A/N: Sorry for delay - been struggling with this chapter -I wrote this yesterday but wasn't sure about it... but it refuses to change so... here we are...

Donna sat in her car watching the wiper blades move side to side. Traffic was terrible this morning; she'd been parked in the same spot for the past thirty minutes. She gazed at the clock on the dashboard; she was going to be late. She guessed Alex in her dream was right she was a slave to time, just as everybody else was.

Alex, her dream man, Donna chuckled, bit too slim and weedy but he had a good sense of humour. Donna shook her head, it was just a dream, just part of her subconscious and it wasn't real. Donna chuckled, "I mean come on, me Donna Noble saving the world" Suddenly she became aware of a car horn being sounded and she suddenly realised the road ahead was clear, "Okay, Okay I'm going" she cried out and quickly made her way back to work.

Alex stomped around the lab still angry and uptight, every so often he'd pick up something and throw it across the room. How could he do this to me, to Donna, to Rose?

He grabbed a chair and threw himself into it. His thoughts constantly on Donna sitting at a desk in an anonymous office for the rest of her days; she was meant for more than that, worth more. He sighed, he had to do something he couldn't remain in this universe he belonged with Donna and he was going to find a way back.

"Have you calmed down yet Alex?" Asked Rose as she entered room,

Alex shrugged, "How can I be okay? Everything is wrong you said so yourself"

"Alex we spoke about this there's no way back so its pointless going over it, you'll just end up hurting yourself"

Alex shrugged, "Who says there's not a way back?"

Rose rolled her eyes and knelt before Alex, "There is no way back and Lord knows I've tried, at least not without damaging this universe"

Alex stayed silent

"Alex… tell me you're not seriously considering it?"

Alex shrugged, "I can't sit here and do nothing for sixty years, watching time drag on I have to be with her one way or another"

Rose stared at Alex's expression, deeply worried about the darkness she saw in their depths, she'd never seen the Doctor look so dark and withdrawn and suddenly she worried just how different Alex was to the Doctor.

"I'm going out!" Alex stood up and grabbed his coat and left the lab as Rose took a seat and put her head in her hands.