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Rose was looking at the Doctor. She had never seen this version of him before, but his eyes gave him away. They were green now, but they were the same sad eyes that had seen so much. Rose puts her left hand on his face and the Doctor covers her hand with his. He grins at her and she grins back. She whispers the one word the Doctor wanted her to say. She whispers, "Doctor."
Before anyone could even blink, the Doctor and Rose were both standing and in each other's arms.
"Rose, my beautiful, fantastic, wonderful Rose!" exclaims the Doctor. He pulls back a little so he can see her face but he doesn't let go of her. "Rose Tyler, Defender of the Earth, I-"
Rose pulls his head to hers and snogs him.
Rory and Amy were watching everything from the doorway.
"Snogging?" Rory asks quietly, "The Doctor is actually snogging!"
Amy laughs softly at her husband. "It does seem like he's enjoying it."
"I didn't even know he knew how to snog someone."
"He's over a thousand years old. Did you actually believe in that time he's never snogged someone?"
Rory shrugs. "He's the Doctor. I never know what to think."
Rose and the Doctor finally broke apart to breathe. The Doctor pushes some stray hair behind her ear. They just stand there, staring into each other's eyes, having a beautiful moment.
"You've been crying. Why?" he finally asks.
Rose completely ignores his observation and instead says, "You've changed your face again. What happened?"
The Doctor frowns. What if she didn't like it? His last body had been made for her. That was the body she fell in love with. What if she didn't want to-
She knew exactly what he was thinking. "I love you. I don't care what you look like or what you wear. I'll love this version of you as much as I loved the last one and the one before that. Besides," she grins, "if I could love big ears I can love anything."
"Oi!" The Doctor exclaims trying to sound hurt, but fails. "You always know what to say." He grins and kisses her forehead.
"You might have changed your face, but you're still the same. You're still rude; rude and not ginger." The Doctor gives off a cute confused look as Rose walks over to Amy and Rory who are still standing in the doorway. "He can be so daft sometimes." She looks back to the Doctor who is rolling his eyes. Looking back to the companions, Rose continues. "I'm Rose Tyler."
Amy grins and Rory laughs as they go through their introductions.
"I'm sorry you guys had to see that," Rose says as she blushes.
"I'm not!" the Doctor exclaims. "It's payback for everything I've had to witness. I should really make a new rule for the TARDIS." With a glance at a laughing Rose he adds, "Then again, maybe not." Rose blushes again. The Doctor loves making her blush. He loved everything about her; he always had and always will.
The four of them were sitting down in the library talking. Amy and Rory were sitting on one couch and Rose and the Doctor where on the other. The companions were talking about the Doctor while the Doctor was studying Rose. She was his Rose but something was different and he didn't like it. He didn't like not knowing what was wrong. Something still felt off about this place and that's when he remembered.
Interrupting Rory the Doctor asked, "Where are we?" Three pairs of eyes turned to look at him. The Ponds were once again questioning his sanity, but something in Rose's head clicked.
"How," she begins, "are you here? How did you get here?"
Before the Doctor could say anything Amy says, "We came in the TARDIS." Rose frowns and looks at the Doctor who is lost in thought. "Is that a bad thing?"
Rose sighs. "I live in a parallel universe." Rory nods and Amy just frowns in confusion.
"Amy, think of it like photo editing," Rory explains. "Someone takes a picture of you and that is the real photo. They can go and edit the picture so you have different versions. One can be black and white, another could have a blurred background, and another one could have a hue change. Parallel universes are like that, too. They have the original universe and then they can have multiple ones based on the original, but the universe will be slightly different."
Amy grins at her husband. "You're pretty sexy when you're explaining things." Rory smiles and shrugs. The Doctor stands and walks to the window.
Rose laughs at the married couple and then sighs at the Doctor. She likes Rory and Amy, but she knew all of their playful banter and flirting bothered the Doctor. He liked humans for their company and comfort, but he certainly never expected to get involved romantically with anything, let alone a human. Rose changed the Doctor by getting into his hearts deeper than anyone ever could and by doing so she brought him so much pain and sorrow. It was her fault for letting them fall in love, for letting them get very close and personal, and most of all, for not making him take her with him at Bad Wolf Bay. She suspects the only reason he let these people on his ship was to make him feel less lonely by living vicariously through them and the result only brought him pain. Tears begin to form in her eyes and she refuses to cry. "You really know things Rory. I'm impressed." She smiles at the man who smiles back.
"Internet," he answers sheepishly.
"Travel between the parallel universes should be impossible, but every once in a while a hole forms and the linings between the universes collapse. This allows inter-universe travel which is extremely dangerous. That's kind of how I ended up here." Her eyes flash to the Doctor who is still staring out the window. "If you three got here with the TARDIS then something bad is happening." She walks over to a giant television and turns on the news in hopes of something that could be alien was happening. Her hopes were crushed. "Torchwood, might know something." She got out her mobile and started to dial but was quickly stopped by the Doctor.
"Torchwood, Rose?" he says angrily. "Is it wise to get them involved?"
"You know as well as I do that Torchwood here is different here. I've worked with them for years. They're perfectly safe."
"Years? What do you mean, 'years'?" He looked at her closely, trying to figure it out. Rose didn't say anything and just stared right back at him. "Rose, where's my clone?"
Rose pales and the Doctor is oblivious. "Why do you want John?"
"John? Why would he call himself John?"
"Well he couldn't go around calling himself The Doctor's Clone."
"But why John? He could pick any name in all of space and time and he chose John?"
"Why did you pick John?"
"Why did I- Oh. Right. He's… me. Well, sort of. He would have chosen John." He wasn't sure if he was comfortable with that, but now wasn't the time to address that. "Where is John?"
The Doctor starts to pace around the room, lost in thought. Amy and Rory were staring at Rose who was trying to pull herself together. She didn't enjoy thinking about John for many, many reasons. She didn't even realize she still felt sick at just the thought of him. The Doctor continued to pace while Amy went over to Rose and quietly asks if she's okay. Rose just shakes her head and exits the room.
A few seconds later Rose comes back. Only this Rose was wearing a different outfit and her eyes weren't red from crying. Before Amy and Rory could even ask a question, Rose spoke. "You should leave. You need to get them out alive." Everyone looks at her and she locks eyes with the Doctor. "You need to get yourself out alive. You've got such a pretty face, wouldn't want to lose it so quickly."
"Rose," he murmurs. "Do you really think I could lose you again?" He was waiting for her to break his hearts again.
Instead, Rose snogs him. "Do you really think I could lose you again?" His eyes were burning into hers. "Do you really think the world can lose you again? You are worth much more than me. Do time and space a favor and save yourself and them." Rose turns to Amy and Rory and says, "Both of you are important. You both need to leave. For the sake of everything get out now and get out alive."
The Doctor stands there confused and shocked. Amy took the chance to ask, "Who are you?"
With one word Rose changed everything.
"Spoilers."
A/N: I'm not sure if I'm exactly happy with this chapter, but for the sake of posting something, I'm posting it. Things will get better, especially when I've got more time to focus on it. Just hang in there. You guys are the best!
