"Everyone, just keep concentrating." The Human Doctor said so softly it was practically a whisper, his voice gentle. Standing around him were all the companions with their eyes closed and thinking of their Doctor, call to him. "Clear your mind of all else. Focus…" But The Human Doctor trailed off as the silence was broken by a sound. A very distinctive sound. In fact, only one thing in the entire universe. Everyone opened their eyes and turned, trying to locate the sound of the TARDIS engines. "Keep going!" The Human Doctor called. "Call to him! He needs to break through the barrier!"
"Doctor!"Rose whispered, wishing with all her heart for *her* Doctor.
"Doctor." Sarah-Jane said. He couldn't give up now.
"Doctor." Donna took up the chant.
"Doctor." Soon all the other companions were saying it. Calling over and over for the Doctor as the sound of the TARDIS engines grew louder and louder. Finally, with what could only be described as the sound of ripping, the TARDIS fell out of the sky. Literally. The companions watched as it crashed down, then fell backwards so that it was lying on its back, the doors facing up. Everyone crowded around the fallen TARDIS as smoke began leaking out of the cracks in the door.
"Doctor?" Rose called, concern in her voice. "You alright?" There was silence for a moment, then a banging on the TARDIS doors, before they burst open, smoke billowing out.
"Doctor?" Donna asked hesitantly. It was another moment, then suddenly, a head popped out.
"Ha!" He cried with a huge grin. "We did it! Hello everybody!"
"Doctor!" Amy Pond said with a smile, but the others couldn't help but feel a little disappointed it hadn't been their Doctor.
"Hello Amy!" Eleven said. "And Rory!" Eleven laughed as he climbed out of the toppled TARDIS.
"Good to see you again Rose." He said as he noticed her standing next to The Human Doctor.
"You've regenerated again." Was all Rose had to say. Eleven looked down at himself.
"Shortly after I left you." He told her. Rose nodded, fighting back tears. He wasn't her Doctor anymore, all skinniness and that hair…. Now he was him… Rose eyed Eleven dubiously.
"What on Earth are you wearing?" She blurted out, unable to keep it in.
"It's a bowtie. I wear a bowtie. Bowties are cool." Amy snickered as Rose shook her head.
"No they're not. You look like a doofus." Eleven opened his mouth to answer, but he was cut off by another voice. A very familiar voice with a very familiar Northern accent.
"I always knew you had good fashion sense Rose." Nine said. Rose whipped around and there he was, all big ears and leather. Her mouth opened as she looked between the two Doctors.
"Even my Union Jack shirt?" She finally managed to ask. "Hanging thousands of feet above the ground in the middle of the London Blitz?" Nine laughed.
"Ok, so maybe not that shirt." He agreed.
"But why are there two of you?" Jack broke in, confused. "You're crossing your own time line. Isn't that dangerous?"
"Extremely."The Human Doctor told him. "It's only done in extreme emergencies." Nine looked up at The Human Doctor, just noticing.
"Oh, great….." He muttered. "As if one of him wasn't bad enough… Why are there two of him?"
"It's a long story." Came yet another familiar voice from the direction of the TARDIS. This time with a slightly Scottish undertone. Rose froze, then turned slowly as the voice babbled on. "Basically he's a human biological meta-crisis. Human body with a Time Lord brain. Happened when Donna here touched my hand…"
"This hand here." The Human Doctor said, raising it and wiggling his fingers.
"My hand which I lost in a sword fight on Christmas Day when the Sycorax…" Ten trailed off as he found himself faced by an angry Rose and an angry Donna, both of whom he had learned to avoid their slaps at all costs. The Tyler slap and the Donna slap he had named them. And both of their creators looked like they wanted to use them right now. "Bit crowded out here…" He said weakly, looking up as they crossed their arms in unison. "I think I'll just go wait inside the TARDIS…." He said, beating a hasty retreat.
"Hold it Spaceman." Donna stopped him. "We've got a bone to pick with you." Ten winced and stopped.
"You are the biggest," Rose said.
"Thickest bloody git," Donna broke in.
"Ever!" Rose finished.
"You're so intent on seeing the worst possibilities,"
"And the impossible,"
"That you can't see what's right in front of you!"
"If you hadn't split them apart,"
"Then Donna would have been completely fine." The Human Doctor broke in, all three of them advancing on poor Ten.
"With him near, the knowledge wouldn't have burned up my brain!" Donna said.
"And you wouldn't have had to wipe her memories and leaver her behind." The Human Doctor added. "I was made because of her. We needed to be together."
"But nooo…." Rose broke in, sarcasm dripping off her. "You had to dump both of us back in Pete's world without even asking me! I didn't go through all I went through, all those parallel worlds just to be dumped back on that bloody beach with your human clone! He's not you!"
"You made choices that weren't yours to make." Donna added. "I begged you not to. I didn't want to go back to the way I was. I was better off when I was with you. A better person." By now, they had backed Ten up against the TARDIS.
"It wasn't your right to tell me what Universe I was going to stay in. Pete's World isn't my home. It's not where I belong." Rose added.
"I love Rose, just as you do.: The Human Doctor finished. "But it wouldn't have worked. My place is with Donna. She belongs with you." As Ten opened and shut his mouth, looking very much like a goldfish. For once, he was speechless. All his never ending words run dry. He ran a hand through his hair., then shoved his hands in his pocket looking down. Rose softened, and walked over to him.
"I promised you forever." She said softly. "I meant it." Ten looked up at her and she smiled. The next thing she knew, she was in his arms as he held her tightly.
"I love you." He whispered into her ear. Rose grinned as she looked up into his eyes.
"Quite right too."
"But she doesn't travel with us." Amy said confused to The Eleventh Doctor. As they stood there, watching the pair.
"Time can be rewritten." Was all Eleven said. "Right, I really hate to break up this up," He said, spinning around and walking back towards Ten who let go of Rose, but held on to her hand. "But we need to get out of here."
"Agreed." Nine said, joining them from where he had been standing by Jack.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." The Trickster said, appearing behind them. The three Doctors turned as one to face him.
"And why is that?"Nine asked. "You have no right to hold us here against our will."
:You have remained unaffected by the ripples in Time, therefore you must remain." The Trickster said. "Such a shame. You're so very clever Doctors, to follow your companions here, only to be trapped for all eternity."
"See, that's where you're wrong." Eleven said. "Because there's one thing that you never ever put in a trap."
"One thing if you wish to see tomorrow." Ten added.
"One thing if you value your continued existence." Nine finished.
"And what's that?" The Trickster asked.
"Me." The three Doctors said as one.