To Make Much of Time

by chocolatequeen

The Doctor thought he'd removed all traces of the vortex from Rose, but there was still something of the wolf about her. What would have changed if he'd been forced to face that–and if Rose had understood what she was becoming? A series 2 canon divergence fic starting with Tooth and Claw and ending with a Doomsday fix-it. Part Two of Being to Timelessness-series list in my profile.

11. Chapter 11

In the sky above London, a strange orb broke through the Earth's atmosphere. The only building in the vicinity happened to house the secretive Torchwood Institute, which immediately took possession of the ship.

As Torchwood began their tests, the ramifications of this event rippled through the multiverse. Tiny cracks in the walls between the worlds began to appear, and in the Vortex, the TARDIS saw what that meant. A year into the future was hardly a drop in the bucket for the ancient ship, and she could easily see two kinds of metal creatures bent on destroying the planet her human called home.

She saw her Time Lord trying to save them all, and she knew he would fail without help. The TARDIS scanned the universes for the perfect partners, and when she found them, she pushed herself through a crack to get to them.