The phone rang throughout the entire Tyler residence. Jackie had just put the baby down for the night and wanted to keep it that way.

"Who calls at twelve o'clock at night anyways?" she muttered as she moved in bed trying not to wake Pete.

She turned on the lamp and quietly talked into the phone, "Hello."

Rose smiled at the sound of her mother's voice, "Hi mom."

"Rose darling what's wrong it's past twelve at night."

"I know, but I just wanted to hear your voice. Is dad awake?"

"Rose, your getting me worried. Is it important? Do I have to wake him?"

"Yeah mom, it's pretty important."

Jackie put the phone on the table and shook Pete out of sleep.

"What is it?" asked Pete half asleep.

"It's Rose. She needs to talk to us. It's important."

"At twelve at night?"

Jackie looked at him sternly. Pete groaned as he sat up. Rose bought the phone over and placed Rose on speaker.

"All right Rose your on speaker. Now will you tell us what's going on?"

"Hello Rose," Pete called.

Tears stung Rose's eyes as the wind blew against her face. This was going to be the last time she would ever hear her parent's voices.

"I wish I could see your faces so I can do this properly," said Rose, her voice breaking.

"Do what?"

"I'm going back to our world mum. I found away and I wanted to say goodbye."

"Rose, how are you going to get back? There's no way."

"I found a way."

"The Doctor?"

"No, no a woman connected through the rift. She wants to get back just as much as I do."

"Rose, this is insane," Jackie practically yelled.

Rose wiped away some more tears, "How's the baby? Is she still as adorable as ever?"

"Rose, don't change the subject. Rose Tyler you get in your car this instant and come home. Do you understand me?" Jackie yelled.

Pete shushed her afraid of waking the baby.

"I've come too far mum. This may be my only chance. My life is nothing without the Doctor," Rose cried not even bothering to stop the tears, "I love him and I'm willing to risk everything to get back. I love you mom, dad and tell the baby that I love her too."

"Rose, don't you hang up this phone. I mean it," Jackie's voice was now breaking at what her daughter was telling her.

"Goodbye," Rose said ending the call on her cellular.

"Rose. Rose! Rose!" Pete tried to calm Jackie, but she was hysterical, "We are going to Cardiff right now!"

Jackie jumped out of bed and began to dress.

"Have you lost it? She'll be gone by then."

"Not if I have anything to say about it," Jackie said pulling up a pair of jeans, "Now, get dressed. I'll get the things for the baby. Be in the car in five."

Pete had no choice, but to comply with her intentions. He quickly rose from bed and prepared for the trip which would surely take a few hours of driving depending on traffic.

Rose wiped away the tears and calmed herself. No regrets she told herself. She wanted this. She wanted more than anything to be with the Doctor and she was prepared to risk it all. Rose walked up to Gwen who was standing on the green pasture of the playground overlooking the sky.

"I'm ready," said Rose.

"Something's not right," said Gwen looking out over the sky.

"What d'you mean?"

"I'm not sure, but there are ripples in the rift. It's been disrupted and if we go through now we wouldn't return to our world. We'd end up in oblivion."

"What do we do then?"

"The rift needs time to heal from whatever's fracturing it. I can try tomorrow."

"And what if we can't go tomorrow," asked Rose getting panicky.

"We will," Gwen said taking Rose by the shoulders and looking deep into her eyes, "I will get us through no matter what. You have to trust me. I am going to do everything in my power to get us through."

Gwen put her whole heart into her gaze. Truthfully she wanted to go home just as much as Rose, maybe more so. At least Rose had friends and family here. Gwen had nobody and she didn't want anybody. The only person's face who would make everything better was Jack's and it was as if Rose had read her mind too.

"You really love him don't you?" Rose let the words slip.

Gwen felt taken aback at her statement and released Rose.

"Is there a place where we can stay for the night or are we going to squeeze in your car?"

"Might be our only option, though we'd have to hide it somewhere. Mickey will be watching for us. According to him we're apparently fugitives."

"All right. Where do we stash it then?"

Rose thought for a moment before it came to her.

"We'll stay right here."

"Isn't that a bit obvious?"

"Not if you're invisible," said Rose sticking out her tongue.

Gwen studied her before Rose motioned her into the car. Gwen sat in the trunk and began to lay out some duvets she found on the side, so Rose and she could sleep. Rose opened the trunk doors and sat down.

"What'd you do?" Gwen asked.

"I put a perception filter on the car. Do you know what that is?"

"Yes. There was one on a lift back in the other Cardiff."

"We have that too,' said Rose with a grin.

Gwen laid down draping a duvet over herself. Gwen motioned her to lay down next to her and Rose raised a playful eyebrow.

"Gwen Cooper, are you trying to seduce me."

"Your pretty Rose Tyler, but I don't go that way. Most of the time," said Gwen.

Rose laughed and laid down facing Gwen also bringing up a separate duvet. The trunk was long and barely anything covered it, so there was enough room for them. Gwen began to close her eyes, but flashes of Suzie and Bilis encouraging her to open the rift came into mind and then she saw Jack's tear streaked face and Ianto suffering from his wound. Gwen opened her eyes tears streaking her face. She saw Rose was awake as well equally sad eyed.

"What memories did you encounter," Rose asked staring at the roof of the car.

"Ones of most recent. Yourself?" Gwen gulped.

"The battle of Canary Wharf."

Gwen took Rose's hand in hers as a comforting gesture. Rose squeezed it also trying to reassure Gwen.

"We have a big day tomorrow. We really should sleep," said Rose.

Gwen nodded and waited until Rose closed her eyes before following suit. Their hands never left each others. They both felt more at ease knowing that someone else was there and they were not alone.

The night passed quick enough as rays on sunshine passed through the glass. Surprisingly enough it had been the first best night's sleep Rose had had in a long time. Gwen seemed to agree. Ever since her breakup with Rhys she had spent her nights in bed actually trying to get to sleep instead of performing the act or sometimes she would get to sleep and she'd wake up sweating and panting from a nightmare.

"Hi," said Gwen smiling.

Rose decided she liked it when Gwen smiled. Her whole face lit up and the gap in her teeth added to the effect of happiness, a feeling Rose had become numb too and was working her way out of it with Gwen's help.

"How'd you sleep?" Rose asked.

"Better than usual actually," Gwen stretched, "Normally there'd be cannonbalist or cybermen in my dreams."

"Cannonbalist? Okay, now even I haven't seen that one. Are you serious?"

Gwen nodded as she tried not to relive the memory. Rose could sense it was hard for her to talk about, so she didn't push anymore, but now when she had saw the Doctor she could tell him even he hadn't seen everything and giggled at the thought. Speaking of which.

"Do you think we can go yet?"

"I'll have to see."

"May I ask Gwen? What was it that was disturbing the rift?"

"I'm not sure, but it sounded like purring and then something was following it only it gave me a bad feeling."

Suddenly there was a flash. Rose and Gwen jumped out of the trunk of the minivan and watched as something was appearing. It was dim at first, but Rose was breathless as it came into view. Gwen squeezed her hand and smiled at Rose's joy. There before her stood a police box from the fifties painted blue and materializing right before their very eyes. It was the most beautiful thing Rose had seen in the longest time.

The doors opened and there stood a grinning young man with brown shaggy hair and soft brown eyes. He wore a brown pinstriped suit and flexed his converses while smiling at the pair of women.

"Well I don't know about the two of you," he said still grinning, "But I am never flying rift again. From now on it's just time vortex's for me."

Rose stood there stunned. She couldn't move, she couldn't think, she couldn't breathe and he was there. After all this time of dreaming, wishing and hoping and now it was all coming true before her eyes. Gwen released Rose's hand and gestured to the Doctor. Rose smiled so bright that she was sure her face would crack in two and couldn't give a damn if it did.

Rose ran to him laughing and smiled and embraced her with open arms. They were both laughing as they had found each other. It felt so good to hold each other again. The Doctor picked her up in his arms and spun her around as tears began to full her eyes along with the joy that had erupted so deep within.

Before she knew what she was doing Rose pulled the Doctor's face to hers and kissed him so passionately and so wild that the world stopped just for them to acknowledge so true a romance. The Doctor bought his hand in her hair while she wrapped her arms around his neck deepening the kiss. It all just seemed to fall into place and Rose was sure she could feel the Doctor's two hearts beating just as crazily as hers.

It was minutes later when Rose broke the kiss only because she needed air, but her smile was still so bright and as beautiful as ever.

"I still can't believe you're here," said Rose through joyful tears, "I keep expecting to wake up and find that this is all a dream, but…you're here. I missed you so much."

The Doctor grinned and stroked her hair while looking into her eyes. Those wonderful eyes he had missed for so long.

"I missed you too," he said smiling just as proudly as her, "I feel like any second I'm going to break out into Reunited and you'll be left wondering has he finally lost it."

"Ah Peaches and Herb. The nightmare begins," Rose smiled and they both laughed, "How did you get here? How did you know?" she asked wiping her tears still beaming at him.

The Doctor took out the letter and told her the story beginning with Jack's being alive to the letter and the story about Gwen. He was not surprised to find out that Gwen had told Rose a similar version obviously

"They're in love with each other," they both said in unison, "You saw it too."

They pointed and then covered their mouths.

"Stop that," they both said together in unison.

Both Rose and the Doctor smiled. They had missed this.

"Well this is great. It's like we never were separated in the first place. Sure the TARDIS wasn't the same without you and there definitely was the loss of that perfume you used to wear and those sad nights, but you're here now and that's all that matters," said the Doctor.

Rose put her hands on her hips, but the effect was ruined by her grin, "You just can't shutup can you. I swear if you're not saving the world from an alien invasion, you're talking them to death."

The Doctor frowned and then smiled again.

Gwen watched as the couple reunited. She couldn't help, but smile. She could still feel the sensation of love and joy that had spread through Rose and she was happy for her. She hoped hers would be as happy as a reunion when she found Jack again.

But something still wasn't right. Sure, the humming noise coming from the rift made sense now. It was the Doctor, but she still felt that something came with it though she wasn't sure. The wind blew and Gwen looked over her shoulder staring at the playground in which five or six children were playing not too far away. It was peaceful, a reminder of innocence something that was rare for hers to find nowadays, but the love between the Rose and Doctor, that was innocent and beautiful and she felt honored having witnessed it.

"Gwen," Rose called as she led the Doctor by the hand to her.

"Gwen this is the Doctor. Doctor this is Gwen Cooper."

"Hello," said Gwen shaking his hand.

"Oh my, you look exactly like-"

"-Gwyneth," both Gwen and Rose finished for him.

"Actually I was going to say Rose McGowan, that girl who plays a witch on Charmed, but Gwyneth works too," he grinned.

Rose shook her head. Same old Doctor, she thought, but she loved that. Gwen smiled too.

"I haven't heard much about you only from what I've seen, but I'm glad to finally meet you," she told him.

"And just what have you seen?" he asked.

"Enough," she told him, "May I ask?"

The Doctor nodded wondering what exactly she was going to ask.

"What was it like meeting William Shakespeare?"

The Doctor couldn't hold his serious face any longer and burst out laughing at the question. Rose stared at him in amusement and couldn't help, but let a few giggles escape.

"Of all the questions…"he started trying to compose himself, "That's all you want to know?"

"I've always been a fan of his work and I was just curious," Gwen said.

The Doctor wiped the tears from his eyes. All this laughing in one day was certain to give one of his hearts a heart attack.

"I like you and I can definitely see what Jack does too," the Doctor said.

Gwen grinned, but it didn't quite reach her eyes.

"Doctor," she began quite serious, "Was there anything following you in the rift?"

"What d'you mean?"

Suddenly a car skidded to halt parking just in front of Rose's perception filtered car.

"Rose Marion Tyler!" and angry middle aged blonde called as she exited the vehicle.

"Oh my," said the Doctor his face paling. He gulped, "I don't know about you, but the idea of daleks are looking really good right about now."

Rose couldn't help, but nod.