Returning to Pete's World.

" I cannot die, I am Davros !" Davros' final screams rang throughout the vault as his body, his wheelchair, everything about him, faded away, dissolving into dust which also vanished a second later. The Daleks followed suit as their travel machines started breaking up and fading away, their grating voices screeching as they vanished.

In terms of payback, the Daleks got what they deserved.

Most of the group, the Children of Time, shuddered. Susan didn't look like she was remorseful of taking a life, Davros had destroyed millions through the Daleks, plaguing the Time lords and now, trying to wipe out all of creation in a manner similar to Rassilon's ultimate sanction. No, she felt no sorrow, anymore than the Doctor did, even if he disapproved of her method. Davros had had it coming for years.

Some of the others weren't sorry to see Davros die; Sarah Jane, who'd met the evil scientist years back when she was travelling with the fourth Doctor, certainly didn't shed any tears.

Donna, who'd watched and listened as Davros tested the reality bomb on the prisoners, people who'd never return again, felt no pity for him.

Martha felt the same, she'd never truly met the monster, but she felt nothing for him. Especially since he was responsible for the creation of the Daleks and the destruction of the Doctor's people.

The Doctor walked over to his granddaughter, putting a gentle arm around her shoulders, his face was calm but loving.

" Susan, when you said in my mind you had a plan, was this what you had in mind ?"

" More or less," Susan replied, her voice quiet.

Suddenly, there was a cackle as Dalek Caan made his presence known.

" I thought the Daleks were gone," Mickey said.

Susan shook her head, " This Dalek wasn't created using Davros's DNA. This is something else."

The Doctor nodded, " Susan, meet Dalek Caan, the last survivor of the Cult of Skaro, he jumped into the Time war, unprotected and rescued Davros."

Susan looked at the Dalek curiously. " How ?" She asked.

" Beats me," the Doctor replied.

He walked over to Caan, as he did he noticed the condition of the casing, it was underpowered and heavily damaged.

" You knew this would happen, didn't you Caan ?"

The Dalek answered, no sign of insanity in his voice, it was like listening to a normal Dalek, " Correct, Doctor. I knew your granddaughter would survive and would return to her Time lady form with the right prompting. Davros would tell you that I saw time when I was shifted into the Time war, but it was more than that. Is that not correct, Miss Noble ?"

Donna was surprised the Dalek was addressing her, " Me ? What d'you mean ?"

" I can see timelines Miss Noble, you featured in a majority of them, I also have the ability to manipulate the timelines to a point where it is only a matter of simple thought. You were dosed on huon particles for 6 months, it was going to happen. I also excited the hormonal levels in your body to send you into the Doctor's TARDIS, considering it was your wedding day it wasn't surprising. Your appearance ensured that the timeline would run the way I desired."

Susan was intrigued, " What do you mean, desired ?"

Dalek Caan explained, " I saw the Daleks, the truth of us. What we have done, throughout eternity. I decreed no more. This was one massive manipulation, the crucible has been present in the Medusa Cascade for 50 years. I had plenty of time to integrate myself in the timelines, the Daleks created by Davros ignored me, called me

" Abomination." I manipulated events to allow Donna Noble to become a companion of yours Doctor, this way the timelines would show this outcome; the death of the Daleks, the elimination of Davros, the return of your granddaughter and your regeneration."

The Doctor's head shot up angrily, " You mean you ensured I regenerated ?"

" Yes, I did. The Tenth Doctor's timeline would not have lasted longer than another decade in any case, in one of the timelines I observed, you directed the regeneration energy into the hand in your console room and Miss Noble would have touched it, creating an instant Time lord meta crisis. She would have your mind, killing her. You would have been forced to block her memories, lest they kill her. Your tenth self would have been alone, for a selfish reason, the false love." Dalek Caan explained patiently.

Rose gasped at that, heartbroken and furious that this thing would meddle.

The Doctor had been thrown off by the news, " So, this was to ensure that Donna survived ?"

" Essentially, I also manipulated the Time war to allow your granddaughter to escape, that was the important part. In this timeline, Gwen Cooper did not exist. The timeline I described, she did have a fob watch located in a box and she would never touch it."

Susan gasped at the implications of that one. It was true Gwen Cooper didn't take the watch with her to work, either as a policewoman or even at Torchwood. The perception filter only worked close range, the host would never be free unless the watch was close by. The Host, in this case a human, was programmed to ignore even the most obvious things of Time lord lore. But when the watch was nearby, it was a different story.

If Caan hadn't interfered, then Susan would've been trapped forever.

Caan carried on, " By bringing the eleventh Doctor forward and by bringing your granddaughter back, then the universe is safer from the silence."

The Doctor frowned at that, " The silence ?"

Dalek Caan's next words were truly enigmatic, " Silence will fall when the Pandorica opens. Silence, Doctor, silence will fall. I am sorry, Doctor," he sounded it as well, which was odd, " I cannot see anything else ."

The party was a little unnerved by the newest prophecy, both Susan and the Doctor frowned, trying to figure out what the prophecy meant and what it would mean for them.

Caan continued, " I am the last Dalek, Doctor. Please, end my life. Destroy the Daleks forever. We do not deserve life."

The Doctor turned to the others, " Get inside the TARDIS, Susan, prepare to leave."

Susan nodded and led the others inside the TARDIS.

For the next 5 minutes the TARDIS crew were quiet as everyone waited for the Doctor. Susan was standing beside the console, her face grim.

" Oh no," She said.

Jack came over at once, " What's wrong ?"

Susan looked up at him, " Remember when I said that I sent a virus into the Dalek computer system ?"

" Yes," Jack replied slowly, wondering where the Time lady was going with this.

Susan ran a hand through her long black hair, " I programmed the virus to interface with the magnetron, making it send the planets back to their original positions. Unfortunately, the piece of Dalek junk burnt out. Clearly, it wasn't designed to reverse the system."

" Are there any planets left ?" Sarah Jane asked nervously.

" Yep," Susan grinned, " Earth."

That was easy. She could tow the Earth back in a warp field, but she needed to contact Ianto for some things. She'd just finished when the Doctor came into the TARDIS, looking around at the difference between this TARDIS and his own.

The Doctor walked to the console and was just about to hit the dematerialisation control before Susan stopped him.

" We need to attach a couple of tow ropes to Earth, I've already arranged for one."

" Where from ?" The Doctor frowned.

" Torchwood Cardiff, I asked Ianto to do it and also patch in the sub wave network. Unlike your TARDIS, mine can do the job with only one tow rope." Susan finished smugly.

The Doctor glowered at her.

Susan walked to the controls and in no time the TARDIS was guiding the Earth back to its original position.

The Doctor leant in close to her and whispered a few words in her ear. The Two Time lords left the room.

" What is it ?" Susan asked her grandfather.

The Doctor ran a hand through his floppy hair, he preferred it somehow, " I think we should take Rose Back to Pete's world. Now."

Susan sighed, " I admit I haven't thought much about her, but I would've thought you'd do that with your own TARDIS, when she was fully healed of course," Susan added.

The Doctor's face dropped into a scowl as he remembered the pain she'd suffered from the Daleks handling of her.

" How bad was it ?"

" Bad, I had to put her on a regeneration, luckily the Cardiff rift is useful for that." Susan replied.

The Doctor nodded, happy that his granddaughter had been considerate enough to do that.

" Right, so what do we do about Rose ? I don't like the idea of using my TARDIS to take her back to her new home." Susan said, getting the conversation back to the previous topic.

The Doctor nodded, " I know, but your TARDIS is fully functional and mine is still badly damaged."

Susan sighed.

Rose was standing by the console, noting the differences, at least that was what everyone thought. Indeed, everyone had noticed the differences and similarities between this TARDIS and the Doctor's.

To most, they'd seen the TARDIS as a kind of car, with models and types.

But to Rose, the Doctor's TARDIS was ONE of a KIND, meaning that there could be no other. Then again, there was that bitch the Doctor said was his granddaughter. How dare he have a granddaughter and not tell her anything about it ?

The return of both the Doctor and Susan shook her from her thoughts. Both Time lords had grave looks on their faces as the Doctor and Susan started setting the controls on the TARDIS console.

" We've arrived back at Earth's solar system. The planet will be back in its position in a minute. Right, it's back." Susan reported. Everyone cheered and clapped.

The Doctor's next words silenced them all, " We're now taking Jackie and Rose back to their new reality."

Rose's head shot up, " What ? After all that trouble I had getting back, to you, now you wanna send me back ?"

The Doctor looked straight into her eyes, " Rose, do you have short term memory ? I told you, you were going back to Pete's world."

Susan felt it was time to add her own views, " Besides, you did punch a hole in the fabric of reality, you did endanger our lives by damaging the Time lock which protects the universe from the Time war."

Rose shot a glare at Susan, " Mind you own business, bitch."

Susan quirked an eyebrow, being a former student at a Human school meant that she was immune, more or less, to insults. Susan had learnt very quickly the fluidity of human cursing. Insults meant nothing to her. She'd heard them before, some even directed towards her.

The Doctor took over, " Don't insult my granddaughter. She's hit the nail on the head. Your dimension cannon fractured the time lock, allowing Caan to rescue Davros. Who knows what other horrors have been released."

Rose sneered, " Like what ?"

" Oh, I dunno, like a malignant Time lord who just so happened to be one of the architects of our culture, preparing to destroy life so then he and his followers would become creatures of consciousness, not scary enough ?" the Doctor shouted, losing control.

Jack decided to get some answers, " What'd'you mean Doctor ?"

The Doctor closed his eyes, the memories of the final days of the war getting to him. Susan came close to him and wrapped her arms around him. The Doctor rested his chin on her head, inhaling her scent.

" Rassilon, one of the first Time lords, was resurrected. He lead the war, deposing a friend of mine as president. His leadership was shaky, Rassilon was a scientist and he had never lead a war except against vampires. Daleks are a different kettle of fish and it wasn't long before he started losing his mind."

" He created the ultimate sanction - ripping a hole in the time vortex, widening until it was ripped apart."

Jack understood enough about the vortex to know what that meant, " That's….suicide," he breathed.

" Precisely, " the Doctor said, " I had to stop him." he looked down, his eyes closed. Susan hugged him even tighter.

Rose didn't get the point, besides, she didn't like this whore holding the Doctor, " So what ?"

The Doctor opened his eyes and snarled at her, " So I don't want Rassilon to return. If he ever got out of the time lock, then the ultimate sanction would destroy the whole of our universe. Rassilon didn't care about life, but behind the lock then the universe was safe. In a sense, they are dead. The Time lords lost their nobility in that war."

" So what ? You nearly allowed Davros to do something similar. How many lives would need to be destroyed before you got out of your fantasy ?" The Doctor spat.

He carried on, not knowing that some of the others were thinking things through, especially Jackie.

" I don't want you to travel with me, not now or ever. You're going back." The Doctor finished, his tone and posture unapologetic.

Rose shook her head, fanaticism and madness written all over her face, " No, I did it all for you. I came back for you, I gave up my life with my pathetic mother who shagged her way through life," only the Doctor and Susan saw Jack, Mickey and Sarah Jane take hold of Jackie, who looked heartbroken her only Daughter would say that, plus the fact she wanted to punch Rose in the face.

Rose carried on, ignorant as always, " I gave up Mickey for you, even though I thought he was a loser. You have a time machine, a better way of life. Why else did you pick me up ?"

The others could now understand the situation a little better, Rose had been so desperate for a different life that she'd jumped at the chance for the opportunity to travel or hitch a ride with the first guy to take an interest. But they knew, Sarah Jane, Martha and Donna, the only ones to travel longer with the Time lord, that travelling with the Doctor didn't mean you should automatically abandon the life you'd had before.

Rose's view wasn't unlike some of the people to travel with him, it was exciting. Yes, they knew that. They also saw reality, that all good things came and must come to an end. Rose seemed to think that Fate or God had picked her out, amongst the millions of people on Earth, that something had pointed the finger at her to travel with their unique friend.

That wasn't true; Rose had merely been there at the right time and place.

The Doctor's eyes were cold, his face expressionless. His face looked like stone, " Rose, I invited you to travel with me, as thanks for rescuing me from the Nestene Consciousness. Love had nothing to do with it. I tend to thank people by asking them to travel with me. I'm over a thousand years old, yeah, I'm older than 900, didn't it ever occur to you that some others had travelled with me ? That I'd invited them more or less the same way. Sarah stowed away, but I grew attached to her, Martha saved my skin from the Judoon and a Plasmavore."

" In that regard," the Doctor concluded, " You are not special. I never asked you to abandon your life in the 21st century, even though I think the time zone itself could be a little bit nicer. I invited you out of thanks, Rose, just that. Thanks."

Rose's furious gaze found Susan, " What bout her ?" she pointed at Susan.

The Doctor sighed, " Susan's different. I was her guardian back home, her parents died in an accident and she was alone. I was the only member of the family to take her in, she lived with me for over 20 years. I helped her when she was inducted into the academy. When I decided I'd had more than enough of Gallifrey, I just….took her from our world. I couldn't leave her."

The Doctor gave a rueful smile, " I kidnapped her, basically."

Susan's eyes closed, remembering her parents, the pain of their deaths and the anger she'd felt at her grandfather's presumption. Then she remembered her forgiving him. Eventually.

Rose didn't get it, " You kidnapped her ? You expect her to forgive you ?"

Susan spoke up in a whisper, " I already have. I forgave him for most of his mistakes. Not all of them, but the majority."

Rose spat at her, " I wasn't talking to you."

Susan's voice was calm, but everyone could hear the dislike in her voice, " No, you were speaking over me, talking about me as if I wasn't here."

Rose lost it. She launched herself at Susan and was just about to punch her in the stomach when the Doctor grabbed her and shoved her into Jack's arms.

Rose struggled but then the Doctor's hand shot out and took hold of her chin. She gaped at the contempt and hatred she saw in his greenish blue eyes. His voice, quieter than a whisper, sent chills down her spine as she felt fear.

" After attacking my granddaughter, do you really think I'll let you travel with me ? DO YOU ?" He ended with a shout.

Pete Tyler was listening to his wife as she explained what had happened, why the Doctor looked different, why the stars were going out and why Rose, his " daughter " was being held by a tall, good looking man.

Jackie was in a right state and Pete knew it had something to do with Rose, " What did she say to you ?" he asked quietly, concerned.

Jackie took a shaking breath, " I've looked after Rose her whole life, but I always felt she wasn't grateful. She always wanted something I couldn't afford, every time she was refused she threw a temper tantrum. Rose had her own little world where she dreamt of things, possessions. She never cared about how I felt. Rose never understood why I dated other men, it wasn't because I was disgracing the other you's memory, it was because I wanted to try to move on."

Jackie sighed, " Before you met ME, but didn't you ever consider it ?"

Pete was stunned anybody could ask such a foolish question, " Of course I did, I didn't want to but I knew that my other Jackie was dead and gone."

Jackie shuddered as tears kept forming in her eyes. The other Jackie was still was touchy subject for him, just like her Pete, her real Pete, was for her. Those deaths had defined the people they were today, but that didn't mean the subjects weren't still painful for either of them.

" Exactly, then the Doctor came along. Before he did, Rose would go off with any boy, thinking they would take her away. But Rose always had this psychological problem where she would think she was in love with the other and vice versa. She treated the Doctor the same way, I could see it. I spent a lot of time trying to stop her going off with him, even speaking to him. But they never listened. As time passed, I could see he was starting to see my point."

Jackie took a breath, " When we were stranded here, she was obsessed. The other boys didn't have two hearts, be brought back to life and change their faces, travel in space and time in a machine that was bigger on the inside. That's why she was so obsessive."

" That's why the dimension cannon should be destroyed."

The Doctor and Susan had come over, feeling this was the best time to interrupt and get straight to the point.

" Pete, I know that as the Head of Torchwood, you have the authority to destroy the cannon, the research and make sure the scientists forget their work." The Doctor said to Pete.

Susan took up the argument, " The cannon could destroy the universe, not in a big bang. It's like building a house and then removing the foundation. Girder by girder. One at a time. The house would fall apart. Not just this reality, but every reality. All universes are connected Mr Tyler, connected in ways you couldn't even begin to imagine."

The Doctor nodded, " During the Time war, my people made many mistakes. But the sealing of other realities wasn't one of them. Make no mistake, for all their faults my people were quite smart and capable. If you can build a machine which transcends dimensions then the sealing of universes shouldn't be a problem. The walls were slammed shut, forever. Only the Time lords and the power of our race could reopen them. It's never gonna happen though, our race, " he gestured to Susan and himself, " is locked behind a barrier. Rose's dimension cannon broke through that barrier, it released Davros, the Daleks and heaven knows what else."

" When me and Susan return to our universe, we'll need to repair the damage, try to find out if anyone came out of the war."

Pete wasn't getting the point, Susan could see that, his next words proved that, " How can that mean anything to us in this universe ?"

Susan sighed, " The walls of reality are still open, when Rose used the cannon, it only fractured reality. Davros's damage widened those same fractures. Anything could've left the Time war and fled to other universes. Those horrors are beyond imagination, things that could bring the dead by to life, only to wipe them out again in different ways. The Time lords lost their way during the war, but the Daleks were worse. If one Dalek comes into this reality, I don't know if they exist here, but if they don't and one does get here…. The Daleks are the most evil race in creation, they multiply like flies, devastate worlds in waves like locusts, destroy and enslave races, all because they've sinned creation by not being Daleks themselves."

Susan stared him in the eyes, " If one did here, the Human race would probably become a slave race in an empire spanning millions of galaxies."

" How does destroying the cannon prevent that ?"

" It doesn't, " Susan admitted. " But I can tell you now, there's no way of knowing for sure that a Dalek or two didn't survive in this reality. If some did then there is nothing we can do to help, the walls are closing even now. They're healing from the damage Rose and Davros inflicted, we wont be able to stay here for long."

Jackie could see her husband was indecisive, " Pete, they're telling the truth. During the time I spent with the Doctor and Susan, what they said made sense. The Doctor tried to warn me of the Cybermen breaking through to my world. But I didn't listen. He was right. These two, " here she pointed at the two Time lords, " know what they're talkin' about."

Pete looked over at Rose, who was defiant. Then he looked back at Susan and the Doctor, " Ok, I'll destroy the cannon. Is there anything we can do if the Daleks do come to Earth ?"

Susan and the Doctor looked at one another and Susan stepped forward, her hands outstretched, " I can pour in my knowledge of the Daleks and you can use it to make defences and even improve your technology."

Pete looked hesitant, but one look at his wife made him accept. Susan touched his temples and closed her eyes, Pete was seeing images, techniques and tactics flash through his mind in seconds.

When she was finished, Susan stepped back and looked at him. " Be careful."

The Doctor walked over to Rose and said one word to her, " Bye."

Together, Jack, Susan and the Doctor went inside the TARDIS and left Pete's world forever, leaving behind a broken hearted Rose Tyler, who still didn't know or understand why she was being left behind.