Just a rewrite. If I'd kept the last bit the rest of the whole series becomes complete nonsense! Sorry!

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Wind whipped at her hair, its cold fingers tangling the blonde strands in a stinging fury against her cheeks. Her eyes couldn't see the beach around her, couldn't feel the hand clenched tight in hers, could only focus on that empty space. Where he'd been.

"Rose." That voice, it still pricked at her, still made her shift uncomfortably.

"I have to go." Was that really her voice, or did she always sound like that; broken, defeated, tired and old.

"No." A fierce Jackie Tyler blocked her unseeing stare. "You might be from my future but you're still my daughter." The charging molecules stole the power from her words, leaving them sad and resigned.

The comment still weakened her resolve. In her peripheral vision she could see his eyes flash in alarm.

"Mum," She slanted a hand over her eyes in an impatient gesture and ignored his curious stare. "I can't be here when I turn up, paradox yeah?" A corner of her mouth pulled up unwillingly. That would really work, two versions of Bad Wolf in the same space time. Even if she couldn't get off Earth she could still get away. Far away.

"What do you mean the future, what paradox? Rose?" His hand tightened compulsively around hers and she sucked in a breath. That voice, just hearing his voice again, after all these years...

She turned to face him, hand twisting in his, going up on tip toes to press her lips to his forehead. The hand that cupped his cheek remained as she pulled back, aware her eyes were bright. "I didn't know what you offered, so long to think about what I can't have." She exhaled and looked away hand dropping from his skin. "And I can't have you, not like that."

His gaze bored down on her and Rose shuffled eyes flicking back to him and away again. She could feel his eyes searching hers and his free hand jammed through his hair as he comprehended.

"When you said he's not you, you weren't talking about me." He broke off and pulled her closer to him, hand grasping her chin, raising her gaze to his. "How long?"

She closed her eyes and pulled back jerking free of his grip. "She can't know, I can't know. Promise me."

The sky seemed to darken as anger flared magnificently in his face, brown swirled deliciously into black. "And you? Is she, are you." He sighed raggedly as he tripped over his words his frustration expressed as his hand left hers and grasped her arm. "Do you leave me?"

Rose nearly gasped with the irony. Her leaving him, like that could even happen, the only impossible she believed in. "I didn't understand, what you said back in our world, with the Krillitanes." His eyes darkened incredulously further as his mind remembered. Rose's voice faded and then with a gulp she strengthened it and spoke. "To watch time pinch and snipe away the person you love."

His gaze was heavy with the truth that neither would voice. His words were low and drenched in sorrow. "I left you."

She bit her lip almost savagely. Stupid Rose, you should know better than to slip like that.

Even though his grief was palpable his intelligent ever present mind was working it out, always working it out. "You didn't travel to the future you came back from there."

She barked out a low laugh that disappeared on the wind. "Just call me Marty McFly."

He shook his head, confusion blazing on his familiar features.

"They don't have the tech yet to do what I did. I had to make it and bring it back."

"Why risk it, two of you here at such a delicate point."

"Like the timelines converged on Donna, it was here this place and time that they fixed. I tried everything else first." She sighed and tried to pull away, delighting in that guilty rush as his hand clenched around her arm. "But I didn't know, all you would say was that you needed me."

His voice was crushed satin as he stepped closer to her. "I do."

She drank in his warmth and sighed pressing her face to his neck, hands rising of their own accord to encircle his neck. "Who'd have thought it would be so difficult." She laughed shakily feeling his arms bind her closer and closer. "We never get an easy break do we?"

His voice was rough. "You'll visit, stay close be near me, please." His worse fell in between the chaste kisses he rained on her face.

"I can't" Rose's voice cracked. She saw Jackie put her hand to her face and turn away. "You've still got me, will always have me."

He pulled back slightly, palm sliding to the small of her back, hand tangling in her hair before savaging her mouth with his. He was in control this time, and he branded her with his kiss.

"Not like this, in my arms, a lifetime of keeping my distance." His voice was terrible as his eyes filled with pain. "God Rose, finally together and always apart." His breath came hot against her ear. "I can't let you, won't let you go."

Rose breathed deeply inhaling the smell of him tasting the tang of lemon grass, Newtolian wood all blended with time. She buried her face in his neck.

"I love you Doctor James McCrimmon."

His lips crashed down on hers again and when they pulled apart this time, they were both panting.

Rose dragged an unsteady hand through her hair and moved away from the comfort of his hold. "There'll be a man, Jack's double. He'll meet you. You need to send him to me, I'm not sure when."

The Doctor frowned. "How will I know where you are?"

Rose smiled at him. "You'll always know." She paused and looked once more out to the grey boiling sea. "Time to go."

She turned to her mother, the woman she had lost so many years ago, a woman now freely crying as she witnessed her daughter breaking her heart all over again. "Look after me Mum."

Hands clasped her again smaller, feminine and she drank in the warmth of her mother's love. "Be careful Rose."

"Always Mum, you know me." She closed her eyes revelling in the moment.

"I'll never see you again will I?" Jackie's voice was querulous.

Rose rolled her eyes, she didn't even feel the cold now. "Shh, you'll see me, everyday." The wind increased sending damp sand and water into a swirling maelstrom. She felt James move behind her and she turned.

"My Rose, I've always loved you. From Run." He brushed away her tears gently.

"Forever." She whispered that bittersweet word that made both their hearts clench. She nudged him gently with her arm. "Now go on." She nodded and cleared her throat. "Say hello."

He turned to look at the black helicopter that was approaching and as his back was turned she slipped away.

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