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Kagome was stomping through the corridors to her room, the TARDIS buzzing unhappily in her mind.
As Kagome reached her room she was surprised to find an exact replica of the Goshinboku and the accompanying bench in her room.
Kagome stopped short.
This place was the place where she first met Inuyasha, where her parents got engaged, where most of her memories take place.
And it was also the place where she first met the Doctor.
Kagome felt tears stinging in her eyes as she sunk to her knees in front of it.
She had known for a long time that she loved the Doctor.
But for the first time she was actually aware that she was in love with him.
She felt so stupid. Why did she always have to fall for men she never stood a chance with.
It made her feel so sad and lonely. When did that happen?
She was aware that the Doctor liked her well enough, but she didn't think that it went above simple friendship.
She wasn't even really mad at him. She was mad at herself.
For loving him, for being stupid. For her own inability to walk away from a potentially hurtful situation.
But she knew, deep in her heart, that she would never be able to leave him.
Even if he found someone else, she would always stay at his side. She would endure, and be there for him when he needed her.
She would endure.
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Kagome's eyes were red as she stepped into the console room this morning.
The Doctor took one look at her and winced. But he wouldn't apologize. Even if he did regret being so harsh with her.
Kagome took a deep breath and faked the brightest smile she could. But she frowned when she saw Rose staring into space.
"Rose, what is it?", Kagome asked, alerting the Doctor to the fact that something was bothering the blonde girl.
"Peter Alan Tyler my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Born 15th September 1954. He died 1987, 7th of November. That's what Mum always says. So I was thinking, could we, could we go and see my dad when he was still alive?", Rose asked hopefully.
Kagome felt dread building in her stomach.
"Where's this come from, all of a sudden?", the Doctor asked suspiciously.
"All right then, if we can't, if it goes against the laws of times or something, then never mind, just leave it.", Rose said quickly and Kagome and the Doctor made to exchange looks, only to flinch when they looked at each other.
Rose, in her own bubble at the moment, didn't notice.
"No, I can do anything. I'm… We're just more worried about you.", he added worriedly.
"Are you sure Rose?", Kagome asked her concernedly.
"I want to see him.", Rose said firmly.
"Your wish is my command. But be careful what you wish for.", the Doctor warned her.
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They were at the register office to attend Jackie's and Pete's wedding.
Kagome and the Doctor were still mostly avoiding each other, not touching and not even looking at the other.
"I, Peter Alan Tyler, take you, Jacqueline Angela Suzette Prentice", the registrar recited.
"I, Peter Alan Tyler, take you, Jacqueline Suzanne Suzette Anita-", Pete sputtered, reddening in embarrassment.
Rose looked a little disappointed as she eyed her father.
"Oh, just carry on. It's good enough for Lady Di.", Jackie sighed, waving her soon-to-be husband to continue on.
"I thought he'd be taller.", Rose muttered and the other two glanced at her. Kirara was in Kagome's arms, doing her best to look like a plushy.
"To be my lawful wedded wife, to love and behold till death us do part."
They were back in the TARDIS as Rose looked at them hopefully once again.
"He died so close to home. Nobody was there. It was a hit and run driver. Never found out who. He was dead when the ambulance got there. I only wish there'd been someone there for him. I want to be that someone, so he doesn't die alone.", Rose begged them. Kagome was feeling really uncomfortable all of a sudden.
Deciding to forego her anger for a second she pulled the Doctor over to the side and opened her mind to him, letting him feel Rose's aura for a second. She was hiding something.
The Doctor was startled at Kagome's touch but his expression grew grim as he glanced at Rose looking at them hopefully.
They had a silent conversation just with their eyes and decided to give the girl the benefit of the doubt for now.
"November the 7th?", he confirmed and Rose nodded.
"1987.", she added and the time rotor started up.
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They landed in a sunny street between a telephone junction box and a road sign.
"It's so weird. The day my father died. I thought it'd be all sort of grim and stormy. It's just an ordinary day.", Rose muttered and Kagome squeezed her shoulder in comfort.
"The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight. Are you sure about this?", the Doctor asked one last time.
"Yeah.", Rose affirmed and stood a little straighter.
They walked over to Jordan Road and waited for the inevitable.
"This is it. Jordan Road. He was late. He'd been to get a wedding present, a vase. Mum always said, that stupid vase.", Rose explained.
They watched as a green van came around the corner.
"He got out of his car.", Rose continued.
It pulled into the kerb.
"And crossed the road.", suddenly she paled.
"Oh, God. This is it.", she breathed in dread.
As Pete got out of the van, the Doctor and Kagome took Rose's hand. A beige car came round the corner - NEH 793W - and straight into Pete. The driver shielded his face with his arm and kept going, leaving Pete and the broken vase in the middle of the road. Pete tried to move unsuccessfully.
"Go to him. Quick!", the Doctor urged her.
But she froze, unable to move.
They moved around a corner as sirens approached them.
"It's too late now. By the time the ambulance got there, he was dead. He can't die on his own. Can I try again?", Rose begged again and the Doctor and Kagome exchanged uncomfortable looks, forgetting their fight for the moment.
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They looked around the corner, seeing their first selves.
"Right, that's the first you and us. It's a very bad idea, two sets of us being here at the same time. Just be careful they don't see us. Wait till she runs off and they follow, then go to your dad.", he instructed her and Rose nodded in agreement.
Kagome felt even more dread as she felt something unfavourable building in Rose's aura.
"Oh god. I can't do this…", Rose mumbled as they watched Pete cross the road once again.
"You don't have to do anything you don't want to, but this is the last time we can be here.", the Doctor warned.
Suddenly Rose's aura spiked in determination and Kagome lurched forward trying to grab Rose as she started running.
"Doctor! Stop her!", Kagome yelled and the Doctor paled a little as he watched Rose running forward.
"ROSE! STOP!", he called but it was too late.
"DOCTOR: Rose! No!
Rose dashed past her earlier self and pushed her father out of the path of the beige car. The vase rolled away, unbroken.
The earlier time travellers vanished from sight.
The Doctor's fists clenched and Kagome tentatively took one of his hands, tears in her eyes at what Rose had done.
The Doctor looked down at her, face softening somewhat as he squeezed her hand, assuring her that things were fine between them. They argued every so often, and it always took some time before they stopped. But for this situation they needed to be a united front.
So with linked hands they approached Rose and her father.
They missed the conversation between the two and Rose seemed elated.
Kagome shivered as she felt something sinister approaching them. The Doctor, whom she was sharing her aura vision with at the moment, looked up in alarm as he felt what she felt.
With a glare at Rose they climbed into Pete's car. Rose seemed unperturbed and incredibly pleased with herself.
Kagome really wanted to punch the girl.
Kagome's father was dead too, but she knew that it could have horrendous consequences to go back and safe him. So she never asked. What Rose did was very selfish.
"Right, there we go. Sorry about the mess. If you want a cup of tea, the kitchens just down there, milk's in the fridge. Well, it would be, wouldn't it? Where else would you put the milk? Mind you, there's always the window sill outside. I always thought if someone invented a window sill with special compartments, you know, one for milk, one for yogurt, make a lot of money out of that. Sell it to students and things. I should write that down. Anyway, never mind that, excuse me for a minute. Got to go and change.", Pete rambled and vanished into his bedroom.
"All the stuff mum kept. His stuff. She kept it all packed away in boxes in the cupboard. She used to show me when she'd had a bit to drink. Here it is, on display. Where it should be. Third prize at the bowling. First two got to go to Didcot. Health drinks. Tonics, mum used to call them. He made his money selling this Vitex stuff. He had all sorts of jobs. He was so clever. Solar power. Mum said he was going to do this. Now he can. Okay, look I'll tell him you're not my boyfriend.", Rose explained to them, finally at the end, she noticed the glares she was getting.
"When we met, I said travel with me in space. You said no. Then I said time machine.", the Doctor ground out, incredibly angry.
"It wasn't some big plan. I just saw it happening and I thought, I can stop it.", Rose defended, looking at Kagome for help who was glaring at her as well.
"I did it again. I picked another stupid ape. I should've known. It's not about showing you the universe. It never is. It's about the universe doing something for you.", he said spitefully.
"So it's okay when you go to other times, and you save people's lives, but not when it's me saving my dad.", Rose sneered at him.
"I know what I'm doing, you don't. Two sets of us being there made that a vulnerable point.", he ground out.
"But he's alive.", Rose insisted.
"My entire planet died. My whole family. Do you think it never occurred to me to go back and save them? Kagome's dad is dead as well. She never even once asked me for any such thing as saving him.", he glared at her.
"But it's not like I've changed history. Not much. I mean he's never going to be a world leader. He's not going to start World War Three or anything.", Rose insisted, ignoring what the Doctor was trying to tell her.
"Rose, there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man. That's the most important thing in creation. The whole world's different because he's alive.", he tried to explain.
"What, would you rather him dead?", Rose asked wide-eyed, looking first at Kagome and then at the Doctor.
Kagome stepped forward now.
"Rose, it was selfish what you did. In the past so many bad things happened to me, people dying all over the place, starting with my father when I was a child. I didn't ever try to save them.", Kagome told her seriously.
Rose sneered at her.
"Well, then you obviously don't care for them.", Rose said disdainfully.
"Rose, your father can't be alive.", Kagome tried again, ignoring the hurt at her comment.
Then her head snapped back as Rose slapped her harshly, the ring she was wearing digging into her cheek, creating a cut.
The Doctor immediately stepped in front of her, examining the cut.
Kagome placed a hand against her cheek, shocked that the girl did that.
"Rose Tyler, how dare you.", the Doctor growled at her.
No matter how mad he was at Kagome, he would never ever tolerate any violence against her.
And Rose had attacked not only her body but also her heart.
"No, I get it! For once, you're not the most important man in my life.", Rose snapped arrogantly.
"Let's see how you get on without me, then. Give me the key. The Tardis key. If I'm so insignificant, give it me back.", he mocked her, not at all shaken by her comment.
He felt that she put way too much stock into herself.
Kagome was the only one such a comment would ever shake him from.
"All right then, I will.", Rose threw the key at him and he caught it.
"You've got what you wanted, so that's goodbye, then.", he stated, leading Kagome out of the apartment.
"You don't scare me. I know how sad you are. You'll be back in a minute, or you'll hang around outside the Tardis waiting for me. And I'll make you wait a long time!", Rose sneered, still sounding endlessly arrogant.
The Doctor turned around and eyed her for a moment.
"Don't make me laugh. Kagome will always be the only one I need. I only took you along at her request on the first place. I don't know where you got such a high opinion of yourself, but I would suggest seeing a therapist about your delusions.", he recommended before he left with one last sneer in her direction.
Rose stared after them, furious.
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Kagome and the Doctor walked all the way to the TARDIS in silence.
But when they opened it there was nothing there but the regular interior of a public call police box.
"ROSE!", the Doctor shouted angrily and grabbed Kagome's hand, pulling her in the direction of the church.
They reached the church just in time to see bat like creatures appearing, hissing and diving at them.
The Doctor just managed to save Rose by pushing her to the floor.
He was mad at her. More than mad. But dying wasn't an option he wanted for her.
"Rose! Get in the church!", Kagome called and started ushering everyone else inside as well.
The people shrieked and did as they were told.
"Oh, my God. What are they? What are they?", a woman gasped as even more appeared.
"Inside!", the Doctor shouted and the rest finally complied.
They watched some people get pounced on and the Doctor pushed the last stragglers inside.
"In!", he commanded firmly.
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The Doctor got the bride's party inside and slammed the doors on the creatures. They could be seen flying around outside.
": They can't get in. Old windows and doors. Okay. The older something is, the stronger it is. What else? Go and check the other doors! Move!", the Doctor ordered them.
"What's happening? What are they? What are they?", Jackie demanded shrilly.
"There's been an accident in time. A wound in time. They're like bacteria, taking advantage.", he explained impatiently.
"What do you mean, time? What're you jabbering on about, time?", Jackie demanded again.
The Doctor glared at her in annoyance.
"Oh, I might've known you'd argue. Jackie, I'm sick of you complaining.", he sneered at her.
Kagome gasped as she felt the creatures outside increasing in number. She was feeling dizzy and her cheek still stung from Rose's slap.
"How'd you know my name?", Jackie continued her interrogation unabashedly.
"I haven't got time for this.", he told her sternly.
"I've never met you in my life!", she shrieked.
"No, and you never will unless I sort this out. Now, if you don't mind, I've waited a long time to say this. Jackie Tyler, do as I say. Go and check the doors.", he growled at her.
Jackie looked a little taken aback.
"Yes sir!", she agreed and hurried to do as she was told.
"My dad was out there.", Stuart, as he introduced himself, began.
"You can mourn him later. Right now we've got to concentrate on keeping ourselves alive.", the Doctor cut him off. Kagome would have scolded him or something, but she was preoccupied with tending to the few injured people there.
"My dad had-", Stuart tried again only to be cut of once again.
"There's nothing I can do for him.", he snapped.
Stuart rolled his eyes at him.
"No, but he had this phone thing. I can't get it to work. I keep getting this voice", he finally finished.
"Watson, come here. I need you. Watson, come here. I need you.", a voice called repeatedly.
"That's the very first phone call. Alexander Graham Bell. I don't think the telephone's going to be much use.", the Doctor explained to him.
"But someone must have called the police.", Stuart insisted.
"Police can't help you now. No one can. Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time's been damaged and they've come to sterilise the wound. By consuming everything inside.", he told them gravely and Rose looked at him in horror, finally saying something.
"Is this because-? Is this my fault?", she asked, sounding stricken.
But not even Kagome felt very sympathetic at the moment.
They all ignored the distraught girl.
"There's smoke coming up from the city but no sirens. I don't think it's just us. I think these things are all over the place. Maybe the whole world.", Pete told them in a stricken voice.
The beige car appeared at the corner, turned, the driver covered his face and it disappeared again.
Pete's eyes widened.
"Was that a car?", he asked.
"It's not important. Don't worry about it.", the Doctor waved him off, a frown on his face.
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Rose was over at the altar, having a tearful conversation with her father as one of the creatures head-butted against a side door repeatedly.
"Excuse me, Mister-", Stuart began.
"Doctor.", the Doctor told him absentmindedly as he fumbled around with his screwdriver.
"You seem to know what's going on.", Stuart stated. Kagome was over on the other side of the room, helping to barricade the doors.
"I give that impression, yeah.", the Doctor agreed.
"I just wanted to ask", Stuart said awkwardly.
"Can you safe us?", his soon-to-be wife interrupted them.
"Who are you two, then?", he asked, finally looking at them.
"Stuart Hoskins."
"Sarah Clark."
"And one extra. Boy or girl?", the Doctor asked.
"I don't know. I don't want to know, really.", Sarah told him.
"How did all this get started?", the Doctor asked, waving at their wedding clothes.
"Outside the Beatbox Club, two in the morning.", Stuart started.
"Street corner. I'd lost my purse, didn't have money for a taxi.", Sarah continued.
"I took her home.", Stuart finished.
The Doctor looked at them before glancing at Kagome who was talking to an older lady.
"Then what? Asked her for a date?", he asked.
"Wrote his number on the back of my hand.", Sarah proclaimed with a smile.
"Never got rid of her since. My dad said.", Stuart teased her lightly.
"I don't know what this is all about, and I know we're not important.", Sarah told him earnestly.
"Who said you're not important? I've travelled to all sorts of places, done things you couldn't even imagine, but you two. Street corner, two in the morning, getting a taxi home. I've never had a life like that. Yes. I'll try and save you.", he disagreed and glanced at Kagome longingly.
The couple noticed his glance and smiled to themselves. Maybe he would get something like this.
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Kagome was talking to baby Rose as the Doctor joined her, tentatively taking her hand.
She let him and smiled as he cooed at the baby.
"Now, Rose you're not going to bring about the end of the world, are you? Are you?", he cooed and the adult Rose walked up to them.
"Jackie gave her to us to look after. How times change.", the Doctor mused, rocking the baby gently after he took her from Kagome's arms.
"I'd better be careful. I think I just imprinted myself on Mickey like a mother chicken.", Rose chuckled and reached out to touch the baby.
Kagome slapped her hand away and Rose looked at her in shock.
"No. Don't touch the baby. You're both the same person. That's a paradox, and we don't want a paradox happening, not with these things outside. Anything new, any disturbance in time makes them stronger. The paradox might let them in.", the Doctor sneered at her. He was still really, really mad at her, not only for bringing about the end of the world, but also for hurting and slapping his Kagome.
"Can't do anything right, can I?", she mumbled, apparently having caught on that they wouldn't forgive her that easily.
"Since you ask, no. So, don't touch the baby.", he ordered in a slow voice, to make sure she understood.
"I'm not stupid!", she glared at him.
"Could have fooled me.", he mumbled and turned his back to her, taking Kagome with him.
Rose's eyes filled with tears as she watched them leave her standing there.
"But between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No idea. No way out.", he told Kagome as they leaned against a far wall.
"Is there something we can do?", Kagome asked him seriously.
"The entire Earth's been sterilised. This, and other place like it, are all that's left of the human race. We might hold out for a while, but nothing can stop those creatures. They'll get through in the end. The walls aren't that old. And there's nothing I can do to stop them. There used to be laws stopping this kind of thing from happening. My people would have stopped this. But they're all gone. And now I'm going the same way.", he explained in a pained voice and Kagome leaned against him for the first time that day.
"I'm so sorry.", she muttered as they hugged.
"As am I.", he answered, burying his face in her hair.
Kagome suddenly pulled away.
"Is there something hot?", she asked and the Doctor's eyes widened.
Kagome reached into his jacket to pull the TARDIS key out, but dropped it immediately because it was so hot.
"It's the Tardis key!", the Doctor exclaimed joyously.
He took off his jacket to pick it up safely.
"It's telling me it's still connected to the Tardis.", he told her.
They moved over to the pulpit to make an announcement.
"The inside of my ship was thrown out of the wound but we can use this to bring it back. And once I've got my ship back, then I can mend everything. Now, I just need a bit of power. Has anybody got a battery?", he announced and Stuart held up his phone.
"This one big enough?", he asked and the Doctor grinned at him.
"Fantastic!", he cheered.
"Good old dad. There you go.", Stuart said as he handed it to him.
"Just need to do a bit of charging up and then we can bring everyone back.", the Doctor explained as he used the ever-versatile sonic screwdriver while the creatures battered at the doors. Pete and Rose had a quiet chat.
But Kagome was too preoccupied with trying to help the Doctor to really notice what they were talking about.
Slowly, the TARDIS materialised around the key, making everybody watch.
"Right, no one touches that key. Have you got that? Don't touch it. Anyone touches that key, it'll be, well, zap. Just leave it be and everything will be fine. We'll get out of here. All of us. Stuart, Sarah you're going to get married, just like I said.", the Doctor told everyone as they watched the TARDIS fade in and out.
"When time gets sorted out everybody here forgets what happened. And don't worry, the thing that you changed will stay changed.", he said but still mostly ignored Rose, who hung her head.
"You mean I'll still be alive, though I'm meant to be dead. That's why I haven't done anything with my life, why I didn't mean anything.", Pete guessed.
"It doesn't work like that.", the Doctor stated.
"Rubbish. I'm so useless I couldn't even die properly. Now it's my fault all of this has happened.", Pete lamented and Rose hung her head even more.
"This is my fault.", she admitted.
"No, love. I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault.", Pete assured her.
"Her dad? How are you her dad? How old were you, twelve? Oh, that's disgusting.", Jackie suddenly barked, destroying the mood.
"Jacks, listen. This is Rose.", Pete tried to explain but Jackie wouldn't let him.
"Rose? How sick is that? You give my daughter a second hand name? How many are there? Do you call them all Rose?", she demanded in a shrill voice.
"Oh, for God's sake, look. It's the same Rose!", Pete said exasperatedly and handed the baby to Rose, who stupidly took it.
"NO!", Kagome yelled and ripped the baby away from her and handed her back to Jackie.
But it was too late.
One of the creatures appeared inside the church.
"Everyone, behind me! I'm the oldest thing in here.", the Doctor told them.
His eyes widened as the creature completely ignored him and pounced on Kagome.
His heart shattered as he watched first Kagome and then the TARDIS disappear before his eyes.
He felt so angry. Angrier than he had felt in a long time.
He whirled around and looked at Rose with such hatred that she flinched back.
"Rose Tyler. This is all your fault.", he said darkly and Rose gulped.
"I know.", she whispered.
"I wish I had never met you.", he told her flatly and went to sit on a stone step, head in his hand.
Suddenly a mewling made him look up and he saw Kirara, looking at him sorrowfully.
His eyes filled with tears and he cuddled the cat demon closer.
Rose cried silently, knowing that the Doctor would now hate her forever.
Pete laid a hand on her shoulder.
"The car that should have killed me, love. It's here. The Doctor worked it out way back, but he, er, he tried to protect me. He is still here, but he is broken. Still, he's not in charge anymore. I am.", he explained to her gently.
Rose's eyes widened, more tears spilling over.
"But you can't.", Rose whispered. Even the end of the world didn't make her deter from her selfish wish that her father lived.
"Who am I, love?", he asked her.
"My daddy.", Rose said quietly.
"Jackie, look at her. She's ours.", he told his wife whose eyes widened.
"Oh, of course.", she finally agreed as she hugged the weeping Rose.
"I'm meant to be dead, Jackie. You're going to get rid of me at last.", he joked weakly.
"Don't say that.", Jackie said, tearing up.
"For once in your life, trust me. It's got be done. You've got to survive, because you've got to bring up our daughter. I never read you those bedtime stories. I never took you on those picnics. I was never there for you.", he said tearfully.
"You would have been.", Rose said tearfully.
"But I can do this for you. I can be a proper dad to you now.", he told her.
"But it's not fair.", she cried.
"I've had all these extra hours. No one else in the world has ever had that. And on top of that, I got to see you. And you're beautiful. How lucky am I, eh? So, come on, do as your dad says. You going to be there for me, love? Thanks for saving me.", he told her one last time.
They all watched as Pete ran out of the church, clutching the vase.
The driver finally hit him and the creatures disappeared.
Everybody dashed out of the church, even the Doctor, shoulders still hunched.
Suddenly a dainty hand appeared in his, soulful ocean coloured eyes looking up at him.
"Kagome-", he choked.
"Go to him.", Kagome told Rose who nodded tearfully and ran to hold Pete's hand as he died.
Kagome let the Doctor hug her as he cried into her hair. She let him, cooing softly as she stroked his back in a circular motions.
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Later in the TARDIS the Doctor had coldly send Rose to bed and Kagome still ignored the girl.
Rose had dejectedly left the console room, leaving Kagome and the Doctor behind.
The Doctor took both of Kagome's hands in his, drinking in the fact that she was alive and well.
"Doctor…", she began but he shushed her.
"Kagome.", he began., "In the years I have known you, you were the only constant in my hectic life. Seeing you die today, unable to do anything, I was shattered. To believe that you died before I could tell you that-", he cut himself off, eyeing her still gently but slightly befuddled expression.
"The fact that we fought with each other the day before this happened also makes me furious. At myself.", he added.
Then, as she started to open her mouth to say something, he out his index finger over her lips.
He steeled himself finally, eyes shining with determination.
"I was originally going to wait for you to figure out my feeling for yourself. But in light of recent happenings, I feel that I have to tell you now."
He took a deep breath.
"Kagome. I am in love with you.", he told her before he leaned forward and kissed her firmly on the lips.
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