The thing about life is that it's unexpected, it's unexpected and sometimes quite surprising. Which is what Rose found out when the Doctor walked into her life for the first time, she certainly hadn't been expecting it either. Rose found herself right this very second sitting inside another hospital, awaiting news from the Doctor. She'd been quite happily sleeping, which she so obviously needed after that afternoons collapse and conversation inside the kitchen.

She could still remember the look on his face when he'd heard those words come out of her mouth, but she knew it wasn't dying that scared him. Which had become even more evident when Rose had become hysterical.

"Rose you listen to me..." The Doctors voice firm, calm and confident. "Everything is going to be fine ok? You're going to be fine..."

"But what about you?" Rose croaked.

He stroked her cheek affectionately looking at her, "Do you trust me?"

"You know I do..."

"Good, because I know everything's going to be ok Rose."

Rose had nodded silently, letting the Doctor comfort her until she was in a peaceful asleep in their room. His soft soothing words of "everything's going to be ok..." still playing through her mind.

When the Doctor had called it had woken Rose out of her slumber, she hadn't been aware that he'd even left the TARDIS at the time.

Jackie had turned up in Glasgow, apparently having given her door keys to the Doctor before they left the campsite and so she'd come to claim them home before she'd left home for London.

So Rose had hurried out of the TARDIS; Shareen following quickly behind her, the Doctor's voice so obviously clear and fresh inside her mind.

"I'm sure she'll be ok Rose..." Shareen said gently, rubbing her friends arm in a comforting gesture.

"The Doctor said it was bad...." Rose croaked looking at Shareen, "I've just lost my Gran... I can't lose my Mum as well."

Shareen could only pull Rose into a hug, there wasn't much that could be said in times like this. What was the point in brining false hope when actually she might not right?

Hope is something that everyone needs, because if you don't have it you're a mess.

"Everything's going to be ok..."

Rose just hoped that The Doctors words would turn out to be true.

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The Doctor waited silently as he watched nurses and Doctors running round in the little room opasite. Jackie had been run over... and if he was honest he didn't think it was looking good. He'd only turned his back a second, it was one of those moments in life where everything happened a little bit too quickly. It was like something happened that wasn't meant to happen, but the Doctor knew he wouldn't have been able to do anything.

The car had been going too quickly for him to even notice the impact it made with Jackie.

And now here they were, inside Glasgows rather large hospital. It seemed that the Doctor was inside hospitals a lot more these days, especially after meeting Rose. But then at the same time he'd gained a family, he'd gained something he thought he never could before and yet he did. He didn't know why, or how even but he knew that whatever happened. Where ever his life took him, even if Roses dream was right and it was coming towards it's end.

He'd never be more grateful for having this family... this little secret family than no one else in the universe would have. He just hoped that they knew everything that they could when... if the time came for him to leave them. He could remember a time when he'd been so lost, scared, and well if he was honest.

Lonely.

He looked round, hearing not so discreet footsteps behind him and smiled slightly seeing Thorn behind him. He didn't say anything, he didn't know what. Thorn and him had been through well if he was honest a awful lot together. Just, things he couldn't and shouldn't describe. He just hoped that they'd come out of this as fulfilled and happy people.

The nurse from the room to Jackie's room came out, her look grave and pale as she looked at the Doctor. She didn't need to say what the diagnosis was, the Doctor had guessed already.

He walked inside the room, holding his hand out to the woman laying in the bed and taking it comfortingly. He smiled at her for a moment, before rising up again heading towards the doorway.

"I'll get Rose..."

"No Doctor just wait..."

The Doctor turned round looking at her; their eyes met across the room. A silent understanding crossing between the both of them in a way that perhaps wouldn't have before.

"Take care of her for me."

"You know I will..." the Doctor said softly looking at her, his hand holding hers knowing that perhaps her final moments would be sooner rather than later. "I already am..."

"Good." Jackie's soft and familiar laugh rang out through the room. "Because believe me when I say this Doctor..." a silent tear running down her cheek as she looked at him. "You might have put me through hell when you took her away for that year, but I couldn't think of anyone better to be with her. I couldn't wish for a better..." She trailed off, a cough rippling through her body.

"Shh Jackie you don't have to say it." the Doctor soothed, "I'll get Rose for you..."

"Doctor, shut up for one second will you!!" Jackie exclaimed, shocking the Doctor slightly. Jackie seemed to be good at being loud, even when she'd been run over by a car. "I couldn't have wished for a better son in law."

When you smash a glass you don't realise usually until it's too late; there's a moment before it hit's the floor and smashes into thousands of pieces that you find yourselves paralyzed. Just for a moment, you stay still watching as the glass gets nearer and nearer to the floor before. It was one of those moments when he realised Jackies heart had stopped.

"Oh Jackie..." he said quietly, "I'm so sorry..."

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"So Rose," the Doctor said leaning against the wall, looking at her intently. He squeezed her hand as he did so, wiping away the small bout of sweat on her forehead with a cooled flannel, soothing her aching head as he did so. "You ready?"

She nodded, breathing hard as she did so before feeling the pain erupt up and through her once again. She screamed out quietly, unwilling to let this defeat her and pushed with all her strength.

She'd imagined being a Mother when she was a little girl, a man called Dan, tall, slender in size and this irresistible brown hair. Of course, Rock reckoned that Dave lived in her dreams now.

"Alright that's it..." the Doctors voice came from somewhere near the end of her legs. "One more big push..."

The sound of a baby crying filled the room and Rose smiled leaning back against the pillows on the bed, she looked over at the Doctor who seemed to be wrapping their small child in a blanket.

The softness of the baby's skin hit Roses arm, she couldn't't help but smile as she looked down at the little girl in her arms. The Baby's soft brown locks covering her hair, she was obviously her fathers daughter.

That was certain.

"He's beautiful..."

Rose smiled leaning her head on the Doctors shoulder, content to sit there with her new found family.

"Rose?" the Doctor said.

"Yeah?"

"Rose?"

"Yes?"

"Rose?!"

Rose sat up, looking around at the small relatives lounge she'd been sitting in a moment before. She looked at the Doctor, looking anxious and pale, had something happened with one of her dreams again?

"What's happened?" Rose asked looking at him, "Doctor?"

"Oh Rose..." he said quietly, "Rose, I'm so sorry."

"Doctor what's happened?"

"Your Mum she's..." the Doctor trailed off looking at her for a moment longer, unwilling to let the sad news come out. He knew what this would do, and somehow he was worried that Rose might not take it as well as she could do. Of course he'd known she was going to be upset, but he also knew that it would break her and pull her apart inside.

"I'm so sorry Sweetheart..." the Doctor said softly, perhaps the straight forward approach was the best for the both of them. "Your Mum's died, they tried to save her but... the thing is the hit hurt her too badly from the car. Her heart gave in..."

"She can't..." Rose said looking at him, "No! Doctor! You promised, you promised me that everything was going to be ok..." she coaked back a sob getting herself to the door and running down the hallway. A glimer of hope in her eyes as she glanced inside the room, Jackies still and pale body on the bed telling her it was true.

"Are you Miss Tyler?" a nurse asked looking at Rose. The stiff nod she got in reply the only answer Rose could give right at this very moment.

"I'm sorry..." the nurse carried on gently, opening the door to the room. "I'll let you see her before we take her down to the morgue..."

Rose walked into the room, slumbing into the chair beside her mother taking her hand gently. The beginning of her tears already beginning to make haste down her cheeks. She felt the Doctors hands on her shoulders, pulling her towards his embrace as she cried.

The world around her was losing it's warmth, a storm was approaching, she could see it in the background. The Doctors warm arms around her were rapidly falling away from her, she didn't know if she screamed. It was another one of those unexpected moments where nothing seemed to make sense yet at the same time she wondered if this was vital to what was going to happen, she wondered if this was the end. She wondered if this was going to be the last she'd ever see of her Doctor and her Mother.

When someone in the family dies it can feel like the worst thing in the world; especially if you were close to them. But somehow, somewhere along the line, Rose knew deep, deep, down something would get sorted.

Rose Tyler wasn't inside the hospital anymore, that was for sure. People fear the dark every day, the day that the constant buzz you get from life. But as you pass someone on the street it becomes evident that people are happy, and that's exactly what people want you to see. But somewhere, deep, deep, down you know that maybe, just maybe the person that your standing next to has some sort of dark secret.

People get scared by the dark easily, cold, terrified and lonely. Dark is a word that could be associated with a lot of things. Rose Tyler just didn't know what that was when she felt the pain of her landing. The flash of light and sound of a gunshot nearby the only surroundings she could make out as she fell into the world of darkness.

AN: Sorry it's taken so long to update yet again. More coming soon! I've finally gotten my head round this plot so things should hopefully be coming slightly quicker now.
I hope you like this chapter, I know it's a little morbid! Sorry about that, vital to the plot though.
Please review, and I'll see you all soon with another update and hopefully that teaser I promised you last time haha.

Beres xx