Calling You...

Big thanks go to Fallen from the DWO Forum, if she hadn't helped me I'd still be in writers block hell.
This one's for you Fallen.
It had been four days, seven hours and thirteen minutes since he had started to hunt for a way to get back through to the other Universe in order to save Rose Tyler.
He still had yet to find such a way.

Oh sure, there were loadsof ways to punch ahole in the fabric of the Universe and rip your way through, but a subtle gentler way still eluded him.
He was as much trapped here as he was when he first started. And the Universe was starting to feel very small indeed.

Exhaustion had won out, and he'd retired to his rooms on board the TARDIS, idly leafing through the papers on his desk. Quite by chance, he spotted an unfamilar set of figures and numbers on a notepad - and not in his handwriting.
Confused and intrigued, he picked up the notepad, reeling off the numbers mentally... and then he remembered.
Adric.

When he'd first ended up in another Universe, the TARDIS had fallen through a CVE - and he'd ended up in Adric's universe - and picked up the young Alzarian. Following an argument (his fifth self was always quick to take offence he remembered) the young boy had taken to making the calculations in order to return himself to his own universe - calculating random coordinates.
The Doctor felt his heartsrate increase.
The CVE's were abandonded now.. but maybe he could set up a relay station, something - anything... maybe he could communicate with Rose, warn her!
Renewed energy surged through the Time Lord's weary body and he rushed towards the console room.
The only question was.. would he be in time?

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Rose Tyler was utterly bored with her life. True, she worked for the Torchwood Institute now, earning a decent salary and working with alien artefacts, but it didn't measure up to what she'd had. To him.
She still found herself dreaming of him, of his insane grin - his brown eyes... his lips...

She sighed. What was the use of dreams, when she had to wake up? Mickey and the others had been so supportive, but deep down inside they knew. Just as she knew.
Something deep down in Rose Tyler was broken, and it couldnt be fixed. Except by a certain Time Lord, who was never ever coming back.
Shaking herself from the surfacing memories of that day in Bad Wolf Bay, Rose Tyler went back to work.

She didn't see the report on the fax about a spatial anomoly detected in deep space. If she had, she might have investigated further.. and recognised the signal's shape and size for what it was. Dalek.

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"THE FLEET IS MOVING INTO POSITION. IT WILL TAKE FOUR EARTH MONTHS BEFORE WE CAN MOUNT AN EFFECTIVE INVASION FORCE." Intoned a Dalek, monitoring it's station.

The Black Dalek, the one who had made it from the other Universe glided up, silently.
Since it's arrival, and the information it had imparted to the other Daleks in this Universe, it had assumed command of the Dalek armies, answerable only to the Dalek Emperor himself.

"WE MUST NOT DELAY"
"EXPLAIN. HUMAN TECHNOLOGY CANNOT WITHSTAND DALEK ASSAULT. THERE IS NOTHING TO PREVENT OUR SUPREMACY IN THIS SECTOR"

"THERE IS ONE FACTOR UNACCOUNTED FOR"
"EXPLAIN"
"THE TIME LORDS"
"DALEK INTELLIGENCE INDICATES THE TIME LORDS ARE A CLOSED RACE. THEY DO NOT INTERFERE"
"THERE IS ONE WHO MIGHT"
"CLARIFY"

But the Black Dalek was silent.

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The Doctor was having more luck, it seemed, and had located the CVE he was looking for. Unfortunately it seemed completely destroyed.. so he went to the next on his list. And the next. And the next.
It was the 35th on his list that met at least some of his requirements, and the Time Lord set too, reopening a communications relay and inputting memorized coordinates from the Torchwood Institute's computers - but not to the alternative Earth. The technology in the CVE would certainly not be understood by humans, but maybe there was a chance.. a chance that someone else might hear. And answer.
He had to try.

He sent a simple message at first, making it past what he assumed was their version of a transduction barrier, just identification and a request for communication with the High Council.
He got the shock of his life when she answered.

Romana. His dead wife.

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