stared at the console. "I dunno. What was all that about, eh? Eh?" He placed a hand on the rotor then checked the controls, working his way around the console. "What's your problem?"

Opening her eyes Rose froze when she saw another man coming around the console in the opposite direction. A familiar one at that.

"Right, just settle down now," the other man said, wearing the cream colored cricket outfit and stick of celery on his lapel. The Doctor's fifth self.

What the hell?

The two men bumped into each other. "Excuse me," her Doctor muttered.

"So sorry," the other Doctor said.

Rose only watched as the two barely looked at each other. "What?" she cried.

Both Doctors looked up at the sound of her voice before finally noticing each other with full attention. "What?" her Doctor asked, staring at him.

"What?" the other Doctor demanded.

They moved closer to get a better look. Her Doctor's eyes widened. "What?"

Rose stood by the jump seat, flitting her eyes between the two - her husband and the man he once was so long ago. Questions immediately popped into her mind, the most important one being how the hell the Doctor's fifth self managed to get in the TARDIS - their TARDIS in the present.

It appeared that this was going to be an occurrence for them.

"Who are you?" Five asked, glancing at them. "Both of you?"

"Oh, brilliant!" her Doctor said happily, grinning widely at his past self. "I mean, totally wrong, big emergency, universe goes bang in five minutes, but…brilliant!"

Rose snorted. "That's a change from last time," she commented.

"Oh, well, yeah," her Doctor said, still beaming. "But c'mon, you gotta admit this is amazing!"

Rose suppressed a giggle, recalling the last time they had accidentally bumped into one of his past lives while trapped in 1969. And the Doctor was…a little uneasy about interacting with his third self then because of the paradoxical situation. He was so jittery that she worried if he was about to break apart. So seeing him this ecstatic as he encountered yet another one of his familiar faces was a little out of the ordinary.

"I'm the Doctor," Five said, eyeing the Doctor up and down. "Who are you two?"

Her Doctor nodded. "Yes, you are! You are the Doctor."

Five furrowed his brows in confusion, and Rose almost laughed. "Yes, I am. I'm the Doctor."

"Oh, good for you, Doctor," the Doctor said. "Good for brilliant, old you."

"Is there something wrong with you?" Five asked, frowning.

"Ohhh, there it goes! The frowny face, I remember that one!" the Doctor cried, pointing at Five's face before his smile faded for a moment. "Mind you," he raised his hands to the other man's cheeks and squashed them. "Bit saggier than it ought to be." He stopped and lightly brushed the other man's hair beneath his hat. "Hair's a bit grayer. That's because of me, though, the two of us together has shorted out the time differential, should all snap back in place when we get you back home." He flipped random switches on the console then grabbed the man's jacket. "Be able to close that coat again. But never mind that! Look at you! The hat, the coat, the crickety cricket stuff," his smile faltered a little. "The…stick of celery…"

"Don't be like that," Rose spoke up. "I think it suits him well. Goes great with the cricket outfit."

Five turned to her, a curious look on his face. "I'm sorry, but have we met before?"

"Oh…maybe. Just not yet, at least."

"Ah, that seems to happen a lot to me, running into things in the wrong order," he said before adding with a charming grin. "But how I could forget someone like you is even more out of the ordinary. You hardly seem like a person to be forgotten."

Rose smiled when Five took her hand and placed a kiss to the back of it. She practically heard her Doctor rolling his eyes from behind. "I can say the same for you, Doctor. You're a bit of a legend in my book."

"Not the first time I've heard that," he preened. "Thank you, miss…"

"Oh, Rose Tyler," she told him with a wide smile.

Five grinned. "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Rose Tyler."

"Okay, we get it," her Doctor said, gently tugging Rose back to him with an arm around her waist. "It's very fitting. Brave choice, celery, but fair play to you. Not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable."

Rose snorted. A similar thing happened last time, too. "Not as such. I was only being nice and saying hello."

"Riiiight," he drawled, arching an eyebrow at her. She rolled her eyes as a response. So possessive. Of himself, no less.

"Honestly I believe she's easier to talk to," Five spoke up. "Definitely better than some skinny idiot ranting in my face about everything that happens to be in front of him." He removed his hat and placed it on the console. "Now there's something wrong with my TARDIS and I've got to do something about it very, very quickly. And it would help - it really would help - if you were to shut up."

Rose tried to hide her smile behind her hand when she saw the look on her Doctor's face, but didn't bother to. Very rarely would that unstoppable gob of his come to a halt.

"Oh. Okay," he said with a nod, stepping back. "Sorry…Doctor."

"Thank you," Five said as he moved around the console.

Rose nudged her Doctor in the ribs. "And you say this body was born rude," she teased in a quiet voice.

He snorted. "Oh? Not to you he wasn't. Notice how nice he was to you?"

"Well, I am always more kind than you."

"Yeah, well, that appeared to be more than just that with him. He was flirting with you, Rose. Didn't you see that?"

Rose threw him a cheeky grin. "Somebody's jealous of himself," she sing-songed.

"What? Of course I'm not!" he said with a scoff. "Why would I be?"

"Because it's what you do."

"Most definitely not."

"Sure…"

He sniffed before glancing back over at his past self, who was distracted by the console. "Oh, the back of my head!"

"What?" Five asked, raising his head a bit and still facing the console.

"Sorry, sorry, not something you see every day, is it," the Doctor said. "The back of your own head."

Rose snorted. "Maybe not every day, but every once in a while it seems."

He nodded as he studied his past self's head. "Mind you…I see why you wear a hat. I don't want to seem vain, but could you keep that on?"

"Vanity strikes again," Rose commented, earning a look from the Doctor.

Five lifted his head and took in his surroundings before whirling around. "What have you done to my TARDIS?" he demanded. "You've changed the desktop theme. What is this one then…coral?"

"Well…"

"It's worse than the leopard skin," Five told him.

"It's not so bad," Rose said. "It really grows on you once you get used to it."

"It all looks a bit grunge, though," Five said with a frown as he observed it. "Not really a taste of mine."

Rose grinned widely. "I love it."

He looked around, considering the design then smiled. "I suppose it's not so bad, then," he said, pulling out a pair of half-moon glasses.

"Oooh, there they come! The brainy specs!" her Doctor chirped, bouncing on his feet. "You don't even need them. You just think they make you look a bit clever!"

"I knew it!" Rose cried with a grin. "That and maybe a bit dashing, am I right?"

Five nodded, still grinning at her. "Either way doesn't matter as long as you get the job done, I suppose."

The Doctor rolled his his eyes when Rose turned to him with a silly grin. He should've known this would've happened. After all when they bumped into his third self back in 1969 a similar occurrence happened. And this incarnation that suddenly appeared in the TARDIS was one of his prettiest, if he was honest, so of course this was the result.

An alarm began to blare through the room, causing the three of them to look up.

"That's an alert," Five said urgently as he removed his specs and moved around the console. The Doctor and Rose walked around the other side to stand by the side, his arm going around her waist and the other resting on the monitor. "Level five. Indicates a temporal collision. It's like two TARDISes have merged, but there's definitely only one TARDIS present. Looks like two time zones at war in the heart of the TARDIS. That's a paradox. Could blow a hole in the space time continuum the size of-" the Doctor turned the monitor around, his free arm returning to the appliance. "Well, actually, the exact size of Belgium," Five finished. "That's a bit underdramatic, isn't it? Belgium?"

"Not if you were from there," Rose said. She glanced at her Doctor, asking quietly. "Shouldn't you be helping yourself?"

"Oh, right," he said as he lowered his arm from the monitor and reached into his jacket, pulling out the sonic and dangling it in front of the monitor for the other Doctor. "Need this?"

"No, I'm fine," Five told him distractedly.

"Oh, no, of course, you mostly went hands free didn't you?" the Doctor said thick with snarkiness as he put the sonic away. "It's like 'hey, I'm the Doctor, I can save the universe with a kettle and some string, and look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable!'"

"Oi!" Rose cried, elbowing him in the side. "Be nice."

Her Doctor shrugged. "Can't help it that I'm rude."

Five came back over to stare him straight in the eye. "Who are you?"

"Take a look," the Doctor told him softly.

"Oh…" Five breathed out, his eyes widening. "Oh, no."

"Oh, yes."

"You're…oh, no, you're…"

The Doctor nodded, still grinning. "Here it comes. Yeah, yeah, I am."

"A fan," Five sighed as he turned away and rounded the console.

"Yeah…" the Doctor said before realizing what his past self said. "What?" he cried.

Rose burst into laughter. "Yeah, that's definitely a change from last time," she got out.

When they had met his third self, that man studied her Doctor and immediately worked out that he was a future regeneration of his just out of his current time and crossing into their timeline under accidental circumstances. But this incarnation seemed far too distracted to fully comprehend it or make any calculations or even take a look at her Doctor's eyes to see himself in them.

"Level ten now, this is bad," Five informed. "Two minutes to Belgium."

"What d'you mean 'a fan'?" the Doctor said with an incredulous pout. "I'm not just a fan, I'm you!"

"Okay, you're my biggest fan," Five said, waving him off. "Look, it's perfectly understandable. I go zooming around space and time saving planets, fighting monsters and being…well, let's be honest, pretty sort of marvelous!" An amused smile came across the Doctor's face as both he and Rose nodded in agreement. "And naturally every now and then people notice me - start up their little groups. That LINDA lot." Five froze. "Are you one of them? Rose doesn't seem like the type, she's far too pleasant." He threw her a wink before moving around the console again.

"Oh, don't worry we ain't involved with that lot," Rose told him. "Definitely not."

"I mean, we're big fans and all, but most certainly not part of any kind of cult," the Doctor spoke up. "But more importantly, you're missing the point. I'm you! I'm you with a new face." He slapped his own cheeks. "Check out this bone structure, Doctor, because one day you're gonna be shaving it!"

Rose arched an eyebrow at him. "You know, I've shaved that face a couple times, too."

"Well…"

She rolled her eyes. "Alien git," she teased through their bond.

Five's head jerked up, a mix of both astonishment and bewilderment on his face. Both the Doctor and Rose smiled at him as he studied them in awe.

"How…? How did you do that?" he said to her.

"You heard her, too, right?" the Doctor said, smirking.

Five shook his head, staring at Rose. "But that's…you're not even a Time Lady. I would've been able to sense that. Only Time Lords can do such a thing, how did you do that?"

Rose smiled. "Bit of a long story, but I'll bet you'll love it."

"It's…impossible."

"But you love the impossible," the Doctor said, wrapping an arm around Rose's waist and patting her hip. "And I'll let you in on a little spoiler alert: this woman right here is just that. She's very special, mostly human. More than average. Well, of course there's no such thing as an ordinary human, but she's more than that. She's…extraordinary. She's brilliant. Capable of a lot, and you noticed one little thing just now."

Five blinked. "Then…if she's able to do that…does that mean…?"

The Doctor smiled warmly. "One day, she'll become the most important person to ever come into your life. She'll give you things you never had before and then some." He glanced down at Rose, a wide grin on her face. "She's your future wife."

Before the younger Doctor could even form a response, a sound resembling a gong rang across the room, causing the three of them to look up.

"The Cloister Bell," Five said.

"Yep, right on time," the Doctor said. "That's my cue."

Releasing his hold on Rose, she watched as both Doctors moved quickly around the console, pressing buttons and flipping switches in flash speeds. She stepped aside and sat on the jump seat in amusement. Seeing her husband interacting with a past incarnation of himself was always a kick.

"In less than a minute we're going to detonate a black hole strong enough to swallow the entire universe!" Five shouted urgently.

Her Doctor stopped what he was doing and looked up. "Yeah, that's my fault, actually. I was rebuilding the TARDIS - forgot to put the shields back up. Your TARDIS and my TARDIS, well the same TARDIS, different points in its own time steam collided and, oop, there you go; end of the universe, butterfingers. But! Don't worry, I know exactly how this all works out." He moved around the console and worked on various controls. "Venting the thermal buffer, flooring the helmic regulator, and just to finish off, let's fry those zeiton crystals."

"You'll blow up the TARDIS," Five said, grabbing onto his arms in an attempt to stop him.

"It's the only way out," the Doctor told him.

"Who told you that?" Five demanded.

"You told me that!"

He pushed a button, causing the time rotor to glow and flash for a split second. The room shook again as a result, but other than that the Old Girl seemed steady.

"What did you do?" Rose asked, coming to stand by the console.

"Supernova and black hole at the exact same instant," Five said in awe.

"Explosion cancels out implosion…" the Doctor said with a nod.

"Matter stays constant," Five finished.

Rose grinned and went over to hug the Doctor. "Brilliant!"

"Far too brilliant," Five said. "I've never met anyone else who could fly the TARDIS like that."

The Doctor sniffed. "Sorry, mate, you still haven't."

"But how'd you work that out?" Rose asked curiously. "I mean, Doctor, I know you're brilliant and everything, but that was kinda fast."

"You didn't have time to work all that out," Five chimed in. "Even I couldn't do it!"

"I didn't work it out," the Doctor told them as he turned to face them. "I didn't have to."

"You remembered," Five said in realization.

He nodded. "Because you will remember."

"So, lemme make sure I got this right," Rose said, gesturing at both Doctors. "You remembered being him…watching you, doin' that. You already knew what to do 'cause he watched you do it."

The Doctor smiled proudly and waggled his eyebrows. "Wibbly-wobbly…"

"…Timey-wimey," both he and Five said in unison, causing Rose to shake her head. Got away from him again. She couldn't help but laugh when the Doctor made an attempt to high five his younger self, but was left with his hand awkwardly hanging in the air. Still he kept a smile and shrugged it off.

Another alarm sounded, and the Doctor moved around the console again.

"Now what?" Rose asked.

"Right! TARDISes are separating," the Doctor said. "Sorry, Doctor, time's up, back to long ago." He froze and studied Five. "Where are you now? Nyssa and Tegan? Cybermen and Mara and Time Lords in funny hats and…" he trailed off and cleared his throat rather loudly, turning away and going back to the controls, avoiding eye contact.

Both Rose and Five furrowed their brows as they studied him for a moment before the latter turned to her. "So, it's true, what you become to me?"

"Bonded and everything," Rose said sincerely.

"I never thought it'd be possible," he admitted. "But I do love the impossible, and I suppose you are very convincing." He smiled and took her hand again. "I look forward to the day I meet you, Rose Tyler."

"I know you are," she said with a wide smile. "We're gonna be brilliant." She stepped up to him to kiss him on the cheek, adding with seriousness. "Hold onto that, ya hear me? I know you won't remember any of…this now, but just remember that we're gonna be brilliant together. Just keep hanging in there, Doctor."

His eyes twinkled. "Oh, I certainly will try to. Thank you, Rose." He pressed a kiss to the back of her hand. She slowly stepped back, feeling her Doctor's arm wrap around her waist once his former self began to fade, his voice echoing. "Oh, I seem to be off. What can I say? Thank you…Doctor."

"Thank you," the Doctor said.

"I'm very welcome," Five said genuinely before fading away completely, but soon came back a few seconds later when the Doctor released Rose to reach over and flip a switch.

"You know…" the Doctor said as he picked up Five's hat from its spot on the console and walked up to him to hand it over. "I loved being you. Back when I first started, at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you…and it was all dashing about and playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted - I still do that! The voice thing, I got that from you. Oh!" He brought his leg up on the console. "And the trainers. And…" He dropped his leg to slip on his specs, smiling widely. "Snap. 'Cause you know what, Doctor? You were my Doctor."

Five smiled warmly as he tipped his hat to both of them. "To days to come."

The Doctor wrapped his arm back around Rose's waist. "All my love to long ago."

"Remember what I told you," Rose said just before he faded away again. She glanced up at the Doctor, smiling more when she saw that familiar twinkle in his ancient eyes. "Is this gonna be a common occurrence every once in a while?"

"Seems like it, ever since we bonded, I suppose," he answered. "Which means we have to be on the lookout for other mes from now on. Can't have the universe implode."

"Haven't we been doing that before we got married?

He made that happy sound she adored so much and kissed her temple. Pocketing his specs he patted her hip as he returned to the console. "Right! Slight misdirection, but all fixed now. Time we were off."

She studied him. "Doctor?"

"Hm?"

"You alright?"

"'Course I am," he answered casually with a sniff. "Why wouldn't I be?"

She arched an eyebrow at him, recalling that strangled noise that he made when asking his past self where he was in their timeline. Though he didn't finish his sentence, she had a pretty good idea of what he was about to day next that made him irate. Even more so now after recent events. And it was the very last person he wanted to think or talk about.

Coming up to him Rose rested her hand on his forearm. "He's gonna be okay, Doctor," she told him softly. "He makes it through everything. And he knows how brilliant we are together."

The Doctor sighed with a faint smile. "Yeah. Yeah, he does." Glancing down at her he leaned forward to press a kiss to her forehead.

"And you were jealous again," she teased. "Don't tell me otherwise."

"I was not jealous," he stressed.

She traced circles over his chest. "So possessive."

He chuckled once. "Oh, yes."

When he gave her a soft kiss the voice of his fifth self came through the filter. "Oh, Doctor, control yourself with Rose and remember to put your shields up."

Before either of them could register anything else, a blaring ship horn alerted them as they broke apart just in time as something crashed into the TARDIS, sending debris flying across the console room and them to the floor. Using himself as a body shield the Doctor held Rose close before letting her go, both coughing from the dust clouds swarming around them.

"You all right?" he asked.

She nodded and sat herself upright. "Yeah, 'm fine." Her eyes went past the Doctor's shoulder and widened. "Not so sure about that, though."

Following her eyes to where the crash occurred the Doctor saw the bow of a large vessel shoved into the wall of the TARDIS console room.

"What?" he said, stupefied, as he turned his whole body around to rest his arms on the jump seat and the console. He shook his head. "What?!"

Rose crawled underneath the Doctor's arms over to an object a few feet away, what looked to be a life preserver. Turning it over her eyes widened when she saw a familiar name written on it: Titantic.

"Uh, Doctor," Rose said, leaning back to tap his foot. "You'll wanna see this."

Coming to kneel beside her, the Doctor stared at the preserver, then briefly at Rose, then back up to the ship. "What?"

Small note: For the future in my stories, I might include other Classic Doctor cameos. Be on the lookout for those. And that's the opening. Onto the voyage :)