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Little Red Cape

Summary: The Doctor, Amy and Rory land on a simple forest planet but the village is more than it appears and a familiar face lurks beneath a red cape.

Ch 3

Amy and Rory looked at each other, then walked to the door. Rory looked down at the welcome mat. "It says Bad Wolf, is this is the Bad Wolf's house? This is the wrong house!" he told his wife grabbing her arm to show her the mat.

But Amy wasn't paying attention to that having already walked inside, what she was paying attention to was the Doctor. She'd never seen him be so still and so quiet unless they were in immediate danger. He appeared to be in shock and awe of the older woman standing in front of them. She was blond with her hair slightly starting to grey, her big doe eyes stared at him with a similar expression.

'Sorry for the cloak and dagger routine….I had to make sure it was really you. You changed your face again." She said to him as the two girls joined her and stood on either side and lowered their own hoods. They were both blond and identical to one another, twins.

"I did" the Doctor responded unable to take his eyes from the three women.

"Young" she said with a nervous laugh. "Or I've just gotten old, almost 50 now. But I suppose that's what you meant when you said you couldn't grow old with me; you just forgot to mention that you'd be getting younger."

"I'm not that young" the Doctor replied. Fifty he repeated her age to himself. This wasn't just Rose this was a future Rose. How did they get here?

Rose smiled at him and walked closer. "Not in the eyes, that the only way to tell your real age" she told him.

"And your eyes look the same as the day I met you, so full of life" He said to her as the distance between them closed, Rose buried her face in his chest, he brought his head down and nuzzled it next to hers. Rose closed her eyes as she heard one of his hearts and felt the other one beneath her fingertips. She missed hearing the sound of his two hearts.

"Rose, where did you put the tea…" a female voice says from behind them. "…Doctor?"

"Jackie Tyler" The Doctor said in shock once again as Rose pulled away from him. "You're still alive?" He said and felt her palm slap him across the face. "I deserved that one" He said rubbing his cheek.

"Right you did" Jackie Tyler replied. "So it was you" she said. "Going for jailbait this time?"

"What?" The Doctor asked confused.

"It's probably easier to get into places looking like that, not that the other you would've had trouble, but I'm still partial to the big ears you had before" Jackie said as the Doctor touched his ears. "Anyway where did you put the tea? Pete wants some before the games start."

"We're out, ring David and tell him to bring some by" Rose told her mother.

The Doctor smiled to himself. Rose, Jackie, and Pete they are all still alive. Although why they were on this planet was still a mystery. Why he was on this planet was still a mystery.

Amy just stared at the Doctor conversing with these people like he had known them all his life and what was with them talking about his face changing and big ears. Rory looked around the house in shock it was bigger on the inside just like the Tardis.

"You still have a great hair" Rose said with a grin. She had to stop herself from running her hands through it, this wasn't her Doctor. The Doctor smiled back whilst running his hands through his hair.

"Hello, I'm Amy" Amy said having had enough of standing around watching those two talk as if no one was else was in the room with them.

"Amy, right, this is Amy" The Doctor said turning around to face his companions.

"And Rory…I'm Rory" Rory piped up, he was always being forgotten by the Doctor and Amy, so he was kind of happy when he saw that the Doctor had forgotten both of them this time.

"And you would be?" Amy asked. They both just smiled at each other. She had never seen the Doctor smile so much and she'd seen him around other women that fancied him, but with this woman he was different. The way they acted around each other, the way he wouldn't take his eyes off of her there was something more between them, something familiar.

"I'm Rose Smith former companion of the Doctor, well the other Doctor, my Doctor" she told the young couple.

Amy is about to ask about that when the ground started shaking, she grabbed on to her husband. Flashes of light suddenly appeared in the room they were standing in. "There's lightning in your living room" Rory told Rose who looked more exasperated than scared.

"Did you really need to teleport" One of the twins said to the new arrival. The Doctor stared at the young man who now stood in the room, he had a mess of brown hair and was smiling from ear to ear, he looked like him, a younger version of him, the other him. He looked at Rose and the twins playfully arguing with the young man in scrubs and he knew who they were.

Rose smiled at him. "Right, I should do introductions too" she told him. "This is Camille and Catherine" she said pointing to the girls. "And this is David"

"Your children" the Doctor finished for her. Their children.

"Yes, our children" she replied. "And this is Christopher" she said pointing towards the door. They turned around and saw the man they knew as the Hunter entered the room. He took off his hat and the Doctor knew what he recognized in their eyes. It was him or at least part of him.

He looked at them, the grown children of Rose and the other him. The other him, where was he? "Rose, is he around? I like to talk to him" The Doctor watched Rose's face fall as she looked towards the ground. He swallowed "How?"

"You were right, he was you…so you. Right down to the running around trying to save everyone…only…he couldn't come back like you."

"What happened?"

"War" Rose told him. "So many devastating wars. As our planet grew more and more advanced we opened ourselves to more and more enemies. We lost our level five rating and moved to level one – dangerous. We were at an almost constant war with other planets and we fought and fought until we lost."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "It's gone, Doctor"

"What's gone?" Rory asked.

"Earth, my Earth" Rose replied.

******Ten Years ago

The explosions were deafening but that's what they were used to now. The houses rattled then fell into rubble, the ground shook, fire and ash enveloped the sky. She held on tightly to console in front of her until the ground settled. They were losing. She knew it, everyone knew it but she couldn't let it show. She was the leader, the one that brought hope, the defender of the Earth. But she was tired, she wanted to go home and sleep for years instead of watching her planet die at the hands of Detritidorian race.

She stood tall and told them they could win but they couldn't and now she had to do the one thing she thought she never would do, never could do. If she didn't more people would die, they would all die. Her hand hovered the button; she took a deep breath and slammed her hand down.

The siren filled the air as she watched the people running on the ground look up, without seeing their faces she knew what they were thinking. Their leader had given up. Code blue meant drop everything and get to the nearest station for total evacuation of the planet.

She gathered up her children and took them to the ship. She helped her seven-year old twins get into the bed in their cabin. Christopher and David both asked to go with her.

"I need you to stay here with your sisters" she told them. She looked at her two sons, they were fourteen and twelve and just as smart as their father. Christopher was getting taller and broader each day, he looked more like the first version of the Doctor she met and David was smaller and thinner and looked every bit like this father.

After she finally got them to agree and stay with Catherine and Camille, she walked down the corridor. Suddenly she felt the ground shake, the ship was moving. "What's going on? We're not supposed to leave yet." She spoke into her comm.

"We didn't do anything ma'am, the ship started on its own" was the reply she received.

"What do you mean, that's impossible" She told them and ran towards the control room. When she arrived her crew was scrambling around the console trying to stop the ship from leaving. She ran to the console and typed in her password.

"Manual override denied" The computerized voice told her.

"What?" she screamed at the computer and typed it in again.

"Manual override denied." The voice said again. Her hands rolled into fists. "Accessing emergency program one"

"What?" she said to the computer as her heart beat sped up. "NO!" She shook her head. "NO!" She felt the tears in the corner of her eyes. "Doctor!"

A screen popped up on the console. "Rose" he said to her. She looked at him with tears in her eyes. He stood in the control room at Torchwood headquarters; he had on his brown suit and trainers.

"John, no don't do this" She begged.

"You know I have to, it's the only way to save everyone. We talked about this; we just never thought it would come to this. This is our planet, our home; if we can't protect it, we can't let anyone else take it." She looked at him as tears streamed down her face.

"It'll be okay, that's what makes the human race so spectacular, you lot are survivors. You get knocked down and you get up again, no one will keep you down…sorry that's Tubthumping but you know what I mean. The human race survives they always do. Now you can spread out amongst the stars and share the knowledge and wonders you have seen." He smiled through his tears. "There's a whole universe out there that needs defending." She saw the tears in his eyes. "Our children will survive, and their children and so on and they will all go on and do amazing things." He paused to compose himself. "I left recording for them, show them when you're ready"

He took a deep breath and held his palm against the screen.She pressed her hand up against the glass of the ship. Once again they would be separated, memories of the first time passed through their minds. Star crossed lovers forever separated by time and space.

"I love you Rose Tyler"

"I love you, my Doctor"

The tears are flooding down her face and she can barely keep her eyes open. "And Rose..." he said and she brought herself to look at him, he was grinning. "We were fantastic!"

"Hyperdrive activated" the computer voice said. Rose kept her eyes locked on the Timelord she loved and he kept his eyes on hers as she felt the ship enter warp speed pulling her away from him. She closed her eyes softly as the bright light filled the inside of the ship.

She saw the end of the world during her first trip with the Doctor, now it would be the last thing they saw together. "Goodbye my love" she whispered.

Tbc...