Chapter 2:
Jacob and Rose walked along the Thames while talking.
'I have to say' Rose said. 'You seem to be nicer than the last werewolf I met'
'I'm not the first?' asked Jacob clearly shocked.
Rose shock her head, smiling to herself at the memory. 'You're the second. The first one was trying to kill Queen Victoria'
Jacob looked at Rose sideways. 'I know history isn't a strong point for me, but I know enough to know you are not old enough to have met Queen Victoria. Unless…you're not a Vampire are you, Rose?'
Rose laughed. 'No I'm not. I'm not immortal, and I don't age. I'm just a…' Rose bit back the word "normal" knowing that it's lack of meaning made it pointless. 'I'm 20, like I look.' Realising she should give some sort of explanation and finding Jacob surprisingly easy to talk to, Rose continued; 'I met Queen Victoria because I used to travel in time and space with a man called…called' As she struggled to say his name Rose realised that in the passed months since losing the Doctor she hadn't said his name aloud at all. 'called the Doctor'
'Are you all right?' asked Jacob gently.
Rose nodded, though it was clear in her face that she wasn't. She was close to tears, but determined not to start crying. 'Yeah, I'm fine' She lied badly. 'The Doctor was supposed to be landing us in 1979 but the TARDIS didn't listen to him and took us to 1879 instead'
'TARDIS?' asked Jacob. He didn't believe she was fine, but he knew whatever it was she would talk about if she wanted to, but right now she obviously didn't.
'Time And Relative Dimension In Space' Rose replied. 'The Doctor's time/space machine. You actually believe me don't you?' There was no denying the shock in Rose's voice.
'I'm a werewolf, the girl I love is infatuated with a Vampire. I don't think there's much left that I wouldn't believe' replied Jacob.
'I feel the same. I hate it when people say "you wouldn't believe me if I told you". They wouldn't believe half the stuff I've seen and done but they still reckon there's stuff I wouldn't believe' said Rose. 'Humans!'
'I think I have more of a right to say than you do, Rose' Jacob said. 'Considering I'm a werewolf and you actually are a human'
Rose smiled 'That is true, a habit I picked up from the Doctor. At least I didn't say "stupid apes" then I'd think I was turning in to him'
'Why aren't you still with you?'
Rose visibly tensed.
'Sorry, is that a sensitive subject? Should I not ask?'
Rose swallowed a few times before she trusted herself to speak. 'No it's…it's fine' she replied. 'It was months ago, I should probably have gotten over it by now, but that's never going to happen.'
'Did he die?' asked Jacob.
'No' Rose said sharply. 'Hell, no. He's alive and well, and still travelling. No, I'm just dead to his world' Jacob looked sympathetic to Rose, but blank. 'There was a battle on a parallel Earth' Rose stopped, wondering if this was really the best way to start. She started again. 'I don't come from this universe.' She was unsure how to explain this so she used Mickey's words. 'There are parallel universes, where everything is the same but slightly different. On the Earth I was born on Britain doesn't have a president, instead it has a Prime Minister. Do you still believe me?'
'Stop checking' said Jacob, but his voice was still gentle. 'I still believe you, and I'll continue believing you. It's obvious you aren't lying'
'Sorry' Rose smiled slightly, and continued. 'On that world, where I lived, there was a battle between the Cybermen and the Daleks. The Cybermen had come through from this world, to my world, through the void. The void is the empty space between the parallel worlds. The Doctor tried to make me come to this world where it was safe, with my Mum and a parallel version of my Dad, but I went back to him. We were sending the Daleks and the Cybermen into the void to stop them killing everyone. The only problem was me and the Doctor had this thing we called "void stuff" because we had been to a parallel world before, and I slipped. I was falling towards the void and if it hadn't been for Dad I would've fell into it. Into nothing. Dad caught me though, and brought me to this world. Then the breech closed. The breech is like the barriers between the worlds. The breech closed meaning I couldn't get back to the Doctor, and the Doctor couldn't get to me' a tear ran down Rose's face and she brushed it away quickly. 'This isn't my world, but everyone I know is here, but they don't know me, because they aren't really the same person. I'm trapped here and I can never see him again. I promised him…' more tears ran down Rose's face but she didn't bothered to brush them away this time. 'I promised him I would never leave him. I never wanted to. I tried…I tried to choose him, to stay with him. I promised him forever. I knew I couldn't really give him forever but I would've…I would've stayed with him my whole life.' Rose placed her hands over her face and breathed deeply to try and stop the tears. She was unsuccessful. She knew this was why she hadn't spoke about the Doctor, because she knew she'd get hysterical if she did. Why had she started talking about him now? It was bad enough thinking about him 24/7, and crying herself to sleep, and dreaming about him, an waking up in tears. Now it was even worse, because she was talking about him to someone she had only just met, and crying her eyes out in a public place. She moved her hands and looked at Jacob.
'I'm so sorry' he said. By this point they had both stopped walking. Jacob placed his arm around Rose. She knew this should've felt wrong, but it didn't. There was something right about Jacob. She wasn't attracted to him, she knew that much, she still loved the Doctor with all her heart, she would never be attracted to anyone else, so it definitely wasn't that. There was just something right about him. He was understand, and so easy to talk to. He was exactly the type of friend she needed after losing the Doctor. Someone who wasn't Torchwood, or her family, but someone who didn't think she was crazy when she talked about everything. Jacob was just perfect for her now.