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Everything He Never Knew He Wanted

The sent them back on the Valiant. And as soon as they arrived Rose heard someone shout out her name. She turned to the voice and the Doctor dashed to her and pulled her into a hug.

"Oh god I was so worried!" he whispered to her hair. She felt it, too, his worry, and it was so pure and full of other, complicated emotions that it made her a bit dizzy. The Valiant started to shake once again, this time much violently than before, and the Doctor let go of Rose but took a firm hold of his hand.

"Everyone get down! Time is reversing!" he Doctor shouted, pulling Rose to the floor and smiled at her.

"What's happening?" she asked.

"The paradox machine is gone, we're going back in time to the day it woke up."

"What?"

It felt like they were spinning around, or that everything around them was spinning around, she couldn't really tell for sure. Then the shakeing eased down and slowly everyone stood up.

"We went back in time a year and a day", the Doctor informed everyone. "It's two minutes past eight in the morning, just after the president was killed, just before the spheres arrived."

Rose looked up at him with wonder.

"Everything's back to normal. Planet Earth restored. None of it happened. The rockets, the terror... it never was. And Rose is here", he smiled at her. "So everything's just like it should be."

"What about the spheres?" Martha asked and the Doctor turned to her.

"Trapped at the end of the universe."

"But I can still remember everything", Oliver said with a shakey voice.

"I'm sorry", Rose said, let go of Doctor's hand and went to him.

"We're at the eye of the storm", the Doctor told them. "The only ones who'll ever know."

"That's awful", Rose said silently. She turned to look at the Master who was sitting on the floor, completely broken, and went to him. She felt so sorry for him that moment, more sorry than she had ever been.

"So", Jack's voice came as he stepped in. "What do we do with the Master?"

"We kill him", Oliver said immidiately, raseing his gun.

"No!" Rose protested. "That's not what we do!"

"Oh shut up, will you", he snapped. "Just because of the stocholm syndrome you shouldn't stand up for him! He deserves to die!"

"No", the Doctor said, stepping to Oliver. "Rose is right. You're better than that", he continued, reaching Oliver's eyes. "Killing him only makes you like him."

Slowly, hesitantly, Oliver put the gun down.

"What happenes to me then?" the Master asked from the floor. "I would kill me. That would be better for everyone."

His voice was bitter and hopeless. He didn't even look up.

"You're my resposibility from now on", the Doctor said. "The only time lord left in existence."

"Yeah, but you can't trust him", Jack pointed out.

"I trust him", Rose said to Jack. He narrowed his eyes worriedly but she didn't care. "I guarantee he won't hurt anyone ever again."

The Doctor was shakeing his head silently.

"The only safe place for him is the TARDIS", he said. The Master's head snapped up.

"You mean you're just going to keep me?" he said in dispate. Rose could saw how he changed, how the other him took a control as he stood up. The Doctor nodded slightly.

"Mmm, if I have to. Maybe I've been wondering for too long. Now I've got someone to care for."

Rose opened her mouth but the question didn't come out. She was scared. What if he didn't want her anymore? Her thoughts were cut off as she saw Lucy standing up, a gun pointed at the Master.

"No!" she shouted as she turned and tried to jump in front of the bullet. She was too late, the Master was falling backwards. "No, no no!"

Tears filled her eyes as he reached the floor. The Doctor chaught him, looking pale.

"I got you", he said as Rose kneeled beside them. Oh, there was so much blood. She pressed her hands to the wound, trying to stop the bleeding.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see her," the Doctor said.

"It's always the woman", the Master coughed. "Rose was right."

The Master groaned in pain.

"Come on, it's just a bullet", the Doctor said. Rose could hear the desperation in his voice as he held the Master. "Just regenerate."

"And live my life watching by as you have everything I never thought I wanted?" the Master managed to say. He coughed and few drops of blood appeared on his lips. A silent sob escaped from Rose's lips.

"She's... amazing... isn't sh-e?" his words were filled with pain. "Don't hurt... her."

He coughed and more blood bleeding from his mouth.

"Rose?"

His eyes looked for her and she grabbed his seeking hand.

"I'm here", she whispered. "I'm right here."

"You tried to... stop it... for me."

"Ofcourse I did", Rose answered, squeezing his hand. There was so much blood, her hands were soacked with it.

"I can't... hear them... any... more. The drums..."

"The bullet hit you on the heart", Rose told him through her tears. "And the other one has slowed down."

"So you were right", he said, his eyes fixed in hers. "Evil never wins..."

"No, don't do this", Rose said. "Just regenerate. Please."

He blinked and groaned again. She saw his mind ripping apart, everything shattered and turned into emptiness. It scared her.

"I'm dying... in your arms... no better place to..."

"Please", Rose cried, touching his cheek.

"I'm sorry", he said in a raspy voice. The tears dropped from her eyes but she managed to smile.

"I forgive you", she whispered and bent to kiss his sweaty, cold forehead. He sighed one last time, his grip of her hand loosened and his eyes closed.

"He... is... is he?" the Doctor asked, looking at Rose and still holding the Master.

"I'm sorry, Doctor", she said. His violent sobs cut the silence in the room. Rose felt like doing the same,just let go and cry, but she didn't. She knew that Master's death hurt him as much as her, if not more. His death left the Doctor alone again. So she stood and moved away as the Doctor pulled Master's body to his lap, embranced it, rocking back and forward, crying heartbrokenly. Rose dried tears from her face, forgetting her hands were covered with blood. She turned to look at them.

"Why didn't you say anything", she muttered to the Bad Wolf but didn't get an answer. She went to Jack and hugged him thigtly.

"I'm sorry", she whispered into his neck.

"Don't go blameing yourself", he said, hugging her back. "We already got one of those", he pulled of and wiped blood from her cheeks, smiled. "Besides, because of you my last five months in here weren't as bad as the seven first."

She gave him a teary smile before turning to Martha.

"You were brilliant", she said. "You saved the world."

"I did, didn't I", Martha said and smiled. "You weren't so bad either."

Rose shook her head.

"I didn't do anything", she said.

"Oh come on! You tried to stop the bullet that was meant to the Master! That's pretty hughe if you ask me."

Rose glanced at the still crying Doctor and back again.

"He was my friend", she said silenlty. "And I loved him."

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Rose washed her hands and face and, after a short while, went to the Doctor. She kneeled down beside him and laid her hand on his shoulder. He turned to look at her and she smiled a little.

"Hey", she said and wiped the marks of the tears away from his face.

"Hey", he answered in a hoarse voice. He cleared his throat. "Hello."

She turned to look at the body and took a deep breath.

"We should bury him", she said.

"We should burn him", the Doctor corrected. "Time lord DNA... it's too dangerous to leave like that. If someone gets ones hands in it..."

It sounded awul and sad and horrible but Rose knew now wasn't the time to think of that. Now was time to be practical.

"So we need to get rid of the body", she said and the Doctor nodded.

So the Doctor and Jack moved the body into the TARDIS. Rose and Martha joined them and the Doctor started silenlty set the coordinates. Martha sat on the jumpseat and Rose was leaning against the coral next to her. She looked at her looking at the Doctor and regocnized the look in her eyes.

"You love him", she said. Martha smiled sadly.

"More than anything", she answered. "But he doesn't love me back. At least not the way I want him to."

Rose smiled and turned to look at the thin, tall man moving around the console.

"Been there", she said. But Martha turned to look at her in surprise.

"You don't know, do you?" she asked. "Thought you did... after him talking about you all the time, saying you two were together..." she smiled at her but there were tears in her eyes. "You're the one for him. So don't go breaking his hearts, okay? 'Cause if you do you have me to answer to."

Rose felt her pulse thicken for her words and she smiled.

"I will never ever leave him", she said.

"Never say never ever", Doctor's voice said and both of the girls jumped in surprise.

"Never say that to me again", Rose said. "It had a bad echo in it."

"Where are we?" Jack asked.

"I dropped you home", the Doctor answered, looking at Martha. "Go and say hi to your family. They saw you were shot at. I think they are terrified right now."

She nodded, jumped down from the seat and went to the door.

"Guess you two want some alone time", Jack said and followed Martha out.

"So", the Doctor said, as the door closed. "We have furneral to go to. I mean... if you want to come with me?"

"I do", Rose said immidiately. The Doctor smiled unsurely at her as he changed the coordinates again.

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The Master was laying on the top of the bonfire that was to become his final grave. Rose swollowed tears. He looked so peaceful. She took his hand one more time into hers.

"I'm gonna miss you", she whispered. That's when it happened. The Bad Wolf showed her something she rather wouldn't see.

Someone picking up Master's ring from the ash.

The Master, reborn, his bones flashing through his skin, laughing.

"He will knock for times."

She gasped and pulled her hand away.

"No", she said and broke into tears. "No, no no no!"

"Rose? What is it? What did you see?"

She started to cry and he immidiately pulled her into a hug. She felt his comforting presence in her mind, questions of what had happened, but she didn't let him see the images.

"How can you do this?" she sobbed against his chest. "How can you make the decision about which of all the possibilities should come true?"

"What did you see?" the Doctor asked again. Rose shut her eyes tightly. She couldn't do this. She couldn't make decision like this. She couldn't. If the Master would return... she missed him, but if he would return... Then it happened again.

She pushing the Doctor aside, blasting a golden energy.

The Doctor dying, alone, in the TARDIS.

She opened her eyes and backed off several steps.

"Rose?" the Doctor asked, in consern. She shook her head and quickly, before she would regret it, slipped the ring off Master's finger.

"What are you doing?" the Doctor asked.

"Rewriting time", she answered and held up her hand to stop the Doctor from asking any more questions. It was hard enough without them. Because when she had the ring the Master could never come back. And that was breaking her heart. She knew it was for the best, but it still hurt like hell.

"Ready?" he asked quietly, and as she nodded he reached the torch towards the bonfire. It flamed quickly and they backed off to watch it burn.

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They looked at the flames quietly, fire againt the dark sky. Rose wiped a tear from the corner of her eye. The Doctor turned to look at her.

"Rose", he began evenly. "I really don't get it. Why are you crying? He held you imprisoned, tortured and abused you..."

"No", Rose interrupted. "He never hurt me."

"I saw him -."

"No you didn't. He just let you believe he did. He never touched me."

Rose looked at the Doctor tears glimmering in her eyes.

"He just needed help. And he asked it from me. I felt sorry for him, he had suffered so long."

The Doctor looked at her and then the flames.

"You loved him", he said. Rose glanced at him, wondering what he meant.

"Yeah, I did", she said. "But not the way I love you", she added.

"You love me?" the Doctor asked. The hope was mixed with fear in his voice. Rose smiled to the flames.

"Never stopped."

The Doctor turned her to face him, putting his hands on her shoulders and letting them fall down her arms to her wrists and then he took her hands in his, paused and took a sharp breath.

"Before we go back to the TARDIS I need to say something. Or tell... I mean I do... That is that I am..." he cut of again.

"What?" Rose asked.

"Iloveyou", the Doctor blutred out. After the words had came out the smile came and he touched her cheek. "I love you", he said, slower. He bend closer.

"I", he said, kissing her forehead. "Love." Her nose. "You." he reached her lips.

The kiss was asking and almost shy. The tears that Doctor's words had brought into Rose's eyes dropped. The breathtaking feeling he sent to her got a name. When he pulled apart the smile in his face fell.

"You're crying", he said worriedly. "Was it that bad?"

Rose laughed and caused the rest of the tears to drop.

"No", she said. "I'm just so happy."

He began to smile.

"Yeah?"

"Find out yourself", she said, pulling him to another kiss. And there was no more questions in it as she put her hands in his neck and he wrapped his hands around her.

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Rose couldn't really tell how long the kiss lasted. She didn't even care. They had a time machine, they could be curled up like that a small eternity and it wouldn't matter.

"Guess we should go back to Jack and Martha", the Doctor said after a delicious while.

"Mmm", Rose hummed.

"It shouldn't take that long though. And we do need to go back to TARDIS before..." he cut off and Rose felt what he was thinking through their bond. "Anyway!" he continued. "They are waiting!"

He pulled her with him and closed the TARDIS doors.

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A/N: Fun fact; this was the first chapter I wrote. So the story was always heading here. And I'm sorry, I truly am! Don't hate me because of what I did here! And please tell me if you do!