"I don't even know Old Gallafreyen! How in the world could I have written that?! And! I don't have an 'H' initial. So that's not me, not at all!" Alice thought the Doctor was playing a trick on her, and wasn't giving in to the punch line.
"It's your name, right there," pointing at an intricate drawing of small circles. "You wrote this. Now by how she knew I might know something, I do not know. You only just met me, how, why, do you write a letter to yourself, and me?"
"... Because she's from the past... She didn't send it back, it was sent forward! Timelords date everything, right Doctor? Check the date, because she could have only learned this from a timelord like yourself."
"Let's see... And... There's nothing. There is no date. Which would surprise me, except that if I did teach her, they'd be no date. I never know quite what the date is, and I probably couldn't tell her."
"What a rubbish timelord you are! I write a letter, and you don't even know when it was written!" Alice was tired, and all this was starting to cause a major headache. She sat down on the floor, realizing how weak her legs were, and started to drift to sleep.
"Doctor. I think we should analyze this, Alice, go to bed. You've been up too long. We don't want you tired for what might be in store for tomorrow."
"Yeah Jack... Whatever... You say..." Alice tired to stand, but her legs refused her weight. Noticing the problem, Jack picked her up and carried her over to the sleeping quarter. As he laid her down, he started to speak. But Alice had fallen asleep while he was carrying her, so he let her sleep peacefully.
What Jack didn't know was that Alice was already being tormented by dreams. But these dreams were different than the rest. She saw the man, the one she thought was the Doctor. He was sitting with a blonde woman, whom Alice seemed to trust completely. They were talking quietly, arguing about something to do with the 'Other Earth.' As Alice came closer to them, they hushed. The woman turned, her face a blur, and spoke aloud.
'Oh, dear. You're supposed to be in bed, it's late. Let me take you back." letting the woman take her hand, they walked away from the man. He told them both goodnight using their names. Alice clearly heard her name, but the woman's was lost in the sound of the opening door. This scene played over and over again, each time, the face blurring more and more, the name becoming fainter and fainter until she heard nothing. The nothing was what shocked her out of unconsciousness. It's such a strange thing, how nothingness can haunt a person. For years, these dreams never really bothered her, but now, she knew that she loved and trusted these people and had no idea why.
That's when it struck her, she knew the woman's name. She peered back, way back to two years ago, when she first met Jack. She had told him who she was, then who she was mothered from. The woman in her dream was her mother, the man must be her father. Listening back now, the name clearly rings out to her, in the man's voice and her own.
"...Rose Tyler..." How could she forget the person who raised her? They may not look alike, her long brown hair and her mother's short, blonde hair, but she still loved her. If she could only remember who the man was, her father.
She looked back through her broken memories, new ones were popping up all over. From childhood to the white light, her brain felt like it was burning. All her memories trying to charge back to their place, and getting mashed together on the way.
"Jack?! Jack! Help!" Someone was yelling, And Jack's footfalls were approaching. Only when Jack was in front of her did she realized that she had yelled. When his hands went to her face, she also noticed that her face was wet, she was crying. She was startled, never had she ever had so many problems in her life. Her memories filled with fear, but also of loving parents. She wouldn't stop the pain in her head, because it meant more of her life back.
"Alice! What's wrong?! Tell what's wrong...!"
"I remember her, my mother... Rose. You remember that, don't you? She's my mother... Rose Tyler." She was crying again, but this time she knew why. She was crying for joy, the happiness of finding her family.
"She was in my dream. Her and the man, the one I thought was the Doctor. Their my parents."
"I remember you saying it, I remember Rose. I know a lot more about Rose then you might think..."
"Really? You've known about her and never told me?!"
"You never asked. And I figured you'd want to remember on your own. But what I'm curious about is who this other person is. You said he reminded you of the Doctor, why?" Not sitting far off, the actual Doctor was listening, putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Re-reading the letter from Alice. His theory was about to be proved.
"Well... He just... Was the Doctor. That's who he was. But I guess I was wrong, because he doesn't look like the real Doctor..."
"...Well I hate to interrupt, but I think you're right. The person you see as the Doctor IS the Doctor, just not this Doctor." Gesturing towards himself, trying to explain it.
"So... Your saying... That there are two Doctors? And one of them is my dad? But why do you look different?"
"Well, there's this thing that I do, as a timelord. It's called regeneration. When a timelord is about to die, the energy of the time vortex enters our body, and changes it. So we never die, it's our curse. We change shape, face, personality, everything changes. We're never quite the same afterwards."
"So... The Doctor I see is you... Before you were you? So I'm from the past?!"
"Not quite, Jack and I have a shared theory. I have heard that there have been messages from a Doctor and Rose. One mentioned the Void. The Void was opened only twice in my life time, and terror was all that came from it. Then you came, falling not only through the Rift, but through the Void."
"So... Where did I fall from?"
"Well! This is where the theory starts, and its s fun one! You, brave little soldier you are, fell from the parallel universe of Earth. It's on the opposite side of the Void, never to come in contact with ours. This is where Rose Tyler lives with a clone of mine. Rose Tyler used to live in this time, but her father had died, and the other Earth had him still alive. So Rose took to living in that world instead, with the clone Doctor. Jack was the man who made this happen, it seems it's paid off!"
"...It's a long story, I'll tell you later, I don't think he's done yet..!"
"Thank you for your input, and no, I'm just warming up!
So! I have gone through a regeneration since then, and the other Doctor hasn't. And it seems, from the stories Jack tells, that you are part timelord. Releasing the golden light from your mouth when you're sleeping or tired, unusual body heat, and, if I may check, probably two hearts."
"What?! No, I only have one heart! And the heat has been gone for a long while! I can't be timelord."
"But how else would you know Gallafreyen? I taught you, well, the other me did."
"But I'm not! Go ahead! Check! Please!"
"Alright!" The Doctor pulled out his... Gadget, and hovered it over her chest. Over where her heart was, the pitch of the gadget increased, showing that there was something there. Then he moved over to the other side, but the h didn't change this time. It stayed right where it started.
"Strange... I thought for sure... The light... There are still pieces missing..."
"See? I'm not!"
"So Doctor, if she's not timelord, does that mean, she's not Rose's either? I know Rose loved the Doctor too much for any other man to take her. Maybe she's adopted."
"No, that's not it... Remember the letter she wrote? It said she grew in a different time. Maybe, even though that's all she remembers, she not from the alternate universe. Maybe... She's really from this one. Someone sent her through the Void before she was sent back, by myself and Rose. But, she would have been only a baby at that time..."
"You mean to tell me that I'm not the child of Rose, who raised me, but that I'm really from here? Originally? And that you're the Doctor that my Doctor came from, My father? And that I'm having timelord problems, when I'm human? That I have been living in the wrong universe my whole childhood?"
"Yes! Exactly! My dear friend, you've been busy jumping back and forth through Void your whole life, and you don't even remember... Now, the real question is... Why did they send you back, when someone sent you there to start?"