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Chapter Two

What Would You Do?

The Doctor was stood where Amy had left him. Her parting words had struck a nerve he didn't even know he had and had opened the floodgates on all his memories of Rose. Of course he had loved; how could he have known Rose and not fallen in love with her? In the end his lack of humanity didn't mean anything. So he had two hearts- it was just twice as much to love her with.

The thought of finding Rose was similar to Amy's thoughts of finding Rory…wasn't it?

However, the situations were radically different.

If there was a chance he could see Rose again, would he do it?

That's impossible, he told himself.

But if there was even the slightest chance?

She already has her Doctor, he reflected sadly.

He could go back to when she was still here in this universe.

If he could just see her, she wouldn't recognise him, and he would be free to talk to her as a stranger, giving him a few precious moments with her.

Hypocrite, a dark voice in his mind whispered. One rule for the Doctor and another for Jack…

Fear gripped at his hearts. What if he changed the timeline too much? He might never meet her. He shook his head. He'd said his goodbyes to Rose a hundred times over, both in his mind, on the shores of Bad Wolf Bay, and in his Tenth self's dying moments. She was the last person he saw; just as it should be, just as it was before.

You have never said a goodbye in this body..

He wondered where these ideas had come from and automatically looked around the TARDIS.

"You miss her too, old girl?" he murmured.

The Doctor suddenly understood Amy's need to look for Rory, even though there was a slim chance of finding him. It would mean that she had at least tried.

And that would make all of the difference.

"Amy? Amy!"

The Doctor climbed the stairs and found her sitting at the top, curled into a ball.

Her face was blotchy, her eyes ringed with red. He felt even worse for shooting down her idea straight away.

"We'll look for him. I can't promise you anything but I will try my very best to find him for you," he said in a rush.

She merely stared up at him. For a moment he was uncertain and backtracked quickly.

"If that's not what you want anymore then I-oof!"

Amy threw herself into his arms, softly chanting "Thank you" into his shoulder. He patted her back awkwardly before setting her back on her feet.

"Now then, let's go Rory-hunting."

Amy seemed to fly down the stairs.

The Doctor followed her to the console. He started up the TARDIS' engines but was stumped at how to get a fix on where Rory could be. It would obviously take too long to search the whole of Earth and all of its timelines for one man.

He felt a small tug on his sleeve and turned his head to see Amy taking off her wedding ring.

"Use his ring. Well, my ring. But it's a piece of him, Doctor. He put his heart and soul into this ring; it's what ties us together," she said softly, not even thinking of how corny it sounded.

He took it from her, squeezing her hand as he did so. Attaching the ring to a wire leading into the TARDIS, he set the date.

"Where are we going to?"

"26th June 2010."

"My wedding day," Amy mumbled morosely.

"Hold on tight," he shouted, hitting the button to go.

The sound of the TARDIS leaving surrounded them.

It was steady for a moment but then she jolted, as though she had been hit.

"No, no, no. What's wrong? C'mon this is easy for you," the Doctor whispered.

"Doctor!" Amy called from the other side. "Something's flashing!"

Two words flashed on screen for a tenth of a second, too fast for Amy's eyes to see them:

BAD WOLF.

He couldn't understand what was going on. The TARDIS stopped, finally reaching her destination.

"Doctor…where do you think Rory would be if, you know, he did survive?" Amy asked mock-casually.

"Your house?" he guessed, not grasping what she was getting at.

"So he wouldn't be in, say…Norway?"

"Norway?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yup. Norway," she said in a thoroughly-pissed-off-what-have-you-done-now-you-stupid-alien kind of voice. "Whatever that says, to be precise."

He read their destination in numb shock.

Dårlig Ulv Stranden.

"Bad Wolf Bay," he breathed.

"What? Doctor, why the hell are we here? Why would he be in Norway?"

The Doctor began pacing.

"The TARDIS has a mind of her own. She wants us to be here and with your ring connected to her circuits, it means that Rory must be around here somewhere. But why here? Surely she doesn't remember…"

"Who doesn't remember? Why would Rory be in Norway, for God's sake? And since when do you speak Norwegian?"

The Doctor spoke before thinking:

"I've been here before. Rose told me what it meant."

"Rose? She's the one that remembers?" Amy barred his way, placing a restraining hand on his chest. "Doctor, what is going on?"

"Bad Wolf Bay is where my signal came out when Rose was trapped in her universe. But is this her universe? It can't be; both universes would collapse. So it must be your universe but the coincidence is too big. Why would Rory come to Bad Wolf Bay? The name has no meaning to him; neither of you were with me then. I've never told anyone about it so no one could have known. Maybe Rory found Torchwood. But it stopped, didn't it? Jack left the planet after what happened with his daughter. Ugh, what am I missing?"

"Who's Rose?"

The Doctor's eyes met Amy's. She gasped at the depth of the sadness they held, taking a step away from him and letting her hand drop.

"She travelled with me for a while. Brought her half her family with her at one point," he laughed, thinking of Mickey and Jackie.

"There's more. There's something you aren't telling me."

"She met me when I was still angry and violent and…not very nice at all. She calmed me and made me the way I am now…sort of. Anyway, she took away the bloodlust I felt. She was the personification of the reason I carry no weapons. She almost died once from taking in all of time and space from the TARDIS, to save me, always for me, for her Doctor, to keep me safe. I…took it out of her so it wouldn't kill her. It came into me and I regenerated into a skinny guy with a thing for a brown suit and brilliant hair. But I regenerated for her, it was in my DNA."

He paused for a moment, willing his voice not to break as he spoke of Canary Wharf.

"There were so many times she almost died. She had this extraordinary knack for getting into trouble, jeopardy friendly you could say. A lot like you really. But then this one time…there was nothing I could do to save her. I would have given my life for hers in the blink of an eye but right then I could do nothing but watch. She almost fell into the Void, a place between universes, some call it Hell. Pete from Pete's World caught her and took her back with him. I had no way of reaching her without destroying every universe there is. It was…the worst feeling; how could I live knowing that I could save so many worlds but I couldn't ever see her again because it would destroy them?" he added, seemingly talking to himself now.

He brushed at his eyes furiously before clearing his throat as Amy watched and waited in silence.

"I was able to send one last message to her. I called out to her while she slept. We met here, in Bad Wolf Bay. She told she loved me and I, being the rambling idiot that I am, didn't have a chance to say it back."

"That was the last time you saw her?" Amy asked, trying very hard to keep her voice from wavering; she had no idea of how much he had suffered.

"No, we met again when Davros collected the 27 planets, but you don't known about that. I left her here with my twin. Actually he was more of a doppelganger. My old doppelganger. Well, not really my doppelganger anymore. It's complicated," he finished lamely.

"Ok, so basically, if we're in her universe it means it's the end of every universe there is?"

"That is the general idea, yes."

"Will Rory be with her?" she asked hopefully.

"I can't make any promises. Besides, we don't even know if this is her universe yet. It can't be…but…oh no…"

"What?" Amy asked quickly, afraid of even more bad news.

"I was…ohh. You beauty!" he exclaimed, patting the TARDIS.

"Doctor, you've lost me again."

"I was thinking about her before. You were saying about finding Rory and it made me think of what I would do to find Rose. I thought it was the TARDIS giving me ideas about her because she misses Rose as much as me."

"Wait, the TARDIS can miss people?"

"Only me…and Rose."

"Why Rose?" Amy asked curiously.

"She was closer to the heart of the TARDIS than anyone else I have ever travelled with."

"But why?"

"Because she's Rose. She's the Bad Wolf, Dame of the Powell Estate, the Valiant Child. The girl in the TARDIS and the TARDIS in the girl. And because…I love her."

Amy beamed at him.

"Then what are we waiting for?" she asked enthusiastically.

"Amy, you have to understand. If this is Rose's universe, we are in a lot of danger and Rory probably won't be with her. If this is your universe, Rory may be here with…others."

"Others?" Amy asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Torchwood, UNIT, people like that."

"Who are th-?"

Before she could finish, there was a scratching noise followed by a series of bangs on the TARDIS door.

The Doctor flicked his Screwdriver up and advanced slowly, Amy right behind him.

"Doctor, I know you're in there! The key doesn't fit anymore! Did you change the locks so that I couldn't get in? Too scared of me since you left me on this Godforsaken beach for the second time?"

The Doctor froze. He knew she was joking, he could hear it in her voice.

"Doctor?"

But how was it her voice?

"Doctor!"

It was impossible.

"Please, Doctor, it's me. Open the door. It's Rose."