As always I do not own Doctor Who or it's characters.

Rose feels like she's finally home as she enters the TARDIS with a big smile. This time she vows to let nothing take her away from her home.

"Right then Rose Tyler." The Doctor grins as he throws something up and down in his hand. "You tell me, where do you want to go, backwards or forwards in time, it's your choice, what's it going to be?"

Rose knows where they end up but can't help commenting, "forwards, definitely forwards."

Now the Doctors showing a grin of his own. "How far?"

Rose bounces up and down. "As far as you like." She challengers him.

The Doctor spins a wheel and taps a button type object on the console while flipping a few switches. The TARDIS shakes around before stopping.

"10 thousand years in the future, step outside, it's the year 12 thousand and 5, the new Roman Empire." He stats dramatically.

Rose scoffs, "you think your so impressive."

"I am so impressive." The Doctor stats indignantly.

"You wish." Rose taunts.

The Doctor points at her, "right then, you asked for it. I know exactly where to go."

The Doctor runs around the console as Rose watches him with a grin. She had forgotten how much she had missed this Doctor. Though there all the same this one was the first to show her the stars. She also remembers all the times she turned around from doing something and he would be standing there with a far off look in his eye. 'I wonder if I could get this Doctor to admit he loves me first.' She thought. The TARDIS nudged her mind again as if to say I'll help you.

The TARDIS lands as she looks to the door then back to the Doctor. "What's out there?"

The Doctor gestures to the door so running over to them, she opens one and peaks her head out. Even though she knows where they are it still pays to be cautious with the Doctors driving.

She steps out fully as the Doctor follows her out. Walking up to the window she stares down at the Earth.

"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like your going to be killed by eggs or beef or global warming or astroids. You never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive. This is the year 5.5/Apple/26. 5 billions years in your future and this is the day," he looks at his watch, "hold on." The sun suddenly expands. "This is the day the sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world." The Doctor turns to watch her reaction. Why he's trying to make a good impression on her he'll never understand, I mean, she's brilliant yeah, but he can't allow himself to have feelings for her.

As they walk through the space station a voice announces, "shuttles 5 and 6 are now docking. Guests are reminded that platform one forbids the use of weapons, teleportation and religion. Earth death is scheduled for 15:39 followed by drinks in the Manchester suite."

Rose turns to the Doctor. "So when it says guests does that mean people?"

"Depends what you mean by people." He looks over as Rose holds his arm.

"I mean living talking people, what do you mean?" Rose questions.

"Aliens," the Doctor stats.

"What are they doing on board this space ship. What's it all for?"

"It's not really a space ship, more like an observation deck." He explains as they find the Manchester suite and the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to open the door. "The great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn."

"What for?"

"Fun," the Doctor stats as the door finally opens and they walk in. "Mind you when I say the great and the good what I mean is the rich."

Rose scoffed. "The rich always had warped ideas about fun."

The Doctor laughed quietly with her as they walked to the observation window.

"But hang on, they did this once on news round extra," Rose questioned. "The sun expanding. That takes hundreds of years?"

"Millions," the Doctor tells her. "But the planets now the property of the national trust. They've been keeping it preserved." He points out the window as you see small satellites orbiting the Earth. "See down there, gravity satellites, holding back the sun."

"The planet looks the same as ever, I thought the continents shifted and things?"

"They did and the trust shifted them back. That's a classic Earth." The Doctor looked at her as she stared at the Earth. He's still trying to figure out what makes her so special. "But now the money's run out, nature takes over."

"How longs it got?" Rose looks at him as she thinks about snogging him, the last time line they wasted precious time dancing around each other. She gave her head a quick shake, bad Rose, he's only just meet you. What would he think if you did something like that.

The Doctor looks at his watch, then looks to her. "About half an hour, then the planet gets roasted." The Doctors thoughts were running along the same lines as Roses. What was it about her that drew him.

"Is that why where 'ere I mean the thing is, is that what you do, you jump in at the last minute and save the Earth."

He leans towards her as the completely inappropriate thought crossed his mind that a little bit further and he could snog her. "I'm not saving it," he stated as he suddenly backed off and looked back to the planet below. "Times up."

"What about all the people?" She asked, a lot calmer than she was meant to.

"It's empty, there all gone, all left." He explains as he tries to avoid looking directly at her.

"Just me then." Rose sighs.

Rose and the Doctor are startled out of there thoughts when the steward enters the room.

"Who the hell are you?" He rudely asks.

"Oh that's nice thanks," the Doctor replies sarcastically.

"But how did you get in here?" The steward asked confused. "This is a maximum hospitality zone. The guests have disembarked, there on there way here any second now."

"Yeah that's me, I'm a guest," the Doctor interrupted holding up the psychic paper. "Look I've got an invitation and all, look there you see it's fine, see the Doctor plus one, I'm the Doctor, this is Rose Tyler she's my plus one, that alright?"

Now he's throughly confused. "Well obviously, apologise etc. if your on board we better start. Enjoy." The steward moves towards a podium at the entrance of the room.

The Doctor shows Rose the psychic paper. "The papers slightly psychic, it shows them whatever I want them to see. Saves a lot of time."

Rose has to stifle a laugh as the Doctor must of let his mind wander as it now says that he's attracted to her before he puts it away. "I take it you go party crashing often, Doctor?"

He just grins back as the steward starts making introductions.

"We have in attendance the Doctor and Rose Tyler. Thank you, all staff to there positions." He claps his hands as little blue people start moving around. "Hurry now, thank you, as quick as you can. Come along, come along."

"And now might I introduce the next honoured guest representing the forest of Cheem we have, Trees namely Jabe, Lute and Coffa." The doors open and Trees walk in. "Remember there will be an exchange of gifts representing peace."

Rose turns to the Doctor and asks, "do you have any gifts?"

The Doctor checks his pockets.

Rose grins with her tongue poking through her teeth. "Not so prepared then," as Rose pulls out a packet of gum from her pocket.

"Next we have, from the solicitors Jolco and Jolco we have the Moxx of Balhone." The steward continues. "And next we have from the financial family seven, we have the appearance of the repeated meam."

The Doctor looks at her to see how she's handling everything. Instead of looking scared however she still looks excited. Something else to put in the box marked mysteries of Rose Tyler.

"The inventors of the hypo-slip battle systems the brothers Hop Pyleen. Cal Spark Plug. Mr and Mrs Pak. The ambassadors from the city state of binding light." The steward continues.

Jabe, Lute and Coffa walk up to the Doctor and Rose. "A gift of peace, I bring you a cutting of my grandfather." Jabe hands the gift to The Doctor.

Rose hands over a stick of gum and they walk off.

"Nice thinking Rose, I didn't have anything else to give them." Rose beamed under his praise.

"The sponsor of this main event please welcome, the Face of Boe." The steward continued.

Rose looked over to Boe as he looked back. She swore she could see a spark of recollection in his eyes before she turned back to the next being.

"The Moxx of Balhone," the Doctor greeted. Rose discreetly ducked behind the Doctor.

"My felicitations on this historical happenstance. I bring you the gift of bodily saliva." And he spits in the Doctors eye.

Rose was trying really hard not to laugh as she handed over a stick of gum.

The Doctor pouted. "Your just laughing cause he missed you."

Rose let out a finally laugh, "now Doctor, don't pout, it doesn't look good on you."

"Ah the appearance of the repeated meam," the Doctor greeted. "I bring you a stick of gum."

"A gift of peace, an orb of faith." They hand over. The Doctor hands the orb to Rose.

"And last but not least our very special guest," the steward gains everyone's attention. "Ladies and gentleman and Trees and multiforms. Consider the Earth below, in memory of this dying world we call forth the last human. Lady Cassandra O'Brian dot delta seventeen."

The doors open and Cassandra is wheeled in by her surgeons. "Oh now don't stare, I know, I know it's shocking. I've had my chin taken completely away, look at the difference, look how thin I am. Thin and dainty. I don't look a day over 2 thousand. Moisturise me, moisturise me." She orders her boys who spray her with water.

The Doctor looked at Rose to see how she was taking it. He was surprised to see both pity and anger in her gaze.

Rose tried to stop her emotions from showing but not sure she was successful when the Doctor looked at her oddly. She has to remember that she can't let the Doctor know.

Cassandra continued. "Truly I am the last human, my father was a Texan, my mother was from the arctic desert. They were born on the earth and they were the last to be buried in its soil."

Rose went in for a closer look as the Face of Boe watched on. He had been waiting for billions of years to see her again. He remembers what she told him about going back and changing hers and the Doctors future so they stay together. He knows if she succeeds then he would no longer be so alone.

"I have come to honour them and say goodbye." Here she starts to cry as Rose rolls her eyes at how obvious her performance is. "Oh, no tears, no tears," one of her boys wipe under her eyes. "I'm sorry. But behold I bring gifts from Earth itself. The last remaining ostrich egg" a blue guy holds up for all to see. "Legend says it had a wing span of 50 feet, and blew fire from its nostrils, or was that my third husband."

Everyone laughs while Rose snorts quietly at the dumb joke.

"Oh no, don't laugh I'll get laughter lines, oh stop." Even though she's laughing by herself. Two more blue guys push in a juke box, "and here is another rarity, according to the archives this was called an IPod. It stores classic music from humanities greatest composers. Play on," she stats as music starts playing.

Rose looks around the room once more before taking off to find a room where she could laugh as hard as she likes.

The Doctor sees her leave and starts to go after her when Jabe stops him.

A flash momentarily blinds the Doctor before Jabe says, "thank you," and walks away. The Doctors baffled before shaking it off and heading out to find Rose.

Rose had found the same room as before and she was sitting down laughing to herself as she watched the sun expand.

The Doctor walks in and sees her laughing to herself. "What's tickled you then?"

"Just that Cassandra, a human, gets her own history so wrong. Thinking a juke box is an IPod." Rose explained as she rolled her eyes.

The Doctor laughs. "Yeah, but that's how myths and legends come about. They take a fact and as it passes down through the centuries it becomes more and more extreme till it becomes a legend."

Rose lays her head on his shoulder. "There just so alien, the aliens are so alien." She winces internally at the unintended pun. Rose lifts her head to look the Doctor over, "you look like that but there so different."

"Good thing I didn't take you to the deep south." The Doctor tried to ignore the feeling running through him when she put her head on his shoulder.

"Where are you from?" She asked hoping he might tell her the truth this time.

He looks away. "All over the place." He replies and she could hear the loneliness in his voice.

She decides to change the subject. "There all speaking English?"

The Doctors smile is back when he replies. "No your just hearing it, it's a gift of the TARDIS, telepathic field gets inside your brain, translates."

"It's inside my mind," she says a lot calmer than she ought too.

"Well, in a good way." He didn't want a hysterical female on his hands.

"Ok, as long as she doesn't read my thoughts we should be alright." Rose was hopping the TARDIS wasn't reading some of her more inappropriate thoughts. That's when she felt an amused hum at the back of her head. Rose blushed realising she had been.

The Doctor watched her as her face turned red, wondering what that was about. Again she acted the complete opposite to how he expects her to react. He moves down to the observation window as his close proximity to her leads him down more inappropriate trails. Even the TARDIS has taken a liking to her right away. Usually she warms up to a companion slowly.

Rose follows him down to the window and pulls out her phone to try and get a signal. "I can't call home or anything."

The Doctor grins as he takes her phone of her. "Tell ya what, with a little bit of jiggery pokery."

"Is that a technical term, jiggery pokery?" She grins with her tongue poking between her teeth.

"Yeah I came first in jiggery pokery, what about you?"

"No, failed hullabaloo," they both have a good laugh as the Doctor fixed her cell phone.

"There you go," he hands it back to her.

Rose switches on her phone to see she has a signal. She dials her mum and waits for her to answer.

"Hello," Jackie answers.

"Mum," Rose grins at the Doctor.

"Oh, what is it, what's wrong, what have I done now. Oh, this red tops falling to bits, you should get your money back." Jackie carries on, "go on, it must be something, you never call in the middle of the day."

Rose laughs at hearing her mothers voice.

Jackie hears her. "What is it, what's so funny?"

"Nothing, you alright then?" Rose asks back.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Jackie's now confused.

"What day is it?" Rose questioned.

"Wednesday, all day." She's getting more and more confused. "You got a hangover. Oh, I tell you what put ten quid in that lottery syndicate, I'll pay you back later."

"Yeah, I was just calling cause, I might be late home." Rose tried to explain.

Jackie's starting to worry. " Is there something wrong?"

"No, no. I'm fine, top of the world." She hears the Doctor quietly laughing behind her.

She hangs up and turns to face the Doctor.

"Think that's amazing, you ought to see the bill." The Doctor remarks.

"That was five billion years ago, I just called through time." She walks over and hugs him. "Thank you."

To say the Doctor was surprised would be an understatement. But he slowly slipped his arms around her and hugged her back.

She was smiling to herself when they felt a tremor run through the observation deck.

Pulling away the Doctor comments, "that's not suppose to happen."

They hear the stewards voice over the intercom. "Honoured guests may be reassured that gravity pockets may cause slight turbulence, thanking you."

The Doctor and Rose walk back into the Manchester suite where all the other guests are as Rose hears the Moxx of Balhone mention Bad Wolf. Looking over she finds the Face of Boe staring at her again.

"That wasn't a gravity pocket," the Doctor explains as Jabe walks up to them. "I know gravity pockets and they don't feel like that. What do you think Jabe?"

Rose has to stop her sudden feelings of jealousy.

"Listen to the engines, they've pitched up about 30 hertz, is that dodgy or what?"

Jabe looks confused. "It's the sound of metal, it doesn't make any sense to me."

"Where's the engine room?"

"I don't know," Jabe acknowledges, "but the maintenance duct is just behind our guest suite. I could show you and your wife?" Jabe looks to Rose.

"She's not my wife." The Doctor replies.

"Partner."

"Nope."

"Concubine?"

Now Rose just feels insulted.

"Nope."

"Prostitute?"

"What ever I am it must be invisible, do you mind." Thoroughly insulted by now. "Tell ya what, you two go and pollinate, I'm going to catch up with the family. Quick word with Michael Jackson."

"Don't start a fight," before turning to Jabe. "I'm all yours." He offers her his arm.

Rose had to again tamp down her jealousy as she watched the Doctor walk off with someone else. "And I want you home by midnight."

The Doctor looks back and grins at her.

"Earth death in 15 minutes, Earth death in 15 minutes." the computer intones

? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ?

Jabe shows the Doctor, the maintenance duct and he uses the sonic screwdriver to get inside.

Stepping in Jabe follows him as he heads down the maintenance tunnel. "Who's in charge of platform one? Has it got a captain or what?"

"There's just the steward and the staff." Jabe answers. "All the rest is controlled by the metal man."

"You mean the computer?" The Doctor sounds confused. "But who controls that?" He looks back to Jabe.

"The corporation. They move platform one from one artistic event to the another."

"But there's no one from the corporation on board?"

"There not needed," Jabe explained. "This facility is purely automatic, it's the height of the alpha class, nothing can go wrong."

"Unsinkable," the Doctor scoffed.

"If you like, the nautical metaphor is appropriate."

"Your telling me, I was on board another ship once. They said that was unsinkable, I ended up clinging to an ice berg. It wasn't half cold." The Doctor couldn't believe that humans still relay almost entirely on machines. He thought they might of learned there lesson by now.

"So what your saying is, if we get into trouble there's no one to help us out?"

"I'm afraid not." Jabe responds seriously.

A manic grin forms on his face. "Fantastic."

"I don't understand, in what way is that fantastic?" Jabe questions.

? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ?

While the Doctor and Jabe move through the maintenance tunnel. Rose heads over to talk to Cassandra.

"Soon the sun will blossom into a red giant and my home will die. That's where I use to live, when I was a little boy, down there. Mummy and Daddy had a house built into the side of the Los Angeles crevice. Oh, I had such fun," Cassandra sighed.

"What happened to everyone else? The human race. Where did it go?"

Cassandra rolled her eyes. "They say that mankind has touched every star in the sky."

Rose knows how to make Cassandra angry. "So your not the last human?"

"I am the last pure human. The others mingled." She says with disgust. "Oh, they call themselves new humans and proto-humans and digi humans, even humanish, but do you know what I call them. Mongrels."

"Right," Rose looks on in pity. "And you stayed behind."

"I kept myself pure." Cassandra explained.

"How many operations have you had?" She knew it was a ridiculously high number.

"708," Cassandra stats with pride. "Next week it's 709, I'm having my blood pinched." She looks Rose up and down. "Is that why you wanted a word. You could be flatter, you've got a little bit of a chin poking out."

Rose felt her anger rising, "I would rather die."

"Honestly it doesn't hurt," Cassandra enticed.

"I mean it I would rather die, it's better to die than live like you, a bitchy trampoline."

"Oh well, what do you know." Cassandra condescended her.

Rose felt her temper snap. "I was born on that planet and so was my mum and so was my dad. And that makes me officially the last human being in this room cause your not human. You've had it all nipped and tucked and flattened till there's nothing left. Anything human got chucked in the bin, your just skin Cassandra, lipstick and skin. Nice talking."

As Rose walked away she couldn't believe she let Cassandra rile her up again. You would think she would have better control over her emotions the second time around.

Rose sat down next to the Face of Boe when she felt him in her head.

"Hello, Rosie," he said.

Rose was startled as she looked at him. "The only person that calls me Rosie is, Jack?" She looks at him questioningly.

"Yes, it's me." The Face of Boe confirms.

"Blimey, your a head." Rose can't help commenting before bursting into laughter.

Jack laughs with her. "It's been a long time since I heard your laughter. I remember being there when the Time Lords pulled you through from the other universe."

Rose places her hand on the glass. "Do I change the outcome?" She can't help but ask.

"I can't answer that for you, I'm sorry Rosie." The Face of Boe apologised.

"It's alright, I knew you probably wouldn't anyway." Rose assured him.

? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ? ゚フᄍ?

While Rose was catching up with Jack, the Doctor and Jabe were still in the maintenance tunnel.

"So tell me Jabe, what's a tree like you doing in a place like this?" The Doctor enquired.

"Respect for the Earth." Jabe shrugs.

The Doctor scoffed. "Oh, come on, everyone on this platforms worth zillions."

"Well, perhaps it's the case of having to be seen at the right occasions," she concedes.

"In case your share prices drop." The Doctor scoffs. "I know you lot, you've got massive forests everywhere. Roots everywhere, and there's always money in land."

"All the same, we respect the Earth as family." She explains. "So many species evolved from that planet. Mankind is only one, I'm another. My ancestors were transplanted from the planet down below. I'm a direct descendent of the tropical rainforest."

"Excuse me," the Doctor finally reaches a terminal and pulls out his sonic screwdriver.

"What about your ancestry Doctor? Perhaps you could tell a story or two." The Doctor ignores her. "Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left." Still ignoring her she tries again. "I scanned you earlier, the metal man had trouble identifying your species. It refused to admit you even existed and even when it named you I wouldn't believe it. But it was right. I know where your from, forgive me for intruding, but it's remarkable you even exist. I just want to say, how sorry I am." She laid a comforting hand on his arm.

He looked at her and laid his hand on top while a thought flickered through his head that he wished Rose was there to comfort him. He frowned at that, he doesn't need anyone to comfort him. He's been doing fine on his own.

They make it through a door into the engine room where three huge turbines were slowly spinning, keeping the observation deck cool. "Is it me or is it a bit nippy?" The Doctor asks her. "Fair does though, that's a great bit of air conditioning. Sort of nice and old fashioned. Better be calling it retro." The Doctor turns to a control hatch and uses the sonic screwdriver to open the control panel. A spider scuttles out and up the wall. "What the hells that?" The Doctor questioned.

"Is it part of the retro?" Jabe asks.

"I don't think so," the Doctor answers as he tries to find the right setting so he can deactivate the spider.

Suddenly Jabe flings a vine, like a whip and knocks it down where the Doctor could catch it.

"Hey, nice liana." The Doctor compliments impressed.

"Thank you." Jabe beams. "I'm not suppose to show them in public."

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." He assures her. "Funny, who's been bringing there pets on board."

"What does it do?"

"Sabotage," he answers.

"Earth death in ten minutes." The computer announces.

"The temperatures about to rise come on." The Doctor urges.

They race back to the Manchester suite. As their racing back they come across some of the employees trying to enter a room.

"Come on, get back." The Doctor moves them out of the way.

"Is that the steward in there?" Jabe exclaims.

"You can smell him." Was the Doctors grim response.

As he rose the sun filter they continued on towards the Manchester suite.

The Doctor and Jabe entered as he looks over and sees Rose kiss the glass on the Face of Boe's tank before getting up and walking towards him. He had to stop the jealousy rising in him. Why was he jealous anyway, she's only a companion.

Jabe scans the spider with her metal machine. "The metal man confirms, the spiders have infiltrated the whole of platform one."

Cassandra acts shocked, "how's that possible, our private rooms are protected by a code wall." She turns to her boys. "Moisturise me, moisturise me."

"Summon the steward." The Moxx of Balhone demanded.

"I'm afraid the steward is dead." Jabe informs everyone.

The Doctor looked to Rose as he heard her gasp.

She can't believe, she forgot him. She felt Jack, the TARDIS and Bad Wolf try to comfort her.

"Who killed him?" The Moxx of Balhone asked.

"This whole event was sponsored by the Face of Boe, he invited us. Talk to the face, talk to the face." Cassandra accused.

Rose glared at her, how dare she blame Jack.

"Easy way of finding out," the Doctor used his sonic on the spider. "Someone brought there little pet on board. Let's send it back to master."

The spider starts scuttling over to Cassandra till her eyes move and he heads to the adherents of the repeated meam.

"The adherents of the repeated meam, shack cove." Cassandra exclaims.

"That's all very well and really kind of obvious but if you stop and think about it," he says as he moves over to them.

One of them tries to hit the Doctor who grabs the arm and pulls it off then rips a wire out of the arm which cause them to collapse.

"A repeated meam is just an idea, and that's all they are, an idea. Remote controlled droids, nice little cover for the real trouble maker." He pushes the spider with his foot. "Go on jimbo, go home."

The spider scuttles back over to Cassandra.

"I beat you were on the school squad and never got kissed." Cassandra glared. "At arms." Her boys point there sprayers at him.

"What you going to do, moisturise me." The Doctor mocked.

"With acid." She spat. "Oh, your too late any way my spiders have control of the mainframe. Oh, you all carried them as gifts, tax free through every code wall." She laughs, "I'm not just a pretty face."

"Sabotaging your own ship," the Doctor scoffs. "While your still on board. How stupids that."

"I had hoped to manufacture a hostage situation, with myself as one of the hostages." She explained. "The compensation would of been enormous."

"5 billion years and it still comes down to money." The Doctor scoffs in disbelief.

"Do you think it's cheap looking like this. Flatness costs a fortune." Cassandra glares. "I am the last human, Doctor, not that freaky little kid of yours."

"Arrest her," the Moxx of Balhone shouts. "Infidel."

"Oh, shut it pixie." Cassandra scoffs. "I've still got my final option."

Earth death in three minutes, Earth death in three minutes.

"And here it comes." Cassandra continues. "Your just as useful dead, all of you. I have shares in your rival companies, they'll triple in price as soon as your dead. My spiders are primed and ready to destroy the safety systems. How did that old Earth song go, burn baby burn."

"Then you'll burn with us," Jabe exclaimed.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Cassandra faked. " I know the use of teleportation is strictly forbidden, but I'm such a naughty thing. Spiders activate." She commands as they heard explosions going of all over the observation deck. "Force fields gone, with the planet about to explode. At least it will be quick just like my fifth husband. Oh, shame on me, bye bye darlings, bye my darlings." As she teleported out.

Heat levels rising, heat levels rising.

"Reset the computer," the Moxx of Balhone yells.

"Only the steward would know how." Jabe explains.

"No we can do it by hand, there must be a system restore switch Jabe, Rose come on." He pauses in the doorway. "You lot, just chill."

Rose, Jabe and the Doctor run through the maintenance duct and back into the engine room where the turbines are going around at dizzying speeds trying to cool the place down.

"Oh and guess where the switch is." The Doctor exclaims. The Doctor pulls a switch nearby down to slow the turbines but when he races back to them the switch pops back up.

Rose then runs over and holds it down for him then turns to Jabe. "You should go Jabe, the heats going to vent through this place."

The Doctor agrees, "go and make sure everyone's away from the windows."

She looks at both of them, "then stop wasting time, Time Lord." She yells before running back to the Manchester suite.

The Doctor looks at Rose then back towards the turbines. He makes it through the first one, then the second one before he heard Rose gasp, "Rose."

"I'm alright, keep going." She yelled back. Her hands were starting to blister.

The Doctor made it through the final fan and ran to pull the switch down. "Raise shields."

You could feel the heat decreasing rapidly and now that the turbines no longer have to work so hard, they've slowed right down.

The Doctor casually walks back through them and as soon as he's clear of the last one, Rose barrels into him. He can't help but smile, until he sees Roses hands.

"You said you were alright." The Doctor frowned.

Rose waved it off. "There fine, you can fix my hands once we get back to the TARDIS."

They make there way back to the Manchester suite.

The Doctor wasn't happy. Rose had been hurt and could've been killed. Same with everyone else. The steward and possibly other workers have been killed and Rose could've been killed. His mind keeps thinking of Rose, she was a mystery to him and he loves solving mysteries.

Rose knew he was angry, he doesn't like it when people try to hurt others, especially for money.

Rose and the Doctor make it back to the Manchester suite. Rose places her hand on his arm, "are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine, I'm full of ideas, I'm bristling with them." The Doctor explains. "Idea number one, teleportation thru 5 thousand degrees needs some kind of feed. Idea number two, this feed must be hidden near by." He walks over to the ostrich egg and breaks it open to revel the device. "Idea number three, if your as cleaver as me then a teleportation device can be reversed."

Cassandra is then teleported back on board in the middle of gloating. "Oh, you should off seen there little alien faces. Oh!"

"The last human." The Doctor spat.

"So," she tried to come up with an excuse. "You passed my, little test, bravo. This makes you eligible for the, um, the human club."

"People have died Cassandra!" The Doctor stats angrily. "You murdered them."

"That depends on your definition of people and that's enough of a technicality to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries." Cassandra gloats. "Take me to court, Doctor, and watch me smile and cry and flutter."

"And creak." The Doctor interrupts.

"And what?" Cassandra asked confused.

"Creak, your creaking." The Doctor grins.

"What," Cassandra finally realised what was happening. "Aaah, aaah I'm drying out, oh sweet heavens. Moisturise me, moisturise me. Oh, where are my surgeons, my lovely boys. It's too hot!"

"You raised the temperature." The Doctor stats coldly.

"Have pity," Cassandra pleads. "Moisturise me."

Rose walks toward the Doctor and places a hand on his arm. "Help her."

The Doctor looks into her eyes and only sees pity there. Then he sees the hand holding his arm and he firms his resolve. She was hurt because of Cassandra, worse she could've died because of her.

"Everything has its time and everything dies." The Doctor stated coldly.

"I am too young." Cassandra cries as she's ripped apart.

While everyone starts to clean up the Doctor walks off.

Rose turns to look at the Face of Boe. "I'll see ya again, ya."

"Yes, Rosie the next time you'll see me you'll be hanging from a barrage balloon." He laughs. "And I'll see you in 23 years."

Rose waves to him as he leaves with all the other aliens. Rose walks up to the window to watch the remains of her home, while the Doctor calms down.

Shuttles four and six departing. This unit now closing down for maintenance.

The Doctor walks back in and sees her at the window. He knows how hard it is to see your home burn, even if it is well into your own future.

Rose turns to him as he stands next to her. "The end of the Earth, it's gone, and we were too busy saving ourselves. No one saw it go. All those years, all that history and no one was even looking."

The Doctor gently grabs her arm. "Come with me."

They enter the TARDIS and he sends them back to 21st century Earth before leading her to the med bay. They sit side by side as he fixes her hands up, she lays her head on his shoulder.

Rose knows he has questions about her, but she can't tell him and it hurts to hide something from him but if she doesn't change Canary Wharf it would be much harder for him.

Once her hands are healed he leads her back into the console room and out the doors into her own time.

She stands in the middle off a crowd with the Doctor next to her.

"You think it'll last forever. People and cars and concrete, but it won't. One day it's all gone even the sky." Rose knows what's coming next and she feels bad about how sad it makes him but he needs to talk about it. To start to heal.

"My planets gone, it's dead, it burned like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust, before its time."

"What happened?"

"There was a war and we lost."

"What about your people?"

"I'm a Time Lord," he turns and looks at her and she sees the pain in his eyes. "I'm the last of the Time Lords. Their all gone, I'm the only survivor, I'm left travelling on my own because there's no one else."

"There's me," she's heard it before but it still brings tears to her eyes hearing how alone he sounds.

"You've seen how dangerous it is, do you want to go home?" He hates asking, but he wants to know she's there by choice.

"I don't know, I want," to spend your forever with you. She finishes in her head. "Can you smell chips?"

A smile appears on his face again. "Yeah, yeah."

"I want chips." Rose stats.

"Me too." He laughs.

"Right then, before you get me back in that box chips it is and you can pay."

"No money." The Doctor shrugs.

"What sort of date are you," Rose stats with a sigh. "Come on tightwad, chips are on me. We've only got 5 billion years till the shops close." She grins at him with her tongue poking between her teeth.

She grabs his hand and leans her head on his shoulder while he looks down at her. Considering the subject they were talking about she still managed to make him laugh. A real laugh, not even the TARDIS managed that. He will find out who the real Rose Tyler is.

Since this is the second time Rose had gone through this adventure she was able to save herself and a few others.