The Doctor looked at the results for the seventeenth time and ran his fingers through his hair, an action that he had done sixteen times. He kept re-running the data, checking each time if he was mistaken, or confused or just stupid. He was seriously considering that he was having some kind of hallucinations, but alas- the thirteenth check had proved that he wasn't.

He looked at Rose's DNA sitting on the screen, an impossible triple helix.

What had she done? He thought to himself. He switched off the monitor, and took off his glasses- sliding them back into his pocket. The fact that Rose's once human DNA had a strand of TARDIS DNA in it, nearly cause him to regenerate the first time. He wracked his brains for how it possibly could have gotten in there. He tried to think of one thousand different reasons or tricks or anything but he eventually came down to the same conclusion each time.

Bad Wolf.

After he had figured it out he felt like hitting himself in the face. He was surprised he hadn't noticed the signs before, even when they were still travelling. Her skin clearing, her hair growing, her ageing process stopped. Plus she shouldn't have been able to hold the vortex in her for that long anyway, three minutes fifty two seconds, with him anyway. Goodness knows how long she had held it in the TARDIS for, she was just a human, the vortex should of burnt her up within a minute maximum, let alone her whole speech about being the Bad Wolf and destroying the daleks ect. He had always been a bit miffed that she didn't remember it, he used a line he had always wanted to use but never got to, 'I think you need a doctor' cheesy, yes, but just fantastic at the same time. And also he wanted her to be proud of herself, she saved so many lives, it was ridiculous.

He got up from his chair in the infirmary, and wandered off to the control room, Rose and the TARDIS gang would be back soon, and he'd have to talk to Rose about her, transformation. He started thinking about how he was going to break it to her, when he felt a nudge in his mind from the TARDIS,

"What is it TARDIS, I'm sort of busy." He whined, stroking the central column. Then he saw a sheet of paper print out of the control panel.

I will explain to the daughter of the vortex, do not worry Time Lord, she will understand. I have seen the time lines, and that is all you need to know.

The Doctor sighed, partly with worry, partly with relief, and folded the paper up and put it in his pocket. Thanks old girl he thought, he felt a small nudge which he assumed meant 'you're welcome' and smiled. He checked his watch for the time, his friends had only been gone about six hours, and they would be back soon. He partly regretted not going with them, because sitting on his own in the TARDIS was absolutely no fun at all. He delved into a box underneath the console, and snickered for a while at the night with Marilyn photo album, and then underneath it he found one of his favourite books. Good old Agatha Christie he thought, and he remembered when he and Donna had met her. He picked up his ancient copy of 'And Then There Were None' the only book she had ever managed to fool him with, and it had been a good one.

He was a few chapters in when his companions came bursting through the doors, lasers striking behind them. He abruptly threw the book down and ran to see if they were okay, but soon found they were all laughing hysterically as soon as the doors were shut.

"Honestly you lot, I can't leave you alone for five minutes!" he said walking over to them "and on Yenkva of all places, what kind of trouble could you possibly have gotten into?" he asked, shocked

"Well," said Jack "it's a long story"

The four of them sat at the kitchen table laughing, as they retold the story to The Doctor, who was also cracking up as well.

"So, wait let me get this right. The prince wanted to marry Donna-" he asked

"Shocker I know," jack interrupted, with a wink

"Oi!" Donna warned giving him a shove

"And she rejected-"

"Well he was pink!" she protested

"And he had three arms" added jenny

"And rejecting a proposal from royalty was considered a felony, so they chased us down. And then on course Jenny knocked out their equivalent of the pope!" Rose finished, giving Jenny a jokingly stern look

"Well what was I supposed to do?! He was getting handsy!" she protested

"Well I guess jack did threaten to shoot him," Donna sympathised, with a laugh

"Well what was I supposed to do?" asked jack through laughs "he was feeling up my woman, any man would threaten him with certain death!"

"What do you mean your woman?" asked The Doctor with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.

Jack and Jenny's faces immediately fell and Donna began to crack up with more laughter.

"Oh relax jack, don't pass out," reassured The Doctor "at least you're 'out' now, as they would say. The tension was getting unbearable"

"Oh you're one to talk doctor! When I was travelling with you and Rose I was having four to five cold showers a week, and that is not healthy!"

"Anyways," jenny interrupted "they sent their like police after us and long story short we've been banished from Yenkva."

"Shame really," Rose sighed "you were right doctor, it was beautiful. Twin sunsets lighting up the sky in shades of green and gold, pink trees dotted around the landscape with golden leaves, pure silver apples hanging off them like forbidden fruit. It was gorgeous."

"Well banned now." Said Donna with a shrug and a laugh.

"Oh well never mind," grinned Jack "sorted whatever 'business' you was attending to doctor?" jack asked

"Well actually yes, Rose the TARDIS would like to erm, tell you something. Down the hall there will be a room where she'll talk to you I'm assuming, keep walking 'till you find it."

Rose eyed The Doctor suspiciously, wondering what could lie behind such a door that the TARDIS herself could only express to her, but she trusted The Doctor and obediently stood up, and walked out of the kitchen. She had just gotten past the door when she heard the doctors voice

"Oh and Rose,"

She backed up a bit, "yes doctor?"

"I'm so sorry."

She nodded warily, and took several sticky steps down the hall before she saw a door, and immediately knew that it was for her. It had a drawing on the front, an intricate drawing of her face, but there was a line through the centre of it. She looked again and on the left side was the drawing of a wolf. Underneath it was a pattern, with circles woven together surrounded by golden light? She immediately recognised it as Gallifreyan, the language of the time lords; it was what was written on the monitor in the control room. The Doctor had always told her that it was the one language that the TARDIS could never translate, and only time lords could read it, but she found the closer she looked, the more sense the strange design made. She blinked and there it was written in front of her, and she could read it, and it said 'Bad Wolf'

She turned the handle gently, and bravely stepped inside, hearing the door shut gently behind her. The room was pure white, with swirls of golden light floating around the air like ghosts, it almost reminded her of the Gelth, floating freely, yet she dodged it as if it were deadly poisonous. She stepped forwards slightly and suddenly a woman came into her vision, a woman with long dark hair in some kind of beehive, with a blue Victorian dress on, although it was dusty and dirty. She turned around and faced Rose and immediately smiled.

"Hello my daughter of time, how are you?" she asked kindly

"Who, who are you?" she asked warily

"well I'm the consciousness of a TARDIS, packed into this little human body, this is a form I've taken- no I'm taking… wait no I will take. Yes, yes I will take this form in the future, bit of a while away but you'll see me, and such fun we had-will have. But that is beside the point, were here because I need to show you something."

Rose studied the woman, and she had no doubt in her mind that this was the TARDIS, because she could feel her presence, so overwhelming she thought she might laugh, or cry, or both. The woman reached for her hand and smiled "come with me" she said. Rose took her hand and followed her through some kind of doorway that appeared out of nowhere. They were transported to a beautiful world that Rose had never seen, but she didn't need to have to know where she was.

"This is Gallifrey" she whispered looking around. The Doctor had explained it to her many times before, but he still had never had been able to catch the astonishing beauty of it all. She thought back to the doctors words that somehow just didn't give the planet justice:

It's beautiful. The sky's a burnt orange, with acitadelenclosed in a mighty glass dome, shining under the twin suns. Beyond that the mountains go on forever, Slopes of deep red grass, capped with snow.

All gone now though Rose. All my family, all of my friends, even that sky. Oh Rose you should've seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south and the mountains would shine, the leaves on the trees were silver, and when they caught the light every morning- it looked like the forest was on fire. It was so beautiful, well beautiful to look at anyway, but what lay underneath the true beauty of the planet was the true ugliness at its core.

Rose looked across at the burnt orange sky, with the eternal mountains stretching into the distance. The TARDIS motioned for her to sit, and they both sat together, cross-legged in the deep red grass. Rose could see why The Doctor had loved his planets exterior so much, it truly was beautiful. But then she noticed something,

"TARDIS?" she asked

"Yes dear?"

"Why is it so silent?"

"Because my little wolf, Gallifrey is gone, and it burnt. Never to be stepped on again. This is a copy, a replica if you will, and I couldn't populate it. Not even I have enough power to fill the city, so it will remain silent, for as long as it stands"

Rose could feel hot tears falling down her cheeks slowly, "the silence, it's so quiet but it's so loud, like its screaming. I can feel it turning, and spinning, like how The Doctor said he could feel the earth revolving, I can feel it here. It makes me dizzy, but I feel as if I am standing still all at the same time. God I can practically feel it burn"

"Yes, it has that effect. But only to someone who can harness the power inside this room, this was your final test wolf, and you passed."

"What? Why did you bring me here?"

"Well, as The Doctor discovered when you went out, your DNA has been… altered. He took a DNA sample of your hair and-"

"He did what?!" Rose yelled "he could've asked me," she mumbled quietly, after seeing that she had startled the TARDIS. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you TARDIS it's just, he could've asked. I've probably been worried just as much as he had since the gunshot thing and, well I thought he trusted me more than that."

"My dear, The Doctor trusts you more than he trusts himself. He was just afraid, that the results would not be to your liking and he panicked. Don't be upset."

"Okay," Rose sniffed "but what were the results?" she asked, now intrigued

"Well, The Doctor ran your DNA and found something. Think back Rose, back to the day at the gamestation, after he sent you home. You and your mother and mickey, you opened my console, and you stared into my heart. You saw what happened to Blon, but you risked it anyway, because that's how much you loved The Doctor, even then. But that's where your memory stops correct?"

Rose nodded, she had wondered what had really happened on that gamestation, because she couldn't remember and The Doctor never mentioned it again. She looked into the TARDIS' golden eyes and the TARDIS transferred the memory to her.

She saw The Doctor surrounded by the daleks, looking up at the emperor.

"Maybe it's time," she heard him say. He closed his eyes, preparing for his extermination, prepared to die. Killer or coward? Coward any day.

Then the noise of the TARDIS materialising filled the room. "ALERT ALERT. TARDIS MATERIALIZING" shrieked one of the daleks

"YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE"

The doors swung open and there stood Rose Tyler, defender of the earth in the doorway, surrounded by golden light. The Doctor shielded his eyes, before looking at her properly.

"what have you done!?" he shouted up at her

"I looked into the TARDIS, and the TARDIS looked into me" Rose could see her eyes glowing gold, as she stood and spoke the words, making them sound like a harmony.

"You looked into the time vortex, Rose; no one's meant to do that!"

"THIS IS THE ABOMINATION" declared the emperor

"EXTERMINATE!" shouted one of the daleks. He went to shoot his laser, and Rose easily deflected it with the palm of her hand. Rose watching snickered slightly at the look on the doctor's face.

"I am the Bad Wolf, I create myself. I take the words; I scatter them in time and space, a message, to lead myself here." The words BAD WOLF scattered from the ceiling and flew off into the unknown.

"Rose you've got to stop this!" The Doctor shouted "you've got to stop this now! You've got the entire vortex running through your head! You're gonna burn!"

"I want you safe. My doctor. Protected from the false god."

"You cannot hurt me I am immortal" called out the emperor

"You are tiny!" Rose shouted "I can see the whole of time and space, ever atom of your existence and I divide them." With a lift of her hand, the daleks began to disintegrate "Everything must come to dust. Al things. Everything dies. The time war ends"

"I WILL NOT DIE, I CANNOT DIE" and then the emperor and his ship perished into golden dust

"Rose you've done it," warned The Doctor "now stop, just let go!" Rose watching felt a small tear on her cheek from the pleading tone in his voice.

"How can I let go of this?" she asked "I bring life"

Then Rose saw Jack gasp back to life, and she gasped. That explained why jack had become immortal, it was her fault the whole time. And The Doctor never even told her! That bastard she thought. Then she heard her northern, big eared time lord shouting, and he sounded afraid.

"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death-"

"But I can." Rose interrupted "the sun and the moon the day and night, but why do they hurt?"

"The powers gonna kill you and it's my fault!"

"But I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be."

Suddenly her doctor sprang to his feet. "But that's what I see, all the time, and doesn't it drive you mad?"

"My head,"

"Come here"

"It's killing me"

"I think you need a doctor" how cheesy Rose thought with a laugh as her doctor took her hands. But then her laughter replaced gasps as she saw her doctor kiss her, and absorb the time vortex before carrying her back to the TARDIS.

When the memory stopped Rose had tears in her eyes. She wasn't sure if they were tears of relief and pride that she had saved so many people from the daleks brutality, or tears of regret that she had caused the doctors regeneration and she had treated him so badly afterwards as well, hardly believing the thin man with great hair that she had fallen in love with was indeed her doctor, accusing him of being a Slitheen of all things. She looked up at the TARDIS, who gave her a reassuring smile.

"So what were all these tests he's done on me for?" she asked, wiping tears from her face, slightly confused.

"Well," said the TARDIS "when you absorbed the vortex The Doctor thought that he had taken it all pit of you. He thought that you were safe but, my daughter of time, you had already changed"

"Changed? What do you mean changed?"

"the time vortex," said the TARDIS sadly "it should've killed you within seconds, but I knew that The Doctor loved you so much, and he probably would've ended up killing himself if you perished due to his influence, your choice or not. So I had to change you, alter your DNA to save you. I inputted a strand of my TARDIS DNA... and Rose I'm so sorry"

"It… it's okay, just a lot to take in. I understand why you did it TARDIS, so don't blame yourself ok? But to what extent have I changed?"

"Well, slight physical alterations, like your hair and skin clearing ect, also you can sort of heal, and avoid death, similar to Jack and your aging has stopped."

"TARDIS how long will I live for?"

"I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I assume as long as I do"

"and how long will you live for?"

"I will surely perish when The Doctor does, when he runs out of regenerations. When he gets himself into trouble one last time."

"and we all die together right?"

"I have seen the future my dear, and it is not pretty. But time can be re-written, and even some fixed points can be altered, cleverly and who is cleverer than out beloved doctor? I think he may come up with a plan, I'm not sure but time is in flux, so there is hope yet. But I fear, if the fixed point is changed too much, it can be very bad."

"like the reapers?"

"worse. Now return bad wolf, back to The Doctor and your friends, for he will worry about you."

"okay TARDIS, thank you."

Rose turned around and began to walk back to the door that would take her into the TARDIS corridor. She wasn't sure if she was going to slap The Doctor or kiss him, for she could surely be with him forever. She was about to leave when she heard the TARDIS whisper behind her as she floated away;

"tell him Rose; tell him that silence will fall."

The words sent shivers down Rose's spine, and she wasn't sure why.