A/N: Here's a longer chapter for you and the reunion you have been waiting for happens.
Part One of the reunion, Part Two tomorrow.
"YES" he shouted, jumping up and down. "She did it! My beautiful ship did it!"
As he realised that he could see Rose again, he was hit by nerves again. Would she want to come with him again? Did she still love him? Was she destined to do great things here? To settle those nerves he went back to the TARDIS leaving the others outside.
Going over to the console, he interfaced with its memory backs of all that will ever be and looked into her future.
The Doctor leads the group up the driveway of the house belonging to Mr Peter Tyler and his family. He stared at the door, his hands shaking by his sides. 'Rose is behind those doors' He thought. With a last burst of courage, he knocked on the door.
He expected a doorman to open the door, like there was at the party, but was surprised when the door was opened by Pete.
"Doctor?" Pete said with a hint of surprise in his voice. "We thought that you couldn't get back."
"Well I had some help." He answered indicating to his friends.
"Rose will be pleased to see you" Pete told the doctor as he led them down the hallway.
"You lot just wait here a moment..."
"We understand Doc." Jack told him as he quietened down.
Pete entered the living room, "Rose you have a visitor" He said standing aside to allow The Doctor in. Rose turned to look at the new arrival.
She sees The Doctor standing in the doorway. It took her a second to realise that she wasn't dreaming. When she came to her senses, she ran into his open arms and kissed him passionately.
"A-hem" Jackie broke the pair up. She looked sadly at The Doctor. "You're gonna take her away from me again."
The Doctor looked at Jackie, and then back to the girl still in his arms.
"I'm sorry Rose, I shouldn't ask you this, but my companions are in the hallway. Can you get them some tea. It's been a long journey."
Her face drops and she steps back out of The Doctors arms. She grudgingly left the room. As the door closed, all you hear is her shout "JACK"
"Jackie. It's not a case of me taking her away again." He stopped to compose himself. "Before I came to the house, I had to be sure that me coming here was the right thing to do. I looked into her timeline. The timeline she was destined to have if I didn't turn up."
He stepped away from Jackie and Pete and went to the window. "There's going to be an invasion, the Slitheen are going to send a spaceship into Big Ben." He could see Jackie's eye's light up in recognition. "Jackie you met the Slitheen when I brought Rose home a year late." He turned away again. "Rose doesn't survive the invasion. Her name is on the list of the dead."
"But that's impossible" Pete said. "She can't die"
"It's going to happen Pete." The Doctor said.
"You don't understand Doctor. Rose can not die. As in physically."
Flashback
Rose was working at Torchwood Cardiff. She'd had enough of London, and found the opening of a transfer to Cardiff a welcomed distraction. She was waiting for Pete. Her dad was travelling up from London, to see if she was settling in ok. She believed that her mum had steamrollered him into checking up on her.
As Pete Tyler, Managing Director of Torchwood London, walking into the hub, the rest of the team stopped their slacking and started to look like they were busy. He smiled at them, "Not an official visit" He said and he saw them all visibly relax.
He went up to Rose's desk and sat on the edge.
"Mum put you up to this didn't she" This was a statement, he realised.
"Yep, but don't tell her. You know how protective she is."
"Yes well, you came at the wrong time. I'm just about to go on a job. Something about this sighting is very familiar."
"Do you think that it's The Doctor?"
"No. Not this time anyway. I think I have come across them before. A long time ago. If it is them, well they need to be dealt with."
"I'll come along. I'm not allowed on fieldwork, but i'm in charge, so where are we going."
"A local museum."
Rose packed all the standard equipment for fieldwork and a few extras she would need if they were who she thought they were.
They entered an enclosed courtyard and looked across to see a building with large arched windows either side of a black solid wood door. She had been here before and it was a long time ago. Relatively and figuratively.
With every step she took, she whispered a different memory.
"Better with Two." "My angels." "He'd changed his jumper." "Freshly fallen snow." "Considering you're human." "I'm so glad I met you." "I love a happy medium."
The last step gave away what they were up against, "Pity the Gelth."
She looked at Pete, who heard every word. "Memories. Just memories." She said to his unasked question.
She knocked on the door and an old gentleman answered the door. He was dressed in similar clothes to what Mr Sneed had worn in 1869.
They stood in the hallway. It was draped with black curtains at every door. The place was full of the original features that were there the last time she was here.
"I'm Mr. Sneed. The curator."
"I'm Rose Tyler of Torchwood Cardiff. This is my father Pete Tyler of Torchwood London." She said with the authority that came with the job. "We believe that you have been having some recurring problems."
"Of course. This house was an undertakers in the eighteen hundreds. My great, great uncle was the undertaker, and there are records of ghosts living in the gas. Well as this place was being restored I had the gas turned back on so that people would be able to see it how it was back then. And now this happens when I turn on the gas." He switched on the gas and the lamps started to flicker.
"Right Mr Sneed, I need you and your staff to collect any belongings you may have on the premises as when i'm finished this place will be uninhabitable." Rose said, and his staff started to collect their stuff and leave the building.
"What are you going to do?"
"Mr Sneed. Do you know why your great, great uncle left this building?"
"There was a fire, he died in the basement along with this young maid Gwyneth."
"That is only half the truth. It was an explosion and not just a fire. In the pipes lives an alien race that are gaseous. They are called the Gelth. The explosion was supposed to send them back to where they came from but some seemed to have survived. So please collect what you want to save. Once I have done my job, this place needs to be demolished. And if you are going to rebuild here. Forget about gas, and then I won't need to do this again."
As he walked away, Pete went over to his daughter. "You were here, weren't you?"
"Yes I was. Christmas Eve, 1869. I was kidnapped by that uncle of his and left in a room full of dead bodies that the Gelth inhabited and they tried to kill me. Look dad. I need to go to the basement, please go outside, mum won't forgive me if anything happened to you."
He reluctantly left his daughter and went outside with the Mr Sneed and his staff.
As Rose made her way to the basement, she placed a gas mask over her face and turned on all the gas lamps. Down in the basement, she pulled on the pipe that The Doctor had pulled on last time, flooding the basement with gas. She pulled out a flash grenade from her bag. These had a two minute timer on them. She pulled the firing pin, it dropped to the floor and she ran for the stairs.
Unknown to her, the timer was faulty. Just as she got to the last corridor, with the door to the outside in sight, the grenade ignited the gas causing an explosion that ripped through the house. Rose was knocked to the ground as the force hit her, and as the ceiling gave way.
As the front door got blown off, Pete looked at the devastation knowing that Rose was caught up in it. The flames started to die down as the gas was turned off. He knew he had to get to her. With the sounds of fire engines coming from behind him, he ran into the house. He found Rose underneath a piece of plaster looking almost dead. He ran outside with her, telling the fire officers to back off.
He felt for a pause but couldn't find one. He pulled her into his arms as tears rolled down his cheek.
"What am I gonna tell your mother?" He whispered.
"About what?" She croaked.
He looked down at her and watched the cuts and bruises on the face and arms disappear before his eyes. He lifted Rose up in his arms and took her past the crowd, out of the courtyard and to the parked SUV.
"Rose, what happened there? You were dead and then your cuts and bruises vanished."
"I can't die dad. An adventure with The Doctor went wrong and this was the consequence. That and The Doctor's regeneration."
"Does Jackie know?"
"No and I don't want her to either."
"Ok sweetheart, but only until she really has to know"
"Thanks dad, that's all I can ask."
End Flashback
"I'm sorry Jacks, she didn't want you to know"
"If that's the truth" The Doctor said out loud to himself. "Then maybe i'm here to take her away." He paused and looked over to Jackie. "If she is listed on the list of the dead then she is supposed to leave tomorrow. I sorry Jackie but history says that she doesn't exist after tomorrow, i'm taking her with me."