The Doctor paced down the corridor of the hospital, Jake has just called him saying Rose has been shot and it wasn't looking good. Luckily his next door neighbour offered to look after Jenny when he explained what had happened, so he could come and see Rose. The Doctor ran down the hospital and he felt a sense of déjà vu, only a couple years ago he was running down the corridor of the same hospital looking for Rose because she had gotten hurt, at least this time she wasn't pregnant. The Doctor found where Rose was and found Jake sitting in the corridor with his hands in his face.

"Where's Rose? What happened?" asked The Doctor quickly, wanting to know where on Earth she was.

"She's in surgery, they need to remove the bullet" explained Jake, still shaken up from what had happened.

"How did this happen?"

"I don't know, we were going downstairs and it just came out of nowhere, Linda went to find whoever it was, but they got away" said Jake and started The Doctor starting pacing up and down the corridor, he hated the fact that whoever did this wasn't even caught, even when Rose could die, the Doctor quickly shook the thought out of his mind, she wouldn't die, she couldn't die, not when the last thing they said to each other were angry words in a fight.

"How was she? Before I mean how was she?" asked The Doctor, his voice shaking slightly.

"She was struggling, but she was fine, alive, they took her straight to surgery when we got here so I didn't have time to see how was, I'm sorry mate"

"Nah, its fine" said The Doctor and continued to pace up and down, waiting for a spark of news on Rose

The hours went by and Rose finally came out of surgery and they were all told that Rose was in a coma and placed on life support.

The Doctor stayed with Rose and with her, holding her hand, waiting for some sign she would wake up. After an hour or so Jackie and Pete arrived and Jackie started crying as soon as she walked in and Pete held her as she cried, keeping his emotions inside. The four of them all sat down in silence, simply staring at Rose, after a while Pete finally broke the silence.

"Where's Jenny?" he asked, not seeing her anywhere.

"Crap! I left her with her with our neighbour, I didn't think, I just left –"rambled The Doctor thinking of something to do but Jake cut him off.

"I'll go get her" he offered but The Doctor just gave him a wary look "I will, I'll stay with her in your flat, when does she have nursery?" he asked and The Doctor explained to him when and where Jenny's nursery was and when she had to be there. The Doctor let Jake go and look after Jenny, so now he only had Rose to concentrate on and worry about. The three of them continued to sit there in silence until a drunken figure came barging through the door. Ben. Pete got up to make sure he left.

"Ben I think you should leave"

"No, no I don't think so, I need a word with him" said Ben, pointing towards The Doctor.

"Pete, it's alright, what do you want Ben?"

"A word"

"About?"

"You and her, it's not fair that you want her to have more kids if she doesn't want 'em, and now look, this is your fault!"

"How do you know about that?"

"She told me" said Ben, as if it were obvious "She didn't know what to do, so she confided in me" said Ben and pointed towards himself.

"That has got nothing to do with you"

"Rose is my best friend, she trusts me and can tell me what she wants, especially when she is too scared to tell you" said Ben "Because you don't hear her side of the story do you Doctor? You just see everything from your view"

"Ben, you really better go before I do something I regret"

"What you gonna do hey? I have a right to be here!"

"What right do you have? I'm her husband and these are her parents, you don't have any right"

"Yeah well, think of it this way, none of this would happened if it weren't for you" said Ben and The Doctor began to get angry "If she were with me, I would hear her out, I would see her view on things" began Ben "And, I wouldn't push her in to having kids when she didn't want to" said Ben and The Doctor's anger suddenly rose and he lashed on Ben, punching him in the face, causing Ben stumble to the floor, his nose bleeding "Oh, that how you wanna play it hey?" said Ben and walked towards The Doctor to fight but Pete got between them, causing them to stop. After a few minutes The Doctor finally calmed down.

"I think you should go now" said The Doctor in a low voice.

"No chance, like I said, I have a right!" yelled Ben

"No you don't! What right do you have?" asked The Doctor yelling at him

"I'm her best mate"

"Is that it? You're her best mate?"

"Alright then, you really wanna know? You really wanna know why I have a right to be hear do ya?" asked Ben, knowing The Doctor wouldn't like the answer

"Yeah, yeah I do!"

"Alright then! I love her!" blurted out Ben stupidly and quickly closed his mouth like a fish.

"You what?" asked The Doctor

"I love her, I've even told her and I know she feels the same! Otherwise why would she have kissed me on your wedding day when I told her?"

"Ben, I think you should go mate" whispered Pete in his ear softly "Please, Ben, just go, you're not doing any good here, just leave"

"Fine then" said Ben and barged out of the room, slamming the door, leaving The Doctor stood there, shocked, angry, confused and upset all at once. He would ignore what Ben had said and move on. Rose needed him to be strong for her when she woke up.