A/N: Happy New Year! Sorry I was gone for so long, but the holidays were a joy (sighs in sarcasm). Good news, I have the next five chapters wrote out, and another four mapped out. I just have to get them in the computer and proofread them, so updates should be like every other day or so for awhile. Anyways, hope you all enjoy my efforts, let me know what you think. Thanks to all of you who have been reading this, and special thanks to everyone who has reviewed it, love you guys! Until next time good reading!

Chapter 6: Truth

There is no limit to investigating the truth, until you discover it. - Cicero

The Doctor is running after Rose, but stops dead still as he sees her run into another blue police box. "How? What?" he asks himself as turns to stare back in confinement at the way he had just came. The direction in which his TARDIS was parked, running a hand thru his unruly brown hair, his brown eyes turn once again to the blue box in front of him. Walking slowly up to it, he looks it over from top to bottom, before hesitatingly reaching out a hand toward it. He feels the familiar hum of the TARDIS, looking around the Doctor thinks "I've never parked the TARDIS here before when I was with Rose." Shaking his head in confusion, he reaches out and pushes the door open, and steps into another time machine. The Doctor stops and gasps in shock at the sight of Rose in the arms of his former self!

"Who are you?" the Northern voice demanded.

"Oh hell!" is the only thing the Doctor could think to say in response.

"Who are you?" The leather clad Doctor asked again, taking an aggressive stance in front of Rose.

"No...no...no... this is not good, well when I say not good I mean very very bad. Bad...bad...bad..." the brown eyed Doctor mumbles to himself. "Well can't be to bad no reapers, well not yet at least." he starts pacing back and forth on the entrance ramp inside the control room. "Just a small paradox then, nothing I can't handle. Welllll... nothing I hope I can't handle, but then again two of us, should be alright. Well maybe not alright, but hopefully not the end of the world." he pauses in mid ramble to glance up at Rose and his counterpart. "I don't remember this, must have blocked the memory. Rose you never told me this had happened! But... if now that it has happened... why can't I still remember it?"

"Oi! Would you stop wittering on?!" The blue eyed Doctor demanded in an annoyed voice with a hint of anger "Tell me who you are, and how did you get on board? And I want the truth!"

The brown eyed Doctor scrubbed a hand over his face before answering "Oh right... yeah sorry... I'm you! Well the next you, you know tenth body and all."

"You've got to be kidding me!" The blue eyed Doctor said as he moved away from Rose and headed toward the brown suited Doctor. "Bit pretty, this regeneration then, huh? And you never shut up do you?"

"Hey now! That your future self you're talking about."

"At least the ears are smaller."

"Yep!"

"Still not ginger though."

"I know! Never do get ginger do we."

"Nope!"

"Got new teeth to, see?" the brown eyed Doctor said as he smiled a hundred watt smile to show off his teeth.

The two Doctors stood back and stared at each other in silence.

Finally the leather clad Doctor asked "What are you doing here?"

"Truthfully... I don't know there was this distortion in time, the TARDIS detected it, and went crazy. She powered herself up, and flew straight thru it. I couldn't stop her! She's pretty much destroyed herself getting me here. It's going to take weeks to put her back to right" the pinstriped Doctor replied.

"You said time distortion, what kind of distortion?"

"A transient fissure."

"Really?"

"Yep!"

"Doctor?" Rose broke in hesitantly.

"What?" both Doctors answered at the same time turning towards her.

"Ummmm...Doctor, what's going on? Who is he?" Rose asked.

"It's okay Rose." the leather clad Doctor said moving back to stand beside her. His blue eyes glowed with affection as he looked down at his companion "Remember when I told you that I could regenerate if I was fatally wounded?"

Rose nodded yes, even as she nervously took hold of his hand. The Doctor squeezed her hand gently, giving her a small smile of comfort as his other hand motions toward the other man "Apparently this is me, in my next body."

Rose leaned into her Doctor and asked "So... he's you? But from the future?

"Yes." Her Doctor replied.

"Wait... that's not right." The brown eyed Doctor interrupted "I never told Rose about regeneration..." looking up at his former self with wide startled brown eyes "until after I had regenerated into this body." he finished quietly.

"No, the Doctor told me about regeneration after...well, almost four years ago actually." Rose said from her position by the blue eyed Doctor.

The brown eyed Doctor strode up to stand in front of them and looking directly at Rose "You didn't find out that I could regenerate, until two years ago when I died, and regenerated on Satellite 5" he stated calmly.

"The game station?" Rose asks in bewilderment.

The blue eyed Doctor glanced down at Rose and then back at the other Doctor and declared in cunfusement "I didn't regenerate on Satellite 5."

"Yes, we did!"

"No I didn't, and that was four years ago, not two." the blue eyed Doctor maintained firmly.

"You didn't regenerate? But... but...that means...but that's not possible...what if it is...ohhhh that could be good...strange but very very good..." the brown eyed Doctor rambled on.

"Likes to talk just a bit, don't he?" Rose asked looking up at her Doctor.

The blue eyed Doctor turned his manic smile down at her "Just a bit thick in my next body I'm thinking. Since he's still wittering on, and I've already got the answer!"

"Parallel Earth!" shouts the brown eyed Doctor in triumph, as the truth finally dawns on him.