So here's how it all ends, i hope you all enjoyed this, I've really enjoyed writing this epilogue and hope that everything's explained.

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Epilogue

"Do you have any idea?

The way he looked at us, the look on his face; the disgust, the worry, the confusion. And all the while all I could think of was you and how she was never going to be normal.

She has one and a half hearts, how could I even begin to tell her why? How could I explain to her why she is different from everyone else, why when they teach her biology, anatomy doesn't refer to her, why she is singled out and is different from everyone she knows?

Doctor Phipps became the only one we could tell, the only one we could trust and if he wasn't there then she just got sick.

It is so hard to have to rely on one person for your child's health.

Like she relied on me.

You don't have a clue what it is like to not give your daughter the one thing she wants.

It started when she was 6, I could buy her all the other presents but not the one thing she wanted, I could not get her the one thing she wanted on her list. It breaks your heart as a parent not to be able to provide the very thing your child desires, wants, needs.

And each birthday and Christmas she would put that simple word on her list.

'Dad'

And each time she would go to sleep at the end of the day with everything but what she wanted.

You feel that you have failed your child as a mother when that thing no longer appears on her list. When after 10 years of asking you still haven't given them what they wish for; what they deserve."

Rose had looked into the Doctor's eyes. Her words cut him hard. And reminded him of all the times he had not been there, all the things he had missed all the things he had not experienced.

"So when Jack came with an answer, when we had got a solution to the barrier that was the void I sent her through, knowing that eventually you would come back to earth and praying you would find her."

The Doctor had looked back down at the hospital floor and scanned his eyes across the swirly pattern, the lino gleaming and shiny. He looked up at Rose across the corridor from him. She was looking at a point on the wall above his head.

"I knew what you would do when you found out, that's why she changed her name, who she was. And now you know, the adventure is over, the years of waiting have come to an end. Go and do what I know you'll do."

The Doctor had stood up, his shoes squeaking on the too clean floor.

"I'm sorry" he whispered.

Rose looked into the depth of his eyes and he thought he saw he nod ever so slightly, but he was never sure.

And then he turned to leave. He took a few steps forward and then turned around to see Rose still sat there, still holding on the tears that would fall onto her cheeks.

"What's her real name?"

"Hope. Hope Tyler"

His head began to whir

A-N-N-I-E T-A-T-E

H-O-P-E T-Y-L-E-R

"9 letters" he mumbled "Numbers"

And with that he turned and left. He did what they knew he would do. He turned away.

And I watched him; the Doctor walk away from me. Him. The man who changed my life, who made me who I am. Him; The doctor.

It all started in a café. Just a normal café. Nothing special, just a café. It all ended in a hospital; ironic considering he called himself a Doctor.

I watched through the ward window as the one thing I had wanted for all those years, the one name upon my birthday list walked away. I wanted to walk away but Jack's arms held me where I stood. I could have listened to gran's mutterings: "I'm gonna knock him round the head". But I blocked them out. I could have turned and looked at my mother and watched her tears cascade down her cheeks, but I watched him, watched him climb into his Tardis and leave this world. And leave us in the real world. I had grown up in a parallel universe, I had jumped into the real world, I had travelled to a sub-universe; an empty existence and he had left me where the adventure had begun; Real Earth.

He had told me that "Sometimes things are out of reach" but he hadn't known the truth when he spoke it. He hadn't known that mum was waiting for him, that she was in his reach. And he's still in ours.

I watched him leave and I'll watch him return.

Because I'm not drifting, I'm waiting for the right man, I've seen him, I've met him just once and then I watched him fly away. He's still out there and I'll find him. He's out there, burning through time facing a thousand dangers across the stars and never giving up and his name is the Doctor. The Time-Lord from Gallifrey; my father. He'll come back and this time I'll be ready.

And when you see him, tell me. Because he'll be back. Because he always comes back.

And then we'll be gone.