There was a period of silence before either one them spoke again.
"But wait, it's two thousand years. Won't you, you know, die..?" Rory asked tentivally.
"Oh, no, I've waited longer." Rose's eyes took a wolfish glow as the fire flickered into exsistance. "This shouldn't be too long."
"But, how? You're human, right?" He questioned, getting confused.
"Mostly. But it's a long story," She mutters, poking at the fire.
"We have time."
"Can I trust you?"
"Who would I tell?"
She sighed, and adjusted herself to a more comfortable position.
"It all started in 2005, your time. I had gone into the basement of my workplace, a department shop, to give some lotto money to a friend. I had looked for him in a room full of shops manikins, when the door locked behind me and the manikins started walking towards me. At first I though it was a sort of joke, you know? But then they started destroying stuff, and a man in a leather jacket grabbed my hand and simply said, 'Run.'
"That's pretty much the start of it. I saved him from being killed by the Nestene Consciousness, and he took me along on the TARDIS with him. We traveled for quite a bit, like that, where ever and when ever. But eventually, we noticed the words Bad Wolf following us everywhere, and thought they were some sort of warning. We came to a place called Satallite 5, which was over a hundred years behind in history. The Dotor found out that these creatures, called the Daleks, had taken over and guided humanity in the wrong direction. He decided to build a way to kill them all- but we would die as well. He sent me back home in the TARDIS, because he couldn't watch me die."
Rose stopped, and let out a breath.
"I couldn't stand the thought of him dying there, so far in the future, and I decided to open the heart of the TARDIS, and absorb the Time Vortex. I can't remember much that happened afterwards, but I do recall calling myself Bad Wolf, and him taking the Vortex out of me. Having the Vortex, it killed him."
Rory gasped, and asked, "What? What do you mean?"
She looked at him curiously. "I take it he never told you about regenerating."
He tilted his head. "Regeneration?"
"Well, if a Time Lord is about to die, they can change their face and live. He turned from my familiar Doctor, with a Northern accent and leather, to a younger Doctor with some really, really, great hair. " She trailed off, lost in thought.
She shook her head. "But anyway, we traveled again. Even farther, to a bunch of new planets and times. Heck, we even went to a different universe. As always, things went wrong. We stopped by my mothers flat, and she had a 'ghost'. It turns out that this group of people, called Torchwood, had been opened up a bunch of cracks in the Rift and let a bunch of these creatures called Cybermen through. We'd faced them before, in a different dimension, but there were too many, not to mention some Daleks called the Cult of Skaro that had traveled through this thing between the universes, called the Void." Stopping, she looked to him to make sure he wasn't lost. His face was contemplative, but slightly confused. He nodded for her to continue.
"You see, both the Daleks and the Cybermen had traveled the Void- so they were soaked in this thing called void stuff. The Doctor found out that he could send all them back by reopening the Void. The problem was, since we had traveled through the Void too, we would be sucked in as well. His solution was to send me to the other universe." She rolled her eyes. "As if that'd stop me. I came back, and we pulled the levers together. As always, something went wrong, and I was stuck in the other universe." "And you came back here?" Rory asked, catching on. Rose laughed bitterly, and shook her head. "The fairy tale doesn't end there," She muttered, the fire catching in her eyes and giving them a golden glow.
"You see, I was desperate to get back. After my travels with the Doctor, I couldn't do domestic. I spent forever attempting to master the dimensional cannon- so I could go to my home universe, without destroying reality. It refused to do anything, until the stars started going out and the walls between realities were breaking. I managed to stop it, thank god, and send the Doctor a message that I would return.
"A while later, the Daleks returned. This time, though, they had created a device and a system that would destroy all of reality. Because of the fading walls, I could return to him. The reunion with the Doctor was cut short, though, by a Dalek. It had shot him, before Jack- another companion of the Doctor- blasted it. He was dying though, until he did something involving his hand-" Rory opened his mouth to ask a question, but was interupted by her. "Don't ask, long story-but anyway, another companion named Donna touched it, and created what he called a metacrisis clone- mind of a Timelord, body of a human. Donna got the mind of a Timelord. So they saved us and all of humanity, bringing the planets backs.
"It was obvious, of course, that the duplicate of the Doctor would bring a problem. So the original dumped me and the clone- he called himself John Noble- on a beach in Norway, in the other universe. He had a human body, so we could grow old together and have a normal human life."
"Why was that a problem, then?"
"Bad Wolf. When I absorbed the Time Vortex it messed with a bunch of things- including my lifespan. At my 30th birthday I looked not a day over 20, mostly because I wasn't. Soon, I didn't look like John's wife. I looked more like a daughter, and then granddaughter. He died, of old age. Everyone, my family, my friends, were gone. Dead, or living their lives normally. I had no place there.
"I found out that Bad Wolf subconsciously gave me a sort of dimension cannon design. It wouldn't only keep the universes intact, it could travel in time. It took years to get all the kinks out, and quite a bit of practice, but eventually I could travel the multiverse at will. After a few centuries, I started looking for the Doctor."
"Shouldn't that have been easy?" She shook her head. "I had to find him at a certian time, certian place. Otherwise I'd risk destroying the timelines."
"Ah. Wait, why?"
"You see, if I came too early, he wouldn't know me, and I'd risk him not meeting me in the future. If I came too late, well..." Rose trailed off, eyes misting over. Rory got the drift.
"Came to early, paradox. Come too late, bad things happen. Got it." He thought for a moment, then added, "Why now?"
"Oh, well, I'm actually quite early, even after the thousand years. There's a disturbance in the timeline that throws this universe's timelines way off, and I don't want to spent another thousand years retracking him down."
Oh. That explains a bit, I suppose, Rory thought. She looked at him quizzically, then asked, "That's me. What about you, then? How'd you get to know the Doctor?"
"Well, it's more Amy- she's my fiancee, by the way- who met him. I started traveling with him shortly after he popped out of a cake at one of my parties. He took us to Venice as a sort of wedding gift, and things got confusing after that. I was erased from reality by this sort of crack, and then I was here. You see, Amy's in this sort of box called the Pandorica, under here-" He gestured to Stonehenge."-And I wanted to stay and guard her. I've been doing it for about ten years." "Can I see this box?" She asked, tilting her head. He nodded, standing up and motioning for Rose to follow. Stepping towards the entrance and down the stairs, he stood still in front of the glowing box. Rose let out a gasp behind him.
"This is the Pandorica."

And, cut. Sorry for the wait! I'll be trying to update more often. Critiques and reviews are appreciated.