The Life and Love story of Rose Marion Tyler

John's eyes bugged in alarm over Jackie's shoulder as he awkwardly patted her on the back. His expression practically shirked out, help me damn it. Rose could do nothing but shrug her shoulders and shake her head in a helpless gesture. Pete on the otherhand also shook his head but mouthed, 'Sorry not much I can do.' John reluctantly let Jackie get whatever was bothering out of her system.

Well, damn if this wasn't the least bit awkward. If it had been the ninth or the other tenth Doctor on the receiving end and not him, both he was sure would have been freaking out at this point in time. Oh damn, but this was really awkward his brain could not cease screaming at him.

Jackie lifted her head and said, "I only just realised I was taking my anger out on the wrong man. It was just you look like him, talk and sound like him, if not a little rougher in the voice department. It was easy to see and imagine you were the other you who slept with my daughter, only to dump her on that blasted god forsaken beach like she was nothing but yesterday's trash."

John took a step back from her and replied, "Yeah, I am pretty much pissed over that fact as well. He had no business sleeping with her, knowing she could not stay with him, at least not at that current time she couldn't. He did and still does love her Jackie; he just lacks that human instinct that we all have." Jackie asked, "What do you mean at that current time?"

John replied, "One day when the twins are old enough to open up a corridor within the rift without causing any damage with mine and Rose's help, they'll be able to travel from this reality to the other back and forth with ease without causing any cracks in either reality or the void. But they will need to be at least seven before it is safe for them to do so, and they have the strength to pull it off without killing themselves or ripping the rift to shreds and unleashing god knows what on both realities."

Pete asked as Jackie came to stand with him again and Rose went to The Doctor's side. "How is it you came to be here and will you always being in here?" John nodded and replied, "I'll be here with Rose for however long she is going to live for. It could well be centuries or up to a millennium, due to the fact we have no idea how long The other me's three remaining regenerations last. All depends on him seeing as she now shares his life span."

He sighed and added, "I knew before we were left on that beach that I would get to spend forever with Rose, just not how I or she would have liked. I won't get to marry nor have children with her. But her mind is now my home, my sanctuary. I am here to guide her and stop her going off at the deep end. I am here to speak with, comfort and help her. In a way I guess I am like her form of conscious, you know the angel and devil on the shoulder scenario."

Jackie asked, "If you knew then why did you not say something. And how did you end up in here exactly. What happened to your body?" John pinched the bridge of his nose, he knew if it were possible for him to get a headache without Rose having one first, he knew that tell tale pain that comes with a mind numb and splitting migraine would be assaulting him by now.

"Listen Jackie, all of this was supposed to happen. It was a fixed point that I was not allowed under any circumstances to change. Believe me if it did not mean causing catastrophic damage beyond your wildest imagination then I would have done what I wanted in a heartbeat. I would have never allowed Rose to become what she is. It would be my children she was carrying. It would be me she married and grown old and died with" he said in a bitter whisper.

Rose had tears in her eyes as he added, "I was always meant to be her guide, her best friend, her confidant, her teacher, and for a very short time I was granted the honour and pleasure of knowing what it was like to be her lover." He paused before saying, "She is and always will be his no matter what. Just as soon as she can forgive him and get over the urge to not smack him silly, then she will eventually be his wife and will have more children with him."

He concluded, "I've seen it all; the TARDIS informed me and allowed me to know all before I we left on that damn beach. She told me the importance of why I had to follow through and allow nature to take its rightful course. Those children will continue on a race, they will also be the universe protectors."

Jackie asked, "But how did you get in here, what happened to your body?" John let out another sigh and replied, "It is best if we show rather then tell." John turned to Rose and said, "Close your eyes and think of the memory of what happened in the autopsy bay three days ago. I'll help you." Rose nodded and did as she was told.

Jackie and Pete could not help but gasp as their surroundings seem to be shifting around them in a golden blur. When it seemed all was not moving around them and was not blurring around the edges of their focus, they found they were inside what appeared to be a sterile medical unit.

They saw both Rose and John were placed on separate steel tables. They watched and listened as the scene played out in front of them. Jackie could not help but let out a startled gasp, tears filling her eyes as she listened to John telling Rose he loved her, before kissing her goodbye. Only for him to seconds afterwards breathe his last and start to disintegrate, before becoming what looked like golden glittery particles. Even Pete felt his own eyes widened as he watched the golden particles flooding into his daughter's mouth, her eyes and even the very bloody and deep gunshot wound in her chest.

They all watched as the Rose in the memory was completely covered from head to toe in golden flames. They could barely see through the flames the transformation she was undergoing. They watched as the flames ceased and she bolted up straight before doubling over as golden regeneration energy burst out forth from her mouth. They could see the agony and grief in her tear filled eyes.

Rose opened her eyes, causing the scene inside of her head to shift once more. They were back in her minds version of the main area of the hub. Rose startled as she saw her mom leaving her dads side out of the corner of her eye. She wondered what was happening she was still somewhat disoriented from what she had just done.

Before she could stop it Jackie grabbed John and grabbed him by the face, and John thinking she was about to lay one on him like she had his other self tried to get out of her grasp, but it was completely in vain. She planted a smacker right on his forehead, which at least was some kind of consolation, as least it was not his mouth. She pulled back and said, "That was for healing my daughter and letting my grandbabies live." She then reached back as she said, her hand fly forwards connecting with the left side of his face harshly, "That is for leaving my daughter and getting yourself killed. I don't give a damn about some damn fixed point in time, it is the principle of it mate."

Just as she had finished talking she realised two things, as she stared at her hand incredulously. First of all he must have surely seen that slap coming, but did not move away from her, he in fact just stood there and let her. Second her hand usually smarted slightly after slapping someone, but she never felt a thing.

She looked up at John, to instantly see he was smirking knowingly and smugly as Jackie visibly bristled. She hissed incredulously, "I did not even feel the slight sting when I usually hit him or someone else, my hand always smarts slightly afterwards." She was shaking her head in annoyed disbelief. She eyed her husband then her daughter. Pete looked just as incredulous as she did, while her daughter had a knowing glint in her eyes.

John crowed in delight, "Ha serves you bloody right woman. That is due to the fact no one who is inside of Rose's mind can feel any kind of pain, not in less someone is staging a full scale telepathic or empathic attack on her mind, and then yeah both I and she will surely feel some form of pain from that."

Jackie looked livid that her slapping him could no longer harm or affect him. Damn and double damn it Jackie mentally groused. Rose quickly kissed a laughing John on the mouth as best as she could whilst he was still laughing at her mom, who was getting even more pissed by the second.

She called out to her dad, "I think maybe we should leave." Pete nodded, Rose could see he was trying to stifle a smirk as he eyed John cackling with laughter and bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet like a child on a sugar high, clapping his hands over the top of his head. He crowed, "Ha, take that Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler."

Rose called out over her shoulder to John as she grabbed her amused dad and her seething mom by one of their arms each and walked away from where John was still celebrating yet another of his victories against Jackie. "I'll come back later with our Tony, he misses you." John merely nodded; as he was too busy celebrating to give her a verbal response.

As soon as they exited Rose's mind Jackie moved away from her daughter and husband. She practically leaped to her feet and started pacing as she screeched, "Blasted infernal man." Rose and Pete stood and cringed as they watched Jackie venting her anger over being outwitted by The Doctor again.

Jack raised an eyebrow, as he asked, "What happened?" Rose giggled as her mother ranted, "Bloody man doesn't even have the common courtesy to feel or be affected by my slap when I hit him. Didn't even make an effort to stop me, damn him. He just stood there smirking at me like a bloody smug prat he did. Damn him, and double bloody damn him."

Rose laughed out a loud and exclaimed, "Mom, he can actually hear you even from inside of my head, whilst you're out here. He is practically beside himself with uncontrolled glee." And he was, inside of her head she could see an image of him now lying on the leather couch that was always in the hub. He was stretching out like a very content cat, he was practically purring in delight. His white shirt shifted upwards slightly to reveal a bit of his stomach, as he twirled his deep red tie around his fingers and kicked his legs up in the air.

Jack couldn't stifle a chuckle, whilst Pete and the other team members stifled smirks behind their hands. Jack asked, "How come he was unaffected?" Rose replied, "Because nothing as simple as a slap, kick, punch or prod can cause us pain inside of my head. Not in less someone or something is staging a full scale telepathic or empathic attack on my mind and only then would he and I feel any kind of pain."

Jackie continued to mutter and cuss heatedly underneath her breath as she continued to pace. Rose knew that both the ninth and tenth Doctor's would have been celebrating in their own ways right alongside John if they had been there to bear witness to John's victory, his recent victory that is. Being created with a lot of Donna gave him an advantage over the original Doctor, especially when it came to the activity that was verbal (or sometimes physically on Jackie's part) sparring with her mom.

She asked The Doctor, 'Have you calmed enough for me to bring in our Tony yet? I think I better leave dad to calm her down. If you had not been on her shit list before, you definitely are now, and at the top in the number one slot. Congratulations, you've finally accomplished what I figured was completely impossible. But then again this is you, and this you does enjoy pushing my mom's buttons in a spectacular fashion whenever she provokes you.'

John chuckled to himself before answering, 'Yeah love, you can bring the little guy to visit me. It will give me a chance to try and explain the situation as best I can to him.' Rose agreed and told her dad, as her mom was far too busy silently fuming to herself, "Dad, I am going to go and get our Tony and let him see and talk to John before I bring him back into the main area of the hub."

Pete nodded his head and said, "Alright. I'll try and calm your mother down, which is not something I am looking forward to." Rose grimaced knowingly, as she turned to leave the main area of the hub to head for Jack's office, while her dad decided it was time to go and brave the possible wrath of his currently not so beloved wife.

When Rose reached Jack's office it was to see Tony was drawing away contently. There was a small cup full of orange juice and a small plate that had a couple of cookies and pealed apple slices cut into perfect bite size. Gwen would make an excellent mother Rose noted warmly.

She nodded to Gwen and said, "You can head back down if you want, I am just going to take him to visit with John." Gwen nodded and headed for the door leading back into the main hub where the others were. Rose commented before she closed the door behind her, "Gwen try to watch what you say to my mom very carefully when you get down there. John has really managed to wound her up something really fierce."

Gwen raised an eyebrow but did not say anything as she closed the door behind her. She was hardly surprised, considering she had heard from Rose how legendary some of the arguments between John and Jackie Tyler had been in the past. It was the reason Rose and John had transferred to the Cardiff branch of Torchwood. Rose had explained it to her much to Gwen's amusement. She could completely understand and sympathise with John, as she was not exactly a huge fan of Rhys's mother.

As soon as the door was closed Rose turned to face her brother. She noted he was drawing a picture. She smiled sadly when she saw it was of John, herself, and Tony. Tony hero worshiped John even after such a short time. Tony had instantly taken to and been attached to John from the very start.

Rose gently ran her fingers of her left hand through her brother's red hair, which was a shade darker then her own was. She asked gently, "That's such a lovely picture there, who is it meant to be for?" Tony replied as he continued to draw on the sheet of white paper in front of him. "It's for John. Where is here, I miss him? I want to give him my picture."

Rose felt tears filled her eyes and could even feel John sober inside of her instantly. She knew hearing her little brother speak like that was like an instant bucket of ice cold water on his head, totally snuffing out his celebratory mood. She heard John say sadly inside of her head, 'I can't physically take it Rose. Damn it, you know I can't.'

Rose's jaw clenched before an idea suddenly hit her. She said to John, 'I need you to fully concentrate on what I am about to show you, then I want you to devote it to your memory permanently if you can.' John nodded and said, 'Love I think I might know of a way that he can give it to me. What idea did you have?'

Rose asked him, 'How exactly?" John replied, 'Concentrate on what is drawn on the paper Rose, a copy of the picture will be projected inside of your head allowing me to see it. Then all I have to do is memorize what is on the paper.' Rose let out a sigh and replied as she turned her attention back to her little brother, 'Yeah that is what I had in mind to makes the most sense.'

She asked him, "Are you finished with that yet?" Tony nodded and said, "Yeah. So where is he so I can give it to him?" Rose closed her eyes briefly before opening them and said, "I am about to take you to see him, but first of all I need to explain something to you before I do."She added at his nod, "John and I were hurt badly three days ago. In order to save me and make me and the babies growing inside of my belly all better, he had to give up his body that was too hurt. So that a part of him could survive he had to come and live inside of my head. I am going to take you to see him now."

Tony asked, "Is he okay and will I get to see him again?" Rose nodded and replied, "Yes sweetheart he is okay. But like before when he used to tuck you into bed or carry you on his shoulders when he used to take you to the park when you would come and visit. He won't be able to do that anymore, he no longer has a physical form like you and I do. In short he cannot eat and sleep and go to the park like he used to, like we still can."

She lifted her finger tips to her brother's temples. She told him, "Tony I want you to close your eyes and relax and I will do the rest. We are going to go and see John now; he is looking so forward to seeing and talking to you." She concentrated on the picture, allowing John to see it. She could sense the smile on his face as he looked at it.

She asked John, 'Have you managed to memorize it?' John replied, 'Yeah love, I got it perfectly. I just finished memorizing it and have never been so glad to have a mind and memory like we do Rose.' Rose knew exactly what he meant as well, as some of things she found herself remembering over the last three days would have dimmed if she was not how she was now.

With that said she gently and slowly entered her little brother's mind, more carefully then she had with anyone else since. The fact her brother was still a little boy worried her a bit; she did not want to harm his still very young and still maturing brain. Her baby brother had such amazing and glowing potential for the future, she could see every possibility, literately; it thrilled her beyond belief that he would be such a success.

Rose could not prevent the chuckle that escaped her, or the tears that entered to eyes as Tony looked around inside of her mind with awe and delight like only a child could display. True joy and delight, the kind she knew she would get to witness with her own children. Tony exclaimed, "Oh wow, it looks all gold. Where are we?"

Before Rose could answer John made his presence known, as he too had been watching the little male Tyler with delight. "We are inside of your sister's mind; it is different inside of everyone else's. Everyone's mind is unique to them; it shows something that represents that person. A golden hue represents the heart of the TARDIS. Remember what I told you about the time vortex inside of the spaceship that looked like a blue police box?"

Tony nodded and said, "Yeah, I remember." He then let out a gasp of delight as he saw who had spoken and he had just answered. He launched himself at John who picked him up and spun him around, before placing a gentle kiss on top of his head of red locks. This was the second Tyler who had thrown themselves at him that day, but unlike the first, this little Tyler was definitely more than welcome.

Rose had to quickly wipe away a tear at the sight of the two together. He would have made such an incredible father if been given the chance. She slowly made her way up to the pair, smiling gently at the sound of her brother's squeals of laughter as John playfully tickled his ribs on his left hand side.

Tony suddenly sobered up as he asked John, "Will I ever get to come back here and see you again?" John replied, "Of course you will. I am always going to be right here, I promise I am not going anywhere. Rose can bring to you to see me whenever you visit her and your soon to be niece or nephews, or when she goes to visit you and your parents in London."

Rose let the little boy talk to him for another fifteen minutes before she told him it was time to go. She and John instantly promised he could come back again next time he visited his sister or Rose visited him. Tony had reluctantly nodded and left with his big sister after one last cuddled from John and a kiss on top of the head.

Once they had exited Rose's mind, Tony spotted the picture laying on Jack's desk still. Tony frowned and said, "I never gave him my picture." Rose smiled gently and sadly as she ran her fingers through his soft red locks and told him, "John can see and hear everything from inside of my head in less he and I chose for him not to. He saw your lovely picture for him and liked it."

She added, "Can I have the picture and will let John see it whenever he wants to?" John pouted as he thought of what his sister had said, before reluctantly nodding and said, "Yeah, okay." Rose squeezed him gently before leading him out of Jack's office. She said, "Let's go and fine mom and dad." Tony nodded in agreement, allowing his sister to lead him out of the office.

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