The Doctor walks around the console sadly; the TARDIS is humming in synch with her Time Lord, feeling his pain. After he lost Rose, he was depressed, but never so much as now. He's watched his race die out, again, and he needs her comfort more than ever. His hearts ache for her hand in his, but he knows it will never be. She's gone now, with her family, and he'll never see her lovely face again.
Needing to be alone, he dropped Martha off at home. Now he's wishing he hadn't, because being alone is even worse. At least with Martha, he has a reason to keep a front; with just the TARDIS to witness his emotional turmoil, he breaks down, longing for a certain blonde to enter his ship and tell him it's all gonna be ok.
As bad as the memories of her are, they don't compare to the worst. What he didn't say; that he loves her, oh so much… love the likes of which his ancient hearts have never known. She'd been brave enough to say the words, why couldn't he?
Leaving the console room, he opens a door at the end of the hallway. Stepping into the pink room that smells of his Rose, he curls up in the bed and weeps, weeps for a lost love.
Rose wakes up feeling tired and groggy. She gets up and prepares herself for another day at work, before saying good bye to her family. On the drive to Torchwood, she gets a strange feeling that today is different; something is coming.
She walks up to the now familiar entrance to Torchwood; she's worked here since she first arrived on the universe. The job is a vain attempt to keep some semblance of her life with the Doctor, although it cuts her soul to do it without him. Every time she's running from some alien, her hand longs for his hand in hers.
The team is waiting as she walks through the door. Pete, Jake, Mickey, and Olivia rush her to the Torchwood SUV, talking of an energy surge like nothing they've encountered. All Rose hears is Norway, and she feels as if her heart will stop. Somehow she manages to get in the car, though she's not sure how.
The car is already packed for a long trip; with their job, it never hurts to be prepared. They spend over 20 hours on the road; Mickey and Jake are bickering over who decides on the music, but Rose is completely oblivious. Eventually even the immature boys fall silent, worried for Rose. She's been in a trance like state for the past 15 hours, only coming out for brief bathroom breaks.
"Rose, honey, are you alright?" Pete's voice breaks through her reverie, pulling her back to reality.
"I'm fine," she manages to squeak, despite the rising sense of foreboding in her stomach.
Though unconvinced, the group accepts her answer, knowing she'll talk when she's ready – if she ever is.
One thought keeps going through her head; one painful yet insistent memory. He said it was impossible. There's no way… he said two worlds would fall apart if they tried to reach each other again. But then, if that's true, why is she headed back to the very beach she left her heart on? The very beach where he had said good bye, where the last hole in time had come out… Bad Wolf Bay. And what of the mysterious energy surge? What could it be, if not the Doctor, reaching out to her? She's so afraid to hope, yet she can't let go. After all, he's disproved himself on 'impossible' before; why not again? Rose continues in these thoughts for the rest of the trip, hoping against hope that it's not a false alarm leading her to Norway once again.