Bad Wolf: Return of Gallifrey

Chapter 7: Home

By Dame Rose Tyler

AN: Well I decided to update again, look at that less time between updates, I bet you're all really happy about that huh? Well classes started again and needless to say, it's boring as hell… Although the positive thing is it allows my mind to wonder and actually come up with updates so here it is and enjoy!

~*DRT*~

Recap:

"Right, time to head to the breach and get back to the home universe."

The Tardis lights flashed in delight as Rose jumped up to the console to begin the de-materialization sequence. After a few moments of being throw about the room, the Tardis materialized in the home vortex with a loud bang. Rose smiled, if the Doctors Tardis didn't notice that she'd be worried.

*~On with It~*

Rose smiled as she glanced at the monitor. Right year, right universe and now it was just a matter of the waiting game. Rose set the Tardis to float in the vortex while she set off for some tea.

"Just be sure to let me know when The Doctor decides to grace us with his presence."

The Tardis hummed in affirmation, its column glowing slightly brighter as it began its scan of the surrounding vortex. Rose smiled again before continuing down the hall to her kitchen. Once seated, Rose blew on her tea before taking a long drink. Sighing she sat the cup on the table and began going over some of the documents she had brought with her from Gallifrey in regards to the Tardis. Sighing Rose finished her tea and hopped away from the table.

"It's been long enough, let find the Doctor."

Rose skipped down the corridor, her heart light with happiness and thoughts of the future. The years passed more quickly in this universe compared to Pete's, Rose could almost wonder if the Doctor even remembered or needed her.

Her Tardis hummed with affirmation as it announced the location of the Doctors Tardis. Rose raised her head at the pained pitch in which the Tardis answered her.

"Is something wrong?"

The Tardis let out a weak groan and Rose stopped mid step.

"Seriously, what's wrong?"

The Tardis pitched changed to something more urgent and Rose rushed down the halls into the control room. Grabbing a hold of the monitor she swiveled it towards herself as she imputed the coordinates given to her by the Tardis.

Typing some numbers into the monitor, Rose waited for an answer from the Doctors Tardis. After a few moments Rose was greeted by the image of the Doctors control room.

"Doctor, hello, is anyone there on that side?"

Rose waited for a response, worry encasing her heart. After a few moments she heard the sound of feet scuffling across the floor. A red head with a scared expression came onto the screen.

"Hello?"

Rose smiled, must be a companion she thought.

"Ah, yes hello! Is the Doctor around?"

The red head almost cried for a moment before taking a deep breath to answer.

"He's, I don't know something's wrong with him. The Tardis isin't acting right either, I don't know what to do. He landed us in Cardiff, disappeared into a room no one but him can enter and came out an hour later looking like death its self."

Rose pulled on her ear as thoughts and possibilities rushed through her head. Reaching out to her Tardis Rose asked if there was any way to communicate with the Doctors Tardis from here. After a few moments the monitor flashing with information, Rose's eyes grew wide.

"Oi, what's your name?"

"Donna Noble, is there anything you can do?"

Rose nodded, "I need you to listen to me and do this right away. Go to the door of the Tardis and open it, prop it open with anything and everything you can find. I'll be there soon."

Rose closed the video connection and shook her head, her hands pulling at her hair as she screamed in frustration. It was just like the Doctor to reach a point like this, the point of giving up and he may have very well just killed his Tardis in the process. Rose flew around the controls as the Tardis prepared to materialize in Cardiff.

As Rose's Tardis appear across from the Doctors, Donna came running out. Hat boxes and suit cases piled high in front of the Tardis doors. I it had been any other situation Rose would have laughed, but time was short and she was only slightly sure that her solution would work.

Rose closed the monitor and bounded over to the door, smiling at the shocked face of Donna.

"You're, a Time Lord, or Lady?"

Rose nodded, "You could say that."

Donna smiled, "He always said he was the last of his kind tough, so I don't understand."

Rose reached over and steered Donna in the direction of her own Tardis.

"Listen there will be plenty of time for explaining later, but right now I think you need a good cup of tea while I attend to the universal issue the Doctor has just created. The Tardis will show you to my kitchen. Once I have this sorted I'll come and get you ok?"

Donna nodded and started down the hall, noticing on the way all the similarities between this and the Doctor's Tardis. Rose turned on her heels and made toward the Doctors Tardis, her own mental shields going up against the onslaught of the Tardis' painful cries.

Reaching the center console, rose patted her hand comfortingly on the controls.

"I'm so sorry, so sorry I didn't get here sooner."

The Tardis wheezed as it struggled to hold on. Rose shook her head and made to find the Doctor.

A faint gold glow shot down the hall towards her old room. Rose smiled at the Tardis' last effort to save her Time Lord.

"Don't worry old girl, you can rest now. I'll take care of him now."

With a mournful hum the Tardis grew silent and the last Tardis of this universe passed into the next. Rose shivered as the brief connection was severed, only to jump in fright as the screams of the Doctor filled the halls. Turning toward them, Rose ran down the halls until she came to her old door. Pushing it open the rest of the way, the room dark almost eerie, Rose moved forward into the room scanning for the Doctor. She found him huddled on her bed, his hands pulling at his hair. It was a sight Rose could have done without seeing.

Reaching out Rose touched his cheek, gasping his head shot up, his eyes wild with grief and fear.

"Ro-se?" His voice was hoarse from screaming.

"What have you done Doctor?" Her voice, soft and filled with sympathy.

"How, the Tardis…" He choked on a sob as he turned away from her hand.

Rose sighed and sat on the bed next to him.

"Is dead, I know. Why though Doctor? What happened?" Before the Doctor could answer her a loud crack was heard and Rose sighed.

"Come on Doctor we have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in."

Rose reached out and pulled the Doctor to his feet. Once he was standing Rose grabbed him around the waist and hurried him down the hall and out of the Tardis. Looking back Rose sighed and pulled him into her own Tardis. Knowing that his mind was not functioning properly Rose sent out a message to her Tardis to bond with the Doctor as well. Humming in agreement the Tardis wrapped itself around the Doctors mind.

Rose watched as the Doctors eyes grew wide, his mind still not registering hers, she sighed.

"Come on Doctor, you have a very frightened companion to talk to."

Rose took him down the hall and into the kitchen where they found Donna crying softly holding her tea close to her chest. At the sound of Rose clearing her throat, Donna jumped up and helped her drag the Doctor to a chair.

"Rose, you're really here huh?" Rose nodded.

"Look, explain to Donna what happened. I have some stuff to do."

With that Rose turned back into the hall way, hiding her tears at the other Tardis' death and made her way to the console room.

"I know your young, and this may be difficult considering that you come from different universes, but the Doctor's life is inside that Tardis. Can you handle blending with it?"

The Tardis hummed and told Rose what needed to be done. Rose nodded and grabbed her tools from beside the jump seat. Reaching down she pulled the grates and started her way into the workings of the Tardis. Humming a Gallifreian song, Rose began the tedious chore of combining the Tardis'' an occasional shock from the Tardis and a curse in an alien language the only interruption to its peaceful note.

It was hours later and Rose was covered in grease and wires, cursing at the Tardis to stop man handling her and let her work. That's how the Doctor and Donna found her, trainer clad feet sticking from under the console. The Doctor smiled weakly and grimaced as a shock and a bout of curses came from under them.

"How many times must I ask this, for Pete's sake it's just a simple transfer!"

Donna jumped as the girl flew from under the controls and began working around them flipping switches and controls. Her face and clothes were filthy. The Doctors shock continued as Rose sent out another stream of curses in Gallifreian to the console before smacking it with the hammer.

"Stop fighting me on this! I did the calculations it will work. No, I refuse to listen to this anymore, do as you're told."

The Doctor and Donna walked up the ramp and sat on the jump seat to watch Rose continued argument with the Tardis.

"Doctor, who is she? Is she one of your people?"

The Doctor turned to Donna and smiled weakly.

"Honestly Donna, this is all impossible. I should be dead, as the Tardis is now. As for this Tardis and this Time Lady that looks like Rose I have no clue."

Donna nodded and watched the girl spin some knobs before turning to the monitor. Her face serious as she pulled on her ear, after a moment she sighed and ran her hand through her hair.

Lifting her eyes from the monitor, Rose jumped at the sight of the Doctor and Donna watching her.

"Oh, um, hello, didn't see you there." Rose wiggled her fingers in a little wave before bounding over to stand in front of them.

"Sorry I didn't introduce myself sooner Donna. I'm Rose Tyler, or as I'm known in the other universe as The Doctor." Rose winked at the Doctor, who smiled in return.

"I'm sure yourself and the Doctor here has a ton of questions for me, but right now I need you Donna to go off into a room while the Doctor here helps me combine the Tardis'."

"Is my room in the other Tardis included in this transfer?" Rose nodded to Donna before shoeing her off towards the inner parts of the Tardis. Turning back to the Doctor she smiled and waved him over to the controls.

"You know Rose, I actually have no clue what you're doing?"

"Ah, so the mighty Time Lords is stumped huh?" Rose smirked and pointed to some controls.

"Just turn those when the Tardis tells you too and we should be good from there. I'm simply condensing your Tardis contents and re-expanding them in mine."

The Doctor nodded and waited for the cue from the Tardis to turn the controls. He watched Rose in amazement as she bounced around the controls, much like he once did and sighed. He had no home now and the thought was in its self painful. Rose looked up from her workings and glared at the Doctor.

"You know whether or not you can hear me, I can hear your thoughts clear as day. Stop thinking like that or I'll give you a smack worthy of my mother!"

The Doctor startled at her admissions nodded his head, blushing at the situation.

"Thank you; now turn your controls before this all blows up in my face."

The Doctor turned the controls and watched as the area warped slightly before noticing his coat hanging on the rail where he left it.

"It worked!"

Rose smiled, "Of course it did, I was top of my class thank you very much."

After a few minutes of silence a scream of 'my room', echoed through the halls. Rose and the Doctor laughed at Donna's excitement.

"We'll I guess Donna's got everything she wants. I guess its time for us to talk now huh?"

The Doctor glanced at Rose and nodded.

"Yeah, I think we should. It might help my scrambled brain grasp what's going on a little better."

Rose nodded, "K, meet me in the garden. I need to go change my clothes are basically toasted from all the re-routing I had to do."

The Doctor smiled and turned down the hall. His feet were heavy with greif, but his hearts felt so light. It was confusing when he really thought about it. His Tardis was dead, his home gone and for some reason it was all worth it to have Rose back. The amount of questions he wanted to ask Rose seemed almost never ending in his mind.

Reaching towards the door that would be the garden, the Doctor noticed a note taped to it.

"Hmm, I wonder what this is." Curiosity getting the better of him, the Doctor reached up and took the note. Unfolding it, the first thing the Doctor noticed was the seal of Gallifrey. Shocked and even further interest showed on his face as he began to read the note. When he was done, the paper drifted from his hands as he reached forward and ripped the door open. Stepping in side, the Doctor fell to his knees. It wasn't possible, he had seen it himself. This all of this should not be here.

Crawling forward he leaned against the silver leafed tree and put his head in his hands. It was impossible, and like so many things Rose continued to prove him wrong.

~8~8~

Wow, so this chapter kind of took on a life of its own, six pages of Glorious Doctor Who. I decided it was best to end it here before you all ended up with a twenty page chapter. The next chapter will be what Rose is doing. So it will more than likely be kind of short. When it gets to the chapter after that though, we get to the actual reunion. Rose isn't exactly going to tell him everything right away though. *Wink*

~*DRT*~