The Doctor:

Now that Rose and my Jace were used to what I looked like, they were getting ready to head off. Something about Rose needing to redye her hair, and Jace needed a trim, but eventually they came back, both grinning. "So where are we going?"

"Further than we've ever gone before." I grinned, flicking a lever and sending us jolting through time and space to where we were next going. And then I saw my daughters hair. "JACE! What the hell have you done?!" I demanded, going over to her and looking at her usually ash coloured hair streaked with blue, green, red and purple through the light colour. It looked good, but not allowed.

She wafted my hands away, and Rose had the decency to look sheepish, her now shorter and redyed blonde hair fine, because she was an adult. I told Jace to wait a few years. "She said you said it was fine, Doctor, I'm sorry."

"Rose, that was Jace, not you. And now, you're grounded, you have to stay with me at all times, and you're not allowed to use the music room." Her face scowled. "No buts, you went against me. You had 9 months to wait, Jaclyn, not long, definitely not for us, you could have waited."

Jacey couldn't really argue with that, and I felt bad for being so strict, but if I let her get away with it, she'd think she could walk all over me. Time Lord teenager, look how well that turned out for me. We landed just across the river from a giant city, cars flying around like mad overhead, and Jace looked amazed. "Oh, wow."

"It's the year five billion and twenty three." I told her, throwing her my old leather jacket that had shrunk down to fit her, well, it was the same size, just smaller on the outside, an inverted TARDIS. "We're in the galaxy M87, and this? This is New Earth."

"'That's just. That's just"

I grinned at them both. "'Not bad. Not bad at all."

Jace hugged me, and I knew I was forgiven for grounding her, and her hair did look pretty awesome. "That's amazing. I'll never get used to this. Never. Different ground beneath my feet, different sky. What's that smell?"

That was a good point actually, and I reached down to grab the grass and sniffed. "'Apple grass."

"Apple grass."

"Yeah, yeah."

Rose smiled, taking my free arm. "It's beautiful. Oh, I love this. Can I just say, travelling with you, I love it. And Jace, you're amazing too."

"Me too." I grinned, kissing my tiny daughters multicoloured head before leading them off down the hill. "Come on" We found a space we liked before we lying down on my long coat, just watching the city. "So, the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted. Jace, this was before I found you, sort of."

"That was our first date." Rose grinned, the wind making her hair fly into her face, and she looked even more gorgeous.

But I remembered that amazingly well, it only being about a year ago. "We had chips. So anyway, planet gone, all rocks and dust, but the human race lives on, spread out across the stars. Soon as the Earth burns up, oh yeah, they get all nostalgic, big revival movement, but then find this place. Same size as the Earth, same air, same orbit. Lovely. Call goes out, the humans move in."

Jacey was staring off into the city, her eyes bright and darting, looking at all the sounds. "What's the city called, dad?"

"New New York."

They both rolled their eyes. "Oh, come on."

Why didn't they believe me? "It is. It's the city of New New York. Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original, so that makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York." They were both staring at me. "What?"

"You're so different."' Jace smiled, cuddling into me a little, and I wrapped my arm around her, my little girl. I would protect her to the end of the universe and back.

"New New Doctor." I smiled down at her. "New new Dad."

And then Rose giggled a bit. "Can we go and visit New New York, so good they named it twice?"

"Well, I thought we might go there first." I pointed to an elegant pair of curved skyscrapers standing apart from the city on their side of the river. "Some sort of hospital. Green moon on the side. That's the universal symbol for hospitals. I got this. A message on the psychic paper." I showed it to them both. Ward 26 Please Come. "Someone wants to see me. Or us."

"Hmm. And I thought we were just sight-seeing." Rose got to her feet, grabbing Jacey and pulling her up too. "Come on, then. Let's go and buy some grapes."

We headed over there and then, and I explained to them how I hated hospitals, something that had always been there. I watched my sister die in childbirth in an old hospital, and she didn't regenerate. She just died and her son lived. I'd hated them since.

"Bit rich coming from you, Dad."

"I can't help it. I don't like hospitals." I shivered a little as we crossed the threshold, squeezing her hand, remembering how it was broken when I first met her. I healed her, all of her. Her body was perfect and she would have a great time in this form. "They give me the creeps."

Rose was looking around the hospital itself, how up market it had gone. "Very smart. Not exactly NHS."

"No shop. I like the little shop." Only good part of a hospital.

"I thought this far in the future, they'd have cured everything." Jace muttered, looking equally uncomfortable. She spent 6 months learning to walk again after her parents accident.

"The human race moves on, but so do the viruses. It's an ongoing war." I kept walking a little, heading for the lifts.

Rose followed, but Jacey was staring at the nurses. "They're cats. Like, Rain style cats, they look like Rain, as a person."

"Now, don't stare." I told her sternly. "Think what you look like to them, all pink and grey and those colours. That's where I'd put the shop. Right there."

I walked into a lift then, Rose getting in with me. "Ward 26, thanks!"

"Hold on, dad! Hold on!" Jace shouted, suddenly running after us, but the doors were closed and we were moving.

"Oh, too late. We're going up."

There was a pause. "It's all right, there's another lift."

"Ward 26." Ah, another part. "And watch out for the disinfectant." Which she misheard multiple times and I gave up trying to explain. We were then drenched, blow dried and perfumed. Rose took a moment to get it, and Jace probably hated it, she hated all perfume apart from this Karma stuff Jackie got her for Christmas.

We were met by a Sister, who started talking to us, and she seemed nice. "Nice place. No shop, downstairs. I'd have a shop. Not a big one. Just a shop, so people can shop."

"The hospital is a place of healing." She told us, taking down her veil.

"A shop does some people the world of good. Not me. Other people." I pointed to Rose slyly, and she smiled back knowingly. Girls.

"The Sisters of Plentitude take a lifelong vow to help, and to mend."

We passed an open cubicle and then a woman came out to have a go at us as we looked at the man. "Excuse me! Members of the public may only gaze upon the Duke of Manhattan with written permission from the Senate of New New York."

"That's Petrifold Regression, right?"

"I'm dying, sir. A lifetime of charity and abstinence, and it ends like this." Yeah, if you're a virgin then so am I, and Jace was an act of God.

They had their area cleared and Jatt moved us on. "He'll be up and about in no time."

You had to be kidding me. "I doubt it. Petrifold Regression? He's turning to stone. There won't be a cure for oh, a thousand years? He might be up and about, but only as a statue." Rose shivered a little. She hated any form of statue.

"Have faith in the Sisterhood." Jatt told us, and Rose looked wary again, seeing as they really were just the evolved form of Rain, currently asleep in the console room. "But is there no one here you recognise? It's rather unusual to visit without knowing the patient."

But then I saw who it was, someone capable of amazing telepathic powers. "No, I think I've found him." The Face of Boe was looking out the picture window at the view of the city.

"Novice Hame, if I can leave this gentleman and Lady in your care?" Jatt asked the younger, more hesitant cat lady with him.

She nodded and the Sister went to leave, but I realised Jace still hadn't gotten here. So much for having to stay by my side. "Oh, I think my daughter got lost. Jace Smith. Could you ask at reception?"

"Certainly, sir."

"I'm afraid the Face of Boe's asleep." Hame said as the elder left. "That's all he tends to do these days. Are you a friend, or-"

"We met just the once on Platform One. What's wrong with him?"

Hame gave a pained expression. "I'm so sorry. I thought you knew. The Face of Boe is dying."

"Of what?"

"Old age."' Oh, no... "The one thing we can't cure. He's thousands of years old. Some people say millions, although that's impossible." Never say that, he could be older than me, I was 901.

"Oh, I don't know. I like impossible. I'm here. I look a bit different, but it's me, It's the Doctor, and Rose is here too." Though she was looking around and wondering where my little Jace was.

We went to see if we could find her, before coming back and I gave Hame a cup of water, knowing she was working hard. "That's very kind. There's no need."

"You're the one working."

"There's not much to do, just maintain his smoke. And I suppose I'm company. I can hear him singing, sometimes, in my mind. Such ancient songs." What, like beyonce, single ladies?

"Are we the only visitors?"' Rose asked, and that was a good point.

"The rest of Boe-kind became extinct long ago." The cat said sadly. "He's the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old. There's all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret, that he will speak those words only to those like himself."

"What does that mean?"

She looked taken aback. "'It's just a story."

"Tell me the rest."

"It's said he'll talk to the wanderers. To the man without a home, making one wherever he is with his child. The lonely God and the Colourful Child."

On that note, I needed to call my daughter and really find her. And luckily she picked up. "Er, wotcha."

"'Where've you been, Jaclyn? How long does it take to get to Ward 26?"

"I'm on my way, governor." What? "I shall proceed up the apples and pears." OK, why did she have to mention pears, she knows that I hate pears!

"I'd better go. See you in a minute, love."

The Duke of Manhattan was very happy, and he saw Rose and I again, grinning. "Didn't think I was going to make it. It's that couple again! They're my good luck charm. Come in. Don't be shy."

The consort woman looked wary but smiled. "Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract."

"Winch me up. Up! Look at me. No sign of infection."

I was offered champagne but I declined. "You had Petrifold Regression, right?"

The man beamed at me. "That being the operative word. Past tense. Completely cured."

"But that's impossible."

"Primitive species would accuse us of magic," A nurse told us, appearing from one side. "But it's merely the tender application of science."

"How on Earth did you cure him?

The Cat smiled slyly. "How on New Earth, you might say."

I saw the iv that was slowly dripping down into him still. "What's in that solution?"

"A simple remedy."

I wasn't in the mood for you to be cryptic. "Then tell me what it is."

"I'm sorry. Patient confidentiality. I don't believe we've met. My name is Matron Casp."

"I'm the Doctor, this is Rose, my, friend."

That got her a little hesitant. "I think you'll find that we're the doctors here."

Jatt came back then, and looked at the Matron. "Matron Casp, you're needed in Intensive Care." They excused themselves, and walked away.

Eventually, Jace came back, while Rose and I were looking at a a person floating in mid air. "There you are, my Colourful girl." I grabbed her hand and started showing her things. "Come and look at this patient. Marconi's Disease. Should take years to recover. Two days. I've never seen anything like it. They've invented a cell washing cascade. It's amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one."' A man as white as his bed gown. "Pallidome Pancrosis. Kills you in ten minutes, and he's fine. I need to find a terminal. I've got to see how they do this. Because if they've got the best medicine in the world, then why is it such a secret?"

"I can't Adam and Eve it."

OK, I got that she was annoyed over the grounding, and no music room, but this was a little too far. "What's, what's. what's with the voice?"

"Oh, I don't know. Just larking about. New Earth, new me."

That was a god point. "Well, I can talk. New New Doctor. New Dad, my amazing daughter."

She smiled a little, her blue eyes darker than normal. "Terminal's this way."

It was by the lift, and I got to work, but I didn't know to get through it. "Nope, nothing odd. Surgery, post-op, nano-dentistry. No sign of a shop. They should have a shop. Jace, anything you can get?" She looked confused, and her eyes weren't doing what they normally did, chasing sounds. What was going on with her, she hated turning it off. "Jacey?"

"No, it's missing something else. When I was downstairs, those Nurse Cat Nuns were talking about Intensive Care. Where is it?"

That sounded a little different, but still like her. "You're right. Well done."

"'Why would they hide a whole department, Doctor?" She asked, and I frowned. She'd stopped calling me Doctor days ago, I was her dad, she told me so. "It's got to be there somewhere. Search the sub-frame."

I was testing her now, because my little girl was smarter than me, Time Lord with a human imagination. "What if the sub-frame's locked?"

"'Try the installation protocol." No, she'd use her hands, she could get through a dead lock.

But until I could get to the bottom of this, we should just go with it. "Yeah. Of course. Sorry. Hold on." I managed to get through, and then the wall slid down to reveal a corridor.

"Intensive care." Rose muttered. "Certainly looks intensive."

Jace lead the way down a good old-fashioned staircase, the whole place is lined with the cells, thousands of them, a bit like the Tomb of the Cybermen from a long time ago. I opened one at random. It contained a very sick looking man. "That's disgusting. What's wrong with him?"' Jace asked, looking grossed out. This was wrong, so wrong.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I closed the door and moved onto the next, showing a girl just the same, no older than my daughter.

Rose looked horrified, but in a different way. "What disease is that?"

"All of them." I told them. "Every single disease in the galaxy. They've been infected with everything.

And Jace had the wrong thought. "What about us? Are we safe?"

"The air's sterile." I told her, pulling her back as I closed the door. "Just don't touch them."

"How many patients are there?"

"They're not patients."

She frowned a little. "But they're sick."

But it was more than that. "They were born sick. They're meant to be sick. They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the Sisters have got a cure for everything. They've built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm."

"Why don't they just die?"

"Plague carriers."' I told her, disgusted at the Cats. "The last to go."

And then Hame turned up. "It's for the greater cause."

"Novice Hame, When you took your vows, did you agree to this?"

"The Sisterhood has sworn to help."

I glared at the girl. "What, by killing?"

She looked pained. "But they're not real people." Then why were they in pain? "They're specially grown. They have no proper existence."

"What's the turnover, hmm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousands? For how many years? How many!"

Now she was scared, and she took a step back. "Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses. We couldn't cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone-meat and bio-cattle, but the results were too slow, so the Sisterhood grew its own flesh. That's all they are. Flesh."

"These people are alive."

"But think of those Humans out there, healthy and happy, because of us."

Rose shook her head now. "If they live because of this, then life is worthless."

"But who are you to decide that?"

"I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler. And if you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn't one. It stops with me."

Jace, or not Jace, stepped forward, her colourful hair scraped back in a pony tail, something she'd always hated. "Just to confirm. None of the humans in the city actually know about this?"

Hame shook her head. "We thought it best not."

I'd had enough of this. "Hold on. I can understand the bodies. I can understand your vows. One thing I can't understand. What have you done to my daughter?"

"I don't know what you mean."

"And I'm being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing, and hers is the most delicate in the universe. Whatever you've done to Jace's head, I want it reversed."

But the cat was very confused, though Rose could also see there was something up. "'We haven't done anything."

"I'm perfectly fine, Doctor."

Rose looked at her. "These people are dying, and Jace would care."

That made her sigh and roll her darker blue eyes. "Oh, all right, clever clogs. Smarty pants. Lady-killer."

"What's happened to you? You were calling me dad, you'd accepted your heritage."

"I knew something was going on in this hospital, but I needed this body and your mind to find it out."

"Who are you?"

The body of my little girl stood up on tip toes to whisper in my ear. "The last human."

"Cassandra?"

"Wake up and smell the perfume." Then she squirted something at Rose and I, and everything went black for a moment. When there aws light again, I was bathed in a green light, Rose crammed in with me. "Let us out! Let us out!"

The form of my daughter stood in front of us. "Aren't you lucky there was a spare? Standing room only, sorry for the cramped space."

"You've stolen Jace's body." Rose breathed, and I wrapped my arms around her, trying to keep her calm.

"Over the years, I've thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor, Rose. And now, that's exactly what I've got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes. You've got about three minutes left. Enjoy."

"Just let Jace go, Cassandra."

"I will. As soon as I've found someone a little older, and less common, then I'll junk her with the waste. " She was one of a kind, and so powerful, but you had no access to the sounds and lights. "Now hushaby. It's showtime."

I heard my daughters voice talking with the cats before something opened all the doors and we stepped out with all the diseased people. "What've you done?"

"Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake them up. See you, sugar daddy!" I shouted a warning to the cats before pulling Rose along after them. Until we saw all the cages were open. "Oh my god."

"What the hell have you done?" Rose demanded of her, making her look at us. My daughters face with a hidden villain inside. Sounded like the Valleyard...

"'It wasn't me."

"One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra, because she is 15 and you don;t know how important she is. We've got to go down."

The girl looked horrified. "But there's thousands of them!"

"Run! Down! Down! Go down!" She got moving and I pulled Rose along with me after her, wanting to keep her in sight. "Keep going! Go down!" She went to call a lift at the bottom. "No, the lifts have closed down. That's the quarantine. Nothing's moving."

Cassandra then ran a different direction. "This way!"

But Chip got cut off from us. "Someone will touch him."

"Leave him!"' The voice of my girl shouted. "He's just a clone thing. He's only got a half life. Come on!"

I sent a reproachful look to him, before running after. "We're trapped! What am I going to do?" Cassandra cried, finding people all around us.

"Well, for starters, you're going to leave that body." I snapped, staring at the device she used. "That psychograft is banned on every civilised planet. You're compressing Jace to death."

Cassandra didn't look happy "But I've got nowhere to go. My original skin's dead."

"Not my problem." I replied simply, getting out the sonic. "You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out. Give her back to me."

"You asked for it." And then everything went black again. When light came back, I was up a ladder and Cassandra was back in my daughter, who looked exhausted. "Oh, punk- tastic again. Open it!"

"Not till you get out of her."

Jace's eyes were even darker than before. "We need the Doctor."

But I was not having any of this. "I order you to leave her." Then it went black again. Until she decided to go into a diseased girl and I got the lift doors open, pulling Rose and Jace up, smiling at my little girl. "Nice to have you back, love."

But then she was gone again as Cassandra got through the doors as they closed. "That was your last warning, Cassandra!"

"Inside her head." She breathed. "They're so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched. Colours, the colour of pain and longingm emanating from them..."

Rose and I offered her our hands, and pulled her too her feet. She was starting to feel, meaning she would leave her later. And then we were attacked by what looked like the survivors from the Walking Dead, all crammed into a room. This was not a Zombie apocalypse. "We're safe! We're safe! We're safe! We're clean! We're clean! Look, look."

"Show me your skin."

"Look, clean." I shouted at them. "Look, if we'd been touched, we'd be dead. So how's it going up here? What's the status?"

Clovis did not look happy. "There's nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we're the only ones left. And I've been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad." Oh, that was not happening.

I shook my head, moving Jace/Cassandra, further into the room. "You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine."

"I am not dying in here."

"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city. They'd all be at risk. Now, turn that off!" Rose shouted. She refused.

"All right, fine." I told them, moving them closer. "So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, Jace, novice Hame, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!" They all got to work while I tied them onto a piece of heavy silk rope wrapped around my torso. "How's that? Will that do?"

Cassandra stared at me, and I could see Jace fighting in there, flashes of colour in her eyes. :I don't know. Will it do for what?" I opened the lift doors. "The lifts aren't working."

"Not moving. Different thing. Here we go." And then to hers and Rose's horror, I jumped to grab the cable. "I'm going down! Come on! Cassandra, I'm not letting you escape, Rose, make sure they don't break quarantine."

The girl shook her head, playing with the pendant her other dad had given her. "Not in a million years."

Seriously? "I need another pair of hands, Jace's are the only ones strong enough. What do you think? If you're so desperate to stay alive, why don't you live a little?" But her decision was made for her when some diseased started coming. Rose managed to get them blocked off, but not before Jace jumped and wrapped her arms around me and we went down, coming to a stop on top of the lift.

"Well, that's one way to lose weight." She told me, pressing her hand on her still too concave stomach.

"Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever."

But she wasn't as smart as my little girl, fighting away in there. "There's still a quarantine down there, we can't-"

Just shut up! "Hold that lever! I'm cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself." I squirted all the cures in there. "Now, that lever's going to resist. But keep it in position. Hold onto it with everything you've got, and I know my daughter is strong, so strong."

"What about you?"

"I've got an appointment." I smiled, propping myself over the whole. "The Doctor is in." Then I dropped and opened the door, calling out to the poor people in so much pain. "I'm in here! Come on!"

Cassandra sounded shocked. "Don't tell them."

"Pull that lever!" The people started to shuffle towards the lift. "'Come and get me. Come on! I'm in here! Come on!" The disinfectant started. "Hurry up! Come on! Come on, come on." They got hit with the mass cures before healing and walking back out. "All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on!" Cassandra was confused above me, but I understood what was going on. "Pass it on!"

Then I helped my little girl down, though she was still Cassandra. I was getting her back. "What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?" She asked, and I shook my head, leading her out.

"No. That's your way of doing things." Oh, this was amazing. "I'm the Doctor, and I cured them." I girl came and hugged me, no older than my Jace herself. "That's right. Hey, there we go, sweetheart. Go to him. Go on, that's it. That's it. It's a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans! Look at them. Look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive. You can't deny them, because you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha!"

Everyone was taken away, all of the Cats arrested, and the humans taken off to be tested and fully classified, given names and identities, before I remembered something, running back upstairs, still soaking wet. "The Face of Boe!"

Rose was sat with him, smiling as we came back. "You were supposed to be dying." I told him, seeing him awake.

"There are better things to do today. Dying can wait."

Cass-Jace rolled her eyes and groaned. "Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face."'

I shhed her, and let him speak. "I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew."

"There are legends, you know, saying that you're millions of years old."

"There are? That would be impossible." I could hear the smile in his voice, and so could Rose as she smiled back.

"Wouldn't it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me. Well, me and Jace, when we get her back."

There was a slight bow of his giant face. "A great secret."

"So the legend says."

"It can wait."

Please, I liked secrets. "Oh, does it have to?"

"We shall meet again, Doctor and Jace, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day." Then he beamed away.

"That is enigmatic." I gushed. "That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic." I stood up and looked at the face of my daughter but the eyes of Cassandra. "And now for you."'

"But everything's happy. Everything's fine. Can't you just leave me?"

Not a chance in hell. "You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra. That is my daughter, my 15 year old little girl, and you are taking away her too short life."

"I don't want to die."

I knew how that felt. "No one does." And then Chip came back, something no one was expecting. "Oh, you're alive."

"I kept myself safe for you, mistress."

"A body. And not just that, a volunteer."

Oh, you were kissing me. "Don't you dare. He's got a life of his own." But Chip wanted it and they went through it, and I caught Jace as she collapsed. "Oh! You all right? Whoa! Okay? Jacey? Jacey Jay?"

"Yeah."' She breathed, her electric blue eyes coming back in full force. "Hello, dad!"

I grinned at her. "Hello. Welcome back."

And then Cassandra was back. "Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle."

"You can't stay in there." Jace told her, getting right back into the swing of it. "I'm sorry, Cassandra, but that's not fair. We can take you to the city. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you've done."

She wasn't taking this seriously. "Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I'm afraid we don't have time. Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he's been through so much. His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last" She fell to her knees.

"Are you all right?"

Cassandra nodded. "I'm fine. I'm dying, but that's fine."

"I can take you to the city."

"No, you won't." Cassandra told us

"Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me any more. You're right, Docto". It's time to die, and that's good.

Jace took her hand and lead her towards the door. "Come on. There's one last thing we can do."

Then we took her back to the party, where she was last told she was beautiful. "Thank you."

"Just go." Jace told her, cuddled into my side, her colourful hair now lose around her face. "And don't look back."

"Good luck." Rose told her.

And we watched until she died in her own arms, and then we left.