"Rose?" The Doctor called when she entered the TARDIS again.

"Hmm?" Rose answered as she walked over to him. The Doctor was lounging against the TARDIS wall with John in his arms. The Doctor looked up at her and smiled a sad smile.

"I have to go home."

Rose looked at him, instantly confused. Hadn't his home been destroyed. There was no way that he could go home. There was no home to go to.

"But you can't. You told me that it got destroyed in the Time War. How can you go home?" She asked, but the Doctor didn't answer her. Her bounced himself of the wall and took John over to the TARDIS console and started putting in directions. Rose shook her head and climbed the steps up to the console and sat down in the jumpseat, and watched the Doctor thoughtfully. She always loved the way the Doctor moved around the console with ease, even with the TARDIS rocking as if it was being hit by a meteor storm. She smiled to herself as the Doctor stopped and stared at the console screen, and frowned. He hits several more buttons frantically, and even used his foot to reach ones that his hands couldn't. As Rose smiled, she didn't know the battle the Doctor was fighting. This was the first time that he would be returning home in so many years. And though he had a new face and his home would only consist of rocks and rubble, and felt clarrified. It would finally prove to him that his home and his people were gone. But were they?

The Doctor stared at Rose, before he beckoned her over. Rose walked slowly towards him, and allowed the Doctor to take her hand in his. He was the Doctor, he knew what he was going. Well, that's what she told herself to believe. The Doctor looked away from her for a moment. He stared at the console screen for a moment, twirling several levers and pressing buttons. He was sure there was a alien identification protocal in the TARDIS. Ah, there it was. The Doctor grinned as he dropped Rose's hand for a moment. He turned slightly, but not letting Rose see the screen, he placed John in the bassinet by the console. He laughed slightly. The TARDIS had placed it there, and it seemed that it believed that John belonged where his father was. At the console.

Shaking his head, the Doctor took Rose's hand and brought it up to the screen. He stood directly in front of the screen, hiding the whirling facts from Rose. Several facts flittered over the screen. The major one was 'Human', but as it too passed, the Doctor decided that she really wasn't human anymore. The Doctor gasped as another fact stood out. And his hopes and fears flared when it didn't budge. The Doctor stepped away from the screen to let Rose see at last.

Rose looked at the screen. It was different to what it usually looked like. Colours were swirling in the background. Deep purples and blues. And on the surface, as if seperated, were facts. All jumbled up together and spinning around. But only one fact stood stock still. Rose gasped as she read what was on the screen.

Time Lord

Rose spun around to look at the Doctor. Her mind was spinning and she couldn't quite understand what it meant.

"Time Lord's have never reproduced with humans before. And when i slept with you, you changed. Whether it was me or John, you are a Time Lord. And by the way you regenerated, i believe that you are in a way, like Jack. When you are injured you will regenerate, you won't die. But you won't change either." The Doctor said as he stared at her. Rose managed a smile. She could stay with him forever. She wouldn't change. But what about him?

"But when you slept with me, you said you changed me. Did i change you?" Rose asked. The Doctor smiled as he took her hand.

"I don't know, but i guess we will just have to wait and find out. My time will come eventually, and who knows when." The Doctor said as he pulled her closer to him. Rose settled into him as the hug warmed her. She was a Time Lord. The fact still shocked her.

"Right." The Doctor said as he pulled away from her and returned to the console. "Home we go. Allons-y!"

Rose giggled as the they were both thrown back onto the jumpseats. Rose gasped as the bassinet skidded towards the stairs, but the Doctor reached out and grabbed it before it and John could fall. He pulled the bassinet closer and pulled John out of it, and held him close. Rose lent against the Doctor as she stared at her beautiful baby boy. It was finally starting to sink in. She could stay with her son forever.

The Doctor and Rose bonced forwards as the TARDIS came to a halt. The Doctor jumped to his feet and he ran to the door. Rose raced after him, and came to a stop behind him as the Doctor opened both of the doors. All around them was open space, but it was crowded by orange rocks of various sizes. Rose stared in wonder at the Doctor's home, or what was left of it.

"Two hundred and fifty light years away from earth." The Doctor said as he looked down at Rose.

"When I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain", The Doctor said as a sad smile gripped his lips. "I ran down that mountain and I found that the rocks weren't grey at all - but they were red, brown and purple and gold. And those pathetic little patches of sludgy snow were shining white. Shining white in the sunlight. The second sun would rise in the south and the mountains would shine, making the silver-leafed trees look like a forest on fire in the mornings."

Rose watched as tears started to fall down his cheeks, so she lent against him and wrapped an arm around his waist and listened to his story.

"Gallifrey was called the Shining World of the Seventh System. And i grew up in these parts, were the TARDIS is standing. The sky had a burnt crimson tint at night, which casts an amber tint on anything outside the city." The Doctor continued as more tears started to pour from his eyes.

"When we turned eight we had a initiation ceremony. We had to look into the Untempered Schism, which was an opening in the space/time continuum. It basically a gap in the fabric of reality from which can be seen the whole of the Vortex. It appeared to consist of an opening into the vortex, contained by a circular ring. Before the Schism was a plaque bearing the Seal of Rassilon. We all reacted differently to being subjected to its terrifying. Some would be inspired, some would run away and some would go mad." The Doctor said as Rose looked up at him.

"And what about you?" She asked. The Doctor looked down at her and smiled cheekily.

"Me? I never stopped running."

Rose giggled as she snuggled closer. This was the Doctor's home, or was his home. But she now believed that his home was here, with her and John on the TARDIS. The TARDIS would always be their home. When everything cracked and died around them, the TARDIS would always be there for them.

"I can still remember that the experience was painful. But it is said that it was the prolonged exposure to the Schism over billions of years which gave us our ability to regenerate and was indeed [ the primary factor in our evolution. Though i do believe that it inspired me, made me go a little mad and then i ran away." The Doctor said as he waggled his eyes at Rose. Rose smiled as she reached up and kissed the Doctor on the lips. The Doctor smiled into the kiss, and once they had kissed, he looked once more at his old home and closed the TARDIS doors. He felt reassured and he knew that he would never have to return. But then he thought of something. He loved Rose with all of his hearts and as he stared at her, he knew thta he could never live a day without her. His lips formed into a large grin and he took Rose's hand in his. Rose turned and looked at him, and smiled back.

"Rose?" He asked hopefully. Rose smiled again.

"Yes?" She asked. The Doctor dropped her hand and placed his on he cheek.

"Marry me?"

Haha, I know how you all love cliffhangers.

But i guess you will have to wait untill chapter six for her answer. Will she say yes? Or will she say no? Dun dun dun :D Keep reading and i hope you liked thi s chapter. So REVIEW!