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The Doctor, still wrapped in Rose's unexplained hug, heard someone running in the hall, and then saw the door slam open. And in ran… Rose?

"Doctor, I -" Rose began, but stopped once she saw who else was in the room with them.

The Doctor's eyes widened as he took in the strange sight. But, being extremely gifted when it came to figuring things out, he quickly realized what was happening.

"Of course we have to meet up with the parallel Rose," he muttered under his breath. "Rose," he spoke louder, looking at the Rose who had been hugging him a second ago, "I don't think I am who you think I am. And I think it would be a very good idea if I were to, um, leave the room right now."

He began to slowly walk out of the lab, managing to ignore the heartbroken look on Rose's face, when they heard a loud crash come from above them. And the Doctor ran through the open door, not caring who followed him, but completely determined to find the source of the sound.

As expected, both Roses were right on his heels.

The noise had come from one of the top floors, the Doctor thought, so he ran directly to the stairs. Rose (the Doctor's Rose) had begun to follow him, but her doppelganger put her hand on her shoulder, and pointed to the lift.

Rose and Rose had gotten off the lift on the top floor, after hearing three more loud crashes and deducing that they had come from a high-up story. But after hearing another crash from above them, they looked at each other and said simultaneously, "the roof!"

The Doctor, meanwhile, was not quite at the top when he saw another person on the staircase. She was a young woman, dark-skinned, and wearing a fancy dress for the formal party. She was trying to run, but was having trouble, due to the high heels she had on.

"Ah! Hello!" the Doctor said cheerfully when he saw her.

"Hello!" replied the woman, a nervous tremor in her voice. "Listen, sir, you really shouldn't go up this way. We've encountered a problem -"

"No time for blabber, has Lazarus turned into a monster?" he interrupted, obviously not wanting to waste any time.

The woman hesitated for a moment, then nodded. The Doctor started to rush up the stairs again, but she stopped him by yelling, "no, you can't go up there. He'll kill you! We've got to go downstairs, get everyone out!"

"So go do it," he instructed. "What was your name again?" He asked, and then waited a second for her to answer.

"Tish. Tish Jones."

"Get everyone out, Tish. Hurry!" and he disappeared up the staircase.

By the time he reached the door leading to the roof, the monster had been silent for a long time. Very cautiously, very hesitantly, the Doctor put his hand on the doorknob and turned it. Slowly, he pushed it open and peeked out, expecting to see Lazarus, or some unidentifiable monster that used to be him. What he was not expecting to see, however, was an old man lying still on the ground, and two Roses standing above him, quietly talking. And yet the unexpected happens every day, so that is indeed what he saw.

"Rose! What did you do to him?" The Doctor was frantic as he ran over to Lazarus, whose face was once again that of an old man. After taking his pulse, he looked up at the Roses. "He's dead," he said quietly. "What happened?"

"He turned into a monster," said the parallel Rose. "We came up here, opened the door, and saw this, this thing. I think he was trying to get in, but someone had closed the door on him. He was about to kill us, but I -" she cut off.

"You what?" The Doctor's voice was soft, and it sounded like he didn't want to hear what she was about to say.

"I shot him." And the parallel Rose pulled a sonic blaster from her pocket.

"You what!?" the Doctor yelled in horror. "You shot him?"

"I had to. He was about to kill us!"

"You could have at least given him a chance!"

"She did," Rose cut in. The Doctor's Rose, who had remained silent until now. And now, two heads turned to look at her. "She did give him a chance. He laughed at her, said she couldn't help. He was seconds away from killing me."

"I told you, Doctor. I had to. There was no choice, I'm sorry," apologized the parallel Rose.

"What happened to you, Rose?" He asked the parallel version. "As far as I know, you two are the same. But my Rose would never carry around a sonic blaster, let alone use it. So something is different. Something happened between your time and ours. I'm not going to ask you what it was, because knowing your own future is dangerous. But tell me this. Will my Rose still become this, even after meeting you?"

"I did more than just meet her, Doctor," his Rose said before the other Rose could answer. "We were talking before. You took a long time to get up here, you know. I told her about us, and, then I asked her what happened. She told me."

"Rose, I told you not to!"

"She told me that a few months ago, there was a battle. Just like that woman told me this morning. Cybermen and Daleks had come through the void into this universe. But this universe had its own Doctor, and he had an idea that could fix everything."

"Stop it."

"'Cause a couple months before that, Rose was brought into another universe. Rose, Mickey, and the Doctor. The one where the cybermen came from. And in that universe, her dad was still alive."

"Rose -"

"All of the aliens had come through from that universe, so they were soaked in void stuff, and that would draw them into the void like a magnet if it were opened. But the problem was, Rose and the Doctor had void stuff on them too."

"Rose, listen -"

"He sent Rose and Jackie to the other universe using a teleport to live with Pete, who didn't have a daughter, and whose wife had died. But Rose came back, saying that she didn't want to go, and had chosen to stay with the Doctor."

"Please listen to me!"

"They activated the void using these levers, and everything was getting sucked in, but they were holding on to something, so they wouldn't be pulled in. But then, the lever on the Doctor's side turned itself off. He had to hold onto the lever to keep the suction going, but he couldn't. He - he was pulled into the void."

"Rose -"

Rose was crying by this point Even though none of this had happened to her, it still felt like it had. "This universe's Doctor is dead. Rose was left with nothing. No family, no Doctor. Just the Tardis and the universe.

She came out of a war, Doctor," Rose almost yelled. "Everyone she loved was dead, or as good as. She was alone. Does that remind you of anyone?"

The Doctor had no response.