"How could you do this to him!" he asked shaking his head. She shrugged crossing her legs under her from her position on the floor of the TARDIS.

"It was mostly his choice actually." The Doctor laughed. "No I'm serious. I would have been happy out to stay living in the TARDIS. But he decided we should make a base. Park the TARDIS in the front and take off when ever we want, but be able to come home. Have an address. You should have seen the excitement when our first piece of mail arrived. The on coming storm, paying bills." He groaned and leaned back against the controls.

"Rose Tyler what have you done to me." She stood up.

"Nothing. He's not you anymore."

"Ah yes. I've changed." He looked down at himself as if he'd forgotten.

"I'm loving the hair." She laughed.

"I thought I was a girl at first! It was awful. I had no-one to assure me I looked ok, but it was long enough to see that I wasn't ginger. Still not ginger."

"You had no-one? What happened to Donna?"

"I had to send her home. She couldn't handle the Time Lord in her head. I had to wipe her memory. Remove everything."

"She has no memory of travelling with you?"

"Not at all. But I checked on her. she's happy. Married and everything."

"Martha?"

"Oh… Oh I didn't tell you!" he jumped back up.

"What?"

"Martha, married Mickey! Mickey of all people. They're defending the planet together."
"Mickey… married Martha!" Rose repeated

"No word of a lie."

"wow…"

"I know. I think he had a problem." She looked up at him

"A Problem?"

"Yes. Always seemed to fall for the girls that fell for my charms first" he straightened his bowtie.

"Martha had a little thing for you did she?"

"I think so I'm not quite sure. She said something when she was leaving. That she was getting out. Before she spent years pining." Rose smiled sadly.

"And you didn't feel…"

"I didn't even notice she felt…" Rose's smile widened slightly. "I was… I just didn't notice."

"Well in Mickey's defence. He fell for me first."

"But you choose me…" he said quietly crossing his arms his head going down but his eyes stayed on her looking through his hair.

/ / / / /

"It's been an hour. And they've just ignored us!" Amy leaned against the hall wall.

"They're catching up. Give them a while. He'll tell us who she is and what's happening when he's ready." Rory sighed.

"She just storms in here and takes over…" Amy began a rant but Rory cut her off.

"Amy what's the big deal? They're old friends. Just this morning you couldn't wait to find out who she was. Now you want to get rid of her."

"I just… didn't think…"

"You never thought she was a companion did you. You never thought she travelled with him too. You thought you were the first." She looked away from him. "You did."

"He's been in my entire life! Since I was a small girl. I just…"

"He's nine hundred years old! You had to have considered…"

"Why would she leave him if she's so special."

"He'll tell us when they're ready."

"He hasn't even bothered to see where we are and how we crashed into another TARDIS. How there even is another TARDIS!"

"Can't you just let him have this."

/ / / / /

"So two companions. You're doing ok." Rose said following him down a hall.

"Yes. I tried to alone thing for a while but it wasn't really for me. Well this me. The last me handled it for a while. But it wasn't for me. I met Pond when she was seven years old. I meant to come back to her in five minutes but somehow skipped twelve years. Rory's her…" a door swung open and the subject of their discussion came out.

"Right that's enough catching up. Time to tell us what's going on." Amy said looking from one to another. They looked at each other.

"My Name is Rose Tyler. I travelled with the Doctor when I was nineteen until I was twenty one. I was going to spend the rest of my life with him. But I got trapped in a parallel world. After helping him close off the rift between the two worlds. I then spent two years tracking him down jumping from universe to universe for months just trying to find the right timeline, and when I did he ran straight into a dalek and almost died. But he managed to send his regeneration energy into the hand he'd stupidly gotten cut off on his first day in that body and stayed as my doctor. But his companion at the time touched the hand and created a meta-crisis doctor, and a doctor Donna, who saved the day, but the new doctor was responsible for a mass genocide. And this doctor decided he would be better off in the alternative universe with me. What he didn't tell me until he'd already dropped us off on the beach, was that the new Doctor was…" her voice broke. "… human." They didn't lose eye contact. "And I stayed there. With my Doctor. Leaving him to go on alone." A tear slipped down her face. But he was still smiling.

"Yes… I think that's what happened." He said. She laughed and slapped him slightly.

"So you're married… to the doctor?" Rory asked.

"well no…"

"No." they said simultaneously. "I'm married to my doctor." Rose continued.

"What do you call him now?" the doctor asked.

"mom, dad and I still call him Doctor. The rest of the world knows him as John Tyler."

"Tyler?" She grinned.

"Happy coincidence. No relation."

"I understood none of that." Rory said.

"I think I did." Amy said quietly. Not quite sure what she was feeling. There was silence.

"Right Rory, follow me. We need to take a look and find out what brought us to Pete's world." He spun around and ran back to the control room but stopped. "Rose mind Amy." He stopped realising his mistake. "I mean… mind each other!" he ran off again.

/ / / / /

Amy turned and looked at the newest arrival.

"So Amy Pond. You met the doctor when you were seven." Rose crossed her arms and lent back against the wall.

"Yes. But yet I don't seem to know him as well as you do." Amy said.

"I don't know him that well."

"You arrived and suddenly he forgot who we were!"

"I haven't seen him in four years. He was just happy to see me."

"I…I though I was special." Amy said quietly.

"You are! To this doctor. But I was to the last two. I met one of his previous companions before. Sarah Jane. I know exactly how you're feeling right now! Like everything you thought you felt. Thought you knew. Was all a lie." Amy just looked at her. biting her lip. "Sarah Jane didn't even know him with that face but she made me feel like I didn't know him at all. But at the end of the day. He burnt out a sun just to say goodbye to me" she grinned widely remembering. She shook it off. "My doctor was freakishly tall, had big ears, a bald head and wore a leather jacket. Then he grew a mop of hair got crazy thin and wore converse. The man in the bow tie, isn't my doctor. He's yours." Amy smiled at her. "Just. Be careful." She said seriously.

"What?" Now Amy was truly confused.

"Mind your heart. He has a way of getting in there."

"Oh no… Rory and I are married." Rose just smiled.

"Doesn't matter. He can affect you no matter how hard you resist. I married him. Even though he put me through hell! Absolute hell. I was so heart broken I thought I was going to die…" she stopped. "…Just be careful."

"There is no reason for us to be here!" The doctor said coming back over to them. He stopped when he saw the redness of both their eyes. He looked from Amy to Rose. Then back again. "What were you talking about." He said almost panicked.

"Comparing notes." Rose grinned, wiping her cheek.

"there's nothing wrong with the TARDIS. The rift hasn't ripped open. We shouldn't be in this world." The doctor said.

"we'll it's definitely my world. I walked past a billboard with my dad on it to get her." Rose shrugged. "is your time flux continuum meter functioning correctly?" his eyes widened. She walked past him towards the control room and started pulling levers.

"Yes…. Yes it is." He was still stunned. "How did you…"

"I didn't like Donna being the only one knowing how things work around here." She pulled a monitor down towards her. "You got a whole new TARDIS and didn't up to high-def." She shook her head. He looked at her.

"It's working fine."

"This is crazy. It says you're still in your London back in 2011."

"Back in 2011?" Amy asked.

"yes." Rose re-read the screen. "That's what it says."

"No she means you. You said back in…" she looked up.

"Yes."

"It's 2011 now." Rory said walking around to them.

"no it's not it's 2013." Rose said.

"In you're world." The doctor said brushing back his hair. "so we've travelled into your future, after putting in no co-ordinates. Strange…" he looked up at the TARDIS. "This was you sexy wasn't it?"

"Sexy?" Rose looked at Rory.

"That's what he calls her." he shrugged.

"So what's she done now." Rose patted the console.

"she's dragged us to you. This is what I get for having a machine with a mind of her own. She decided I needed to see how you were doing."