The Doctor and Rose were stood at Jackie and Pete's front door, waiting for them to answer it. The Doctor grew impatient and began poking Rose's ribs purely to annoy her.

"Doctor!" she snapped at him.

He immediately stopped poking her, before leaning towards her ear.

"I love you," he whispered to her, a huge grin on his face.

"Oh no, you are not getting away with it that easily. The amount of times I've let things go because you've said that. Well, not this time Doctor."

She turned to him and prodded his chest with her finger and said in her grimmest voice.

"This time it's war."

The Doctor looked at her blankly for a second before bursting out into laughter. Rose glared at him and crossed her arms. Before anything else could be said Jackie, who seemed frantic and looked slightly worn out, opened the door.

"Sorry I know it took me a century to open the door." She said slightly breathless.

"You ok mum?" Rose asked her, entering the house.

"Yeah, fine. Just Tony's had sugar today."

"Ah I see." She said, nodding in understanding.

The Doctor looked over at Rose and smirked sexily at her, she knew exactly what he was up to.

"Stop it!"

"What's up with you two? You had an argument or summit?" Jackie asked, slightly confused at what the Doctor had actually done to upset her.

"Oh he just thinks he's funny." She told her mum, a slight grin turning her mouth up as she glanced over at him.

"Oh you two are in one of those childish moods. Well get over it I've got enough with one kid." She said, slightly demanding.

She walked out of the hallway just a Tony came screeching to a halt as he ran from the living room. He ran past Rose straight to the Doctor, who playfully scooped him up in his arms and tickled him.

"Err, hello Tony". Rose said, mockingly.

He turned his body to look at her before looking back at the Doctor, who began to whisper something in his ear. Grinning, Tony climbed out of the Doctor's embrace and held his arms up to Rose.

"Just saving the best to last, Rose." He said innocently, looking over at the Doctor to make sure that he had said what he was meant to.

The Doctor gave him a reassuring head nod, as Rose picked him up and planted a kiss on his cheek.

"You're a cheeky monkey you know that?" she said to him.

"And you're the best" he said again, glancing over at the Doctor.

"And the most beautiful" the Doctor added.

Rose looked over to him, raising one eyebrow. The Doctor looked at her, his eyes wide with confusion.

"What? You are." He insisted shrugging his shoulders.

She shook her head slightly, an amused smirk on her face, before releasing Tony and heading towards the kitchen. The Doctor walked closely behind her and dipped his head to her neck in an attempt to try and kiss it.

"I don't think so" she said a slight giggle in her voice, moving away from him.

He frowned slightly, he'd get her to cave in eventually, it was just her way of teasing him.

Jackie was already made cups of tea for everyone by the time they reached the kitchen.

"Where's Pete?" the Doctor asked.

"He's in the basement keeping his eye on the TARDIS." She replied.

"So what kind of noises is it making?" Rose questioned.

"You're better off hearing it for yourselves." She said, leading them out of the kitchen and towards the basement door.

As the Doctor and Rose slowly crept down the stairs, they heard the TARDIS creaking, as if it was about to fall apart. As they reached the bottom of the stairs they noticed that the sound was changing, within moments it was no longer creaking, but it was humming slightly. A huge grin passed across the Doctor's face, as he turned to Rose.

"Do you recognise that sound Rose?"

Rose stood still staring at the object the towered above her. It was beautifully lit up and she could feel tears threatening to fall as she admired it. So many memories and ideas were whirling around inside her head; she found it hard to control them all.

"Yeah, it… it's singin' right?"

"Yup, do you know why?" he asked her, putting his arm around her shoulders.

She remained still, continuing to look at it. She gently shook her head.

"It's calling for us." He told her, his voice a slight whisper.

"You mean it's calling for you." she corrected him, turning to look at the Doctor's beaming face.

He shook his head and took a breath.

"No, this TARDIS isn't just connected to me, it's connected to you too."

Rose looked confused.

"When the Doctor gave us this we took it and nestled it, grew it and cared for it. It knows that it's us who will be travelling with it. It knows our situation. And now it's calling out for both of us." He explained.

"What do you mean your situation?" Jackie asked, perched on a step at the bottom of the staircase.

"Well, it knows that we are an item, therefore it needs both of us."

"Actually when did you two get together? 'Coz you've never actually told us that you were a couple." Pete asked.

The Doctor and Rose looked at each before saying in unison.

"10th August 2008"

"Right, so you have talked about it. I'll put that on the calendar." Pete said, jokingly.

"So why is she singin'?" Rose asked the Doctor, dismissing Pete's remark.

"She's ready." He told her simply looking up at the TARDIS.

Jackie stood up on the step, a trace of anger on her face.

"So that's it, you leave her for two years then when she finds you again you just take her away from everything? Just like you did before?"

Rose felt an overwhelming sense of guilt, she hadn't actually talked to any of them about this, she just assumed they knew their plans as they were keeping the TARDIS in their house.

"Mum, he's not, this is what we both want. We've thought this through, talked it through so many times."

Jackie shook her head and sniggered.

"It won't be the same as last time Jackie. We'll be travelling but we still have a life here. Oh and FYI I didn't leave her we were separated."

"What about Torchwood?" Pete asked.

"Well we wanted to talk to you about that, we're not sure. Maybe cut down our hours or summit." She said, biting her nails nervously.

Jackie sniggered again before leaving the room. Pete rose from his seat and smiled at them weakly.

"I'll see what I can do."

He seemed to show more sympathy towards the two of them he knew how much they loved each other and how desperately they wanted their own lives back again. He left the room in an attempt to go and calm his wife.

The Doctor turned to Rose, the smile had gone and he too felt guilty.

"You ok?" he asked her.

"Yeah, fine. They'll come around right?

"Course they will." He reassured her, slipping his hand around her waist.

"Can't believe she's ready" Rose continued.

The Doctor smiled down at her, pulling her in closer. She tugged on the label of his jacket and pulled him down, capturing his lips in a slow passionate kiss.

"I knew you'd cave" he joked, as they pulled away.

Rose just laughed, pulling him closer to her for another kiss.