Chapter 1
He kissed her deeply and sweetly, Rose felt like she was soaring, the sinking sun bathing them in a its red glow, the familiar sound of the TARDIS pulls her back to reality, she broke free from the kiss to look over to where the TARDIS was standing just to see it disappear. She couldn't help it; her heart felt like it was being ripped out, like the TARDIS was pulling her with it, she looked at the Meta crisis Doctor, she could see doubt flickering in his eyes, his hand in his pocket, probably holding onto the piece of TARDIS The Doctor gave him, he could use it to build a new one, a new TARDIS that will take him away from her.
"Rose, are you okay with this?" he asks her, she could hear he wasn't sure of how to proceed either, "Yeah. So what are we going to call ya?" she asks trying to sound confident, trying to add enough confidence to lift both of them. He smiles shyly at her, "How about John Smith, I have always liked that name, always use it, might as well make it my own" He takes her hand and looks down at their linked fingers, "Rose it's true, I really love you, I have always loved you" Rose smiled at him, she stepped closer giving him a hug, snuggling into him, it feels so strange, he looks and feels the same, but he smells different, she breathes him in, savouring it.
"Come on you two" her mom yells from the car, Rose looks over at her, and leads two over to her mom, "Mum, I would like to introduce you to John Smith, he will be living with us for a while" Jackie looked sceptically at John "You have always spelt trouble for my daughter, but I have seen her when you left her here alone on this beach. You better make a respectable woman out of her" Jackie gets into the Jeep. Rose looks at John sticking her tongue out at him, climbing into the front passenger seat. John looks over to where the TARDIS was standing, slipping his hand into his pocket, feeling the piece of TARDIS vibrating softly. He sighs as he climbs into the Jeep. "Allons-y!" Rose turns around in her seat, "You need a new catch phrase" before she turns around John can see the tears well up in her eyes, and he knew this was going to be difficult; her heart still belonged to the Doctor. He will have to earn her love just like The Doctor did.
He stares out of the window, seeing the parallel world flying by, everything looks the same yet, there is a different feeling to it. He looks at Rose, he loves her so much, his heart reaching out to her, he wants to tell her how much he loves her every second, but he knows he must give her time, he just hopes time does not run out for him. The future seems so unsure for him now, he has never had to think about being a human, except for the time he and Martha hid from The Family, and even then he was still a Timelord, he could still regenerate, now that was not part of him anymore. He placed his hand over his heart, sliding it over to where his second one should have been. Nothing.
When he looked up, he caught Rose staring at him, her eyebrow raised, "You okay" she asks, and he gives her a short nod and looked out of the window again. This was going to be harder than he thought. He would have to make a lot of changes, but first he will have to get a new look. "Jackie, can we stop at a clothing store? I need to get clothes please" He sees a smile cross Jackie's mouth, she nods her agreement and makes a left turn heading to a parking lot. She parks the Jeep and hands him her purse, "Rose and I will wait for you here, you can use as much as you need" He smiles at Jackie, he knows this is hard for her, she has always placed her trust in The Doctors hands, and now she has to do the same with him, he knows he has a lot of work to do.
He walks over to the store, he has been thinking on how he would change his look, no more suits, no more Converse. He needs to change his look and help Rose. He walks through the rows of clothes, this brought back the memories of all those regenerations, every time he changed his clothes to fit with his new look and personality, the only difference, he was still the same Ten, the same face, same personality, the only difference was that he needs Rose to love him and not The Doctor.