A/N: Well, well, well. Here we are, a reunion at last, but will it last? ;) Honestly, I had to make Rose more self-sufficient in my story. I mean, Torchwood lets her run around with a big gun. SHE IS NOT A NEEDY GIRLFRIEND, MOFFAT. That is all. You may read the chapter now.

Rose managed to teleport to the Noble's right as the Dalek was threatening two people in front of it. She immediately picked up her gun and exploded the Dalek's head. The older man and a middle-aged red-haired woman stood behind it, shocked.

"Do you want to swap?", the older man asked.
Rose chuckled and shook her head. "You're Donna Noble's family, right? I'm Rose Tyler, and I need your help. I need to find your granddaughter and the Doctor. Do you know where they're at?
The older man shook his head. "I've tried calling her, but I can't get through. But she's still with the Doctor, I know that much. Last time she phoned, it was from a planet called Midnight, made of diamonds."
"What are you two on about?", the Donna's mother asked.
"Look, she's out there, sweetheart.", Wilf motioned to the sky. "Your daughter. She's travelling the stars with that Doctor. She always has been."
"Don't be ridiculous."
"Oh, come on, open your eyes. Look at the sky. Look at the Daleks. You can't start denying things now."
"Look, you're my last hope. If we can't find Donna, I can't find the Doctor. Have you got a computer?"

Rose sat on the Noble's couch with the older man, Wilf, sitting next to her. A laptop was sitting in her lap as she messed with the sonic screwdriver.

"He's got one too, you know.", Wilf spoke up.
"Yeah.", Rose smiled. "I kinda stole this one from a ship of his. Well, kind of. It's a long story."

Wilf hummed non-committally as she pointed it at the computer. Different pictures and static flew across the screen as the sonic bleeped.

"Can anyone hear me?", the familiar voice of Harriet Jones came across. "The Subwave Network is open. You should be able to hear my voice Is there anyone there?"

"I know that voice.", Rose said to Wilf with a grin as Jack's voice came up in the background. "Harriet, it's me. It's me. Oh, she can't hear me. Have you got a webcam?", she turned to Donna's grandfather.
"No, she wouldn't let me.", he tipped his head towards the kitchen. "She said they're naughty."
"I can't speak to her then, can I?", she muttered, frustrated.

"Sarah Jane Smith, 13 Bannerman Road. Are you there?", Harriet Jones asked and Sarah replied back positive. "Good. Now, let's see if we can talk to each other. The fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through."

Rose smiled as pictures of her old friends showed up on the screen and she pointed the sonic screwdriver at the latop. "That's me. Harriet, that's me."
Harriet boosted the signal and a black woman's picture came up on the screen.

"Hello. Martha Jones here.", the woman announced herself.
"Martha Jones?", Jack asked.
"Who's she?", Rose echoed. "I want to get through."
"Martha Jones of UNIT. I guess Project Indigo was more clever than we thought. One second I was in Manhattan, next second- Maybe Indigo tapped into my mind, because I ended up in the one place that I wanted to be. But then all of a sudden, it's like the laptop turned itself on."
Harriet Jones spoke up. "It did. That was me. Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
"Yes, I know who you are."
"I thought it was about time we all met given the current crisis. Torchwood, this is Sarah Jane Smith.", Harriet introduced Sarah Jane.
"I've been following your work. Nice job with the Slitheen.", commented Jack.
"Yeah, well, I've been staying away from you lot. Too many guns.", Sarah nodded to the two teenagers with her, Aimee and Luke.

Rose smiled at seeing Aimee. She hoped she could see the little girl again.

Sickened, Rose watched as Daleks entered Harriet Jone's home.

"Captain-", she addressed Jack, "-I'm transferring the Subwave Network to Torchwood. You're in charge now. And tell the Doctor from me that he chose his companions well. It's been an honour.", she finished and the screen fizzled out.

Rose pulled out her phone out of her pocket. It had been programmed to be used anywhere and everywhere. Maybe she could use it to find the Doctor. Sylvia, Donna's mother, and Wilf were sitting on the couch and the Doctor and Donna's picture replaced Harriet's corner.

"It's Donna!", Sylvia exclaimed.
Wilf cheered at the screen. "That's my girl."
Rose just grinned at the picture of the Doctor. Even if it was only a picture, it was the first time she'd seen the correct timeline version of him in a quarter of a century.

"Sarah Jane. And there's little Aimee. Who's that boy?", the Doctor asked. "That must be Torchwood. Oh, they're brilliant. Look at you all, you clever people."
"Doctor, it's me, I came back.", Rose whispered at the screen, knowing he couldn't hear her.
"It's like an outer space Facebook.", Donna laughed.
The Doctor frowned. "Everyone except Rose."

"I'm here, Doctor. I'm here.", Rose said sadly.

Dalek Caan showed up on the screen a few seconds later, but the Doctor's voice was still in the background. Rose pulled out her sonic and pointed at the screen. If she could get the Doctor's coordinates, she could land somewhere near him. She jumped up as she got the coordinates and pointed the screwdriver at the device on her wrist and set it. Rose looked back up Sylvia and Wilf.

"Right, I'm going to find him. Thanks for all your help. Your brilliant. Wish me luck.", she said with a smile.
"Good luck.", Syliva said nonchalantly, still staring at the Daleks.
"Yeah, good luck, sweetheart.", Wilf shook her hand.

Rose hefted her gun over her back and stuffed the sonic into her jacket pocket. Pressing a button on her dimension cannon, she teleported in a flash of light.

The Doctor and Donna stepped out of the TARDIS onto a deserted street near a church.

"Like a ghost town.", Donna whispered.
"Sarah Jane said they were taking the people. What for? Think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?"
"Just that the darkness is coming."
"Anything else?"
"Why don't you ask her yourself?", Donna said smiling nodding towards the oncoming blonde. The Doctor whipped around and his jaw dropped. Never in his ten lives had he been so overjoyed.

Rose landed in a dark alley with a splitting headache.

"Oh, blimey. Every single time.", she moaned, holding her head. Then an all-so-familiar voice echoed through the empty street. Rose scrambled up as fast as she could and headed towards it the see the Doctor and Donna. Then she ran. She loved the running. Especially when it was running to him. Her heart ached to be held in his arms once again as she saw a brilliant grin cover his face and he began running towards her.

But then for one moment, it was all lost. A Dalek came from the side and shouted out it metallic battle cry and the beam grazed the Doctor. Rose looked up in anger and lifted her gun and exploded to Dalek into nothingness with her gun. She quickly threw if off and ran to the Doctor and cradled his head in her lap. Tears fell her face as she smiled at him.

"I've got you. Oh, I've missed you.", she brushed his hair away. "Look, it's me, Doctor."
The Doctor opened his eyes and smiled through his pain. "Rose?"
"Hi.", she grinned with her tongue peeking out.
"Long time no see."
"Yeah. Been busy, you know, saving the world.", she choked and held him close as he squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't die. Oh please, don't die. It took me so long. Please, Doctor, don't die."

Jack Harkness came up behind her, toting her gun. "Let's get him into the TARDIS, quick."
Rose whipped around at his voice. "Jack?"
He didn't say a word as he picked up the Doctor behind the shoulders, and she hurried to pick up his legs. They awkwardly got him to the TARDIS as fast as they could, where Donna followed them inside.

" What do we do?. There must be some medicine or something."
"Just step back.", Jack commanded as Rose tried to go to the Doctor again. "Rose, do as I say and get back. He's dying and you know what happens next."
"What do you mean? He can't-", Donna asked, mystified.
Rose ran to Jack, who enveloped her in a hug. "Oh, no. I came all this way, Jack. It took me so long."
Donna looked between them and the Doctor."What do you mean, 'what happens next?'"

The Doctor's hand started to glow as he murmured about it starting.
"Here we go. Good luck, Doctor.", Jack said as Rose disentangled herself from him.
"Will someone please tell me what is going on?"
"When he's dying, his body, it repairs itself. It changes.", Rose looked up at the Doctor .
"I'm sorry, it's too late. I'm regenerating.", the Doctor said as his hands and head starting glowing gold. Twisting just a bit, he pointed his hands towards a jar with his old hand. The energy flowed from his hands into the jar, which a absorbed it. Jumping back up, he grinned at the trio on the other side of the room.

"Now then. Where were we?", he asked. "I believe I was saying hello." Jack, Donna, and Rose simply stared at him as he walked over the jar containing his hand. "You see? I used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but soon as I was done, I didn't need to change. I didn't want to. Why would I? Look at this hair.", he motioned to his head. "So, to stop the energy going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely my hand. My hand there. My handy spare hand. Remember?", he turned to Rose, "Christmas Day. Sycorax. Lost my hand in a sword fight? That's my hand. What do you think?"
Rose blinked. "You're still you?"
"I'm still me.", he reassured her with a grin, knowing that the question was more than just from him almost regenerating.

Rose grinned and ran to him. He held her close and buried his nose in her hair.
"I missed you so such.", she cried into his jacket whilst squeezing the life out of him.
"I know, I know. Me too.", the Doctor choked. "Everyday."
"I'm sorry it took me so long to get back.", she laughed tearfully, pulling back and wiping her eyes.
He smiled as he brushed her hair and tears away. "Didn't take you all that long, Rose Tyler, my impossible girl."
"Yours?", she asked with her tongue sticking out of her grin.
Resting his head against hers, he answered her question with a smile. "Forever."

She was about to remind him of her love when the lights went out and the Time Rotor fell. They all lost their footing as the TARDIS jerked.

"They've got us. Power's gone. Some kind of chronon loop.", the Doctor said after inspecting the console screen.
"There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets. They're calling it the Crucible.", Jack offered, "Guess that's our destination."

"You said these planets were like an engine. But what for?", Donna asked.
"Rose-", the Doctor turned to the blonde girl, "-you've been in a parallel world. That world's running a bit ahead of this universe. You've seen the future. What was it?"
"It's the darkness.", she shrugged, "The stars were going out. One by one. We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we've been building this, er, this travel machine. It's called a dimension cannon. Well, so I could-", she trailed off.
"What?", the Doctor asked impatiently.
"So I could come back." The Doctor grinned manically at her and she laughed. "Shut up. Anyway, we waited to use it until dimensional walls started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. All the universes. Even the Void was opening. Probably how the Daleks got lose. Something is destroying everything."
"In that parallel world-", Donna asked as the Doctor went back to the TARDIS screen, "-you said something about me."
Rose paused for a moment to nibble her lip in thought and continued one quietly, not wanting " Well, I- See, sometimes I can see peoples timelines. But not the whole thing, just fuzzy bits of important stuff. Like life-and-death things. And it's weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you."
"But why me? I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick."
"Like I said before, Donna, you're brilliant."

Before Donna could answer back, the scanner on the TARDIS beeped and the Doctor spoke up. "The Dalek Crucible. All aboard. We'll have to go out. Because if we don't, they'll get in."
"You told me nothing could get through those doors.", Rose said, folding her arms.
Jack looked at him disbelieving. "You've got extrapolator shielding. We installed it."
The Doctor shook his head. "Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids, and mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDISes. They can do anything. Right now, that wooden door is just wood."

Donna didn't hear their conservation as a heartbeat thumped in her ears.
"What about your dimension jump?", Jack asked Rose, motioning to the device on her wrist, under her black jacket.
"It needs another forty minutes.", Rose shook her head as she pulled the sleeves over her hands. "And I'm not leaving."
"What about your teleport?", the Doctor asked Jack.
"Went down with the power loss."
"Right then. All of us together. Yeah. Donna? Donna?"
Donna blinked and looked up at him. "Yeah?"
"I'm sorry. There's nothing else we can do."
"I know."

"They reached the door, the Doctor in front with Rose and Jack following. Donna was lagging behind.

"Well, Daleks.", Rose huffed. "Like flies, they are. Kill them and they keep coming back."

"It's been good, though, hasn't it?", the Doctor asked and Rose nodded. "All of us. All of it. Everything we've done." He turned to Jack and Donna. "You were brilliant and you were brilliant." He turned to Rose and grabbed her hand. "And you were more than brilliant. Blimey."

The Doctor felt burning in his head as the TARDIS spiralled down to her destruction. He could feel her pain, and imagined Rose could too. Her face was contorted and scrunched into a grimace.

"Total TARDIS destruction in ten rels. Nine, eight, seven, six.", the Dalek counted down as Rose fell to her knees, clutching her head, as the Doctor grabbed her. "Five, four, three, two, one."

The Red Dalek spoke up. "The TARDIS has been destroyed. Now tell me, Doctor. What do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?"
"Yeah.", the Doctor choked as Rose relaxed in his grip.
"Then if emotions are so important, surely we have enhanced you?"
"Yeah? Feel this!", Jack yelled out in anger as he pulled his pistol on the Dalek.
"Exterminate!", the Dalek called out as zapped him.

"Jack! Oh, please, no.", Rose tried to scramble out of the Doctor's arms to go to him.
The Doctor reached out and pulled her back. "Rose, come here. Leave him."
"They killed him. Can't we at least-"
"I know. I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do.", he said as they were escorted to the Vault.

"They are the playthings of Davros now.", the Dalek called out behind him.

"Activate the holding cells.", Davros commanded and Rose and the Doctor were contained. "Excellent. Even when powerless, a Time Lord is best contained."
"Still scared of me, then?", the Doctor smirked.
"It is time we talked, Doctor. After so very long."
"Nope. We're not doing the nostalgia tour. I want to know what's happening right here, right now, because the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah? As in dungeon, cellar, prison. You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant? Slave? Court jester?"
"We have an arrangement."
"No, I've got the word. You're the Dalek's pet!"
Davros turned to Rose. "So very full of fire, is he not? And to think you crossed entire universes, striding parallel to parallel for years to find him again."
"Yes I did.", Rose spat out.
"Leave her alone.", the Doctor commanded.
"She is mine to do as I please."
"Then why am I still alive?", Rose asked.
"You must be here, Bad Wolf. It was foretold. Even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies."

An old Dalek voice croaked out from the other side of the room. "So cold and dark. Fire is coming. The endless flames."
"What is that thing?", Rose asked looking distastefully at the new comer.
"You've met before.", the Doctor said gravely. "The last of the Cult of Skaro. But it flew into the Time War, unprotected."
"Caan did more than that.", Davros explained. "He saw time. Its infinite complexity and majesty, raging through his mind. And he saw you. Both of you. Together."
"This I have foreseen-", Caan began, "-in the wild and the wind. The Doctor will be here as witness, at the end of everything. The Doctor, his precious Children of Time, and the Bad Wolf. And one will die."
"Was it you, Caan? Did you kill Donna? Why did the Tardis door close? Tell me!", the Doctor growled.
"Oh, that's it.", Davros mocked. "The anger, the fire, the rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions. There he is. Why so shy? Show your companion. Show her your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that too."
"I have seen. At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed."
"What does that mean?", the Doctor asked tentatively.
"We will discover it together. Our final journey. Because the ending approaches. The testing begins."
"Testing of what?"
"The Reality bomb."
"Oh, no, no, no.", the Doctor warned, "You can't do that!"

A screen appeared and people in the holding cell dissolved into nothing.

"Doctor, what happened?", Rose asked.
"Electrical energy, Miss Tyler.", Darvos answered. "Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality bomb cancels it out. Structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone. Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter."
"The stars are going out.", Rose said. "Not just stars, but everything you touch, disappearing."
"The twenty seven planets. They become one vast transmitter, blasting that wavelength.", the Doctor explained.
"Across the entire universe.", Darvos said proudly, "Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the Rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The destruction of reality itself!"

"The Children of Time will gather, and one of them will die.", Caan repeated.
"Stop saying that. Put me through!", the Doctor exasperated as the screen came to life.

"Doctor? I'm sorry, I had to.", Martha said.
"Oh, but the Doctor is powerless. My prisoner. State your intent.", Davros commanded.

"I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people alone or I'll use it."
"Osterhagen what? What's an Osterhagen Key?", the Doctor asked.
"There's a chain of twenty-five nuclear warheads placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart."
"What?", the Doctor roared. "Who invented that? Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane?"
"The Osterhagen Key is to be used if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope, that this becomes the final option."
"That's never an option."
"Don't you argue with me, Doctor! Because it's more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these twenty seven planets for something. But what if it becomes twenty six? What happens then? Daleks? Would you risk it?"
"She's good.", Rose grinned. "Companion?" The Doctor shook his head.
"Who's that?", Martha asked.
Rose grinned. "My name's Tyler. Rose Tyler."
Martha gaped at her. "He found you!"
Rose raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "Does everyone know about me?"

"Second transmission, internal.", a Dalek croaked.
"Display."
Jack showed up on screen with a big smile. "Captain Jack Harkness here, calling all Dalek boys and girls. Are you receiving me? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off.", he motioned to machine hooked up with wires.

"He's still here.", Rose grinned, but then her face fell. "But that's Gwen!"
"And Mickey.", the Doctor observed "Captain, what are you doing?"
"I've got a Warp Star wired into the mainframe. I break this shell, the entire Crucible goes up."
"You can't! Where did you get a Warp Star?"
"From me.", Sarah Jane spoke up. "We had no choice. We saw what happened to the prisoners."
"Impossible. That all these years.", Darvos said almost in awe.
"Davros. It's been quite a while. Sarah Jane Smith. Remember?"
"Oh, this is meant to be. The circle of Time is closing. You were there on Skaro at the very beginning of my creation."
"And I've learnt how to fight since then. You let the Doctor and Rose go, or this Warp Star gets opened.", Sarah Jane warned.
"I'll do it.", Jack assured them. "Don't imagine I wouldn't."

"Well, that's the biggest ransom I've ever held for, Doctor.", Rose commented.
"And the prophecy unfolds.", Caan spoke. "The Doctor's soul is revealed. See him. See the heart of him."
Davros took over. "The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons. Behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. But you made this."
"They're trying to help.", the Doctor replied.
Davros ignored him and continued on. "Already I have seen them sacrifice today, for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman who fell opening the Subwave Network."
"Who was that?"
"Harriet Jones.", Rose answered sadly. "She gave her life to get you here."
"How many more? Just think. How many have died in your name?", Davros asked. "The Doctor, the man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This, Doctor, is my final victory. I have shown you yourself."

"Enough.", the red Dalek spoke. "Engage defence zero five."
"It's the Crucible or the Earth.", Martha warned.
"Transmat engaged."
"No!", Martha yelled as she vanished and the key dropped.

"Don't move, all of you. Stay still.", the Doctor said the various people and companions.
"Guard them!", Darvos commanded the other Daleks "On your knees, all of you. Surrender!"
"Do as he says."

"Gwen, what are you doing here?", Rose asked her best friend from her world.
"We couldn't just leave you after that note you left on your desk!"

"The final prophecy is in place. The Doctor, the Bad Wolf, and the Children of Time all gathered as witnesses. Supreme Dalek, the time has come. Now, detonate the Reality bomb!"

"Come on then, boys.", the Time Lord Donna said, "We've got twenty seven planets to send home. Activate magnetron."
"Stop this at once!", Davros screeched in his metallic voice.
Jack came running out of the TARDIS with Rose's gun, along with two others. "Mickey! Rose!"
"You will desist!"
"Just stay where you are, mister.", Mickey grinned with his gun resting in front of Davros.

"Good to see you again.", Sarah Jane smiled at Rose as they pushed a Dalek out of the way.
"You too.", Rose grinned. "Can't wait to meet the kids."

"Ready?", Donna asked the two Doctors, "And reverse."
"Off you go, Clom.", the Time Lord Doctor grinned.
"Back home, Adipose Three.", the human Doctor said.
"Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh, sorted."
"We need more power!", the Time Lord Doctor frowned.
"Is anyone going to tell us what's going on?", Rose asked while pulling her head over her head.
"He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand.", Donna explained. "I touched the hand,and he grew out of that but that fed back into me. But, it just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life. Thank you, Davros! Part human, part Time Lord. And I got the best bit of the Doctor. I got his mind.", she tapped her head"
"So there's three of you?", Sarah asked, disbelieving.
"Three Doctors?", asked Jack.
"Shut up, Jack.", commanded Rose.

"You're so unique the timelines were converging on you.", the Time Lord explained. "Human being with a Time Lord brain."
"But you promised me, Dalek Caan. Why did you not foresee this?", Darvos asked.
"Oh, I think he did. Something's been manipulating the timelines for ages, getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time."
"This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctor.", said Caan.
"You betrayed the Daleks!", Darvos cried.
"I saw the Daleks. What we have done, throughout time and space, I saw the truth of us, Creator, and I decreed, no more!"

"Davros, you have betrayed us.", a red Dalek said as he transmitted into the Vault.
"It was Dalek Caan."
"The Vault will be purged. You will all be exterminated.", the red Dalek zapped the control panel.
"Like I was saying, feel this!", Jack said as he fired his gun at the Dalek, making it explode.

"Oh, we've lost the magnetron. And there's only one planet left. Oh, guess which one. But we can use the TARDIS.", the Doctor ran into the TARDIS.
"Holding Earth stability. Maintaining atmospheric shell.", the human Doctor read from a screen."
"The prophecy must complete.", Caan spoke to the human Doctor.
"Don't listen to him.", Davros warned.
"I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor."
"He's right. Because with or without a Reality bomb, this Dalek Empire's big enough to slaughter the cosmos. They've got to be stopped."
"Just wait for the Doctor.", Donna said.
"I am the Doctor.", the human Doctor said before pressing a couple of buttons. "Maximising Dalekanium power feeds. Blasting them back!"

Daleks all over the Crucible and the Medusa Cascade started exploding as the Doctor ran out of the TARDIS.

"What have you done?", the Time Lord Doctor asked his human counterpart.
"Fulfilling the prophecy."
"Do you know what you've done? Now get in the TARDIS! Everyone! All of you, inside! Run!"

A/N: Thanks to Meg for pointing out misplaced dialogue in the last chapter. This chapter's dedicated to you!