Thankyou, thankyou to my first reviewer for the chapter RagamuffinSundrop. I always enjoy your reviews.

(!!!) 60 reviews (!!!) Have to thank some new reviewers. Logan's Lover, who reviewed chapter 8 just as I posted 9, Lol
And gaiafreedom21 who reviewed 9 :) love new reviewers. :) (I vaguely recall that I had a new reviewer dance once. let's go with that)

With any regard to things about the apparition of Rose that don't make any sense, I just have to say that my actions are justified because: This is MY story, and I make the rules. glares (you know who you are) Lol. Silly rant, I know…

The Doctor woke to see that he was slumped on Rose's bed. He saw Rose lying there and in the moment of waking where he couldn't remember where he was, he thought that he really had her back. Rose stirred as if his frantic thoughts of losing the real Rose had woken her.

"You'll get her back." She whispered. "There's nothing that can keep us apart." She smiled brightly at him, and The Doctor gave a small smile back before standing to leave the room.

"Do you want to be alone?" Rose asked him. "Should I give you some time to think?"

"You don't have to go." He said softly. Rose sat up to address him.

"Yes I do. I have to give you some time. You just let yourself remember the good times you had with me." She cocked her head to the side. "And being with me isn't helping you to miss me."

"Why would I want to miss you?" The Doctor leant against the doorframe and gave her an inquisitive look.

"Because I'm not real, Doctor. You have to have time alone to think, and to grieve. You also have to come to terms with what just happened to you."

"What? What just happened to me, Rose? What are you talking about now?" Rose looked alarmed.

"I can't tell you, Doctor. There's some things… some things that are just better when you work them out for yourself."

"So… where are you going?" He asked her. Rose gave a content smile. "I'm going to be with you, Doctor. And you're going to work out how to be with me again." The Doctor could only frown incomprehensively.

"Where are you going?" He repeated. Rose gave a short laugh and stood up. "He left her, I'm sure of it, so I'm going to go see him. We can catch up. Have a laugh. He can tell me what he couldn't tell her."

"See? You're making no sense, Rose. What's going on?"

"I don't have to make sense. I don't exist, remember? Nothing about me makes sense to anyone." She smiled at him again as she joined him in the doorway. She kissed his cheek before she walked down the corridor and left him standing there, looking thoughtful. "That's right." She joked before she turned a corner. "Start thinking."

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The Doctor stood at the TARDIS console, doing as Rose had requested and thinking… not about anything in particular, just thinking. He felt a nudge in his mind from the TARDIS, and as he paid attention to her once more, he became aware that she had changed. Something was unusual about the way she was now compared to what she had been the last time he stood over her console.

"What's different about you, old girl?" He asked affectionately. The TARDIS made a slight buzzing in his mind.

"Has something about me changed too, then?" He murmured. "I don't feel any different." He laughed at the tickle in his mind. "No, I wouldn't feel it, would I? What could possibly be different about me?" He pondered out loud. "What did The Face of Boe do to me?"

The Doctor closed his eyes and tried to sense anything odd or out of place within his own mind or body. When he didn't find anything out of the ordinary, he just let his mind wander and found himself thinking about the times he had shared with Rose. There was a sympathetic warmth in his mind that the TARDIS sent to help with any pain he might feel, but The Doctor simply opened his eyes once more.

"Hoe can I be sad about losing her when she's right here with me?" He questioned. "How can I tell what's different about me? Is there anything different at all? What's Rose going through without me?" At the question, he let himself sink slowly to his knees.

"What was it like with Rose here? I let myself forget." He moaned despairingly. "She wouldn't have wanted me to forget her, I've failed her." Silent tears dripped slowly down his face, as they had the day he had almost said goodbye properly.

This time, though, there was no sudden appearance of a bride to shock him out of his misery. There was only pain as he knelt in his TARDIS in London only three earth years, but so many of his own years after he had lost his beloved Rose.

OIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIIOI

"You changed." The Doctor suddenly stated after pouring out his heart and soul into the tears that leaked from his eyes. "How much did you change?" He jumped up quickly and frantically tapped keys and pressed buttons.

"They both said I could have her back. It's not impossible…" There was not a sound throughout the TARDIS except for the gentle tapping of a keyboard. When it stopped, there was complete silence. The Doctor stood shock-still as he gazed longingly at his screen.

"I can go to her…" He stated airily. "I can go to Rose. I can get her back." His voice rose with every syllable, and it was then that a hand on his shoulder made him give a startled yelp.

"Only me." Rose chuckled. "I see you've figured some things out. You're going to find her and bring her back, then you can-"

"Did I leave her?" The Doctor interrupted.

"What?" Rose frowned at him.

"Did the part of me that was with Rose leave her alone?" He questioned levelly. Rose looked sad, which answered The Doctor's question.

"It doesn't matter. You never let me down, Doctor. You never have and you never will. You won't have me, but-"

"You're not going to stay with me? Help me to get her back?" The Doctor whined, changing the subject suddenly.

"Don't be silly." Rose reprimanded him. "I'm not 100 Rose. There's nothing better than the real thing, Doctor. You should remember that. Rose doesn't always agree with you, and she can't read your mind. What could be better than that?"

"What's going to happen to you, then?"

"As soon as we're in the same universe, Doctor, I'll be whole again. You'll be whole again. In time, she'll even get my memories."

"How will I know-?"

"She'll remember when you remember." It was Rose's turn to interrupt. "As soon as she touches you, she'll know it's the real you, and as soon as you touch her… me…" She caressed his cheek. "I'm a million times better when I'm whole." She pulled away and ran her hand over the TARDIS console. Rose gave a joyful laugh as the TARDIS hummed happily.

"You'll get her back, too." She commented. "I'll be here for both of you again. Neither of you will be lonely…" She trailed off and walked all the way around the console, drawing The Doctor's gaze. When she was back in front of him, she stared up into his eyes.

"Come on." She demanded impatiently. "We haven't got another hundred years to waste. I want to be whole again." The Doctor nodded and got to work, his hands flying over the controls.

"You have to show me how to do that some day." She remarked. He looked up and grinned at her.

"As long as you give me forever, Rose, I'll give you anything you ask."

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not my best chapter, and I actually avoided explaining anything technical (I'm no science whiz.)

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P.S
Haha! I re-posted this chapter because I can't bear typos. :) horsefly, you made me laugh so much 'snot yuck' hehe
Forgive typos. I was in a rush because I have been trying to get this chapter out all afternoon. I got off for a second and returned to find a twelve-year-old boy in my seat. Being the benevolent sister I am, I let him have a turn – not realising that I left this in the middle of a sentence. Sadly, that sentence had to be cut because I couldn't remember what the end was supposed to look like.