The other's story

It took a few weeks before the TARDIS was ready to take off. Rose and the Doctor hung out together, walked in the park, went to see a movie and stuff like that. She couldn't help thinking that maybe just staying with him wouldn't be bad but she knew that if she said so he'd leave without her; for her it was enough just to be with him, he was far too adventurous to stay that long one place, and to be honest, so was she.

One day, while Rose was talking with her parents, they'd easily accepted that she was going to leave with the Doctor, Mickey and Susan the Doctor came bursting in.

"It's ready. Rose, Susan. We're leaving."

"Uhm… actually…" Susan began from her place on the couch beside Mickey the two of them had become really good friends in the last few weeks. Actually, Rose wouldn't be surprised if they were a little more than friends. "I think I'm staying."

"Aww. Why Susan? I'd so much to show you. Come on…"

"I would feel pretty much like the third wheel. Besides, I've got a very good reason to stay." Susan said smiling, looking at Mickey. At first it seemed like the Doctor didn't understand what she meant then he realized it.

"No. no way. That's just… crazy… my great-great-granddaughter and Mickey the idiot. That's insane." But even though he tried to make it sound like he disapproved of the pairing his broad, cheeky smile betrayed him.

"Well," Susan said smiling, "I'm afraid insanity runs in the family… according to my grandma you're a bit crazy too."

"A bit crazy?" Rose said laughing, "Yeah and the Pacific Ocean are 'a bit wet'." With those words she ran upstairs to pack her stuff. She didn't need that much; her old room on the TARDIS had been left unused. She'd just finished packing when the Doctor came in.

"Your mother refuses to let us go before we've had dinner. I didn't think I could deny them that. After all, who knows when you people will see each other again?"

"Right then," she said, walking over to him and wrapping her arms around his neck, "we stay and eat and then we leave." Their lips met in a short kiss before they broke apart and Rose returned to the packing. The Doctor began to help her after a few seconds.

"You're really sure you want to leave your family? We still don't know if we'll be able to come back here and even if we, like Susan and I did, should end up here by some crazy means it could be when Jason's and old man. Parallel worlds have different times. Remember when Mickey, Jake and Pete came to our world, before… before I lost you. Sorry… shouldn't say that."

"No you're right. You shouldn't. You think you're the only one who suffered but you were busy, had other things to take you mind off me. I… I could just… live… 'Living a life, day after day.' That's what you said. But I couldn't. Without you my life was empty. That's why I have to go with you. And if that's to the end of the universe then so be it."

"I've been to the end of the universe. With Martha… and Jack."

"Jack? Jack Harkness? But… he died." Rose was completely aware of how dumbstruck she looked. You'd look the same way if some one told he'd been to the end of the universe with a guy you though was dead.

"Nah… you resurrected him in your Bad Wolf state. He's immortal now… working at Torchwood I've heard. That's not secret anymore. Actually, we, Martha and I, think he might be the Face of Boe."

Her jaw practically dropped. If she didn't know the Doctor she would think he was crazy. Now, however, she was completely aware that he was.

"Okay… you're going to tell me everything. Right from after we said goodbye at Dårlig Ulv Stranden. Everything. You hear me?"

He nodded smiling and after a few seconds Jackie called and told then that dinner was ready.

After dinner, there had been really delicious and filled with laughter, the company not the food. They all walked to the park where the TARDIS stood, Rose and the Doctor to leave and the others to say goodbye. After they'd said goodbye the two of them entered the TARDIS and took off toward new adventures. In time and space