Rose's POV:

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease! I beg silently.

The generator hums. The humming grows louder and louder as it beams light onto the key on the table. My heart speeds up. It's working!

I feel the Earth shake under my feet. I ignore it.

The key begins to glow, something it hasn't done in years. I can barely breathe.

Then the noise comes.

A noise I haven't heard in 50 years.

The sound of a TARDIS.

And then another noise comes.

A voice saying "what?"

And this "what?" is unmistakable.

The door of the TARDIS opens slowly.

"Doctor!" I yell. I crash into him, wrapping my arms around him, tears in my eyes.

"Rose?" he gasps. He holds my face in front of his. I beam at him. "I found you.
I thought he would be happy. But he looks horrified. "Rose Tyler," he says softly.

"Yes?" I ask shakily. This is not the reunion I dreamed of at all.

"How did you get me here?" he asks, his voice angry.

"I-I amplified the power of the TARDIS key you gave me. I needed you, Doctor, I needed to find you," I stutter.

The Doctor pulls me into the TARDIS roughly. "YOU RIPPED A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE! YOU COULD BE BRINGING ON THE APOCALYPSE RIGHT NOW FOR YOUR OWN SELFISH REASONS!" he yells.

Tears spring to my eyes. I sink to the floor. "I wanted to find you," I whisper.

"YOU CAN BE SO RIDICULOUSLY SELFISH SOMETIMES ROSE! DON'T YOU THINK I WOULD HAVE COME FOR YOU IF THERE WERE ANY WAY TO GET YOU BACK?"

"Well I don't know. Maybe you were going to say you weren't coming back, that you hated me, back on that beach. I don't know. You never finished your sentence."

His brown eyes bore into me. "You know what I was going to say."

"Well why don't you say it?" I plead.

"I'm not sure you deserve it anymore," he says quietly. He turns, his long coat billowing around him, and storms out of the room

I bury my head in my hands. What have I done?

The Doctor's POV:

Rose is here why is she here WHAT DID SHE DO SHE BROKE A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH HER HOW COULD SHE DO THIS WHY IS SHE SO STUBBORN WHY DID SHE DO THIS!?

She ripped a hole in the universe. On purpose.

For me.

I miss her so much. I want to run back and grab her and kiss her.

But I can't. When I look at her, I don't see the blonde girl who saved my life countless times. I don't see the girl who had sympathy for a Dalek.

I see a girl who saw firsthand what happens when you open up the parallel universes, a girl who lost everything the last time it happened. And then reopened them.

I see the evil in her.

I don't like to see the evil in people. I don't like my friends to ever let their darkness out. Which is hyppocratic, I know, because I have so much darkness in me.

But I can't help it. I like good people because they let me pretend that I'm a good person.

Regardless, I need to figure out what to do with her. She doesn't have a home in this dimension anymore. I can't just drop her anywhere.

Martha and Mickey are too busy with Unit to take her in. They both also have a bit of a rocky relationship with her, so I could never ask them to watch her.

Sarah Jane can't take her, she's already looking after a son.

I could send her to Jack. But he's got enough on his hands with Torchwood. And something about the idea of sending her to Jack doesn't feel… right.

Okay fine, maybe I don't want her to be with Jack.

I can't send her to the past or future, because she could cause some serious paradoxes if she said something wrong or met people she was supposed to have known.

And I can't just put her somewhere on her own because she'll find a way to call me back if she is given the chance.

I can't drop her back off in the parallel universe we just left. I won't. I won't be able to say goodbye again.

I saw the despair in her eyes both times I left her. I can't do that to her again.

What am I going to do?