Previously:
"I see your atoms and I divide them" Rose growled, squeezing her fist as every dalek turned to dust. "I burn...I burn in the Medusa Cascade. I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be"
"Rose please let it go!" the Doctor pleaded.
"I am so tired" Rose whispered. "I am so...very tired"
Her eyes fluttered shut and the golden glow faded as she fell backwards, Jack reached out to catch her only to be beaten by Donna who looked confused and furious. Her red hair streaked with blonde.
"Will any of you tell me what the bloody hell happened?" she shouted holding a sleeping Rose up.
"Right then, into the TARDIS, off we go!" the Doctor said in a fake cheery voice as he herded everyone in, calling their name as they ran into the TARDIS. "Captain, Martha, Jackie, Mickey and you too Sarah Jane" he stepped in and closed the door behind him.
From the corner of his eye he could see Jack helping Donna with Rose who was still sleeping soundly, Jackie hovering them like the annoying mother she is. On his other side Martha, Mickey and Sarah Jane were having a hushed conversation while shooting the Doctor uneasy looks.
He went to the console and began to prepare the TARDIS to go when he noticed a few things. One was a rather minor and small thing but still it mattered to him; the sticky notes that he used to leave on the monitor were in English and Rose's handwriting, she left small reminders for herself like 'get the milk' and 'never return to Midnight EVER' he shook his head and concentrated on the major problem, a planet was still in the Medusa Cascade.
"Hold on guys, Rose forgot a planet here – oh what a surprise it's Earth" the Doctor said rolling his eyes. "Come then, off we go!"
"But what about Earth?" Sarah Jane demanded, glaring at him for forgetting the planet. "It's stuck in the wrong part of space!"
"I'm on it!" the Doctor shouted mucking about with the console. "Torchwood, can you hear me?"
"DON'T LIE TO ME IANTO JONES!"
Everyone jumped at the shout, Jack looked up in disbelieve.
"I KNOW IT WAS YOU, NO ONE ELSE WOULD LEAVE COFFEE STAINS ON MY COMPUTER!"
"It could have been Gwen" Ianto said weakly.
"Pur-lease, Gwen would never dream of drinking coffee near my computer" the female said, everyone could almost hear her eyes rolling.
"Not after the last time" Gwen mumbled.
"It can't be" Jack whispered.
Another voice joined the Torchwood Hub.
"OI! HARKNESS! SHOW YOUR FACE! I WANT A WORD WITH YOU!"
"It can't be" Jack said shaking his head. "It can't be...is it?" he turned to look at Martha who had the same look of disbelieve on her face. He ran to the monitor and pushed the Doctor out of the way. "Toshiko? Owen? Is that you?"
"Jack?" Tosh said squinting at the computer screen. "What the hell have you done to my computer?"
"Nothing, it was all Ianto's fault" Jack said quickly, really hoping that Tosh won't find a certain folder of pictures he downloaded last week....
"All right Harkness, what the hell have you done? Wasn't the last time you attempted to bring me back to life ended in shit?" Owen said.
"It wasn't me!" Jack protested. "I honestly have no idea how come you two are alive"
"I think I do" Martha said stepping forwards to Jack's side.
"Oh terrific, it's Dr bloody Jones" Owen said sarcastically. "Come to steal my job again?"
"I never tried to steal your job!" Martha snapped forgetting how annoying Owen could be when he was in a mood.
"For god sake Jack I thought you would have learnt your lesson by now. Do you know how terrifying it was to wake up in a drawer, completely locked in, frozen?" Tosh said shuddering.
"Now don't go blaming Jack it was all my fault" a voice said from behind Jack. Everyone jumped and turned to see Rose was awake and standing behind Jack. "I brought you back for him after Martha told me our distraught he was after your deaths I knew it was the perfect gift for him"
"Hello, who's this?" Owen asked interestedly leaning in.
"Not available" Jack said stiffly glaring at Owen.
"Oh come of it you can talk!" Owen exclaimed.
"My little sister, hands off" Jack growled glaring at Owen. "Touch her and I don't bloody care how many times you died before, I'll kill you again"
Rose coughed loudly. "Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator. Send all the power to me." She said in a professional voice.
"Why what for?" Tosh asked suspiciously.
"I need a tow rope so we can drag Earth back into place" Rose explained calmly.
"All right then" Tosh said happily typing furiously. "Doing it now"
"Sarah, what was your son's name?" the Doctor interrupted.
"Luke, he's called Luke. And the computers called Mr Smith." Sarah Jane said quickly.
"Calling Luke and Mr Smith! This is the Doctor. Come on Luke, shake your leg!" the Doctor called out.
Luke ran to the computer "Is Mum there?" he panted.
"Oh, she's fine and dandy..." the Doctor said waving a hand.
"Yes! Yes!" Sarah Jane cried out laughing in relief.
"Now Mr Smith, I want you to harness the rift power and loop it around the TARDIS, you got that?" Rose said elbowing the Doctor out of the way causing him to pout.
"I regret I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals." Mr Smith replied.
"Oh, blimey, that's gonna take a while." Rose muttered.
"No, no, no, let me!" Sarah Jane said pushing Rose lightly out of the way. "K-9! Out you come!" K-9 suddenly appeared beside Luke.
"Affirmative, Mistress!" K-9 said.
"Hello K-9, it's been ages since I seen you" Rose called out waving to the robotic dog.
"Hello Mistress Rose, good to see you better" K-9 said.
"Oh, good dog! K-9, give Mr Smith the base code!" the Doctor butted in.
"Master! TARDIS base code now being transferred. The process is simple!" K-9 chirped.
"Brilliant!" the Doctor said clapping his hands. "Now have you lot ever wondered why the TARDIS always rattles around? It's because they need six people piloting them and look what we have- more than enough!"
"Right then!" Rose said skipping round the console. "Sarah Jane hold that down just like that. Mickey you hold that, yes fantastic. Donna that there. Martha keep this level-"
The Doctor coughed loudly and Rose paused to look at him. "My TARDIS, I'm in command" the Doctor said glaring at Rose.
"My TARDIS. As been since you got trapped, so my rules and my commands" Rose snarled.
"She's mine! I've had her for centuries!"
"And you then left her to me! I've been doing a rather good job too" Rose said crossing her arms.
"Well I'm back now" the Doctor shouted.
"Yeah and you think I'm going to move to the backseat? Fat chance mate you have better luck with convincing Jack to go celibate" Rose sneered.
"She's mine!"
"Nuhuh I'm connected to her now not you!"
"But I was here first!"
"Time to move aside for someone younger, better and prettier"
"Why you little evil human!"
"You big egomaniac Time Lord. And by the way it's Time Lady not human!"
"WHAT?!"
"WILL YOU TWO STOP ARGUING?" Donna shouted both the Doctor and Rose turned round to see Donna glaring at them with her hands on her hips while Jack, Martha, Mickey, Jackie and Sarah Jane stood to one side looking embarrassed. "Jesus bloody Christ you two are like an outer space married couple"
Both the Doctor and Rose blushed furiously.
"Now listen to me! The TARDIS is ours. Not Space-Boys not Blondie's but Donna, Rose and the Doctor's, got that?"
"How the hell do you factor in this?" the Doctor asked raising an eyebrow.
"Well I assume the moment you wake up with not only blonde streaks in your hair but a second heart you get an ownership of the TARDIS" Donna said calmly.
"WHAT?!"
"Now we can hold this argument later we have an Earth to drag back home" Donna said. "Everyone get back to work" everyone moved quickly to help pilot the TARDIS, terrified of what will happen if they don't.
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The Doctor, Rose, Donna and for some strange reason Jack were sitting in the library to talk privately about what exactly happened to Rose's and Donna's physiology while Jackie, Martha, Mickey and Sarah Jane waited in the console room not wanting to get involved in any fight that might break out any minute.
"Right from what me and the TARDIS can work out when I went all Bad Wolf the first time the traces of the time vortex stuck to my DNA and mutated to the DNA someone left when they thought they should kiss the time vortex out of me" Rose said shooting the Doctor a look who looked away blushing.
Jack sniggered. "I think you need a doctor? That is the crappiest chat up line ever Doc" he then waggled his eyebrows. "If I said I needed a doctor would you snog me?"
The Doctor shuffled quickly to the other side of the sofa away from Jack. "Not in any lifetime Jack" he muttered.
"Homophobe" Jack grumbled under his breath.
"Anyway before our goodbye on Bad Wolf Bay" Rose said loudly as if Jack and the Doctor never spoke. "I was in a bad state, five and a half weeks of no eating, drinking and sleeping. Pretty much killed me, I regenerated but looked the same...sort of just healed myself and siphoned of the rest into the TARDIS."
"Which a few months later I suddenly appear via Huon particles" Donna continued "and took in the rest of the energy. When Rose was shot by the dalek and I was trapped in here with her I gave her CPR"
"Giving me a little of her and taking a bigger share of me to retain the energy she absorbed from before. Thus mutating herself." Rose continued. "I regenerated and so did she taking one of my regenerations. Then the ten I have left over split into half and joined Donna"
"So now you can't claim you're the last of the Time Lords" Jack laughed.
"I am still the last. I just have two Time Ladies you will rip me to shreds" the Doctor groaned.
"Well good thing you have me around" Jack said patting the Doctor on the back. "speaking of which Donna I have to welcome to the Immortal Club" Jack moved so fast that Rose was beginning to wonder if she gave him super speed as well as immortality as he scooped Donna up into a long kiss.
This caused Donna to immediately slap him. "What gives you the right to go round kissing people?" she snarled before storming off. "Bloody Harkness" she muttered hoping no one will notice the pink tinge on her cheeks or the fact that she enjoyed the kiss.
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The TARDIS had landed in a park not far from Sarah Jane's house; in fact Rose remembers playing football with Luke in this very park during some hard moments in her life. She smiled happily in the sun as Sarah Jane hugged the Doctor tightly.
"You take care of her" she whispered in his ear. "Rose had some hard times when you were gone"
"I'll look after her" the Doctor promised letting her go.
Sarah Jane swept Rose into a hug. "Something tells me I won't be seeing you for a very long time" she said. "You don't need me now, you have the Doctor"
"I'm always going to need you and Luke" Rose said sincerely. "Besides that sofa of yours is comfy to sleep on"
Sarah Jane laughed. "I got to go, Luke's only 14. Thank you" she called as she ran down the path.
"So how did Sarah Jane end up with a son?" the Doctor asked.
"It's a long story" Rose said. "Come on we better get Martha and Jack home before Donna kills Jack a fair few times"
"Let Donna kill Jack, he'll only come back" the Doctor said dismissively taking Rose's hand into his. "Run"
The pair ran for a long time just laughing as they went, for now they had no problems to worry about.
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They were parked in a different park Jack, Rose, Martha and the Doctor were standing in front of the TARDIS; the Doctor was sonicking Jack's vortex manipulator.
"You shouldn't have been allowed this. God knows what mistakes you made" he grumbled.
"Charming" Jack said sarcastically.
"Martha promise me you get rid of that Osterhagen thing" the Doctor said letting go of Jack's wrist. "Save the world one more time"
"Only if you promise to look after my maid of honour" Martha shot back. "I'll ring you for the dress fittings, Hen Night and actual Wedding" she said to Rose.
"Fantastic!" Rose hugged both Jack and Martha tightly. "Goodbye you two, keep in touch, don't cause the end of the world and I promise to visit you"
"Christmas dinner?" Jack offered.
"Your cooking? No thanks" Rose said screwing her nose up.
"Ianto could cook" Jack offered.
"Maybe, I'll try" Rose said smiling.
Jack and Martha saluted the Doctor who saluted back. Both Rose and the Doctor grinned as they watched Jack and Martha leave hand in hand.
"You know, I'm not sure about UNIT these days. Maybe there's something else you could be doing" Jack commented.
"And have Owen plot to assassinate me? No thanks" Martha said shuddering.
Mickey leaped out of the TARDIS and began to jog away.
"Oi, where are you going?" the Doctor called after him, Mickey turned and smiled sadly at him.
"Well I'm not stupid; I can work out what happens next. And hey, I had a good time in that parallel world," Mickey said shrugging. "But as you know my Gran passed away. Nice and peaceful. She spent her last years living in a mansion." He added for Rose's benefit. "There's nothing there for me now, certainly not you Rose. I gave up on that one years ago"
"Oh come here you big idiot" Rose said hugging Mickey tightly. "I have missed you, you know" she whispered. "You were my best mate."
"Mine too Rose. Mine too" Mickey said patting Rose on the back before pulling away.
"What will you do?" the Doctor asked.
"Anything! Brand new life! Just you watch." Mickey said holding his fist up which the Doctor knocked with his own.
"See you, boss." Mickey said before running after Jack and Mickey."Hey, you two!" he shouted.
"Oh. Thought I'd got rid of you" Jack said in mock annoyance while waiting for Mickey to catch up. Mickey, Martha and Jack smirked when they saw the Doctor slide an arm round Rose's waist as the pair walked back into the TARDIS. "Bet you they'll shag tonight" Jack muttered.
"I'm smart enough to know not to take that bet" Martha said shaking her head.
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The TARDIS landed just outside of the Tyler Mansion. Jackie was babbling ecstatically to her daughter.
"A little boy Rose. The most adorable boy ever. Tony Tyler we called him. He's only three and he's a little mischief maker just like you and himself over there" Jackie said. "Come and meet him. Have dinner with us"
"We can't" Rose said quietly. "The walls of the worlds are closing up now the Reality Bomb never happened. It's a dimensional retro closure"
"Oh Rose..." Jackie sighed.
"You were right Mum" Rose said. "when we were in the TARDIS before Canary Wharf you said in sixty years in some strange alien market there would be a woman who was Rose Tyler but wasn't not anymore...I'm not Rose Tyler anymore. I have done so many things..."
"You'll always be my daughter" Jackie said fiercely.
"I'm no longer the child you knew" Rose said. "She died in a battle of survival. I was so alone Mum, I was so jealous of Martha who had her whole family. I was depressed for months. I fell in love a couple times...well to be fair one time was with a clone of the Doctor – long story, don't ask – and I had my heartbroken. I was a mother"
Jackie gasped.
"A boy, called John. A generated anomaly but he was still my son...he died for me." Rose swallowed trying her hardest not to cry. There was a grinding noise from the TARDIS. "I got to go. This reality is sealing itself off...forever"
Rose and Jackie embraced tightly.
"My little girl. So grown up" Jackie whispered before Rose pulled away and ran back into the TARDIS. Tears fell fast down Jackie's face as she watched her daughter leave her forever.
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Rose closed the doors to the TARDIS quietly, watching sadly as the Doctor and Donna began to pilot the TARDIS, once the TARDIS was in the vortex both of them turned to face her, she smiled at them softly as she walked up the ram, unzipping her leather jacket and flinging it over a rail.
"You know I figured it all out" Rose said pulling out a bobble and scooping up all the blonde hair into a ponytail leaving the red loose. "This life is better with three. Me, you and Professor River Song over there"
"Oh no! You are not calling me that" Donna said crossing her arms. "Do I look like her yet? No I do not, I can't believe sometime in my future I'll change into a diary obsessed archaeologist"
"Cheer up you weren't that different" Rose said grinning. "One hell of a right hook I tell you that"
Donna huffed. "You're still not calling me that"
"Better with three?" the Doctor said "will I actually live that long to enjoy it the way you two argue"
"Oh you're the one to talk!" Donna exploded.
Yes, Rose thought happily. Definitely better with three.
Authors note: thank you so much to everyone who had supported this fic from beginning to end. This had been the longest and hardest project of mine ever and your feedback was most comforting. There will be a sequel; sadly it won't be up for a very long time since it'll basically be the specials and series 5 with Rose and Donna. I may do the odd oneshot based on this fic but I might not. Just keep an eye out.