AN: Hey guys, first off sorry for the HUGE wait. Lack of net access isn't as fun as it might sound. Thanks heaps to Becks for being so patient!! Promise I'll do my best to get the rest of the BMQAs done tonight!! Anyway, I know what you're all after, so lets get right to it right? Oh and since we know there's a hologram coming, I've put it's parts in italics. Don't know if it'll help you as you read it, but it helped while writing so...enough from me and off to the story!! Enjoy!

"You're not going to die!" he yelled back, stunning her into silence. "I won't let you Rose, I will find a way. Even if it means searching every time, every universe, I'll do it," he told her, thankful that she let him move closer now. He held her face between his hands as he met her worried gaze with one of determination. "You promised me forever remember? Don't think you're getting out of it this easily," he said softly, a smile crossing his face as she smiled at him.

As she looked into his eyes, she knew he meant it. He would spend his entire life, no matter how many regenerations that might be, not stopping to save universes the way he always had, instead searching for a cure that just didn't exist. She'd checked with the Tardis and what Jack said was right. But she couldn't bare to let her Doctor down. As much as she would prefer him being there to the end, she knew it would hurt him more being there than not and if there was one thing she refused to do, it was to cause him any more pain than she had to. And that's when she knew what she had to do.

"Think you might want to drop me off at mum's then," she told him, forcing herself to roll her eyes at his look of horror. "While I'm in the Tardis my timeline keeps going. If I'm out of it you can drop me off, spend years searching and be back before I've had a chance to have a cup of tea," she told him as she quickly thought through how she'd achieve her plan.

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"Emergency Programme One," a voice said from behind him.

Spinning around, the word was barely audible, "What?" He stared at the hologram of Rose, looking as though she were sitting on one of the seats, the softest of smiles crossing her face.

"Sound familiar Doctor? No? Well let me refresh your memory," she said, the evil glint in her eye visible even in the hologram. "Now listen, this is important - if this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape."

"No!" the Doctor yelled out, running to the control panels and trying to get the Tardis to land.

"I did that too," she said softly, before frowning. "Well, if you're doing what I expect you are…you know, yelling, banging the poor controls," she added, causing Jack to smile sadly as he watched the Doctor doing just that. "Now stop your whinging and moaning and listen, 'cause I have a few things to say to you too Doctor!" she said firmly. "I've checked with the Tardis, and she says the same as Jack, the same as you know is true, but you're just too stupid to accept it. That's right, I just called you stupid so listen already," she scolded.

The Doctor dropped his head to his chest, finally stopping running from control to control, taking a seat as he just watched the image.

"Now, just like yours, this Emergency Programme means the Tardis can never return from here. That is, she won't be able to go back to London until…a few hours from now. Don't think this is my way of spiting you Doctor, because that couldn't be further from the truth. I have loved every moment I've had with you, every single one, from you telling me to run through to the farewells we've probably just had at mums. I don't think I was really living at all until you came along, done more in the last two years than I did in the 19 before that!" she gave a soft laugh, looking away for a moment.

"Why---"

"It's her birthday next week…or would have been," the Doctor answered Jack's question softly before he had a chance to even get it all out, his eyes never leaving the image. "Didn't let on I knew of course, just thought we'd go to all the places she wanted, which was how we ended up on Mars in the first place. The plan was to find out what presents she really wanted and then," he shook his head as if clearing it. "Guess it doesn't matter now," he said as the image of Rose turned back to face them.

"I'm not doing this because I didn't want you here. The thought of going through this with just mum…without you is killing me inside…but I don't think I could bear to leave you like that. At least now I was alive when you last saw me right? Alive and kicking rather than withering and dying right?" she added, giving him a smile so he knew she was only teasing, though hearing his own words come back to haunt him tore through his hearts. "I'm so sorry Doctor, I promised you I'd be with you forever, and here I am leaving already!"

She bit on her thumb nail as though deciding whether to say what was clearly on her mind, though he couldn't work out what it was from her expression. Possibly just telling him she'd miss him, it was nearly the same expression as earlier. It seemed she decided against it as she shook her head softly, giving a small smile again. "Don't travel on your own Doctor. I'm sure you'll be able to find a replacement before you and Jack drive each other up the walls," she gave a larger smile now, though her voice breaking as she'd said 'replacement' meant is lost some of its cheer.

"And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, just one thing," she said, the evil smile returning as she quoted him once again. "Have a good life. Do that for me, Doctor. Have a fantastic life." And there it was, the Rose Tyler trademark smile, tongue between teeth and all. She held it for a moment, and they could see her press a button on a remote, but the image didn't fade.

She'd clearly thought she'd stopped recording though because as she dropped the remote to the floor, she dropped her head into her hands and cried. After a minute, she pulled herself together, wiping her eyes as she slowly got up and walked over to the control panel and gently stroked the controls. "Look after him won't you Tardis?" she said softly. The Tardis gave a few soft beeps that the Doctor couldn't quite make out, but they made Rose smile gently. "Yeah, he does. Sorry about him beating you up…well you know…when he does." There were a few more beeps and Rose couldn't help but laugh. "That'll teach him." The next couple of beeps caused Rose to laugh once again. "Never thought you cared about that sort of thing," she said, stroking the controls once again. "I'll miss you though…and Jack…and the Doctor…my Doctor," she whispered, tears trailing down her cheeks.

The Tardis hummed how much she'd miss her too, and then they could hear his voice somewhere in the distance.

"Rose?" they heard him calling before she quickly wiped her eyes, forcing a smile on her face as he entered view. "What have I told you about my poor old hearts?" he asked concern evident on his face.

"I was only coming to talk to the Tardis, done that a million times without you getting your knickers in a twist about it," she told him teasingly.

He just glared at her playfully, before coming over and giving her a hug. "Well excuse me for getting worried when Tardis is singing goodbyes and you're not where you're meant to be," he said as he held her tightly.

Rose clung to him just as fiercely, not saying anything.

As they pulled apart he stepped back, stepping on the remote. "What's this doing here?" he asked as he looked down at it. Rose looked away and didn't notice him press the button and then the image was gone.

The Doctor stared at the space the hologram had been for a few minutes, his face revealing nothing. Jack watched on silently, knowing this was the calm before the storm, just as he knew that the tears running down his own cheeks were for someone he'd only really known a few months, the reaction for knowing her for two years could only be greater. And then the storm broke.

The Doctor moved so swiftly that it took Jack a moment to realise the chair in his hand was the one he'd been sitting on a moment before. But it wasn't in his hands long as he flung it with all his strength against the wall, causing Jack to cringe as it shattered on impact. As he turned to the Tardis, his eyes were filled with a rage that Jack had never imagined any one person could hold within them.

"Take me back," he told her, his voice icy cold, and it was with a sense of foreboding that Jack realised the Doctor was still holding some of it back.

The Tardis gave a few defiant beeps that Jack was sure he himself wouldn't have had the courage to make in the face of such a formidable foe.

"I don't care what she asked for!" the Doctor yelled back. "She's dying and I have to be there for her!" He clenched his jaw tightly at her next response, though any response he might have had for it was cut off as something on the control panel caught his attention. Stepping closer, he picked up the remote. How had he been so foolish as to not wonder more about it when he had the chance, when she was still here with him.

The remote had the same fate as the chair, though the pieces it broke into were small enough to fall through the cracks of the floor, leaving only a couple of large plastic pieces to be seen.

His eyes travelled to his next target - Rose's chair, the chair he knew she would have been sitting on during that message. Picking it up, he looked at the control panel, noting every control she'd ever touched, all of which seemed to be glowering at him, their memories of her touch there solely to torture him. His rage consumed him as he raised the chair, bringing it down on the nearest controls to him. With an evil vigour he made his way around the panels, smashing one from above, the next from below, and occasionally making a swing almost as though he were holding a baseball bat as the chair hit the panel face on.

All this Jack watched in silence, cringing every now and then at a particularly vicious blow. The Tardis had displayed a message on the panel nearest him letting him know she'd disconnected any feeling she might have had connected to the controls so this had no effect on her, except the possibly good one that she'd mentioned to Rose - she could finally remodel the old panels that had driven her crazy for years. She even went so far as to point out that there was no need to have such old bits and bobs like a refurbished bicycle pump when all technologies were available to her.

It was only when all that remained of the chair was a single arm that Jack moved around to the side of the panels the Doctor was on, but waited until even that was broken in half before stepping forward, catching the Doctor as he crumbled.

Jack held onto him tightly as the sobs wracked through him. Underneath the sobs Jack could feel the Doctor's body shaking from the thorough workout it had just received. "I'm sorry Doc, I'm so sorry," he murmured as Doctor's movements gradually subsided.

The Doctor wanted to laugh. Sorry. It was a word he had to say almost every day, never able to save everyone. He'd always meant it of course, wouldn't bother saying it if he didn't. And yet it seemed completely out of place at a time like this.

It came as a bit of a surprise for him to find he hadn't just wanted to laugh, but was in fact laughing, the complete absurdity of everything all colliding in his mind at once. The Tardis, his own ship, not doing as he asked her because that would go against the final wish of one of his companions. He couldn't remember a time when anyone he'd travelled with had ever even understood the Tardis, let alone been able to get her doing their bidding.

Only Rose, he thought fondly, his Rose, his absolutely amazing and fantastic Rose. Even at her worst she was still a woman so full of life, enthusiasm, a true sense of adventure. A woman that was currently dying on a remote planet, in a little city, in a tiny flat. The fact that only three people were mourning the loss was a crime not only against all of humanity, but inhumanity, and all the other itys he could think of. And yet there was nothing he could do about it. A Time Lord, whom by definition could rule over time and space, cable of saving millions just as easily as destroying them. And he couldn't even save a seemingly insignificant ape.

The laughter slowly died away as he decided if he couldn't save her, there was one thing he at least could do. And that was stop it from ever happening again.

Pulling away from Jack he went back to the remnants of controls, thankful that the ones he needed were still accessible as he set their course.

The Tardis had expected this course in action, and made no comment as he went about it. Though she knew it hadn't been a matter of whether he respected her or not, there would be a time to remind him the respect she deserved of him, that even her most material parts still affected her. But this wasn't it. Instead she linked to the vortex and guided them as quickly to their destination as possible.

"Where are we going?" Jack asked softly, not sure he really wanted to know, stepping back at the truly evil smile the Doctor gave him as he met his gaze.

"Mars."

Yeah I know it was a bit short, but hope you liked it all the same. Just felt the Doctor would have been more angry than sad since he would feel like he could still save her...not angry at her, but the situation...anyway before I go off on a ramble, please do me the great priviledge of submitting a review. You all know how much I love 'em :)