A/N- I think this is the quickest that I've ever updated a story ever! In fact, you might even expect to see a Chapter 3 sometime later tonight, as I have a 4 hour car ride to look forward to!
Thanks very much for the encouraging response I received for Chapter 1!

- MH

"Where is he?" The Doctor asked, eyeing Rose's bag suspiciously.

"Who?" She pretended not to know who he was talking about.

"Oh, come on. I know I'm after that point in your timeline. Where is he? The Duplicate of the old me?"

"He's… It doesn't matter. Why do you care? And when did you get married?" Rose asked accusingly, a slight bit of hurt crossing her features.

The Doctor seemed, uncharacteristically, out of words.

They had moved back into the TARDIS so as to avoid making a further scene in the airport, although a few shocked eyes still caught sight of the five of them moving into the tiny box. Rose was uncomfortable with the new look of the TARDIS. Some of it was familiar, like the console in the middle of the room, but it just looked so… different.

"Perhaps we should… leave you all alone for a bit," said Amy, grabbing Rory's hand and hoping to make an escape.

"No, wait." River stopped them. "Rose, I'd like to show you something."

She grabbed Rose hand, and they both gave one last fleeting look at the Doctor before continuing out of the control room and down the hallway quite a ways. Rose recognized it as the route she always took to her room when she used to stay on the TARDIS with the Doctor, and was surprised when River stopped at her door.

"Isn't this - ?" she started, but River cut her off.

"Just look inside."

Rose tentatively reached out and pressed the button that opened the door to her old room, and she stepped inside to find it exactly as it had been the day that she stepped out of the TARDIS to find the Army of Ghosts. Her old bed, completely unmade with the sheets and blankets strewn everywhere. A collection of makeup on an old wooden dresser, and next to her makeup looked like a book lying open.

She didn't recognize it, but as she approached, she could see a very rough sketch of a face staring out at her from the page. Her face. She closed the book, trying to find the title, to understand what it was, but there was nothing. It seemed like a journal. She opened again to try to decipher the scrawl that lay around her head. All she could work out was a small bit of writing in the bottom corner. "I lost her."

"What is this?" Rose asked, turning to River, who stood in the doorway, watching her.

"It's the journal he kept, when he wiped his memory and rewrote his DNA to hide as a human for a little while. When he was still the Doctor that you knew. He used to dream things about his Timelord life and write them down in that journal. Most of his dreams were about you."

Rose swallowed. "Okay. But why are you showing me this?"

"Look around you," River told her. "The TARDIS has saved this room in this same place. It would only open for two people. You, and the Doctor. Your version of the Doctor, he never stopped loving you. And that clone you've got now, he's that man, the man that held on to your room in his TARDIS, and dreamt about you when he couldn't even remember who he was. But the Doctor that is standing out there now is not the same man. He remembers you. And he does love you, Rose. But that's not him, anymore. Do you understand?"

Rose nodded, tears running down her face. Why had she ever thought of leaving him behind? How could she have left her Doctor?

Several minutes later, a smiling River Song and Rose Tyler walked into the control room, hand in hand. The Doctor eyed them both suspiciously.

"What have you two been up to?" he asked.

"Doctor, I need a lift, if you don't mind," Rose said, ignoring him.

He narrowed his eyes. "Where to?"

"Home, obviously. If we're going on an adventure, I'd like him to be with us."

"Him who?" Amy whispered to Rory, feeling as though she should have been lounging with some popcorn, the mystery was just too great.

"She means the other Doctor," the Doctor replied, to which Amy's eyes widened.

"What, you mean there's another one of you?"

"Yes. Well, no, not exactly."

Amy just stared at him, awaiting an explanation, which he didn't provide. Instead, he flipped some switches on the console, and everyone grabbed ahold of something as the TARDIS jolted into flight. The movement was comforting to Rose, and she smiled at the new Doctor. As soon as they landed, she moved to the door, but she stopped before she opened it.

"You'll wait for me this time, yeah?" she asked.

"Well, he's not leaving without me, and I want to see this so-called 'other Doctor,'" Amy proclaimed, moving past Rose and opening the door to the TARDIS. Outside, Rose could see her home.

She ran up the stairs with Amy close behind her, and the others following along as well. Rose reached her door, and turned the handle, rushing inside and yelling excitedly. "Doctor! Mum! Get up, you won't believe who's here!"

"Rose!" Amy called, tentatively. "Rose come back out here, now!"

Rose made her way to the door, her smile fading. You can come in, if you –" She was stopped in her tracks, however, when she noticed Amy staring at something. A statue, not far from the door to Rose's flat.

"What is that?" she asked in a small voice.

"It's an angel."