Yay chapter two! This one is quite a bit longer and quite a bit nicer in my opinion! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Chapter two

Rose awoke with a start. Eyes wide and mind buzzing madly. A sense of relief flooded over her when she saw she was in her room that resembled the inside of a strawberry. Was it a dream? Rose dreamt a lot about the doctor and it began to become difficult to distinguish real from reality. Did the doctor really leave her? Did he actually leave her with another version of himself? Was the parallel universe real? Did the doctor ever actually exist at all? She sat up trying to remember all that happened and didn't happen when she heard a knock at the door.

"Oh Good you're up!" Jackie Tyler walked in carrying a tray of crips and a pot of tea. "I made you some tea. Never anything in the world that Jackie Tyler's tea couldn't fix"

"Ha. Funny mum. Really funny. You know what else is funny? Well not funny. Really sad actually. I had the strangest dream last night. It was about the D-"

"He really is a good man Rose."

Rose's eyes narrowed in suspicion. "What?"

Jackie walked over to Rose's bedside table, sat down the tray and made herself comfortable on the end of Rose's bed. "I spent all night chattin with him. Just as obnoxious as the real thing I say. If I adn't seen it for myself I wouldn't of known there to be a difference."

Panic crossed Rose's face. "Mum, you said something about your tea and fixing? What needs to be fixed?" Suddenly it clicked and her jaw dropped "oh God... Did the doctor... Is the doctor..."

"Gone. I'm so sorry sweetheart, but listen he's not really gone. At least not completely. Right downstairs there's a lovely chap and..."

"Mum. That's not the doctor. Why can't anyone understand that? My doctor is in his Tardis with Donna Nobel seeing the all of time and space. A photo copy is in our sitting room" Rose sighed deeply too exhausted and drained to repeat yesterday's emotional reaction.

"Rose Marion Tyler, there is a dashing young man downstairs eating a fruit salad consisting only of bananas that is madly in love with you. He looks like your doctor, thinks like your doctor, mentally did everything your doctor did. For all extensive purposes he is your doctor and rather you like it or not he's here to stay. At least go and talk to him."

Defiantly Rose stood up and searched for anyway out of this dreadful conversation "Well right now I'm drained and feel icky and covered in left over time energy" She walked over to her washroom and started herself a shower. "Let me wash off and maybe... Maybe I'll make an appearance downstairs. But I wouldn't get your hopes up. Sometimes things are too much for a girl, and the doctor was a lot to handle when he was with me let alone when he... Deserts me" it still hurt to say. Saying made it real and she wouldn't let it be real. She couldn't.

"Nothing will ever be too much for my Rose. You're the only person I know that's stronger than the doctor himself." With that Jackie stood up, made her way four the door and left her room humming a little diddy.

Rose scowled at her mother's words. Her? Stronger than the doctor? Nonsense! He's been away not even a day and already she's been reduced to a puddle of her former self. Entering the shower Rose sighed as she felt the warm water pulse against her skin. She closed her eyes and imagined herself in the Tardis shower. The pink one, not the blue one. The blue one never got the temperature right and the Doctor always refused to look at it because "his precious Tardis worked more than fine and it must of been her turning the knob wrong" or some rubbish. Then her thoughts began to shift and the warm water suddenly became the warm sun as her and her doctor shared a picnic outside of New New York. Then the sweat as the top floor of satellite five began to overheat. Then, finally it became the showering of kisses that never came. The feeling of his lips kissing and nipping on her skin that she so craved but never experienced. The feeling of him holding her tight and panting her name as they thrust and escaped the universe around them to a place where not even time could find them. Rose didn't realize how tight her legs were squeezed together nor that the water had long run cold. Her skin was hot with the idea of her mad man and his blue box.

"doctor..." She moaned his name not expecting to here the chipper "Yes?" Coming from her bedroom. Her eyes shot open and immediately the Water shut off, all her fantasies swimming down the drain with it. She hurriedly wrapped a towel around herself and opened the door to find Mr. Not Her Doctor sitting at the edge of her bed. His eyes wide with interest and fear as he scanned her almost naked body up and down slowly before quickly turning his back to her.

"sex drive. Going to have to get used to that. Definitely going to have to get used to that."

"What are you doing in my room?" Rose asked with an angry yet tentative tone.

"Your mum sent me. Said something about making you get over yourself one way or another." The doctor turned to face her again before quickly remembering why he had turned in the first place and resumed the Position of his back to her. "Right. Sex drive. Can't forget about that one."

"What on earth are you rambling about?"Rose asked.

"Oh Well it's very simple actually. You see, Time Lords, where we do mate and have all the proper bits and pieces, don't have nearly the primitive raw sexual need humans have. We've advanced past that. But I'm not fully Time Lord and it seems that along with the one heart and human aging I've also a human male libido. Quite fascinating really. Also very inconvenient. If I had this while on the Tardis then traveling with you would of been nearly impossible."

"Wait a minute. Are you saying I'm turning you on?" Rose smiled a smug almost proud smile.

"Well you are practically naked and your clearly attractive figure doesn't seem to be helping. Do you work out? Because those legs, they could make a sontaran surrender in battle. Oh dear, I'm doing it again aren't I? Sex drive. Must remember that one. You would think being part human I would be better at controlling my word vomit than when fully Time Lord. Seems I'm just as bad. Though none are as bad as the norlax who literally vomit their words. Nice people, would be a beautiful planet if it weren't for all the throw up although it is a nice purple color. I would love to take you there sometime but clearly the other me took our only means so transportation so... Why are you laughing at me?" The duplicate turned to find a now dressed Rose chuckling away.

"you talk just like him" Rose managed to say after her laughter died down. "I never thought I'd meet another person who could ramble like him."

The duplicate sighed, stood up, and walked over to Rose hesitantly. Taking his hand he tipped up her chin to meet her brilliantly beautiful eyes. "That's because it is me Rose. I am him. He is just as much a clone of me as I am of him. Please try to understand that. We are one in the same." Something about his eyes, something so familiar about his eyes, yet Rose couldn't quite pick it out. It was almost so clear, but not quite there. "I love you Rose Tyler. I loved you since I first took your hand in the shop; I loved you when we danced the night everyone lived; I loved you when Cassandra possessed us in that mad hospital; I loved you when you absorbed the whole time vortex and stopped the Dalek empire just to save me; and I loved you when you were trying to speak for earth during the sycorax invasion because I was off in regeneration lala land. I loved those days and more. I love you Rose Tyler. I love you, I always have and now I can express it. Let me do that for you. Please."

There! She'd found it. In his eyes was life. His life. Her doctor's life. It was him right there before her. It had always been him. "Quite right, and I suppose since s'my first time to say it... Doctor, I-"

"Rose! Not actually doctor but sorta the Doctor! Come down here for a minute! Your father slash Pete needs to have a word with the two of you." Pete screamed from the bottom of the stairs.

And just like that, that life she saw vanished from his eyes and Rose was horrified with herself. "I just.. I almost... I'm sorry doctor."

"It's quite alright."

"I wasn't talking to you! I was talking to the real doctor. I almost... Oh God." And with that Rose Tyler ran out her door and down the stairs.

"Rose! Rose wait" The duplicate shouted as he followed. "you can't cheat on me with myself! That's absurd!"