"And what about you Dame Rose? You are so young and innocent, yet you look as if you have the world placed upon your shoulders, that you have seen all the horrors of the world. What are you really Dame Rose?"

"Who was he?" Martha asked.

"Doctor"

"Doctor Who?"

"Just the Doctor, my Doctor"

"He was…your lover?"

"No, no we weren't like that"

"But you wanted to be?"

"Oh yes"

"Everything has it's time. Everything turns to dust; you know that better than anyone Bad Wolf"

"She is as fantastic as she seems" Timothy spoke up. "she is fierce and loyal, a true pack member, an alpha. She is like fire and ice, she is life and death, the sun and the moon…she is literally everything Rose Tyler shop girl and Bad Wolf"

"You weren't the only one who got affected by my actions that day. The Doctor…he kissed it out of me and it killed him, he had to regenerate, you would have loved the next incarnation of him, cheeky, handsome, fun…he was more alive." Rose sighed. "and me? I mutated…slowly. My DNA slowly altered itself until I became like the Doctor, all because I looked into that power."

"Can't you hear it? The drumming, you've looked into power like I had as a child…WHY CAN'T YOU HEAR THE DRUMS?"

"So now that I can no longer offer you time and space you want nothing to do with me?" the Doctor snarled.

"It's not that" Rose whispered. "you are the man who I fell in love with. The man who held my hand in that basement and told me to run, the man who took me to the end of the world, the man who gaped at me when I wore a dress, the man who blew number 10 Downing Street, the man who held me after my father died, the man who did everything he could to keep me safe"

He opened his mouth but she held a hand up to gesture him to not interrupt him.

"But you have the face of a man who broke my heart again and again" she said tearfully "you have the face of a man who took me to New Earth where we got possessed by Cassandra, the face of a man who took me to meet Queen Victoria only to get us banished and Torchwood set up, the face of ta man who introduced me to Sarah Jane, the face of a man who left me for Madam De Pompadour, the face of a man who is gone forever, trapped in the parallel world with my Mum and Mickey"

"The system was too badly damaged. She's just atoms, Jack. An echo with the ghost of consciousness," Rose said quietly watching him carefully. "She's stardust,"

"Even the person Rose is false" Evelina said stepping forwards. "your real self is hidden; it burns in the Medusa Cascade itself. You are not a lady nor queen my lady but you...you are a goddess of time. The Big Bad Wolf"

"I think your song must end soon" the Ood said.

Rose frowned. "Meaning?"

"Every song must end"

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump.

"I burn...I burn in the Medusa Cascade. I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be"

"Rose please let it go!" the Doctor pleaded.

"I am so tired" Rose whispered. "I am so...very tired"

And then there was something moving in the shadows...time ends in darkness...four knocks....a laugh. The darkness, the never ending darkness.

"No human will rule over us"

"DOCTOR!"

Rose shot up, her hair making a golden shield before her face, her legs tangled in her sheets that have been kicked off the mattress, sweat unnaturally dribbling down her normally cool skin, her breath coming out in harsh pants and her eyes wild. The door burst open and the Doctor and Donna came stumbling in on another.

"What is it? What happened?" Donna demanded.

Rose shook her head. "Nothing" she said unconvincingly. "Just a dream...a very strange dream"

"Oh is that it" Donna said rolling her eyes. "I'm going back to bed. First night I felt tired in months and I actually go to sleep to get woken up by strange dreams; you better not wake me up early in the morning"

The Doctor remained; he was wearing his brown suit, without the jacket and his shirt sleeves rolled up. Obviously he didn't feel the exhaustion Donna and Rose felt and decided to work on the console for the night.

"Rose?"

She smiled up at him. "I'm fine" she stressed out. "Go back to your fiddling, I'm going to get some water and then some more sleep"

She walked past him towards her bathroom when he grabbed hold of her arm. "Rose...you know you can talk to me...about anything..."

She smiled again. "I know" she kissed his cheek. "Thank you" she said before walking away from him.

The lights switched on automatically when she entered; she picked up a nearby glass and turned the tap on. She looked up at her reflection and automatically dropped the glass, it smashed and little cuts formed on her hands.

Her eyes...for a moment....were pure gold....

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"I want to go to Mars"

The Doctor looked up from his banana and stared at Donna who was smartly dressed, hair done to perfection and sipping her coffee. "Huh?"

"Mars" Donna stressed. "You know the Red Planet. I want to see it before it gets turned into a ranch or a new Las Vegas"

"Huh?"

"Donna has been watching Futurama reruns recently" Rose said in a bored tone not looking up from her book she was reading. "She decided she wants to see Mars before Humans ruined it"

"Donna I can safely tell you that everything you saw in that cartoon is fictional" the Doctor said trying to not laugh.

"Don't laugh at me Space-Boy!" Donna snapped. "I want to see Mars and we need a distraction....i mean some fun, we haven't had any innocent fun in ages"

Both the Doctor and Donna glanced at Rose who continued reading, unbothered at Donna's almost slip. It irritated Donna to no end that even though the three of them were good friends there was a silent understanding that no one will share anything that was truly bothering them. There were too many secrets and pretending games going on.

And she blamed it on the Doctor.

She knew from Rose that he never really told people anything. Never truly opens up. Rose loved him and didn't want to push him. Donna cared for him and is so impatient that she'll throttle it out if she had too. Before the Doctor came back Rose was rather open about herself but now she was looking over her shoulder and taking the Doctor's habit of pretending everything is fine.

Probably because the one person she really needs to open up to is the one person she can't risk opening up to.

So called unwanted love and broken hearts are a real pain.

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"The Red Planet" the Doctor said proudly opening the TARDIS doors to show barren red dusty wasteland. Beautiful and bare all at the same time. "So what do you think?"

"I look hideous!" Donna squawked as she smoothed out a bright orange spacesuit, so she had no creases. "Why the hell do I have to wear this hobo suit?"

"Because there is no oxygen on Mars and you wanted proper Mars with no Human interference" Rose said calmly. "Besides, we all have to wear them as well so no complaining"

"Exactly how did you manage to get another two of these in the first place?" the Doctor asked. "I know we had one left over from our....Ood adventure...."

Rose grimaced. "Don't ask, I really rather not talk about it at all"

"All right" the Doctor mumbled he then noticed that Donna had walked ahead. "Oi! Wait for us!" he yelled grabbing Rose's hand and running after Donna.

"Well hurry it up, you slowpokes" Donna yelled back. Rose laughed and caught up with the Doctor's speed, eventually they caught up with Donna and the Doctor began to tell outrages stories of his adventures on Mars long before he had ever met Rose. They reached some dusty reddish brown boulders and began to climb up, once they reached the top Donna's mouth dropped open. "Oi, Space-Boy! I thought I said Mars without Human interference, what the hell do you call that?"

"Oh, beautiful" the Doctor said unbothered by Donna's anger.

There stood a space station of sorts fixed to the ground. While it was a dull grey colour the mere architecture was beautiful, something that Donna would only dream of seeing in the latest Sci-fi show though secretly she hoped the inside was nothing like Messaline, she didn't want Rose to re-live those memories of John Tyler. Because there connected to a tunnel was a rocket, just like in Messaline and if this colony was like Messaline then Donna is keeping her gloves on, she was not ready to have any mini-me's walking around the universe, not with the Doctor's influence around, they'll be neurotic in no time at all.

Before Donna could open her mouth to make a snarky comment, she felt something press into her back and let out a squeal. "Hands up" a robotic voice said the three of them held their arms up. "Turn around, slowly" they did so to see a small white robot with only one eye piece, holding a large silver gun. "You are under arrest for trespassing. Gadget, gadget"

"Oh you are kidding me" Donna groaned.

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"State your name, rank and intention"

Donna, Rose and the Doctor widened their eyes at the gun the middle-aged blonde in olive green and black welded.

"The Doctor"

"Rose Marion Tyler"

"Donna Noble"

"Doctor"

"Shop Girl"

"Temp"

"Fun" they finished off together.

Both Donna and the Doctor turned round to face Rose, ignoring the door being thrown open as someone ran in. "You're not a shop girl" Donna said. "I think I would know since the day I met you, you had no job and lived in a blue box"

"Rose, you're never just a shop girl, besides didn't I blow up your job?"

"You could cut the chat" the blonde holding the gun said coldly.

"Oh but I like chat, nothing like a good chat" Rose enthused. "We could start with that gun pointing at my friend's head, mind putting it down? Because seriously he has a gorgeous face and amazingly great hair and I don't want to lose that, do you want to lose something as handsome like that?"

The Doctor blushed and Donna snorted. "Only you Rose, only you"

"Oh you would like that wouldn't you?" the blonde said. "Why should I trust you three?"

"Because I will give you my word and being forty million miles away from home, my word is all you got" the Doctor said calmly.

After a brief staring competition the woman put her gun away. "Put Gadget on him" she commanded a man with brown hair, pale skin and dressed in white padding that probably helped him control the robot.

"Gadget, gadget" the robot said as the man nodded.

Rose began to whistle a tune that caused the Doctor (who looked like he was going to make a rude comment) to laugh, Donna looked confused and irritated. "Rose" she hissed. "This isn't the time to start whistling"

"Sorry Donna....but Gadget" she grinned.

"And?"

"Inspector Gadget" Rose and The Doctor chorused.

"Ooh, very funny" Donna said sarcastically rolling her eyes.

"Enough horseplay" the blonde snapped.

"Excuse me boss" a woman's voice echoed in the room, the blonde pulled out a black device that looked like a modern version of a walkie talkie. "Computer log says we have extra people on site, three in fact, how is that possible?"

"Keep the bio-dome close and when using open comms call me Captain" the blonde said sternly.

"Yeah but who are they?"

The blonde pressed a button on the device and shoved it into her pocket ignoring the woman's question. "How rude" Donna muttered.

"Like you wouldn't have done the same thing" Rose mumbled back.

"Look this lot can't be a world state flyer because we would know about it" a middle aged man with a growly American accent said stalking around the blonde and beginning to circle round the trio. "So they got to be one of those independents, yeah? Was it the Branson Heritance lot? They've been talking about a Mars shop for years"

"Right, yes, you got me" the Doctor said whirling round, hands going behind his back as he leant forwards to the man. "I'm the Doctor and you are?"

"Oh come on, we're the first off world colonist in history" the blonde said rolling her eyes. "Everyone on the planet Earth knows who we are"

"You're the first..." Rose whispered shocked.

"The first humans on Mars" the Doctor said looking at the group wildly. "Then this is Bowie Base One. Number one founded first July 2058, establish Bowie Base One in the Joseph Crater" Rose blinked as she could see a web page before her, something the TARDIS showed her a long time ago. It was like on of those BBC news pages announcing the news of Bowie Base One being established. "And you've been running for how long?"

"Seventeen months"

"2059. it's 2059 right now" a web page appeared in Rose's mind, of a young blonde woman in military uniform. Captain Adelaide Brooke. "ARRGH!" the Doctor yelled causing Donna to jump as he ran his hands through his hair and then held his arms out wide to Adelaide. "My head is so stupid, you're Captain Adelaide Brooke" the web page zoomed in Rose's mind, she died 2059. "And Ed!" the Doctor turned to face the American that had circled them before. "You're Deputy Edward Gold" another web page, died 2059. The Doctor turned to the brown skinned man with black hair that went to his chin like a bob, the man that ran in while they were being interrogated. "Tarak Ital, MD" died 2059. He turned to another brown haired man with blue eyes and pointed at him. "Nurse Yuri Kerenski" the man smiled, his eyes sparkling, he also died in 2059, and Rose was sensing a pattern. "Senior Technician Steffi Ehrlich" he pointed to a mousy brown haired girl with a ponytail. As she suspected, Steffi also died in 2059, the Doctor whirled round to face Gadget's owner. "Junior Technician Roman Groom" he was so young, Rose thought sadly, only twenty five and he dies in 2059 just like the rest of his crew. The Doctor turned to an Asian woman. "Geologist Mia Bennett...you're only twenty seven years old" he finished off sadly.

Mia frowned. "As I said Doctor everyone knows our names" Adelaide said slowly.

"Oh...they'll never forget them" the Doctor croaked, Rose head began to ache as she saw an explosion in her mind. "What's the date today? What is it? The exact date?"

"November the twenty first 2059" Adelaide answered. Mars Disaster, the web page screamed, nuclear explosion, November the twenty first, 2059.

"Oh god" Rose murmured, her knees caving in causing Donna to grab hold of her elbow and holding her up.

"Rose?" she asked concerned.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Steffi asked slowly.

"What's so important about my age?" Mia asked.

"We should go" Rose said firmly. The Doctor met her gaze, his was equally pained as hers, he knew just as well as she did what was going to happen. "Right now"

The Doctor nodded and took Rose's hand, dragging her and Donna who was still clinging to Rose's elbow; he turned round to face the crew. "I'm sorry, I really am, from the bottom of my hearts but it's one of those very rare times were I got no choice. It's been an honour" he let go of Rose's hand and began to shake Yuri's hand. "Seriously a very great honour to meet you all" he said shaking Mia's hand and then moving on quickly to Steffi. "The Martian Pioneers" he said shaking Tarak's and Ed's hands before moving to Roman, who held his metal gloved hands up to avoid being touched, the Doctor settled with patting Gadget.

"Gadget, gadget"

The Doctor saluted Adelaide. "Thank you" Adelaide merely raised her eyebrows and watched him walk back to Rose and Donna. "There's the other two, hold on, Margret Cain and Andrew Stone" Rose fought back the web page images that flew to the forefront of her mind, Ed grinning went to his computer and pressed a button.

"Maggie" he said, "if you want to meet the only humans you'll be seeing in the next fives years you might want to take a look"

Instead of the cheerful female voice they heard earlier there was a sinister growling sound coming through the comm system. Everyone exchanged surprised and fearful looks. "What was that?" Mia asked.

Everyone scattered to their stations. "Oh we really should go" the Doctor murmured, Rose nodded but she couldn't bring herself to walk out of that door. The crew began to attempt to look into the bio-dome to find out what was going on, the internal cameras weren't working and from the exterior they could see the lights going out.

"I'm going over" Adelaide announced. "Doctor with me, your co-workers can stay here"

The Doctor ran over to grab his and the girls' spacesuits. "I'm sorry, I loved to help but I really need to be going"

"Lock their spacesuits up" Adelaide ordered Steffi who silently left to obey the order. "This started when you three arrived so you're not going anywhere, apart from you Doctor, you're coming with me"

"Great so that means we're hostages" Donna grumbled flinging herself on a chair. "Well then I demand to have a coffee, a magazine and some decent conversation, preferably an explanation from Rose"

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Ignoring the chaos around them, knowing full well the Doctor can take care of himself and the people around him, Donna dragged Rose to a corner. "All right, what's going on? Why are you and the Doctor peachy keen to get out of this place? First ever Human Colony on Mars? Sounds right up your street and yet you're acting like Granddad in a gym....eager to escape"

"Peachy keen?" Rose raised an eyebrow.

"Oh shut up, you've said weirder things" Donna growled. "And don't think you're getting away with not telling me what's wrong. Is it John?"

Rose blinked at her in surprise. "No" she said biting her lip. "I haven't thought about him in a while....how bad is that? I was his mother and...." she shook her head, trying to shake off the pain and grief and sadness and guilt. "What made you think it was John?"

"This place looks a lot like that base on Messaline" Donna mumbled.

"Yeah, well, the Doctor doesn't even know that John exists" Rose said hastily. "And he's been acting all shifty and that, so it's definitely not John that's making us want to leave"

"Well then why?" Donna asked impatiently, gritting her teeth in sheer frustration. "Why is it so important that Mia Bennett is twenty seven? Why do you look like you want to run away and never look back, you the bravest woman I ever met! And the Doctor, well I always knew he was a coward but when it came to adventure he breathed it, ate it and probably slept with it!"

"Pompeii" Rose blurted out. "It's Pompeii all over again, only this time Donna, this time, I can't save anyone. No family that no one would miss, no little children or elderly people that have no affect on the future. These people, Adelaide Brooke especially, must die today"

"Oh god....oh...." Donna paled, she remembered that day clearly, she had already seen a dark side of Rose but that day in Pompeii taught Donna how dark the life Rose led could be. But she still stayed....she still remained by Rose's side because once you seen such things a normal life would kill you with boredom. "Not even Mia? Or Roman? Even the bloody Inspector Gadget?!"

Rose shook her head. "I dunno....Adelaide must die....she inspires her granddaughter Susan Fontana Brooke who leads Human Kind to the stars. Adelaide starts everything Donna, all those outer-space Human empires we've seen, and that planet I told you about, New Earth? It's all there because Adelaide Brooke died"

Donna let out a loud groan before burying her head into her hands. "I hate not doing anything" she mumbled before standing up. "Can't we just defy time? Screw the Human Empire; it was a shit one that enslaved those poor Oods"

Rose smiled bitterly. "You know we can't"

"Yeah well I don't give a damn anymore. We are the only ones left of this so called Time Lord kind, we could do anything to save people it's not like it's personal gain, I mean if we went back and killed Shakespeare so we didn't suffer him in school, I can understand why that's a big no, no bu-"

"AH!" Rose screamed grabbing hold of her head; Donna whirled round to see Rose glowing a faint gold, her skin paler than anything.

"I think your song must end soon"

"Rose!" she yelled stepping closer to her friend. "What's happening?"

"I'm being called" Rose choked out, holding her hands out in front of her, they were fading away, transparent to her and Donna's eyes. She was disappearing....

"By who?!"

"I don't know"

Donna whirled round to face the crew who were still ignoring them with their own work though they seemed to be in their own panicked frenzy over something. "Get the Doctor back here, Rose needs him, she's disappearing!"

"Yeah, well Maggie has just turned into a water regurgitating monster!" Yuri yelled fearfully from the med-bay.

"What?!" Donna shrieked.

Suddenly the lights went off and a red dim light lit the base....turning round Donna found Rose had disappeared completely.

"ROSE!"

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She looked up at the grey sky. It was full of clouds, thick puffy ones that looked like they would be the best night sleep ever. The ground beneath her was icy and cold; everything around her was cold although she herself wasn't affected like she would used to be. Breathing deeply, Rose shut her eyes and waited. Whoever wanted her would be here soon.

"Welcome back, Rose Tyler"

She opened her eyes to see the Ood surrounding her, many didn't have an orb to speak through but the one that did stared at her unblinkingly. "Hello...?"

"Ood Sigma" he reminded her. "It is an honour to have the Goddess of Time in our presence, though we need to speak to you on an urgent matter"

"Ah, right, go on then" Rose said tucking her hair behind her ear, feeling self-conscious the way the Ood were staring at her red streaks, she could hear them whispering and singing in her mind.

"The song of time is ending" Sigma said. "The universe will be consumed in the everlasting darkness and the DoctorDonna-" if an Ood could frown, Rose would be sure Sigma was, he seemed to be sending out confused signals as if he wasn't sure he said it right. He didn't but that wasn't the point, she knew he meant the Doctor and Donna were in trouble. "- songs will most definitely end"

"What do you mean?" Rose asked shakily.

"The DoctorDonna songs will end" the Ood repeated.

"They can't die! I need them! the Doctor had only just come back, I just got him back, please, I need him...i can't stand living without him, I can't stand not seeing him every day....please...i love him" too Rose's humiliation, she could feel tears falling down her cheeks. "And Donna, she's my best friend, she's so young and she's got a future ahead of her, she's River So...." Rose trailed off....River Song, her song will end, River dies, Rose knew that, Donna knew that and hell even the Doctor had a vague idea after that day....

"I am sorry" Sigma said blinking, she could feel his sympathy and pity brushing up against her mind, she smiled weakly at him. He held his hand out to her. "Come Rose Tyler, we must show you what we know"

Without even hesitating she took his hand.

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Donna was helping the others to pack when the Doctor entered the room, dropping a white container that was luckily sealed tight so nothing spilled; she ran over to him and hugged him tightly.

"Doctor, we need to find Rose, she could be anywhere" she said trembling slightly.

"I know" the Doctor said squeezing her tightly. "But we should find a way to help them first and then once we get onto the TARDIS we'll search for Rose, the TARDIS has a link with her we'll find Rose in no time"

"Doctor, Ms Noble, here are your suits" Adelaide said handing them two bright orange suits and two yellow helmets. "You concentrate on getting her out and finding Miss Tyler while I work on saving my own people. I know what this moment is; it's the moment we escape. Now get out!"

Donna slowly put her suit on, watching the crew rush around packing while a loud beeping noise could be heard, from the corner of her eye she could see the Doctor standing there froze. He wants to save them, he doesn't want to watch them die like he probably seen many other people do. Once she got her suit zipped up, she froze when it sounded like the roof would cave in on them, and the others were panicking slightly when they realised that Andrew Stone and Tarak who both had been contaminated were out there without suits.

Slowly turning around, the Doctor walked out, Donna followed him numbly wishing desperately that she never asked for Mars. She just wanted some fun to help Rose forget whatever nightmare she had. Now the Doctor was having some angst attack, Rose was missing and Donna felt guilty for letting such brave people to die. The Doctor slowly put his suit and helmet on just as Donna shoved the hideous yellow thing over her head, the pair stepped into the airlock and he took her hand. He keyed in the code only to have a computerised voice tell him that he was denied access.

"Tell me what happens"

Donna looked up at the ceiling in shock; Adelaide suspected something no doubt the Doctor accidentally said something he shouldn't have out of guilt but to keep them in an airlock instead of rushing to save her and her crew's life....

"I don't know" the Doctor said quietly.

"Yes you do. Now tell me"

"Look Captain, you should be helping your crew not bugging the Doctor about what could happen or will happen or what not" Donna said quickly.

"Tell me!" Adelaide ordered. "I can ramp up the pressure in that airlock and crush you"

"Yeah, go ahead, I'm not stopping you" Donna yelled. "Go on!" there was a silence and Donna smirked. "Yeah thought so, you're kind like that. The sort of person that the Doctor and Rose love" she said gently. "look, imagine you knew something, like Pompeii, you're there in Pompeii and you want to save them, you want to stop all those many deaths but instead of saving them, you make it happen....we try Adelaide, we try so hard to save people like you....but sometimes it's not meant to be"

"Captain, we need you"

"I'm still here" Adelaide said softly ignoring Steffi.

"You're taking Action One" the Doctor said suddenly. "There are four more procedures and Action Five....is..."

"Self-destruction" Donna supplied helpfully.

"A nuclear device was put in the heart of this base. Today, on the November twenty first 2059, Captain Brooke activates the device taking her life and her crew with her. No one ever knew why, but you were saving Earth that's what inspires your granddaughter. She takes your people out into the galaxy because you die on Mars. You die today. She flies out there like she's trying to meet you"

"I won't die" Adelaide whispered. "I will not"

"I'm so sorry sweetie" Donna said, tears forming in her eyes. "But your death is a fixed moment in time, it makes the future the way it is"

"Help me" she pleaded. "Why won't you help us if you know all of this? Why can't you change it?"

"Because this is the way it has to be" Donna said firmly, in her no arguments voice. "Do you have any idea what the guilt is doing to us? Normally we can save someone, something, and anything but there's nothing we could do today"

"The dalek spared you" the Doctor whispered. "Because it knew. It knew you were supposed to die today. Your death is fixed"

"But you'll die too"

"We won't" Donna said firmly.

"But who will save you?"

"Captain Adelaide Brooke" the Doctor said with a sad smile.

And then the airlock door opened. "Damn you" Adelaide whispered. Donna pulled the Doctor out; she would not listen to these people desperately trying to save their lives. She will not let the Doctor feel the guilt that he is feeling already, anymore. She will find Rose and Rose will make it all better. It's better with three. Only with three can it be better.

They walked and walked and walked. She was dragging him further and further but they could still hear the panicked voices, the fear, the desperation....the death, Roman was infected now and the screaming, the kid was only twenty five....

Eddie is infected now. He won't let the infection get to Earth; he will do the honourable thing, the soldier thing, and the most bravest thing.

The explosion knocked them to the ground.

The Doctor shot up and ran back towards the base.

"DOCTOR, DON'T! DOCTOR YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING, PLEASE!"

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Rose tore her hands away from the Ood; she saw a vision of the most terrifying things. She saw the Master who should be dead and gone forever laughing and laughing manically. She saw Martha standing on the bridge in her wedding dress. Wilf sitting there nursing a cup of tea, he had a headache. She saw two people, a father and a daughter who were both equally stupid. She saw the Doctor dying in her arms, the Doctor completely insane, Donna was dying too and her, Rose, and she was gone, gone forever, because nothing existed anymore, nothing at all.

She collapsed onto the floor, breathing heavily and the Ood began to nurse her, trying to send comforting signals to her mind, singing to her. She blocked them out, pushed their touching hands away. She could still vaguely hear the drums. The Master's drums.

He took Martha. He hypnotised Martha on her wedding day! He was alive. He was going to destroy everything. She was going to die, everything was going to die.

"I want to go home" she said loudly.

"Of course, Rose Tyler" Sigma said helping her up and walking along with her out of the beautiful ice palace that was far beyond what it should be. The Ood had been advancing; they were centuries ahead than they should be.

They walked and walked and soon they were in a snowing street of London and the TARDIS stood there proud, the Doctor staring at a house in some sort of shock, he turned round to see Rose and attempted to smile. He failed. Rose walked to him and collapsed onto her knees before him, he fell too and they were face to face, breathing heavily in each other's faces.

Behind her Sigma disappeared.

Shakily she put a hand through his hair and pulled him down for a fierce kiss breaking apart only when the need to breath arose. "We're all gonna die" she whispered.

"I went too far" he replied.

Rose didn't know how or when but they managed to get into the TARDIS, she was sat on the captain's chair and he was still kissing her. On the neck, on the cheeks, on the forehead, her nose, her lips and she was kissing back, everywhere she could touch.

"The Master was alive. I lived with him for a year" she confessed.

"I know" he said. "I had the dreams. It was as if I was living them, myself" he had taken her jacket off and his suit jacket disappeared long ago.

"He's back. He took Martha just to mess with me"

"I figured as much"

Her top was gone, his shirt too, and his t-shirt he wore under, his tie was hanging on a lever.

"I love you"

"Me too, forever and forever" he whispered the glint of insanity was glowing brightly in his dark, unfathomable eyes. He pulled her down onto his lap and kissed her again.

They pulled apart briefly and he too could see the insanity in her amber gold eyes.

"We go down together, yeah?"

Author's Note: so finally an update! Sorry for taking so long but I wanted to watch End of Time and semi-plan out what I wanted to do. I had the Ood taking Rose and talking to her idea since I first saw the episode but I didn't know what the Ood will be telling her until I knew what the Ood was going to tell the Doctor. unfortunately I decided after End of Time Part 2, there will only be an epilogue, I have semi-plans to rewrite series 5 with Rose in the sequel to The Sister I Never Wanted and I don't want to be doing the same thing twice, I've already done a billion rewrites of series 3 and it's getting a tad repetitive. However I might be doing some A Different World oneshots for series five, so not all hope is lost. Stay tune for the next chapter which might come before or during my half-term hols.