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Hello, my lovelies! Not as long of a wait as before, eh? it's blizzard-ing outside the laundromat I'm at and in under a week I will be sixteen. How the time passes.

I'm sorry that this is a short chapter, I've been busy and thought I'd give you something before Monday and school rolled around.

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The TARDIS lurched sideways, throwing everyone on the floor.

I'm not apologizing for that one, she told Rose weakly, it was your fault.

A couple of minutes later, Chelsea opened the door of the TARDIS. "Rose… I don't think that this Cardiff."

Rose sat up from her position on the floor and walked towards Chelsea. "You're right."

Outside was a small stone cottage on a large lot of land. In the far, far distance, Rose could see buildings.

Anya and Amethyst joined them at the door.

"Where are we then?" Amy asked.

"You're in New York. Well, the outskirts anyway. Doctor! Are you in there? Why did you repaint the TARDIS such an awful colour? Did you get new companions? Doctor! I thought you said you couldn't come back here because of the time energy! Doctor!" A Scottish ginger woman in her early thirties yelled, appearing from the side of the TARDIS and trying to peer in the dark console room.

"Excuse me? Did you say 'Doctor'? That's who we're looking for!" Amethyst said, trying to keep the weird woman out of the TARDIS.

"Yes, this is his TARDIS, isn't it? He's come back for us hasn't he? I've just finished the Afterword, surely he's read it."

Rose eyes flashed gold for a second. "Amelia… Pond…"

"I go by Williams now, if you don't mind. How do you know my name?" Amelia shook her head. "You look familiar, like I've seen you before in a… picture. Have we met?"

"I'm the Bad Wolf… or Rose. The Time Vortex must've awoken in my head, I can see it. All of it. It must've awoken because of the time energy here, it's so… heavy and distracting." Rose started swaying, clutching her head. She puffed out her cheeks and breathed out heavily.

"Are you okay?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, sure. 1939, right? We're in 1939. Wonderful, we're stuck with a broken TARDIS and can't find him or even get to…"

"Rose? Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Anya asked.

"Ding dong. Another paradox is knocking at our door," Rose replied.

"I'm sorry, what? How'd you get here if you're looking for the Doctor? Only River knows how to fly it."

"River who?" Amethyst asked.

"Oh very funny, we are talking about the same Doctor right? River's his wife… and my daughter."

Rose felt like she was about to throw up. So the Doctor did move on.

My Wolf, I am so very sorry. The TARDIS' mental voice was growing fainter.

Anger flared in Rose. She had risked everything to come back to him. Her brother. Her best friends. Her own TARDIS! And she finds out that he's married. Oh she was gonna kill him, even if it was his last regeneration.

"We need to move. You," Rose said pointing to Amy, "get your husband, you're moving. Amethyst, Anya, and Chelsea, get your things out of my TARDIS. Now!"

Oh, not the Doctor's TARDIS, Amy thought.

"I'm sorry, what? Rose, what did we do?" Chelsea asked.

"Nothing, absolutely nothing. When I take the consciousness out of the TARDIS, self-destruct will begin and everything will blow up."

"Ugh, you're gonna blow up a TARDIS in my yard?"

"No, before the sequence begins, the TARDIS is transported to an uninhabited planet. The damage that a TARDIS makes when it goes 'boom' is a lot more than this planet, or even your side yard, can handle."

"Oh, okay then. Well, grab your things and bring them inside. Rory's at work and will be home later, you can explain things then."

All of the girls went to get their things, including Rose who kept a small suitcase with her most personal belongings in it.

After everyone was in Amelia's house and only Rose was left, she ran her hand along the console and thought about all of the memories she had had in this magnificent machine. Watching her companions grow from innocent girls to protectors of the multiverse. The same with Tony and watching him grow from a depressed boy who had just lost his parents and Donna who thought that she was just an unimportant temp. All of it, everything that happened in this TARDIS, was going to be just a memory in only a few minutes.

She made her way down to the bottom of her TARDIS, where its consciousness lay beneath a pile of books and wires and playthings, right beside its heart that now flickered with a dying light. She must hurry.

And she did. With tears in her eyes, she removed the little sphere that held her TARDIS' everything in it and hoped that her TARDIS would be whole again one day.

Rose slowly left, and as she closed the doors, she turned to watch her coral TARDIS (which Amy had insulted) disappear.