"What the hell are you doing here?" Rose asked while looking at the doctor, "how did you get out of prison?" When he tried to walk towards her, she took a step back.
The doctor was confused, "what? Rose it's me.....the doctor." Rose laughed, but it wasn't her normal happy laugh, it was more of a bitter laugh. "Oh so now it's the doctor? What happened to Brendan Block huh? What did you think after months of torture you decide you should start going as the doctor again?" she asked.
" Rose I swear to you, it's me. I came from the parallel universe, it's really me. Look" he pointed towards the big blue police box. "The tardis, remember?"
Rose walked over to the big blue box stunned, putting her hands on the door, like she use to do thousands of time. She turned towards the doctor "d-doctor" she whispered.
He smiled "hello" he didn't get a chance to say anything else, her arms wrapped around him tightly.
"Oh doctor, I missed you so much." she started crying.
After a couple of minutes he pulled back and wiped her tears with his thumb, "come on" he said "lets go inside and get a cup of tea. How does that sound?"
"sounds perfect" she smiled happily.
They were both seated in the dinning room, no one said a word.
Rose was sitting stirring her tea, not looking up. The doctor wanted to ask a thousand questions, but he didn't know if it was right to. Judging by her evil glare when she thought he was his clone, he didn't want to bring up the subject. But one thing she said still troubled him, his clone being in jail. Why was that?
"Rose" he said quietly, she was to preoccupied stirring her tea. When he touched her hand, he didn't miss the flinch.
"Sorry" she said, "how have you been? Meet any new companions?" He heard the little bitter jealousy in the question, but ignored it. "Nope, it just dosn't feel right asking someone to travel with me.....after..." his voice trailed.
She nodded, understanding his pain.
"So hows Jackie and Peter?" he asked, hoping this question would make her smile.
"Mum and dad are busy with Tony, he is three years old now. Drives both of them mad, drawing on the walls, everything." She said, there was a little glint of happiness in her eyes when she said this. That made the doctor smile.
"I'm sure he does," he chuckled a little "I can't believe I almost believed Jackie when she told me she named him doctor."
Rose chuckled as well, "can you imagine him going to school with that name? Poor kid." She sighed a minute later and looked out the window.
"Rose..how-"
"Why are you here?" That question hit him like a ton of bricks, he knew sooner or later she was going to ask that. But he hoped it wouldn't come out like that. "I just wanted to see how you are."
"But how did you get through the parallel universe? You told me you couldn't come back." there was a little hurt in her eyes.
"I found a way, somehow I found a opening. "
She nodded and looked at her tea again, "how long will you be here?" That was the question he was dreading, "um," he said looking down as well "a day or two." Rose swallowed "oh" was all she said.
After a few minutes of silence, the doctor thought it was time to ask. "Rose, when you thought I was....you know, you said something that confused me. You thought I was in jail, am I...is he in prison?" he asked.
Sighing she looked at him straight in the eye, "Yes he is. The trial was a few weeks ago, the judge ordered him life in prison." she said it as if it was nothing.
He swallowed nervously, "oh, may I ask why? Did he....I mean did he hurt you?" he was scared of the answer. His blood ran cold when her eyes started to water, "Rose, I'm so sorry." He wrapped his arms around the now crying Rose.
She finally stopped crying and pulled away from the doctor, "yeah well, there are worse things he could of done right?" she laughed a little, he knew she was trying hard not to start crying again.
"I'm sorry about that, it just been hard for the last week." she was apologizing for crying, he took her hands "You don't have to be sorry, you have every right to cry. I'm the one who should apologize, if I didn't leave you there with him, then maybe...." he bit his lip and ran a hand through his hair.
"Your hair is longer" she said, she was trying to change the subject, but he didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Rose can you please tell me what happened?" he asked and she looked at him. "You really want to know?" "yes I do."
She sighed and stood up, "let me get us another cup of tea, this is going to take a while."
