Taradiddle-Chapter Three

I hope this doesn't stink or anything.

OH and my sister gets like...40% percent of this, hehe.

I stayed up pretty late with this, so if there's a bunch of mistakes I apologize!

He was working furiously. He actually couldn't remember ever working this hard for one person. Or two. Ever since he had read Rose's diary, he couldn't travel around knowing the love of his life and their baby were in a parallel universe without him. It was torture.

And Donna was helping, of course. She was holding certain levers down or getting him a time travel book from the library. He needed all the information he could possibly get. After all, jumping from one universe to a parallel one was tricky.

After handing him the latest book he had asked for from the library, Donna took a moment to study his face. He looked serious, for sure. And maybe, just maybe, a little hopeful.

"Do you think you can do it, Doctor? Switch over to the parallel universe?" she asked him as he flipped through the book.

But after she asked he stopped and put the book down.

"I don't have a choice."

She nodded. She figured he'd say something like that.

After another hour of studying mumbling in other languages Donna didn't recognize, he finally smiled down into a book. Donna stood from her position in the captains chair and walked over to him.

"Did you find something?"

"Yes."

She smiled.

"I'm not gonna ask how you're going to do it," she added.

"Good," he replied, laughing a little. He continued, "Its a wonder I didn't think of it sooner. I guess I just needed something other than sadness to push me through."

She nodded.

After a moment, he said, "Thank you."

"Oh, please. I didn't do anything..."

"You sound like your granddad."

She silently agreed. Was being like Wilfred really something to be ashamed about? She thought not.

After that they didn't waste anytime trying to get there. It took a lot of hard work and a long time in general, but once the TARDIS stopped flying and landed, they didn't go out right away. Donna supposed maybe he was scared it didn't work.

"Well...are we gonna to go out?" Donna asked, walking towards the door.

He nodded slowly, and walked ahead of her. He placed his hands on the handles and took a deep breath. He hated being this dramatic, but sometimes its not drama, its pure nerves. Plus, he was hanging on the thought that he was going to see Rose again. He looked back at Donna, and with her reassuring nod, he opened the doors.

He saw London, and took a few steps out, but still no zeppelins. His shoulders slumped. As he turned to tell Donna they had failed, a gigantic zeppelin flew right over the TARDIS.

"Ha!" he yelled happily, running his hands through his hair, turning as the zeppelin flew over them.

Donna joined his excitement, stepping out into a parallel universe.

"Yes!" she yelled, along with his various ramblings.

He turned to her and they hugged tightly, but soon she pulled away.

"What're you doing hugging me, Spaceman? Go get Rose!"

He smiled broadly, and agreed. He turned and started walking, Donna right along beside him.

"I can't believe this," he said through a grin, hair now messed up from when he ran his hands through them. Donna just smiled back.

First they set off to find the Tyler Mansion, but after half an hour, they went and looked for a map. When they found one in a convenient store, they sat in the park on an old bench and opened it.

"Lets see..." Doctor said as he opened it.

Donna had never seen him smile so much. He literally hadn't stopped since they arrived. She also noticed, as they were looking for the mansion, that he was steadily, over time, walking faster and faster. She saw now, how much he really did love Rose.

She took a look around. Trees practically surrounded them. One stone path led through the dense trees, and there was a gazebo at the end of it, currently occupied by an older looking couple happily holding hands. There was a chilly, but soft breeze, and the smell was a mixture of grass and Doctor's cologne.

Wait. The Doctor had cologne on? Since when did he wear cologne? Had he always done that? She didn't know. But she figured he had put it on for Rose. She understood why he would wear it for her, it smelled fantastic.

"I don't see it," he said, excited tone gone, along with his smile.

"Don't be daft," she said, leaning over and looking at the map herself. She took it and looked closer. Still, she found nothing.

"That's impossible," Donna said.

Doctor stood up, and walked a few feet, and then turned around to face her.

"How naïve am I? I come strolling into an alternate universe, believing my old TARDIS could get me there in the first place...its ridiculous."

She placed the map where he had been sitting. He was pacing in front of her.

"Doctor, please stop pacing," she asked as nicely as she could.

"I just..." he started, but first he moved the map and sat down, "I really thought I had finally found her."

Donna placed her hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry."

He nodded, but didn't look her in the eyes. After a moment, she broke the silence.

"Where are we?"

"Well, not Pete's World."

"What?"

"Nothing...it doesn't matter. Not now."

"Just because you didn't find her this time doesn't mean you never will."

He weakly smiled at her, and she pulled him in for a hug.

As they were hugging, Doctor saw a stroller and was immediately saddened. He knew that somewhere in Pete's World, his child, born or not born yet, was there. And Rose was still hoping he'd come back for her.

As he looked up, still hugging his companion, he stopped breathing. The sound he had made obviously concerned Donna, and she pulled back from their hug and looked at him.

"What's wrong with you?"

He didn't look at her, but instead looked over her shoulder with his mouth half open and eyes wide.

"Its Rose," he said.

He didn't have to make sure it was her. He knew it was. She was standing under a tree sort of far away, but he could recognize her from miles and miles away if he had to.

"What? Really?" Donna turned and saw a blonde woman standing by a tree.

It was Rose. She looked somber, he noticed. Well of course, why wouldn't she? He knew she had to have gone through everything that he had gone through after losing each other; guilt. Pain. Suffering. More guilt. Denial. Sadness. More denial.

He shook the thoughts out of his mind and started towards her. She still didn't notice him.

"Rose!" The name came out before he had time to think about it. He was almost running.

She had turned around he opposite direction prior to his yelling her name, but when she heard him, she spun around. Her mouth dropped open. He saw her mouth his name. Or rather, she mouthed "Doctor".

They were quite far away, much too far for Doctor's standards. He was running, but she wasn't. This scared him, for some reason. Was she not happy to see him? Of course she was. Why would he think such things?

Once he was near enough, he picked her up around he waist and spun her around. No words could describe how it felt to hold her again. It was like when you watch a sad movie, and you don't smile for two hours, and then whens its over, someone tells a joke and you smile again and it feels really good. He was laughing, and he didn't know why. It wasn't funny. But he felt less strange once he heard her laughing too. But there was something else in her voice too, something like a sound you make when you grimace.

She mumbled through the tears into his neck, "I can't...believe this..."

After who knows how long, he let her down on her feet, but still had his arms around waist.

Her hair was exactly the the same as it had been on that day on Bad Wolf Bay. Her eyes were wet with tears of joy. She wiped a tear from his face, and he found himself embarrassed.

Rose cleared her throat. She sniffed and and took his hands in hers.

"Doctor..." she stuttered, voice cracking and shaky.

He stopped her by pressing his lips against hers. Now this wasn't just smiling after a sad movie, this was much more than that.

It went on for a while, but Rose pulled back and mumbled something about breathing.

He pulled her close and she wrapped her arms around his skinny torso. He had his arms around her shoulder and his mouth pressed to the top of her head. But he knew he had to ask about the baby, one way or another.

What if it was all fake? What if she was never pregnant? What if she was pregnant but had a miscarriage? Rassilon! Stop thinking so much you big idiot!

"Rose," he said.

She pulled away from the tears stains that were now on his suit.

She laughed a little. "You smell good."

He smiled ad self accomplishment flooded him, for he had chosen that cologne just for her.

His hearts were beating so fast he could barely contain himself. He took a deep breath.

"I have a question for you," he said to her.

"I have some for you too," she replied.

"Me first."

"Go ahead."

He took another deep breath.

"See, I have a companion," he started, "Her name is Donna. She's brilliant," he hesitated for a moment, "so are you Rose, of course. Well anyway...one day, she stumbled upon your old...or not so old, bathroom. And she found...she found a..."

And for some reason he couldn't say anymore. He just froze. Of all the times to freeze up ad get overly nervous, now was not the time.

"I found a pregnancy test," he heard Donna say from behind him.

He turned and stood by Rose, taking her hand. Rose looked down at their interlocked hand and smiled.

"And then the the TARDIS showed me a memory of you and Spaceman here," Donna continued.

Rose laughed, but then stopped herself by covering her mouth.

"What?" Doctor asked.

"She called you Spaceman."

Doctor rolled his eyes. "Its not funny."

"Yeah it is. But I wish I would have thought of it sooner," Rose said.

"Anyway," Doctor said, feeling a lot better now. He could talk, for instance. And so, with this newly found power of speech, he asked the question before he couldn't anymore. "Are you?" His voice was soft.

"No," Rose replied.

Utter confusion followed.

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