Part 3/15??

Rose couldn't help feel a little down hearted, yeah it was great that her first Doctor was here, but all she really had wanted to see when she had walked into the TARDIS was not blue but brown eyes.

She was glad, happy even, of the circumstances. Except she couldn't ignore that gnawing feeling in her gut that kept telling her that when all was said and done she would have to say goodbye to both Jack and her first Doctor for a second time. And what made it worse was that she would have to be saying goodbye to the Doctor a third time, and that at this moment in time seemed like the most daunting thing for her to do.

She was brought out of her ravine of thoughts by the Doctor calling her name.

She looked into the review mirror "sorry what?"

"I asked you what was going to happen with my TARDIS, I'm not having it left to some government organisation." He said gruffly.

"Don't worry Mick is going to be looking after her…" she began but was cut off by the Doctor.

"I am not having that idiot touch my ship" he said pointedly

Rose suddenly brought the car over to the curb and stopped abruptly. She turned to face the Doctor a stormy expression in her eyes.

"You will not, I repeat, will not be calling Mickey an idiot, you hear. He is going to be looking after the TARDIS and he is going to be making sure that nobody goes into there. Do I make my self clear?" she asked him sternly sparing no room for argument.

The Doctor just looked at her a surprised expression from her outburst.

Rose sighed and shook her head "Mickey has helped me a lot these past years, he's been there supporting me. He works for Torchwood same as me, and Torchwood only takes the best of the best, which makes Mickey the best. He's proven himself over and over again and he deserves the respect that he should be given. Okay, is that clear, no calling Mickey an idiot" she repeated gently.

"No calling Mickey and Idiot, right got it sorry" the Doctor looked into the older version of his Rose eyes and knew that she had matured exponentially in the years that she had been here, and he couldn't stop the feeling of pride that flooded within him.

Jack cleared his throat releasing the tension as Rose started driving again.

After a few minutes Jack couldn't help him self "so what does old Doc look like when he regenerates?" he smirked.

"Jack" a warning shot from the Doctor.

"Come on what could it hurt, I mean she's told us just about everything really." He lent onto the chair that Rose was sitting in. "so come on tell us, what does he look like"

Rose smiled to her self as she pictured her second Doctor.

"He has brown eyes, sometimes they can be darker depending on his mood. Big hair, that really does have a mind of its own most of the time; with sideburns" she chuckled sadly; it was here that the other three members of the car knew that they had lost her to her memories.

"He has a sort of pointed nose that on most people would look too big, but on him it just seems to fit. He has a thin top lip, but his bottom lip makes up for it by being a bit bigger. He has freckles that are all over his face, giving him a real young look. His ears aren't quite as big as they were, but they aren't small either." Jack chuckled at the look on the Doctor's face at the mention of his ear size "He's a little shorter this time, and thinner, but he got used to that. Oh and he has a mole, right between his shoulder blades which he absolutely adores. He is in every way a pretty boy."

"As for his personality, it couldn't be more different and the same in the same instance. He laughs a lot, smiles a lot and shows his teeth off just because he can. He has a lot of energy like a child, can make you dizzy if you're not careful. His tongue is extra sensitive" this made Jack sit up a bit straighter "bit of an oral fixation because of it." Rose mood sobered a bit "He doesn't hand out second chances, you do something wrong and that was it really. He talks a lot, which can get him into trouble and out of it at the same time. He is a charmer, and a little bit egotistical most of the time. He's rude, absolutely no manners at all in any situation, even in meeting Queen Victoria. Oh and he is not ginger" she said finally.

The Doctor looked at Rose through the rear-view mirror and saw that she was crying silently. He knew that the parting that her and his future self had was sudden and unexpected, but he now knew that it was too soon for her, and probably for his self as well. He felt close to his Rose, cared for her deeply and he knew that if he was this close to her now even with him putting distance between them. What was it going to be like with a more open and friendly him?

The answer was all over the older Rose's face, she loved him, more then just in a best friend kinda way and that made the Doctor wonder just how far into the relationship does his future self take it.

He slipped his hand gently into his Rose's hand, squeezing it lightly, feeling her squeeze back made him think that she was thinking on the same lines as he was.

Rose caught her self been looked at by him and looked down back to the road quickly.

Jack had a look of guilt written all over his face for making Rose cry that way and was kicking him self for asking her describe someone that obviously meant a great deal to her.

"Oh sweetheart I am so sorry, I shouldn't have asked you­…" Rose shook her head silencing him

"Jack honestly its fine; some times I think it's good to remember don't allow my self nearly enough time" she said softly.

The rest of the ride was practically silent each person was deep in their thoughts.

The younger Rose was thinking about the day that this would all be happening to her. She was thinking about the Doctor dieing and regenerating. And lastly she was thinking about how she would cope with a new Doctor.

Jack was thinking mostly about the fact that he would die, not knowing how or when that was going to happen made it all the more discouraging. But he was mostly thinking about the woman that was in front of him and how she was staying so calm with everything blowing up in her face. Apart from the first outburst all he had seen was a calm demeanour.

The Doctor was thinking about a lot of things really, one thought would follow the other during the process. The main thought was about Rose and his future self and about how he and the other two were going to get out of this universe; and how that was going to affect the future Rose when they would need to say goodbye.

Rose was contemplating almost the same thing as the Doctor was, she was worried about what was going to happen when she would once again have to say goodbye to the man that she had seen erupt in light and disappear from her forever; until now.

xxx

Getting out of the car and walking through the underground car park of Torchwood; Rose couldn't help but feel that something was happening, or about to happen. That feeling didn't improve as they all stepped into the elevator that went all the way up Torchwood Tower.

Pushing the foreboding feeling down for a while Rose looked over to the three other people and announced "we're going all the way up to the first floor, that's where my office is and where the Director's office is." She turned to her younger counterpart.

"The Director is my father, your alternate father and mine. Just try and remember that he is not really the Pete that died when you were six months old" her tone told the Doctor and Jack that she had had a hard time remembering that her self most of the time.

The younger Rose gripped the Doctors hand and brought her self closer to him and nodded to her older self, still unsure of how to approach all of this.

"Just try and not faint or anything and you'll be fine. He's expecting you and will sure to be expecting some sort of reaction, so don't worry" the older Rose put a hand on her younger self shoulder and smiled reassuringly before she stepped out of the elevator with all three in tow.

She led the down the hall in to a circular room that had three doors around each with a different name and title written upon it;

Rose Tyler: Head of the Negotiations and Informant department of Torchwood and 2IC to the Director of Torchwood.

Mickey Smith: Commander of field operations of Torchwood and Weapons/Technology specialist.

Pete Tyler: Director of Torchwood

"Long winded names if you ask me" the Doctor mumbled as Rose led them to her office.

"We break them down depending on the situation. Say I'm doing field work I'm 2IC to Mick, if I'm in a meeting I am the head of the Negotiations department and if they need an informant they come to me" she said simply, she lead them into her office not the Directors like they had been expecting to.

Her office was big, too big for one person. The walls were a cream coloured except for one on the Eastern wall which was a wall of windows. Rose's desk was on the other side of the room facing them, and behind the desk was a wall of windows looking out on to London. There were two lounges either side of the room facing each other with a small coffee table in front of them, both stacked with papers and files.

"Haven't really got round to doing those yet" she said in a way of explanation for the files on the coffee table.

"Nice office" breathed Jack.

"Comes with the title I suppose, don't really spend that much time in here to be honest. I usually do my work with Mickey in his office because we usually go off on the same assignment" she sat down on at her desk and picked her phone up and dialed a number.

Taking the hint the other three sat down on the couch nearest her desk.

"Mickey Smith please" Rose said to whoever answered the phone.

The Younger Rose was looking through the files on the table in front her when the door burst open to revel her dead and alternate father.

"Rose" the older Rose's head whipped around at the urgency in his tone. "We have a serious problem"

Pete threw a quick nod of welcome to the three occupants on the lounge, which had all frozen at the sight of him rushing in to the room. Rose said something into the receiver of the phone to Mickey and removed it from her ear, but didn't hang-up.

"Dad?" she asked not really wanting to know the answer and she knew that the deep feeling of foreboding had been correct.

"We have Cybermen; around 10,000, appearing all over London" he said worriedly

"The President?" Rose asked

"I've informed her. She's given me permission to do what it takes." He turned to the Doctor who had gone slightly pale at the mention of Cybermen.

"Can you help us?" Pete demanded.

"Mick I think you better hurry down here, put Jefferson in charge" Rose told Mickey quickly and hung up quickly.

"Dad" Rose's tone warned Pete from questioning the Doctor. "We have weapons against them, we've done it before and we can do it again; Mickey is on his way"

"What if we can't defeat them Rose, then what; the only reason we weren't over run before was because the Doctor thought up the plan to kill them." he stated angrily

"You still have the Emotion Inhibitor Code" Pete couldn't tell whether this was a statement or a question and realized that this was a tactic that she used during most of her Negotiations with International parties. She used it to determine the amount of weapons that they had in their possession.

"Yes" he opted for answering the question.

"Well then if worse comes to worse we use that then" she informed him, but in a tone that suggested that it wasn't to be their first line of defense but simply a reserve.

"I'm sorry, an Emotion Inhibitor Code?" asked the Doctor not liking the way this conversation was going.

"Your future self uses the code to make the Cybermen feel again, which overwhelms them and kills them" Rose informs him as she starts to walk out of the door, Pete follows her.

"Well what are we waiting for?" Jack asked as he rose off of the chair.

Rose spun around causing Pete to stop suddenly.

"You're not coming" she told him, but there was little doubt to all in the room that she was talking to all of them.

"Rose…" Pete began.

"No dad, what am I going to tell mum. You think that you'll be in trouble with the President if you don't fight, imagine mum." She raised an eye brow.

"Jacks doesn't scare me" he stated confidently, but floundered under Rose's 'oh yeah' look.

"I could ring her now, won't take me a sec" she pulled her phone out of her pocket.

"Well now that you mention it, you'll be taking over my position soon, what could a little experience hurt"

"Exactly what I was thinking dad" she smiled

"And what about us why can't we fight these things?" Jack piped up

Rose turned to look at Jack and the other three on the lounge. "Because Jack, you are not meant to be here. What if you get killed here? Then what, there are so many things that you are meant to do" she turned to her younger counterpart.

"And there is no way I'm letting my past self in to the firing line of a Cybermen, I'm not all that ready for Reapers and myself disappearing." Finally she turned to the Doctor who had yet to day a word.

"Today is not your day to fight, this is a day that you stand back and let us make all the wrong decisions and maybe even a few right ones maybe" she smiled when he looked up at her and nodded smiling back.

She walked out of the door without glancing back at any of them, they all followed her with their eyes until they couldn't see her any more.

Huffing Jack opted for sulking on the sofa.

Rose simply picked up a file from off of the table and started to read it, interest clouding her worried look.

Pete seemed to be running over the pros and cons of going against his overly frightening wife. By the looks of things going against Jackie was not really an option, because soon he was sitting in Rose's chair almost pouting.

The Doctor seemed to be full of energy, as soon as Rose was no longer in sight he began to pace the room occasionally looking out at London.

xxx

In the elevator Rose's cool demeanor feel from her face and she slumped against the wall. Going against the Cybermen without the Doctor there seemed almost too daunting for Rose to even comprehend, and had her wishing once again that it was her Doctor that was here.

TBC