Last chapter! There may be feels...just so you know. :)

I'll start the alternate tomorrow.

Rose stood on the beach watching the TARDIS vanish. She heard someone draw up next to her. The New Doctor. She knew who it was before he took her hand. Rose glanced at him. He looked exactly like the Doctor, but he wasn't the same man.

The beach grew quiet. The TARDIS was gone along with the Doctor and this…this was her life. No more traveling in space and time. She crossed universes to find him and now…her thoughts were interrupted by the TARDIS.

Her eyes snapped to the spot the TARDIS vanished from and as she watched it began to reappear. Only…it was different. More blue. She shoved the thought aside as she dropped the new Doctor's hand and hurried toward the doors.

She stopped just as quickly when one of the doors swung open to reveal…a man she didn't recognize. He had a floppy mop of brown hair and wore a tweed jacket and bowtie. She stared at him, confused, but he returned her confusion with a smile that said he knew her.

"Rose Tyler," he said, rolling her name out as only one person had done. He stepped out, glancing around. "Bad Wolf Bay. Got it right." He glanced at her with a grin. "Got the time right too."

"Doctor?" she hesitantly asked.

He straightened his suit.

"Expecting someone else?"

"But…" she stepped toward him and reached out her hand to touch his cheek. "You changed."

"But I'm still me." She gazed into his eyes. So different from the Doctors she knew and yet there was that loneliness. That sadness. "So, where do you want to go?"

"Sorry?" she asked, confused.

He…well, the other him…just left and now here he was…a new him…well, new, new, new him and he what? Wanted her to come with him?

"I know I just left. Well, the other me did and you're probably upset and confused and full of all those human emotions, but we don't have a lot of time. The crack is sealing and you need to make a decision."

"A decision?"

"You once told me you'd stay with me forever."

"Ya."

"So, what I'm saying is…Rose Tyler, come with me."

She wasn't sure why she was hesitating. Here was the Doctor. The proper Doctor and he wanted her to come with him. She glanced back at the new Doctor.

"Oh, don't mind him," the Doctor said, following her gaze. "He'll be all right. Won't you handy?"

The meta-crisis glared, but then his eyes softened as they fell on Rose.

"It's your choice, Rose," he said.

"But what will you do?" she asked as guilt welled up inside of her.

"Like he said, I'll be all right."

A deep bell tolled from the TARDIS.

"Rose, we have to go," the Doctor said, taking her hand.

"I…" she trailed off, her eyes still on the new Doctor.

"Go, Rose," the new Doctor said, nodding toward the TARDIS. "It's what you want and that's all right because it's what you deserve. Go, Rose. Be happy."

"You heard him, Rose," the Doctor said. "So? What do you say?"

She turned back to the Doctor. She would be leaving everyone. Her family. The new Doctor. When she crossed universes to find him she didn't plan on coming back, but then he brought her back. Left her.

But here he was. Different and yet the same. The same mad alien who showed her the stars. The same one who fought the Sycorax on Christmas Eve. He was asking her to come with him the same as he'd done that night and she knew in that moment that there was only one answer.

"All right."

"All right?" he asked.

"Ya," she grinned, "Let's go."

She followed him into the TARDIS and for a moment, a brief moment, a cold chill crept up her spine. She shivered.

"Are you okay?" the Doctor asked.

"Ya, just, got a cold chill for a moment, but it passed."

The Doctor stared at her and she thought he was going to say something, but instead he raced up to the console.

"So, Rose Tyler, all of time and space. Where do you want to go?"

The Doctor knew he overstepped the bounds by changing Rose's future, but he deserved this and he could keep her safe. He knew there would be repercussions and River wouldn't be happy, but he could talk her round. She knew their time was short and if luck allowed he might not run into her for another twenty years. By then he'd have a plan and Rose wouldn't be as fragile. After all he might as well put that formula to good use. Madam Kovarian wasn't the only one who could create a Time Lord or in Rose's case a Time Lady. She did promise him forever and he intended to hold her to that.

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