AN: I got my Sonic Screwdriver today! It makes noise and all that! I was so excited! Ha-ha, anyways promised you a chapter. And well, the ending will make you hate me… Please don't hate me! It's just an idea I had and loved!

Time Lost

Chapter Ten

The Snowmen

Rose and the Doctor walked hand in hand sadly through a dark snow filled alley, when suddenly they saw they were about to pass a woman. So, they put their heads down. "Did you two make that snowman?" The stranger asked. "No" The Doctor said annoyed, though him and Rose didn't stop walking to answer. Well who did? Cause it wasn't there a second ago. It just appeared." The pair stopped and listened. "From nowhere…" The Stranger continued. The Doctor tightened his grip on Rose's hand and she gasped in pain. "Sorry…" He whispered to her and she kissed his hand lovingly. The two then turned and the Doctor put on Amy's old reading glasses.

"Maybe it's snow that fell before. Maybe it remembers how to make a snowman." He said while Rose pulled her shawl tighter around her. The girl raised an eyebrow. "Snow can remember? That's silly." She stated. Rose looked away from the Doctor. "What's wrong with silly?" She asked and the girl turned to Rose.

"Nothin' still talkin' to you two, aint I?" Rose looked back at the Doctor who was smiling at the stranger and she was smiling back at him. "What's your name?" He asked removing the glasses and moving next to Rose who absent-mindedly took his hand in her own. "Clara." She said and Rose smiled and him. "Nice name." Rose paused. "Clara." She continued and they once again started walking away. "You should definitely keep it." She finished and they rounded the corner. "Goodbye!" The Doctor called over his shoulder before kissing Rose softly.

Clara looked at the ground and then where the two left her. She decided to follow them and ran through the alleyway. "Oi! Where are you going? I thought we was just gettin' acquainted?" She exclaimed and the pair frowned, but forced a sincere smile and turned around. "Those were the days…" The Doctor said. A flicker of confusion crosses Clara's face while sadness went on his and Rose's. They turned and walked off again.

Clara turned to walk back to the bar but stopped when she heard a carriage door shut. She backed up and returned to the alleyway. She then cast off her shawl and began running after the Doctor and Rose. She made her way through interconnecting alleyways to see a carriage pulling off so she chased it around a corner.

Rose looked out the window sadly and the Doctor looked at her. He opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by a voice over the speaker. "Ah, refreshing to see you taking an interest once again. Was she nice?" Vastra asked. Rose looked away from the window and at the intercom. "We just spoke to her." Rose explained and the Doctor took her hand. "And made your usual impact, no doubt." The woman on the intercom said. Rose sighed and leaned on his shoulder. "No, no impact. Those days are over." The Doctor stated. "You two can't help yourself! It's the same story every time, and it always begins with the same two words." The Doctor and Rose exchanged looks. "She'll never be able to find us again! She doesn't even have the name, Doctor. What two words?" He said and Rose flinched at the sound of something on the roof. Clara popped her head through the roof and Rose's eyes widened. "Doctor? Doctor who?"

Rose and the Doctor are outside behind Strax who is looking through binoculars. "They've taken samples from the snowmen all over London. What do you suppose they're doing in there?" He asked as he lowered the binoculars from his face. Rose kneeled on the ground next to the Doctor. He picked up some snow and Rose watched. "The snow is new. Possibly alien. When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?" He asked looking at Rose who shrugged. "A grenade!" Strax exclaimed and Rose looked horrified. "A profit!" She said while the Doctor threw the snow back on the ground. "That's Victorian values for you…" she continued before standing up and whipping the snow off her dress.

"I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines, and acid." Strax said walking over to the couple. "Why?" Rose challenged. "Couldn't we at least investigate?" Strax suggested. Rose shook her head. "No, it's none of our business." The Doctor said from behind her. "Sir! And ma'am… Permission to expression my opposition to your current apathy." Strax asked. Rose raised an eyebrow. "Permission granted." She said. "Sir and once again ma'am, I am opposed to your current apathy!" He practically shouted.

"Thank you, Strax. And if we're ever in the need of advice from a psychotic potato-dwarf," Rose paused and clasped the sides of Strax's head. "You'll certainly be the first to know." She finished and the Doctor chuckled. "But if the snow is new, and alien, shouldn't I, we, I be making some attempt to destroy it? Be reasonable..." The Doctor sighed. "It is not our problem." Rose said taking the Doctor's hand. "Over a thousand years of saving the universe, Strax... you know the one thing I learned? The universe doesn't care." He said and Rose felt her heart break. In the distance Clara could be heard.

"Oi Doctor!" They heard her shout and Rose closed her eyes. "Now... we have a problem of our own to worry about." She said walking towards the carriage with Strax and the Doctor. Inside the carriage Clara could be heard shouting. "Let me out! Oi!" The Doctor opened the door and walked into the carriage while Rose stood outside leaning on it. "Don't worry... no one's going to hurt you." He assured her and she nodded. She spotted Strax and moved back a bit. "What is that thing?" Rose laughed and Strax glared at Clara. "Silence boy!" The Doctor rolled his eyes. "That's Strax, and as you can see he's easily confused…" He explained and Strax nodded. "Silence girl! Sorry lad." Strax said and Rose walked so the Doctor and Clara could see her. "Okay Strax got it, but who's she?" Rose looked at the Doctor and he smiled at her slightly. "I'm Rose Tyler." She said and Clara nodded.

A few moments later Rose and the Doctor are walking hand in hand in a park oblivious that Clara is following them. Out of nowhere the Doctor jumps up and grabs a ladder, which he pulls down. Him and Rose disappear up it and the ladder goes back up. When Clara thinks they can't see her she jumps up trying to grab the ladder and falls. She gets up and tries again, this time she succeeds. She climbed up the ladder and was on a cloud. Clara walked over to the TARDIS, which was still damaged, from going into 1938 New York.

Clara knocked on the door and heard the door start to open so she ran to the other side. The Doctor popped his head out with a sad and confused look. "Hello?" He asked walking completely out of the box being followed by Rose. "Hello?" Rose tried but no one answered. Clara was now on the other side of the TARDIS while the pair circled it. Before leaving she looked inside the TARDIS not noticing it's bigger on the inside. "Hello?" The Doctor tried once more and Clara darted down the stairs dropping her shawl. When Rose was fully around the box she noticed something by the stairs and picked it up noticing it looked an awful lot like the shawl Clara was wearing earlier.

Later in the TARDIS Rose is looking at the floor sadly and the Doctor is looking at her with concern. The phone rang and she answered it motioning for him to come over and listen. "What is it?" She asked somewhat annoyed and Vastra could be heard on the other line. "Miss Clara and her concerns about the snow. I gave her the one word test." Vastra said and Rose rolled her eyes. "Well that's always pointless. What did she say?" She asked and looked at the Doctor. "Well?" Rose hesitated. "Pond." Vastra finally said and concern swept across Rose's face. "Strax has already suggested where to start investigating." The lizard woman explained before hanging up. Rose stood looking at the Doctor. "What's wrong?" He asked her and she put the phone down so she could hug him tightly. She never answered him but she knew something bad was going to happen.

"Doctor Simeon…there's someone here to see you." The butler said stuttering. Simeon turned around and glared at him. "Who?" The butler shuddered and nodded. "Sir, it's Sherlock Holmes." Suddenly The Doctor and Rose barged through the door hand in hand. The Doctor in a Sherlock Holmes getup and Rose in a red Victorian style dress. "If you're Sherlock Holmes who's the girl?" Simeon asked and Rose glared at him. "Oh this is um, Watson!" The Doctor practically shouted at the man. Rose looked at the Doctor and then back to Mr. Simeon. "I thought Watson was a man, this is a girl. I think." He said and Rose rolled her eyes while the Doctor glared at him. "She IS a girl." He explained and turned his attention to the giant globe in the middle of the room. "Come along Watson." He said enthusiastically and Rose didn't hesitate to follow. "Oh, yes. Big, globey thing. Now... shut up, don't tell me... I see from your collar stud you have an apple-tree and a wife with a limp. Am I right?" The Doctor asked and Rose giggled at him. "No." Simeon said flatly.

"Do you have a wife?" Rose asked.

"No."

"Bit of a tree? Bit of a wife? Some apples?" She continued taking on the Doctor's awkwardness.

"Come on! Work with me here!" She complained and the Doctor grinned a bit.

The Doctor turned to the butler. "Do you have a fish named Collin?"

"…No…" The Butler replied and Rose smirked. "We thought not! Didn't we Sherlock?" He smiled and turned to her. "That we did Watson!" He exclaimed still holding her hand.

After Rose and The Doctor left Simeon's mansion he scanned the frozen pond with the sonic screwdriver. "Body frozen in a pond... When the snow gets a good, long look at a human being like a... full-body scan... everything they need to evolve. A pond. Good point, Clara." He said to himself while Rose turned and her eyes widened. Strax appeared with a large weapon. "What are you doing here?" She asked causing the Doctor to turn around also. "Madame Vastra wondered if you were needing any grenades." Strax said and the Doctor stared at him. "Grenades?" He asked eyebrow raised. "She might have said help." Rose blinked. "Help for what?" She asked. "Well for your investigation!" Strax exclaimed and Rose looked at the ground. "Investigation? Who says we're investigating? Do you think we're going to start investigation just because a bird smiles at us? Who do you think we are?" Strax smirked and Rose knew what was coming. "Sherlock Holmes and his partner Watson." Strax said amused. "Don't be clever with me! We're the clever one's you're the potato one!' The Doctor said poking Strax in the head and Rose laughed. "Now go away." He said and Strax nodded. "Yes…Mr. Holmes…" He said and walked away. "Oi! Shut up! You're not clever! You're not funny! And you've got tiny little legs!" The Doctor shouted after him and Rose burst out laughing. "Ya know he's tryin' to help." Rose stated and he nodded. "He's not though…" He replied hugging Rose.

Rose and The Doctor were on the staircase with Clara and the children looking shocked at Latimer. "Children, what is the explan..." He trailed off seeing the Doctor and Rose. "Who the devil are you two?" Rose and the Doctor exchanged looks and then back at Latimer. "Oh is my sister Rose…And I'm your governess's gentlemen friend…" Clara nodded and Rose glared at him. "We've just been upstairs kissing." Soon both Clara and Rose were glaring at him and he put on a nervous smile. Once they are all down the stairs the Doctor turns to Latimer. "So, any questions?" He asked and Latimer looked to Clara. "You've…got a gentlemen friend?" Clara sighed and Rose looked at him annoyed.

Clara is comforting the children while Rose, Vastra, and the Doctor talked. "Sir, please do not noogie me during combat!' Strax yelled and Rose looked at Clara to find she was looking at Rose the whole time. Rose smiled politely before turning back to the Doctor.

Rose and the Doctor ran out of the room and looked around for the ice woman. Clara quickly appeared in the hallway with them. "Oi! I told you to stay in there!" He said gesturing to the room she had just left. "Oh. I didn't listen." She said happy with herself. "You do that a lot." He said and Rose glared at the woman. "That's why you like me." She stated and the Doctor looked confused. "Who said I like you?" He asked and what happened next caused Rose to run out of the room. Clara had grabbed him and kissed him. When they pulled away the Doctor looked where Rose had been and then back to Clara flustered. "I think you just did." She said and the Doctor raised an eyebrow. "You. Kissed. Me!" He shouted and Clara grinned. "And you blushed." She stated. His eyes widened. "And with…The…Shut up!" He said walking away. Clara stayed put for a moment to smile at herself for what she had just done not noticing that Rose had left. Then she followed after them.

In the other room before Clara entered the Doctor saw Rose sitting on a chair with her face in her hands. "Rose?" He offered and she looked up with red swollen eyes. He noticed she had been crying and his eyes got a guilty look in them. "She's Reinette all over again isn't she?" Rose asked through her sobs. "No, Rose I swore I would never hurt you like that again." He said getting closer to her. She laughed annoyed. "A little late for that." She said standing up. He pulled her closer to him and hugged her. "Rose, I have no feelings for Clara, she kissed me not the other way around. "It's not just the kiss that bothered me. You lied to Latimer and said I was your sister. You basically encouraged Clara to kiss you since you gave her the idea." Rose stated. The Doctor shook his head and moved the strand of hair out of Rose's eyes. "I know, I shouldn't have done that. It was stupid on my part. I'm sorry." He said sadly and Rose looked at him. "Promise?" He nodded. "I promise." He said and she smiled slightly before kissing him softly.

All three of them were inside the TARDIS now and Clara kept asking random questions. "Has it got a kitchen?" The Doctor looked confused. "Another…First…" He said slowly. "Sorry, just I like making soufflés." He looked up from the console and to Rose who wasn't looking at him. "Soufflés?" He asked. Clara nodded as she walked closer to the door.

The Doctor gave Clara a TARDIS key after getting a nod from Rose to make sure she was okay with all of this. "What's this?" Clara asked and Rose gave a sincere smile. "It's us giving in." She explained. "Silly, don't know why I'm crying." Rose smiled a little bigger and walked over to the Doctor. "I do. Remember this. Remember this, right now, all of it, because this is the day... this is the day... This. Is. The. Day... Everything. Begins!" Rose said happily before walking over to hug Clara. The Doctor smiled that Rose could finally accept Clara and began pressing buttons on the console not noticing the Ice woman coming up from behind Clara and Rose. The ice lady grabbed Rose and Clara causing her to drop the key, which made a loud clinking, noise. The Doctor looked up and froze. "Clara! Rose!" He shouted running out the door. "Get offa me!" Clara screamed while Rose struggled. "Water vapor doesn't stop ice, I should have realized!" He said grabbing the sonic screwdriver from his pocket. "Get off!" Rose shouted while the ice woman continued to pull them. "Let them go! Let them go now!" The Doctor shouted pointing the screwdriver at the ice woman. "Get off of me!" Both women shout and they all look horrified once the ice lady reaches the edge of the cloud. The Doctor ran to the edge and felt his hearts break watching Clara and Rose fall to their death. He absent mindedly called only after rose. "Rose!" He shouted as the girls fell. Rose shed a tear and mouthed three words to him. "I love you"

Inside Latimer's mansion Jenny heard a thud and gasped. "What was that?" Vastra asked alarmed. "I-its Rose and Clara…" Jenny stuttered looking at Vastra. "No…" Vastra said under her breath. "We have to get them inside!" Latimer said striding off. "Those things will kill you!" Vastra called after him. He stopped and spat out. "They're hurt!" Vastra sighed. "They're dead…" She said flatly. Suddenly she heard the TARDIS materializing and she looked back out the window. "What is that?" Latimer asked and Vastra smiled slightly. "He's taking them in." She said as the TARDIS appeared under Rose and Clara's backs.

Clara and Rose have been moved to tables inside the mansion Strax standing in between them. "I don't understand. That green woman said they were dead. How could they be alive now?" Latimer asked. "This technology has capacities and abilities beyond anything your puny human mind can understand. Not to worry." Strax said somewhat comforting.

The Doctor was in the TARDIS scanning the pieces of ice that was once the ice lady. Vastra walked in and her eyes landed on the box. "Isn't the creature still a danger? It…could reform" Vastra asked and he shook his head. "Nope, not in here." He said sadness in his voice. "Then you should be with them…" She replied plainly. The Doctor looked up. "They're going to be fine. They have to be…" Vastra shook her head and looked at him with concern in her eyes. "Doctor, their injuries are severe. That equipment will bring anyone for a while, but long-term…" She trailed off. "It was my fault. I am responsible for what happened to them. They were in my care." He replied to her a little bit of hope in his voice. "What is the point in blaming yourself?" Vastra asked walking away from the door. "None. Because they're going to live."

When the Doctor finally exits the TARDIS he sees Rose and Clara, still breathing and he walks over to Rose first while Latimer was with Clara. Rose opened her eyes and smiled weakly. "Hey…Hello." The Doctor said quietly. "They all think me and Clara are going to die, don't they?" Rose asked with a tired voice. "But I know you're both going to live…" He trailed off looking into her tear filled eyes. "How…Doctor I can't die, depending on the injuries or wounds given during death. But like Vastra said my injuries are severe. I can't get out of this one…" Rose said smile fading and the Doctor took her hand. "Rose I promised you forever…and you're going to get it…" He said sadly. Rose shook her head. "I can't. Doctor you know I love you but I can't…" Rose said before he kissed her. When he took his lips away her eyes were closed and she had stopped breathing. He put his hand on her cheek and kissed her forehead. "It's my fault…" He whispered against her skin and he stood.

When he walked over to Clara he gave her a slight smile. She returned it and looked at the ceiling. "Your friend…is she…" Clara trailed off, as she didn't want to say the words. The Doctor nodded and she gasped. "I'm sorry." She replied in a friendly way. "Not your fault." He said reaching for the TARDIS key in his pocket. "But I know you're going to live." Clara looked at him confused. "How?" He put the key in her hand and kissed it. "I never know how…I only know who." He said with a smile. "The green lady…she said you were the saver of worlds once. Are you going to save this one?" Clara asked and he looked at her happily. "If I do will you come with me?" He asked and she nodded. "Yes." His smiled widened. "Well then." He paused kissing her forehead. "Merry Christmas." The Doctor stood and straightened his bowtie. He took one last look at Rose and she had a tear falling from her cheek.

"How long are you going to stay with me?" Rose smiled and turned to him.

"Forever…" They both smiled as the Doctor took her hand.

He remembered they had both promised each other forever but the damned ice lady snatched it away from them.

After the Doctor got rid of Simeon and the globe he made his way back to Latimer's mansion and ran inside. "I'm sorry. There is nothing to be done. She has moments only." Strax explained while the children cried and the Doctor kneeled at the table to be next to Clara. "You saved the world, Clara, you me and Rose." He paused pushing away the remembrance that Rose was dead. "We really, really did." He said happily. Clara smiled. "Are you going back your cloud?" She asked and the Doctor shook his head. "No more cloud. Not now." He said flatly staring at Rose's lifeless body. "Why not?" She asked and he was about to say because it held to many memories of his now dead wife. He decided not to. "It rained." Clara shut her eyes as she was dying. "Run…run you clever boy…" She paused and opened her eyes. "And remember." The Doctor looked up in recognition from the Asylum of Daleks. "It's Christmas. Christmas Day!" The maid called and the Doctor walked over to Rose. He kneeled next to her and took her hand. "This has to work…" He said quietly and he shut his eyes. Rose's body started glowing but it did nothing. He thought it was a delayed reaction. "Vastra!" He called and she hurried over to him. "Check for any life…" He said hurriedly and Vastra scanned her. Vastra shook her head and put her hand on the Doctor's shoulder. "I'm sorry Doctor but she's dead." He looked at Rose one last time. "The adventures we had…just with they didn't have to end so soon." He said quietly to her before he stood. "So much for a happy Christmas." He said bitterly.

The Doctor Latimer and the children stood in a cemetery by two new graves. One for Rose and one for Clara. "I never knew Clara's full name. Clara Oswin Oswald. It was soufflé girl…Again." He said shocked. He stood and looked at Rose's grave. "I promised her forever. And she never got it." He said and Vastra looked at him. "Things happen Doctor you didn't know, it isn't your fault." She said and the Doctor sighed. "Yes it is. I made no effort to make them stop being dragged. I could have prevented it but I didn't I watched them get pulled off the edge and now they're dead." He replied sadly.

The Doctor was now alone in the TARDIS and he walked into Rose's old room. He felt his hearts break as he noticed something was different about it. He walked over to her nightstand and saw a new picture there. He picked it up and saw it was him Rose amy and Rory together at their wedding. He smiled slightly and then it faded when he remembered all three of them were now gone and dead. He pushed that thought away and saw another thing that wasn't there before. It was a note.

Dear Doctor,

I know that since I died you'll probably sulk like you had when I got sucked into the parallel universe, which you shouldn't. You should live your life and be happy. For I shall return. - Rose

His eyes never left the note until he heard the TARDIS take flight. He ran into the console room to see a familiar smiling face.

"Hello…"

Hey guess what? Wait...I can't tell you! Now i am sad! :c Mer. Stupid spoilers! Anyway's even though you guys stopped reviewing I will continue to make chapters. Why did you stop reviewing though :( Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter :)