"Hang on, I cross parallel dimensions, and transport myself in here right room and everything and that's all your going to say? I was expecting a better greeting." Rose told him the smile turning into a pout.
"No, no you can't be here. You're not real. Is this what it feels like to be mad? Have I gone mad? 1200 years is that all it takes?" The Doctor pondered.
"Doctor, I'm real. Cmere, I'll prove it." Rose told him holding out her hand wiggling her fingers wanting him to take it.
"No, no this isn't real. It's impossible. You can't be here." The Doctor denied not moving a muscle despite everything in him screaming to run over to her.
"It's not impossible, it's just a bit unlikely." Rose countered using words that he once said against him.
"It's more than a bit! The walls closed, The dimensions cut off, the universe itself should be quaking and crumbling apart. Rose, you can't-"
"Be here? Yeah, that's what you keep saying, but I am here, Doctor. I found you again, are you not happy to see me? Do you not want me anymore or something?" Rose asked uncertainly.
"I'll always want you." The Doctor replied.
"Well, you don't look like it. I mean look at you, your just sitting there. I was hoping for at least a hug. I never even got a proper goodbye from you last time."
"Your supposed to be with him." The Doctor replied a bit warily.
"He's not you." Rose denied.
"Yes, he is. Don't deny it, you kissed him! I saw." The Doctor frowned at her as he recalled the unpleasant memory.
"Yeah, kissed him goodbye. I was gonna kiss him, and then sprint back to the tardis, but you just left without me." Rose frowned at him.
"He could give you a normal life, and grow old with you, but I can't. Go back with him. He needs you, Rose." The Doctor ordered despite his hearts clenching in pain.
"Can't do that. Rose paused for a second insure if now was the right time to explain everything that had happened since he left her on the damned beach. Deciding it might be a bit too much for him to take in.
"Why not?" The Doctor questioned.
"It was a one way trip." Rose explained.
"Then find a way back to him like you did with me." The Doctor suggested a bit of coldness in his voice. Maybe if he tried to push her a way then she would vanish and this hallucination would stop. Granted this wasn't the first time he'd hallucinated her, but it was the first time it looked so life like. Her hair was even curly instead of straight this time.
"From the looks of things you need me more than he ever did." Rose argued standing up.
"I don't need you, I just want you, there's a difference." The Doctor objected his shoulders tensing looking away from her.
"Doctor, stop lying. Your trying to make me go away, but I won't. I've said it before and I'll say it again I am never gonna leave you..."
The Doctor's breath hitched as he heard those words. His brain was just growing more cruel the more it aged. It had to be, there was no way that she...she just couldn't.
"You can't get rid of me, Doctor. You can look away all you want, but I'll still be here because I'm real. I'm real and alive and I'm here." Rose told him her voice taking on a pleading tone.
Rose walked over to where the Doctor sat and bent down in front of him. She reached out her right hand and he tensed looking at her with widened eyes.
"Don't..." The Doctor whispered fully believing her hand would pass through him. As much as he wished the illusion would vanish, he didn't want to see her turn to dust before his eyes.
"Since when do I listen to you?" Rose whispered softly her hand connecting with his cheek her fingers gently brushing against his skin.
"Doctor...?" Rose questioned a bit uncertainly as he looked at her in awe. Why wasn't he saying anything? This one had seemed like quite the talker.
Before Rose could even register what was happening the Doctor's right hand had nestled itself in her blonde hair his hand resting firmly at the back of her head. His other hand immediately placing itself on her left side as he leant forwards his lips descending on hers. Rose was thoroughly shocked at first. She had never thought he would make the first move, but that said she was by no means complaining. They kissed passionately for a while until Rose found she needed to breath. Cursing her human respiratory system she pushed on the Doctor's chest trying to pull away from the kiss.
"Doctor.." She struggled as the timelord continued the kiss.
"Hmm?" He hummed questioningly.
"Need...air..." Rose gently reminded.
The Doctor pulled away immediately his eyes blinking open. "Yes, right sorry. Forgot." The Doctor breathed out not quite as breathless as Rose.
"You forgot breathing was necessary?" Rose laughed a bit.
"Well, if I'm being honest for the last 40.67 seconds since you touched me I momentarily forgot everything that wasn't you."
"You're impossible." Rose grinned. "You have that huge time lord brain and you just decide to forget all that knowledge in favor of kissing lil old human me."
"Well, yes. Problem?" The Doctor wondered.
"Not at all." Rose replied instantly, staring into his eyes already starting to like the new color.
"You're real...you're here..." The Doctor breathed out almost wistfully, resting his forehead on hers.
"Took you long enough. For someone so clever you really are an idiot." Rose laughed.
"Oi! Rose Tyler I take offense to that." The Doctor objected pulling his head back glaring slightly, playfully.
"What can I do to make amends my dear doctor?" Rose questioned leaning forwards clearly intent on getting another kiss while the Timelore remained somewhat close. Who knows when she'd get another chance.
"I have a few ideas," The Doctor started his voice low still not believing that Rose was on the Tardis. "but not now. No, now's too soon. Far too soon. I've still got whiplash and questions. So, so many questions. Rose, how did you-?, Why did you-?, What happened?" The Doctor implored struggling to form his questions as his mouth fought to keep up with his mind.
"I came back to you, Doctor. What else is there to tell?" Rose questioned clearly trying her best to dodge the question.
"Everything, Rose Tyler, there is quite literally everything for you to tell. You shouldn't be able to be here. How did you even get inside the tardis!? We're in space, deep space. You couldn't have just walked right in."
"Couldn't I have?" Rose quipped with a smile.
"Rose."
"You first Doctor." Rose told him pulling away entirely walking back to sit on her bed once again.
"Me? What? Why do I have to go first?" The Doctor protested indignantly as if he were a small child.
"New, new, new Doctor." Rose replied holding up three fingers waggling them a bit. "You changed your face on me again. Your lucky I heard you talking or I would've thought I got on the wrong tardis."
"Oh, right. Well, what do you think?" The Doctor questioned with a grin adjusting his bow tie.
"You look different." Rose replied with a soft smile not quite the tongue in tooth smile the Doctor had been hoping to see. Didn't she know that was his favorite of her smiles?
"Good different or bad different?" The Doctor asked carefully knowing fully well this carnation had a bit of a chin on him.
"Just different." Rose replied easily.
"Is that okay?" The Doctor asked hesitantly wondering if she would prefer him looking like the old one with the great hair.
"I don't know, I kinda wanted the next you to be ginger." Rose teased.
It took the Doctor a second to realize she was just teasing him, or flirting? Teasing and flirting? It had been so long he really couldn't tell, but he was sure it wouldn't take him long to get back into the swing of things.
"Sorry to disappoint the legendary Rose Tyler." The Doctor grinned.
"Shut up." She told him with a little laugh that really was music to the Doctor's ears. He hadn't heard her laugh with these ears yet.
"Not a chance." The Doctor replied with a laugh of his own.
"So, what happened? What made you do it? Don't tell me you regenerated from heartbreak." Rose joked.
"No, you didn't cause it this time. It was radiation poisoning. Saving Wilf, Donna's grandad. I absorbed it all and well it killed me, forced me to regenerate. You know how it goes." The Doctor explained shortly not wanting to get into a lot of detail.
"Stop absorbing stuff your not supposed to." Rose scolded.
"Oi! You're one to talk. Heart of the tardis ring any bells? Your lucky I pulled it all out when I did."
"I did it one bloody time. It's a miracle you don't give off radiation yourself with how many times you do stuff like that and don't even get me started with you licking things." Rose admonished.
"It's the best way to analyze a foreign substance!" The Doctor defended himself.
"Best way to get yourself killed maybe." Rose replied.
"Did you really come all this way just to nag me?" The Doctor crosses his arms.
"Someone's got to." Rose quickly replied.
"Alright so, that was me. Now you."
"What? No hang on, there's hell of a lot more than that." Rose protested.
"I don't care, I want to know." The Doctor denied.
"You really don't." Rose replied looking away from him for the first time.
"Yes, I do." The Doctor insisted.
"Your not going to like what I have to say." Rose told him.
"Try me."
"I don't want to worry you." Rose admitted.
"Should I be worried?"
"Why can't I just tell you later?" Rose asked nervously rubbing her hands on her jeans.
"There might not be a later." The Doctor told her.
"Why? You plan on dropping me off somewhere?" Rose asked fear creeping into her voice.
"No. Never, but the universe might not have the same idea." The Doctor quickly pointed out.
Rose sighed rubbing her fingers on her temples. "I don't even know where to start." Rose frowned feeling a headache coming on.
"Start wherever you like. I'm clever enough to work things out. I'm probably more cleverer than you remember." The Doctor stated fixing his bow tie as if to ready himself for the challenge.
"Okay Doctor, well your human counter part died a few days after you dropped him off. We got married two days after you left. He wouldn't tell me the real reason, that he wanted just told me he wanted a wedding with me before the universe decided to screw things up again. I didn't argue and mum surprisingly didn't put up much of a fuss." Rose admitted.
"How did he go?" The Doctor wondered.
"A few days after we got married, he started complaining about a headache and then he...he died and let's just say it wasn't pretty." Rose frowned pulling her knees up to her chest resting her chin on her knees.
"What happened after?" The Doctor gently pressed wanting no needing to know more. He had thought his timelord brain could compensate being part human, but he must've been wrong. His guilt came flooding back to him.
"Alright, well to be honest I only remember bits and pieces after he died." Rose admitted.
"I'm sorry, what?" The Doctor questioned his eye brows furrowing in concern.
"I can't remember everything. She'll have to tell you the rest. I'll fill in the gaps when I have to." Rose told him biting her lower lip out of nervousness.
"She? She who?" The Doctor asked. Rose answered him saying two words that made his hearts stop.
"Bad wolf."
And that's ch 2! Stick around for chapter 3 cause it's on it's way! Tell me what you think in the reviews guys! Here are some questions to answer if you don't mind! They really do inspire me a lot which helps me update more frequently.
1. What do you like about this story so far?
2. Is there anything in particular that you would like to happen next chapter?
3. How do you think Amy and Rory are going to react once they find out Rose is on the tardis?
4. How do you think Rose got on the tardis?
5. Who should say I love you first? And why?
6. Where would you like to see them adventure together? My own original creation or a specific episode? A bit of both? Why?
7. Should I bring Jenny into this story?
8. River or no river?
9. Any companions you'd like to see return in later chapters?
10. Do you think i'm keeping everyone in character?
11. Why should I continue this story?
12. Should Rose get her own catchphrase? If so what do you think it should be?
13. Anything else you'd like to ask, rant, or tell me!