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A/N So close to 200 reviews! Thank you so much for the amazing response from you guys!

Part 2 of the series 2 finale. Follows the events of 'Doomsday' and we reach the end of series 2. Gosh, it all happened so quickly!

So, last time we saw the beginning of the war and so let's see what happens next.

Please listen to the Doomsday track when you're reading this! Heart-breaking *sobs*

Link to Rose's outfit on profile.

Songs for the Chapter: Doomsday from the Doctor Who Soundtrack.

Happy (or sad) Reading!

The Battle of Canary Wharf

"DALEKS!" Rose said forcefully and the four Daleks stopped. "That's right," she said, her voice steady and strong. "I know who you are," she said and the Daleks looked confused.

"HOW?" Dalek Sec asked.

"Hm, well, you called each other by name so I'm guessing you're not regular Daleks," she said, refusing to answer them knowing that the longer she talked, the longer she could keep herself and Mickey and Rajesh alive.

"I am Dalek Sec," the black one said.

"Dalek Thay," the other one said.

"Dalek Jast."

"Dalek Caan."

Rose remembered the names. "The Cult of Skaro," she said. "I thought you were just a legend," she said. "Hang on, I remember what the Doctor told me," she said. "You lot ran from the war," she mocked.

"You know the Doctor?" Dalek Sec asked her sharply.

"Hm, yeah, yeah, the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm," she said casually. She smiled smugly as she noticed the Daleks recoil slightly at the Doctor's name. "Oh look at you," she continued mockingly. "I thought Daleks did not fear. And you lot, quivering at his name."

"IDNETIFY YOURSELF!" Dalek Thay said angrily.

"You see," Rose continued, ignoring them. "I met your lot a while ago. The Emperor," she said.

Immediately, she knew she had said the magic words. "THE EMPEROR SURVIVED?" Dalek Jast asked, with some amount of hope in its voice. Or as much hope as a Dalek could have.

"Till he met me," Rose said. "They call me the Bad Wolf. I poured the vortex into his head and turned him to dust," she said, savouring each word, her eyes sparkling a light golden. "Hah!" she laughed as she withdrew.

"YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!" Dalek Jast said angrily.

"WE WILL REQUIRE HER TO OPEN THE GENESIS ARK," Dalek Caan interrupted.

"What's the Genesis Ark?" Rose asked.

"TIME LORD TECHNOLOGY. WE NEED THE TOUCH OF A TIME TRAVELLER TO OPEN THE ARK!" Dalek Thay said.

"Right, so you need me but the thing is, I'm not feeling very generous today," she said. "So how about no," she mocked.

"YOU WILL OPEN THE ARK OR THE HUMANS WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" Dalek Sec threatened, pointing his ray at Mickey and Rajesh.

Rose clenched her fists but before she could say anything, a screen appeared and she frowned as she saw a Cyberman.

"IDENTIFY YOURSELVES!" Dalek Thay said. In the main control room, the Doctor recoiled in shock. The Daleks. He glanced at the open visual link and spotted Rose. She was alive, thank heavens. But she was surrounded by four Daleks.

"You will identify first," the Cyberman said.

"STATE YOUR IDENTITY!"

"You will identify yourself," the Cyberman ordered.

"DALEKS DO NOT TAKE ORDERS!"

"You have identified as Daleks," the Cyberman said smugly.

"Outline resembles the INFERIOR species known as 'Cybermen'," Dalek Sec told Dalek Thay.

The Doctor observed the interaction and saw Rose gazing up at the camera. Clever girl, she knew he must be in the room. She mouthed UNIT and then looked to her right. The Doctor was startled to see Mickey Smith. Rose's eyes moved to Mickey's wrist and the Doctor glared furiously as he spotted the vortex manipulator. Stupid apes, playing with toys beyond their comprehension.

He looked around the main room and spotted Jake Simmonds bent over a desk at the far end of the room. The Doctor glared at him and Jake smiled sheepishly at him. Gritting his teeth and cursing lesser species, the Doctor formed a quick plan. He walked behind the Cyberman talking to the Daleks.

"STOP!" Dalek Jast ordered. "REPLAY!"

Rose sighed in relief as she spotted the Doctor.

"THE FEMALE'S HEARTBEAT HAS ACCELERATED!" Dalek Caan said.

"IDENTIFY HIM!" Dalek Thay ordered her.

"That's the Doctor," Rose said.

The Cybermen were ready to go to war and began emergency conversion. The Doctor knew he had no way of stopping them. First things first, he walked over furiously to Jake. "Have you completely lost your mind?" he demanded furiously.

"Look, UNIT came into possession of two vortex manipulators. We were tracking down the lost Cybermen and we discovered that they had completely vanished from our time," he explained.

"They hid in the void, along with the Daleks," the Doctor hissed.

"What are the Daleks?" Jake asked curiously.

"That's not important right now. We need to get downstairs. Daleks are far more dangerous than Cybermen. Any more UNIT personnel here?" he asked.

"Nope, just me and Mickey," Jake said.

The Doctor cursed under his breath. "Fine, let's go," he said and pulled Jake with him to the vault. "Wait here for my signal," he said and strolled in.

At the Doctor's signal, Jake and a few other Torchwood employees rushed in and attacked the Cybermen and Daleks alike. Rose and the Doctor pulled Mickey and Rajesh with them but as they were running away, Mickey's hand touched the Genesis Ark. Travelling in time with a vortex manipulator meant that his touch was enough to activate the ark and it opened.

To their horror, the ark raised itself out of the building and then hundreds of Daleks began to pour out of it.

"Time Lord technology," the Doctor said, aghast.

"Bigger on the inside," Rose finished his thought. "What are we going to do?" he asked.

"The breach in the void. The Cybermen and the Daleks are covered in void stuff. If we can open the breach, they'll all be pulled in," he said, pacing furiously in the main control room.

"But we'll be pulled in as well," Rose interrupted him. "I'm a pan-dimensional being and you must have been through the void quite a number of times in your life."

The Doctor racked his brain and remembered a few times he had been to parallel worlds but that was of course before the Time War. Rose was right but then inspiration struck. He rushed off and came back with the two big magnaclamps.

Downstairs, they could hear the Torchwood soldiers battling and the whole of London panicking as Daleks gathered in the sky. In the main control room, it was just the Doctor, Rose, Mickey and Jake. The Doctor jumped into action and fiddled with both the vortex manipulators.

"These will get you back to your time and then they'll self-destruct," he said.

"You can't do that," Mickey protested.

The Doctor glared his 'Oncoming Storm' glare and Mickey wisely shut up. Using his sonic screwdriver, he finished locking the coordinates and setting the self-destruct key. Humans would learn time travel in their own time but early 21st century Earth was no time or place for it.

He activated it and Jake and Mickey vanished. "That's them gone. Just you and me now," he said to Rose.

Rose smiled weakly as she attached the two magnaclamps to the wall next to the two levers. The Doctor set the coordinates for the breach and then walked over to Rose. "We have to be careful you said, right?" he asked her, cupping her face gently.

"Yeah," Rose nodded.

The Doctor kissed her for a short moment. "Don't let go," he whispered.

"I won't," she promised and the two of them kissed for the final time before they walked over to their magnaclamps and the systems went online.

And just like that, the Cybermen and the Daleks were pulled into the void one by one.

"Into the Void!" the Doctor cried happily. "HAH!"

Rose smiled as she clung tightly to her magnaclamp. Suddenly a Dalek whizzed past her and struck the lever on her side. Systems offline.

The Doctor shot a panicked look at her as the breach began to close. Rose kept a secure hand on the magnaclamp and stretched towards the lever. It was just out of reach. She groaned in frustration as she stretched and reached for it.

It was futile. "I'm sorry," she mouthed to the Doctor before relinquishing her hold on the magnaclamp and grabbing onto the lever. She pulled it upright into position. But the lever was nowhere near as secure as the magnaclamp.

Rose let out a strangled yell as she grabbed as tightly as she could to the lever. "ROSE! HOLD ON!" the Doctor yelled, barely stopping himself from running to her.

Rose felt her fingers begin to slip. Just one hand holding on now. She screwed her eyes shut and tried to pull herself away from the breach.

Four fingers now. She looked at the Doctor who was crying out her name, begging her to hold on.

Three fingers now. Rose tried to concentrate on holding on. She was going to slip and fall into the void. She was going to lose her Doctor.

Two fingers. The timelines would mess up and the reality would begin to distort but eventually the universe would compensate around the void left by her. But the Doctor would never meet her. Gradually, even these memories will become a dream and he'll forget her. Her eyes closed in pain at the thought.

One finger. She wasn't going to make it. Her hand was too tired. She was going to give up. "Don't you dare," she heard a whisper. Her eyes opened at the vaguely familiar voice. She was in a dark room. That was it. She had fallen into the void.

Strange that she hadn't felt that. One would think it'd be an earth-shattering moment when she fell into the void. Apparently, it didn't feel like anything.

"You're not in the void," the voice whispered again.

Rose opened her mouth to ask who it was but she couldn't talk. But then she felt the familiar blue haze. And the voice calling her name. She wanted to answer the voice but she couldn't. "Come back to me," the voice begged and Rose knew that the man who was saying it loved her.

She racked her brains, trying to remember who it was. "Rose, my precious girl, please come back to me," the voice begged again.

Doctor! It was the Doctor! What was he doing in the void? No! He shouldn't be here! The universe needed him! "I'm not in the void, Rose," he said.

Then where was he? She wanted to go back to him. But she didn't know how. Tell me, how, she begged.

She felt a light touch on her face and warm lips descended on hers. And just like that she was jolted awake. She gasped loudly and the room swam into focus. She was in the control room of Torchwood One. She was being held by someone and she identified the scent as the Doctor. He was shaking as he cradled her and she ran a hand through his hair.

"What happened?" she asked him in confusion.

The Doctor stared at her through slightly red eyes. "You were almost about to lose your grip but then you started glowing golden like that time on Game Station," he said, shivering at the memory. "The breach closed but you lost consciousness with your grip still tight."

Rose examined her hand which was red and cramped up. "But you were answering me," Rose said.

The Doctor nodded as he held her face tenderly. "You had retreated into your mind. Your brain shut down to compensate for the extra physical exertion. I used our psychic link to pull you out," he said.

Rose nodded as she tried to digest that piece of information. So, she hadn't fallen into the void. She was alive and with the Doctor. They had made it through. She giggled happily and the Doctor stared incredulously at her.

"What's so funny?" he asked her, his own lips quirking up in a smile, despite everything.

"We made it," she grinned.

The Doctor laughed and kissed her again. "Yes we did," he said and then lifted her lightly bridal style.

"Put me down. I can walk," Rose protested.

"Humour me, I'm not ready to let you go yet," he said and the raw pain in his voice was evident.

Rose nodded as she hooked her arms around his neck. They walked through the destruction and back into the TARDIS. The Doctor looked reluctant to put her down so Rose took pity on him and started the dematerialisation sequence.

The TARDIS flew into the vortex and Rose set the coordinates so that they were in orbit around the Rosette Nebula. The Doctor smiled when he saw where she had sent them. He sat down on the jumpseat and placed Rose on his lap.

Rose straddled him and kissed him lovingly. "I'm sorry for almost leaving you," she said.

The Doctor nodded. "Don't ever do that to me again," he said. "I don't know what I'd do without you," he said.

"Never," Rose promised and gently loosened his tie.

The Doctor pushed her small jacket off her body as he began to kiss her neck. She nibbled at his throat, making him moan. She was just getting to the buttons of his waistcoat when they heard a loud squeak. They pulled apart and watched in astonishment as a redhead in a wedding dress stood gaping at them.

"What?" the Doctor said as he lifted Rose off him and stood up. His hand still stayed around her waist, unwilling to stop feeling her.

"Who are you?" the bride asked.

"What?" the Doctor repeated, knowing that they were in an orbit around the Rosette Nebula.

"Where am I?" she asked, sounding more irritated by the minute.

"What?" he asked, apparently the only word he could say at that moment.

"What the hell is this place?" the bride demanded angrily.

"WHAT?"

A/N *jumps up and down in excitement* So? So? So? Did you like it?

So, Rose doesn't fall into the void or gets stuck in a parallel world. Hurrah for that! So, the story goes even more AU than it already is. Bet you thought that wasn't possible.

And Donna Noble! AAAARRRRGGGHHHH I'm so excited! I love Donna!

Oh and thanks for all the good wishes to get my writing back on track. It's a minor hitch but I'll resolve it. Meanwhile, I finished writing End of Time. I'm so weird.

Anyway, I will be taking a short break from posting just like I did with the last series finale. Don't worry, it's not for long. I will be back soon.

The Christmas Special 'The Runaway Bride' with Donna will be up on Sunday, the 15th of April. I have a few assignments due next week but then I have Easter break. So, I'll get more time to write.

I just realised I'll be posting the Christmas chapter at Easter. Yay for that! Or you know, just plain weird coincidence.

So, just a short break. Week and a half. After that, back to regular posting and I'll return with Series 3 and the new companion: Miss Martha Jones.

Until then, let me know what you thought of this season finale.

Oh and if you don't know what the Rosette Nebula looks like, Google Images, people. Trust me, it's beautiful.

See you on the 15th.

Cheers x