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Well done SittingOnTheEdgeOfTheUnivers e for catching that. Yes the Doctor did tell Rose that River was his wife when they were in Pete's World. Is she forgetting things? Or are the timelines shifting? Or did I just overlook that detail because I'm a fail? Wait and see.

Rose closed her eyes and allowed her hair to float out around her head. She heard laughter next to her and opened her eyes to see the look of wonder on Amy's face. They Doctor was inside the TARDIS laughing and holding onto their ankles while his companions enjoyed themselves in the zero gravity that could only be the vacuum of space. Rose closed her eyes again, smile playing on her lips at being here again. It had been well over two hundred hears since the last time she had gone into space. John enjoyed space walks too much, so many times she found herself tethered to the TARDIS doing backflips alongside her husband, but after he got up in age, backflips in space were too much and their travels stopped.

"Hello." he had said when he woke her up from her slumber by jumping on their bed.

"What?" she had snapped groggy and irritated at being woken up.

"I fancy a space walk."

"John, we have a time machine, we can do a space walk any time."

"Oh come on. I'm not getting any younger."

She stiffened underneath the covers. He was right, he wasn't getting any younger and she was frozen in time. "I mean, you can do a space walk at any time Miss I-have-two-hearts. Which you don't, by the way. I don't know why you keep saying you do."

"Maybe I think if I keep saying it, it'll happen and I can just say 'I'm not aging because I'm a humanoid alien, listen for yourself...two hearts.'" she teased, getting up to get dressed.

"Come along." The Doctor called, pulling the girls in, "Now do you believe us?" he asked a laughing Amy.

"Ok, your box is a spaceship. It's really really a spaceship. We are in space! Woo!" she shouted then inhaled sharply, "What are we breathing?"

"Rose extended the air shell, we're fine."

The trio looked down at the city floating below them.

"Now that's impressive." Rose said earning a nod from the Doctor.

"Twenty Ninth Century. Solar flares roast the Earth and the entire human race packs their bags and moves out until the weather improves. Whole nations migrating to the stars. Isn't that amazing?"

"Doctor..." came a call from Rose.

"Doctor..." Amy's voice followed.

"DOCTOR!" They shouted in unison, finally catching his attention.

The Doctor turned to see that neither one of his companions were in the room, but the voices had come from the direction of the doors. He pushed them open to see both the blonde and the ginger holding on for dear life to the frame of the TARDIS.

"Well come on. I found us a spaceship." he said excitedly.

Amy, Rose, the Doctor, Mandy, and Liz Ten were being led into the Dungeon at the Tower of London on Spaceship UK. Amy was still reeling over what she had obviously forgotten, Rose was trying to figure out what was wrong with Amy, and the Doctor wouldn't stop talking. He was explaining that the creature was a star whale. Rose could hear Liz yelling at her staff, but Rose wasn't focused on that. Being in tune with the TARDIS, Rose could speak any language in the Universe, even more than the Doctor. Not only that, she could hear the thoughts of anyone, if she bothered to listen. Now she was focusing her attention to the Star Whale.

She could hear it's agony.

"Please stop them, please." It begged

"What can I do?" Rose asked, concerned.

"I would not leave them. I would not leave the children to scream."

This entire conversation, though short, lasted longer than Rose realized. By the time she became aware of her surroundings, the Doctor was working to render it a vegetable so it wouldn't feel pain, and Amy was figuring something out. The next thing they knew, Amy grabbed Liz's hand and pushed the abdicate button.

"No!" the Doctor shouted.

The beast whaled. The starship lurched and everyone onboard screamed.

"Amy, what have you done?" the Doctor said in fear.

"Nothing at all." Amy said smugly.

"We've increased speed!"

"Yah, when you stop torturing the pilot, God help."

"It's still here." Liz said, astounded. "I don't understand"

"The Star Whale didn't come as a miracle all those years ago. It volunteered. You didn't have to trap it! Or torture it! That was all just you. It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry."

Rose nodded, smiling. The Doctor looked confused.

"What if you were really old, and really kind and alone. Your whole race dead. No future. What could you do then. If you were that old, and that kind." she paused and looked at the Doctor, "And the very last of your kind. You couldn't just stand there and watch children cry."

Rose slipped her hand into the Doctor's and looked up to smile at him. "She's right."

They found themselves on an observation deck, looking out at empty space later that evening. Amy was sitting on the floor a few feet away, just watching the astroids floating by.

"She could have killed everyone on this ship." The Doctor said.

"But she didn't." Rose whispered.

"She couldn't have known."

"Of course she could have. She's seen it before, I've seen it before, we all have. Very old, and very kind, and the very very last."

"Not anymore." he whispered watching the way her hair fell around her face.

He noticed that her eyes were lit up, the excitement of adventure shinning through brightly. He saw how her cheeks were flushed pink from all that running. His eyes noted that her chest was rising and falling rapidly then he looked at her face and saw that she was watching him. She licked her lips and all he wanted to do was taste them. He wondered if they tasted like roses.

"Not anymore." Rose whispered.

Amy watched the couple intently. She hadn't known much about Rose as a child, she hadn't met her until two years prior. She thought that Rose was the Doctor's friend, nothing more, but seeing them now...a surge of jealousy flashed through her. Her blood turned to ice, her stomach twisted in knots, she didn't understand any of it. Why should she be jealous? She was getting married a very long time ago tomorrow morning for crying out loud! Yet she couldn't stop herself from clearing her throat.

"Right, time to leave!"

"Shouldn't we say good-bye? Won't they wonder where we went?" Amy asked trying to catch up to the two.

"For the rest of their lives." the Doctor said.

"Oh the songs they'll write." Rose finished.

"Never mind about that. Big day tomorrow!"

Amy paused, "What?"

"Well it's always a big day tomorrow! I've got a Time Machine!"

"He skips the little ones."

"You know what I said about being back by tomorrow morning?" Rose and the Doctor nodded and walked closer to the ginger, "You ever run away from something because you're scared, or you're not ready or just...just because you could?"

"Once...a long time ago." The Doctor whispered.

"What happened?" Amy asked, nervous for his answer.

"Hello..." He smiled.

"Right...Doctor there's something I haven't told you! Wait...hold on, that's a phone ringing? People actually phone you?"

Rose laughed, "It's a phone box." she teased.

Amy rolled her eyes with a smile and picked up the receiver, "Hello...who?...No I'm sorry who? Says he's the prime minister. First the Queen now the Prime Minister? You really get around don't yah?"

"Which Prime Minister?" Rose asked pulling a switch.

"Er um ah, which Prime Minister?...The British one."

"Which British one?" the Doctor asked.

"Which British one?" Amy repeated into the phone, "Winston Churchill for you."

The Doctor took the phone and listened for a moment, "Don't worry Prime Minister, we're on our way."

"Churchill...Doctor that's during World War Two." Rose said, suddenly panicked.

"Yah." The Doctor turned more knobs.

"When exactly are we going?" Rose asked nervously.

"Um..." he checked the scanner, "During the Blitz, why?"

"You mean the same Blitz where I'm hanging off a barrage balloon with a Union Jack across my chest while traveling with a big eared alien. The same Blitz where we meet the flirty captain that saves us with his invisible spaceship from the horde of gas masked people asking 'Are you my mummy?'"

"Yah, why?" he asked confused by her panicked expression.

"Doctor! We can't cross our timeline!"

"Rose Tyler, didn't you pay attention in history class? The London Blitz didn't last one day you know. I can pick any day to land, and I won't pick the days we were there." And they were off.

This chapter is shorter than my previous two, but I didn't want to rewrite the entire episode, that's just boring. The next installment will be set after Victory of the Daleks and during The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone. I won't be going line by line again, but it may clear up the question, "What happens to River Song?" Please remember that this is a DoctorXRose fic so there will be few, if any, DoctorXRiver moments.