The circles stopped. She gripped his shoulders and pulled back. She looked deeply into his eyes, he couldn't quite read the emotion hidden there, but the look on her face terrified him.

"So is our daughter just second best to you? The sloppy seconds of a second rate life?" Rose spat the words at him, eyes pricking with her angry tears of the betrayal she felt.

"Rose it's not like that, it's hardly like I demanded we call her Jenny is it? Oh and you can talk hardly about 'sloppy seconds' seeing as I'm not exactly one of a kind am I?" The Doctor retaliated.

"Don't you DARE try to put the blame on me here! You could have told me, but no, you had to pretend everything was perfect! You know it's not like that with me and you, I chose you, but maybe if you don't believe that I'm in a different relationship, with a mature adult maybe?"

"How could I have told you about it when I had pushed it away in my mind so I wouldn't think about it, my brain isn't like yours, I can chose to hide painful memories away from myself. You say you chose me, but you seemed to have a different impression for those first few weeks, more like I'd been forced onto you!"

"Sorry I forgot how 'ape-like' my mind is compared to your superior time-lord brain!"

"Don't twist my words! I can't deal with this right now!" The Doctor turned and began taking larger and larger strides as he headed for the door, remembering to grab his keys, wallet and coat as he went. As he stepped through the door of the beautiful house he shared with Rose he first glanced towards the stairs, remembering his beautiful baby upstairs, he knew she would be sleeping and he did not plan to be gone for long and so he pushed those thoughts away. His eyes met with Rose's wide, angry eyes, he blinked and swallowed once, the pain of her stare stabbing him through his lonesome heart before he turned away and pulled their bright red front door closed behind him, but not before he heard Rose yell, "That's right, run away, as always."

As Rose watched the door close she realised she was kneeling on the ground, tears streaming down her face, dripping onto the floor. Her head cleared when the screams of Jenny caught her attention, she tried to arrange herself as she dashed to check on Jenny. She leaned into Jenny's cot, whispering sweet comfort to her baby. Jenny soon settled and Rose waited until Jenny had fallen into a deep sleep, before leaving the room, she didn't know what to do now. Rose decided to do what she always did when she didn't know what to do – so she rang her mum.

"Hello?" Jackie's cheerful voice reduced Rose to tears and she barely managed to stutter out a broken-hearted 'mum' and was reassured that Jackie would be round in a minute and Rose needed to put the kettle on and break open the best biscuits.

Feeling more positive thanks to a visit from her mum, Rose breathed in Jackie's homely scent, that had changed just in the slightest since they had been stuck in this universe, and wished her a safe journey home.

Rose refilled her wine glass with the remaining liquid in the bottle, and headed towards the living room, grabbing the baby monitor as she went. She sank into the sofa, flicking on the TV and awoke the next morning in that same place, except there was now a wine stain next to her. Her grogginess started to wear off as Jenny began wailing from upstairs. She reached into her pocket, grabbing her phone to check the time, 8:06am.

Upstairs as she nursed Jenny she realised that the Doctor had not come back after storming out because of their argument, surely he would have at least draped a blanket over her if he had? Bouncing Jenny in one arm she checked her phone, this time for missed calls. There were none.

There were none the next day.

Or the next.

Or the next.

In fact Rose waited for nearly two weeks before deciding to call the police and report him missing. It wasn't as if she had forgotten him. No chance of that, her last words to him was a constant irritation in the back of her mind, no matter what she was doing.

Jackie had been great during this time, after popping round a few days after the argument between Rose and the Doctor to find Rose struggling alone with Jenny Jackie had insisted that Rose and Jenny stay with her and Pete for a few days until the Doctor returned, but Rose had refused, insisting she would need to be here when the Doctor returned, because at that point she had been sure he would. So as she typed in the number for the missing person's line, she felt her last glimmer of hope fade away.

"Hello?" a friendly voice answered Rose's call.

"Hi, I'd like to report a missing person." Rose's voice caught on the word missing, the Doctor couldn't be missing.

Could he?