Rose and The Doctor where strolling through the giant hypermarket planet, literally a planet full of shops, because Rose wanted to do something normal for once.
"wWhat could you possibly shop for, the TARDIS can provide for us Rose, shopping is so boring" The Doctor whined, as she dragged him from store to store, blaming himself for giving her an unlimited credit stick
"Oh shut it doctor, I'm a girl and I'm a human, we shop that's what we do. So quit your whining and tell me which dress you prefer."
To The Doctor, both dresses looked pretty much the same, and he was just imagining taking them off of Rose's body, not really what they would look like on. "I don't know, I'm rubbish at these things, can't we wait until Donna comes back, she's good at this kind of thing." said The Doctor, as he rubbed his eyes.
"We can go on another shopping trip when Donna gets back as well! Thanks for the idea doctor" Rose beamed as she decided on the dress in her left hand, and went into the changing room to try it on.
"Lord help me," The Doctor mumbled before standing up "Rose I'm just going to go across the road, and pick up some parts for the TARDIS, I won't be long, wait for me here." He called
"Okay," she called back "try not to cause an international incident!"
"Yes mother." The Doctor mocked as he sauntered out the shops. Rose felt a slight twinge in her heart for her own mother, but quickly pushed it aside, focusing on the dress. She really needed a second opinion so she stepped outside, and quickly noticed a nice looking guy with a big nose and sandy blonde hair.
"Hi excuse me, you don't mind telling me what you think of this dress do you?" Rose asked the stranger
"Oh hello Rose," said the boy
"I'm sorry who are you? Do I know you?" Rose asked
"It's me, Rory?"
"Sorry, I don't know a Rory" Rose said, confused at the looks Rory was giving her
Suddenly, a man in a bowtie with impossibly high cheekbones and floppy hair came round the corner. "Rory, Rose, there you are" he called
"I'm sorry do I know you as well?" Rose asked the man. She was unaware that this was the future doctor.
"Hold on a minuet, I recognise that dress, crap. Rory come on, Rose hasn't met us yet, not another word. See you soon love" he said as he winked at Rose
"But do-" said Rory before The Doctor cut him off,
"Not another word Rory. Nice seeing you Rose Tyler, you look beautiful in that dress by the way" and with that the two men were gone, leaving Rose as confused as ever. She quickly got changed back into her clothes and left the changing room, wondering who the strangers could be.
Soon enough her doctor walked back into the shop, with a bag full of bits of metal. "Alright can we go back to the TARDIS now?" he pleaded. Rose just smiled and nodded, deciding not to tell him about the two handsome strangers she had encountered from her apparent future, foreknowledge was dangerous, especially to The Doctor so it would probably be better for everyone if she just kept her mouth shut.
They strolled back to the TARDIS hand in hand, playing 'guess the alien' - a game Rose had invented to keep her memory of different species she had encountered. Seeing them not trying to destroy her or The Doctor was quite refreshing, to be honest. They were all just milling about, doing their shopping, and generally being normal when she first started travelling with The Doctor, she earned that not all aliens were hostile, and some were pretty much like odd looking humans. Not all were born to hate.
She looked fondly at The Doctor, the most un-hostile alien she would ever know, so kind and compassionate and full of love, and love for her? She thanked her lucky stars, she was so different than she used to be, back on earth. And she was happy. But then words from her mother rang in her ears,
"They're'll be this woman, this strange woman walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. But she's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human."
Rose realised how true the saying had come to be, she was barely Rose Tyler anymore and she was on in a market a billon miles from earth. Rose really missed her mother, but she daren't say anything, because The Doctor already felt guilty enough, and Rose's job was to protect The Doctor, to protect him at all costs, she could handle the pain if she got to see him smile. She thought back to Reinette's wise words, as she wandered onto that 52nd century spacecraft, one may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel, and Reinette was right, The Doctor was an angel.
Rose pushed all of the sad thoughts to the back of her mind, and focused on having a good time. The Doctor and Rose Tyler, in the TARDIS, as they should be, travelling the universe safe because they had each other. She knew The Doctor would always keep her safe, never breaking the promise he made to Jackie Tyler.
They made it back to the TARDIS and Rose ran off into the room her and The Doctor now shared, to put away all of her new clothes. She knew the TARDIS could offer her any outfit she could ever desire, but it was nice to just have a shop, to hang onto that little bit of earth, and that little bit of her human life. She quickly dumped the bags, knowing the TARDIS would sort everything out for her. She skipped into the control room, where The Doctor was piloting them to their next destination.
"So where are we going then?" she asked excitedly
"Well I was thinking Barcelona, I still haven't taken you there. Dogs with no noses and all tha-" The Doctor was interrupted by a loud crash and the TARDIS threw Rose and The Doctor through the control room.
"Doctor! What's she doing?" Rose shouted
"I have no idea! Hold on!" The Doctor shouted as the TARDIS threw him over the railings. After about two minuets the TARDIS stopped, and Rose and The Doctor where lying on the floor together, laughing their heads off. Rose was rubbing her bum, as her tattoo was still a bit sore,
"I thought I gave you cream to remove that?" The Doctor asked, gesturing to her backside.
"Well, I thought about it but I decided I don't really mind it, nice touch" she said with a grin, The Doctor just laughed and then ran up to check the monitor.
"Where are we then?" Rose asked "and why was the TARDIS so eager for us to get here?"
"We appear to be on Chamara X3 goodness knows why."
"Well what's on Chamara X3 then?" Rose asked
"Well, it used to be a beautiful planet, very peaceful. Then there was a big rebellion, lots of people being forced into slavery, monarchy all messed up, planet wrecked. That kind of thing."
"That's so sad,"
"Yeah, well once we find what the TARDIS wanted us to look for maybe I'll take you to the old Chamara X3, there used to be a lovely restaurant there"
"Ooh like a date doctor, since when were you so domestic" Rose joked
"Oh only since a certain pink and yellow human came running into my life in department store basement, goodness knows why." He joked back, before grabbing her hand and taking her out of the door.
Rose gasped, the streets were very baron and red and dusty, and the few people outside where dirty and sad looking, with the red dust rubbed into their skin, giving them a brown tinge on their depressed faces.
"They look so sad," Rose began to say before realising The Doctor was looking around peculiarly.
"What is it Doctor?" she asked confusedly, trying to see what he saw.
"It's just, time lords we have extra senses, especially towards each other. It's like I can sense another time lord here. But not a time lord, like a half being, very faint, but I can smell it. Whoever or whatever they are, they're close. Come on!" he grabbed Rose's hand and they ran into the direction where the scent was strongest. They came to a halt outside a slightly ruined palace, shrouded in red dust, but still with guards outside, showing it was occupied. "They're in there, I can feel them" said The Doctor, gesturing to the palace. He soniced the gate and began to enter, but two guards quickly stopped them.
"Halt! How and why did you get in through the gates?"
"Oh well, actually very good reason," the doctor began so say, as he felt around his jacket for the pychic paper, before realising he had left it in the TARDIS.
"Which would be…?"
"Well we just got a bit lost, thought we'd ask for some directions." The Doctor tried. The guards stony expression gave him all the answers he needed.
"I'm taking you to the Queen, she'll know what to do with you." He said gruffly, before prodding Rose and The Doctor in the back with a sharp spear like object.
"Alright, easy there spearboy," said Rose "I've got a fresh tattoo you know" she winked at The Doctor who laughed.
They walked through some corridors that looked very regal, if a bit dusty and dirty, until they reached a door with a crown on it,
"In here" said the guard, he pushed open the doors and The Doctor nearly passed out, sitting on the throne, in a long regal golden dress was a very familiar blonde; a very familiar blonde, with a dimple on her cheek as she gave The Doctor a massive smile and said "hello dad" earning some confused looks from Rose.
"Jenny?" The Doctor finally managed to spit out after minuets of silence.
"Dad?" Rose asked confusedly, staring at The Doctor.
"Guards I've got these two sorted, you can go" said jenny ushering the guards out. Once they were gone jenny stood up and embraced her father.
After about a minuet, The Doctor remembered Rose was still there, "Rose this is my daughter jenny"
"Nice to meet you jenny but doctor, I thought you said your family was lost in the time war"
"I had jenny after the time war, more recently really, Donna was with me."
"Oh... so who's her mother?" Rose asked awkwardly, scared she had been truly replaced by someone, and The Doctor had been apart from her for longer than he'd hinted. The Doctor quickly caught onto what Rose was implying and smiled at her reassuringly,
"No, I didn't have her like that," he said, Rose looked up,
"Well how then?" she asked
"Well, I was with Martha and Donna, and the TARDIS sensed another timelord," he gestured to jenny "but we landed too early, causing her creation in the first place, a paradox. We were on Messaline, a planet at war, human versus hath and they loomed new humans to fight like soldiers, generations of them and all they knew was battle. When we landed I was forced, at gunpoint I might add, to put my arm in the machine where it took my DNA and created Jenny, who was a 'generated anomaly' donna then names her jenny because of that." Rose was nodding happily now, understanding The Doctor didn't replace her. He smiled at her for a bit, before turning back to jenny,
"But when we stopped the war finally, the general tried to shoot me, jenny got in the way ,the final casualty of the war. But jenny that's exactly what you were, a casualty, a martyr even. You died so how are you here? And why here of all places may I ask?"
Jenny just smiled "well you didn't stick around for very long, because I woke up to see Cline and a Hath staring over at me I kind of just came back to life, lots of golden glowing stuff. And then, about ten minuets later I realised I didn't want to become a regular citizen of the new Messaline, I wasn't even human! So I stole a ship, and went around saving civilizations and all that other stuff you do. But my ship crashed here about seven months ago so using some hallucinogenic lipstick I borrowed off of a... friend. I managed to convince everyone I was queen. Like a perception filter sort of, and I've been working like undercover trying to free the slaves."
The doc tor beamed and hugged jenny again, she had come so far since Messaline, back when she was just a soldier. She was so humble and compassionate now. "That's my girl" he said proudly "anyway jenny, this is Rose my… I don't know what do I call you Rose? I told Marilyn you were my girlfriend, but I don't know it doesn't sound right. Your more than that I guess…" The Doctor trailed off, before Rose elbowed him, and he looked up at jenny whom of which was beginning to look a bit uncomfortable. Meeting the step mother, not something she was exactly prepared for when she woke up this morning.
"Jenny, this is my Rose," The Doctor finally decided with a smile, as jenny politely shook her hand. "now, I believe we have a government to bring down."