As the Doctor held Rose back, both staring where the Tardis, still containing Donna and Alec had stood seconds ago, Jack saw his opportunity and was about to open fire but was shot down. Rose went rushing over to him. The Doctor took her by her shoulders.

"Leave him Rose."

"But they killed him and Donna and Alec. I've got nothing to live for now."

The supreme Dalek spoke. "Dispose of him and take the Doctor and his companion to the vault, they are the playthings of Davros now. Take the other two to the other prisoners for the final testing."

Rose and the Doctor were herded away. The Doctor tried to keep close to her to whisper.

"Don't worry Rose, they'll be ok, Alec will be ok, he'll know what to do and he'll activate the Tardis before it's too late."

"I told him not to try to follow me, he's stubborn."

"Yeah? Just like someone else I know then. How did you meet him?"

"Silence!" shouted a mechanical voice behind them.

"Don't worry Rose, they need us alive or suffer the consequences of the fury of Davros."

Mickey and Sarah-Jane were led away but Mickey had his portable device he could use but couldn't leave his friend behind, not unless his hand was forced and he wasn't a coward, not any more, Rose had taught him that. They were led to join some other prisoners in some sort of holding cell but while one of them was falling over, Sarah-Jane saw her chance and called Mickey over to a doorway, opening it with her sonic lipstick. Once inside, they ducked to avoid a Dalek spotting them.

"What's that?" Mickey asked as she put the lipstick in her pocket.

"Long story. We have to get out of here and find the Doctor and Rose and who was that other man?"

"Rose's fiancé, apparently. I've met him before but he proposed to her just before she left."

"Left where Mickey and why does he look like the Doctor?"

"Me and Rose, we've been off world for a while, living in a parallel one, Rose met him a few weeks ago when she was on holiday. He's a police detective."

Just then, there was a green glow outside the window and despite a Dalek standing in front of it, they could see the prisoners disintegrating in front of their eyes. Sarah-Jane couldn't look. Suddenly, some grating gave way and Jack crawled through it.

"Great, I crawl through miles of tunnels and who do I find? Mickey Mouse!"

"Look who's talking Captain cheesecake. Thought those Daleks had finished you off?"

"Nah! Not me and that's Captain beefcake to you." He grabbed Mickey for a hug.

"And that's enough hugging."

Sarah-Jane brought a chain out of her pocket and showed it to Jack.

Meanwhile, after they found themselves sprawled over the floor of the Tardis suddenly, Alec and Donna had scrambled to their feet and Alec was at the controls.

"Well do something spaceman," Donna insisted, whacking his arm as flames began erupting around them.

"Hey, I'm new at all this in case you didn't witness me turning into a Timelord. It was not my idea and don't call me spaceman, I could arrest you for assaulting a police officer."

"Yeah, well, PC Plod, if you don't get us out of here, you'll have no-one to arrest, will you?"

Alec was unaware he was still glowing slightly and the whack on the arm Donna just transferred to her but suddenly, just as more flames took hold, he spied the glass jar containing the Doctor's hand. Touching it, he jumped back, shook his head and pressed a button on the console. Once in orbit above the Dalek ship, the Tardis began to put out the fires, leaving Donna staring and leaning on a strut.

"You are bonkers, Alec whatever your name is. Why didn't you get us out of here earlier?"

"Because I told you, this is new to me. Now we have to figure out what's going on and why they need those 27 planets.

Back on the Dalek ship, Davros had descended to the vault to have his fun by taunting the Doctor and Rose.

"Watch your ship Doctor, the last children of Galifrey."

The Doctor found himself free and Rose joined him as the screen showed the Tardis engulfed by flames.

"Alec!"

"Watch as your ship is destroyed, how does it make you feel?"

"Let him out, he's done nothing to you and neither has Donna."

"Oh but Miss Tyler, this was meant to happen."

The countdown began and the Tardis faded from view. Rose buried her head in the Doctor's side as he whispered "Sorry" to her.

"You're sorry? Alec and Donna died for nothing, Alec shouldn't have even been here and it's my fault."

Suddenly, the most scary Dalek Rose had ever seen was speaking. Rose looked up.

"You've met before Rose, the battle of Canary Wharf, Dalek Caan."

The supreme Dalek informed Davros that there was an external transmission and the Doctor wanted to be put through – it was Martha.

Martha made her demands. Rose watched the Doctor, knowing the woman had been his companion.

"She's good," Rose remarked when Martha had made it clear that the Daleks would be one planet short for their evil plan to work.

"Who's that?" Martha asked.

"I'm Rose, Rose Tyler."

"Oh my…. You found her."

Rose looked at the Doctor, what had he told her exactly?

Then a second transmission came through, it was Jack.

"But I thought he was killed," Rose managed, still trying to come to terms with the fact the man she now loved had gone.

Davros meanwhile was having fun now tormenting Sarah-Jane and suddenly, everyone was transmatted to the vault, Jack leaving the warp star he had wired into the mainframe behind and Martha leaving the key to detonate the earth. They were all made to kneel. The Doctor was still holding Rose.

"Now what?" she asked him quietly, glaring at Mickey for bringing her fiancé into danger. Now she had no reason to go back.

Above the Dalek ship, Alec was formulating a plan and quickly worked out what the Daleks were up to and realising in horror. He was putting together the last components to blast the Daleks to pieces by using the reality bomb against them.

Davros himself was now in his element.

"Detonate the reality bomb. Nothing can stop me now Doctor, nothing!"

Suddenly, there was a familiar sound as the countdown continued. Everyone looked towards the sound to see the Tardis materializing. No-one was more surprised than Rose but considering she had seen Alec being transformed into a Timelord, she shouldn't have been so surprised but as Alec came rushing out of the Tardis, Davros aimed at him and a jolt of electricity hit Alec in the chest, causing him to drop the device.

"Activate the holding cell," Davros ordered, just as Alec collapsed to the floor, the Doctor holding Rose back as the invisible cell surrounded Alec who for some reason, was now almost indistinguishable from his twin except for the suit.

Donna came running out of the Tardis and picked up the fallen weapon.

"I've got it Alec, what do I do with it?"

As Donna picked it up, Davros zapped her and she was flung behind a console then a Dalek destroyed the weapon.

"Great, now we have nothing," Alec retorted, trying his invisible prison cell. "You still scared of me Davros?"

He was now even sounding like the Doctor and Rose wasn't sure how she felt about it.

The countdown was continuing and almost reached zero when suddenly, an alarm sounded and nothing happened, a bemused Donna stepping out from behind the console.

"What just happened?" the Doctor asked.

"Deactivating holding cells," Donna continued. Alec found himself free. "Well don't just stand there you two skinny arses, get to work."

Jack and Mickey grabbed the weapons from the Tardis and Mickey told Davros to stay where he was while the women disposed of the Dalek that Donna had sent into a spin, them being helpless.

The Doctor and Alec seized the chance to start sending the planets back to where they had come from as Donna tried to explain what had happened.

"Alec was standing by your hand, he became a Timelord but when we got trapped inside the Tardis, he still didn't know what to do until I whacked his arm, he was still glowing and he passed some of into me."

"Great, now there's three of you, I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now," Jack commented.

"Yeah but it lay dormant in both me and Alec but he touched that hand after I touched him."

The supreme Dalek wanted to know why the detonation had failed and descended to the vault, firing at the console just as there was only one planet left after the two of them named the ones they were sending back, Alec surprised he now knew the names.

Jack aimed at the Dalek and destroyed it.

"Oh, of course there's only one left and guess which one?" the Doctor huffed. "Was this your doing Caan? Have you been manipulating timelines?"

"This would always have happened Doctor, I just helped. You must destroy everything that is Dalek."

"No, we can still get the earth back."

He ran into the Tardis but Dalek Caan had not finished as he turned to Alec. "I have seen the end of everything Dalek and you must make it happen."

Alec realised what he meant and while the Doctor was still in the Tardis, Alec routed the feedback loops.

"Alec, you should wait for the Doctor," Donna insisted.

"What are you doing Alec?" Rose asked.

"No, don't listen to Dalek Caan, he's insane," Davros insisted.

"I have to destroy them because even without the reality bomb, there's enough of them to slaughter the cosmos, I've just created the biggest feedback in history."

"No! Alec, what are you doing? Wait for the Doctor," Rose insisted.

"I am the Doctor."

The Doctor was busy inside the Tardis when he heard the first explosions and went running out to see the Daleks being turned into atoms.

"What have you done Alec? Everyone inside the Tardis – now!"

"Fulfilling a prophecy." Alec went first, counting everyone off as they entered. Davros was calling the Doctor.

"Just remember, I name you forever, you are the destroyer of worlds."

"Come with me Davros, I can save you."

The Dalek ship was exploding around them as the Doctor finally went through the Tardis doors as Dalek Caan gave his final prophecy.

"One of them will still die, Doctor."

The Doctor just hoped for Rose's sake it wasn't going to be Alec. Rose was clinging hold of Alec, trying to explain to a confused Martha who he was and what had happened to him.

"So he's a Timelord as well? Great, just what I needed.

"Alec, how did you know what to do? You've just wiped out the entire Dalek fleet."

"So did you once Rose, remember? I doubt they'll be gone for good, Davros and Caan will have escaped no doubt."

"That's no excuse Alec," the Doctor said, taking his place at the console. "You know why this ship keeps wobbling about all over the place?"

He went around showing the others what to do but Alec held Rose back and showed her a place next to him.

"We're going to fly planet earth back home."

The Doctor called up Torchwood and Sarah-Jane's son and computer and was happy to discover she still had K9 and looping an invisible tow-rope around the planet, they flew the Tardis back to the earth's original orbit. The Doctor came away from the console and pulled Alec to one side.

"That was a dangerous thing to do Alec, taking the reality bomb away was enough but you had to destroy them."

"And you wouldn't? That's where you always went wrong Doctor, I'm part human, I have no Timelords to account to."

"I should take it out of you, I shouldn't leave you with all that knowledge and power but it cured you and I can't take that away from you or you'll die. Rose needs you, she'll take care of you. You had better not let her down."

"What will happen to me?"

"You only have one life Alec, make the most of it and make her happy."

Rose came over to join them just as they reached the earth's former position and everyone cheered. Once they landed everyone began to leave, Martha with Jack and then Mickey told Rose he wasn't going back with her.

"Say goodbye to everyone for me, your mum, Tony, Jake. It was fun though."

"Yeah, take care of yourself Mickey."

Alec put his arm around her and shook Mickey's hand. "Don't blame him for bringing me here, I made him."

"Yeah, might have known you wouldn't stay behind, trouble."

"You forgive me then?"

"You have a lot of making up to do, Alec Hardy but you have the chance to back out of what you asked me earlier."

"No, there's no backing out Rose."

Donna was on the phone talking to her Grandad, Sarah-Jane had said goodbye and Mickey went to catch up with Jack and Martha.

"I think those two might get on well," Alec remarked, holding Rose's hand. "So how do we get back? Those devices still working?"

Rose had forgotten. "Yeah, they'll work.

"Oh, I can do better than that Rose Tyler, I'll take you home personally, Donna's always wanted to go to the parallel universe, even for just a short trip. Next stop Bad Wolf Bay," the Doctor said.

Before they knew it, they were stepping out onto the beach.

"So, Rose, Alec, this is goodbye, I won't be able to come again, unless the walls break down again."

"You said that last time but you never finished that sentence you started and I cried for a long time over that Doctor, until I found Alec."

"Well Alec can finish that sentence for me, though he probably already has since he asked you to marry him."

"I'll say it for both of us Rose, I love you. Now say goodbye to him, properly this time because he was just as hurt as you were the last time, believe me, I know. Go on Doctor, you'll only get this one chance but answer me this, why did you never tell her?"

"Because I knew I'd lose her one day and I couldn't bare it. I wanted her to be happy."

"She would have been happier if she had known and you'd told her, even if she lost you, she would have known."

The Tardis gave a warning. "We have to go but Alec, you're cured now and don't worry, you only have one life and one heart so make the most of it and you were protected when the change took place, you're in no danger. Look after each other and, since it's my last chance to say it – Rose Tyler, I love you, I've always loved you but Alec is me now and I know you love him."

He turned towards the Tardis, Donna halfway thought the door and Rose let go of Alec, knowing he would forgive her.

"I love you too Doctor." She reached up to kiss him. "Goodbye."

The Doctor disappeared through the door and Rose stepped back, feeling Alec's hand in hers. "It's ok Rose, we both know. I understand."

She cried into his shoulder as the Tardis faded from view one last time.

"We should find somewhere to stay for the night, call Torchwood."

"They'll wonder what happened to us and I have to explain about Mickey."

Alec got his phone out and called Pete to let him know they were safe.

"We go to the zeppelin port in the morning, he's booking two flights for us back to London. You stayed here before, how far is the hotel?"

Rose led the way and they got a room, Rose collapsing on the bed after they had eaten and got a few things from the local store.

"I got more than my heart mended you know," Alec revealed.

"Such as?" Rose asked, running her finger down his abdomen.

"Let me show you Rose Tyler because tonight is going to be the night of your life, new and old.''

Alec was certain her screams would be heard in the other universe.

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After a debriefing at Torchwood and saying goodbye to Jackie and Tony, Rose and Alec made their way back to Broadchurch, Alec driving and Pete furnishing him with proof he'd had treatment for a pacemaker fitting and all the paperwork would be genuine so as not to raise any medical questions. Two days after they got back, no-one really missing Alec, so he thought, his new abilities made him see who the killer was as soon as he had become part Timelord but he had to get one last piece of physical evidence after Danny's skateboard was handed to him by Ellie Miller after it had been given to her son.

When he made the arrest, the town was devastated and Rose immediately went to see Ellie to comfort her and although the police were putting her up in a local hotel, Rose insisted they took an empty apartment in the same block as she and Alec were in, paying for it herself.

Rose and Alec's love grew stronger, Rose gave up working and spent her days looking after Ellie's youngest and collecting Tom from school when needed or he would walk home with his friends, Ellie went back to work over in Exeter part time and although it was extra travelling, she managed since she knew Rose would take great care of her boys. That was until just after Christmas when they got back from London, Rose having stopped taking precautions, she found out she was pregnant.

On the night she told Alec, just after the new year, they lay in bed and Rose teased him about being a part Timelord, saying he never did tell her what the Doctor had meant about him having other abilities.

"Wellll, maybe Rose, one of them was to start talking like him, a bit and the mended heart but I think it rather shows in bed, don't you?"

Rose decided to play at she didn't know what he meant.

"Oh I don't know Alec, I've not noticed that much difference in that department."

"Really? Only I swear that first night back in Norway, they could have heard you in the next galaxy, let alone the other universe."

"You think you're so impressive Alec Hardy."

"I am impressive, I've told you that before, Rose Hardy."

"Hey, I'm not yet, Mister."

"Well, I think we should put that right, don't you? I asked Pete, before we left and he said I had his permission to ask you. I was in a bit of a hurry last time and we never really talked about it since."

"Did he now? And when were you going to ask me, exactly?"

"You'll know Poppet but maybe before the baby comes along."

"What? How did you know? I've only just found out, I was just going to tell you."

"Heightened Timelord senses Rose, you can't hide anything from me now. I'd say you were about five to six weeks."

"Cleverclogs, you're such a show-off."

ooooooooo~Epilogue~ooooooooo

A few days later, Alec arranged some time off and they went back to London to a hastily arranged wedding at the Tyler mansion with Pete getting them a special licence with the Mayor of London's help and Jackie calling in a few favours from the caterers, having got a large marquee in the back garden.

They went to Rome for their honeymoon, Alec wanting to show Rose Pompeii after his visit there with Donna, or rather the Doctor's visit with Donna and Rose had told her family she was pregnant, wondering if the baby would be a part Timelord. Alec had told her all about the adventures the Doctor had with Martha and Donna, how he had first met them and about the Titanic over London on Christmas Day, Rose saying that was just typical she missed all the fun.

Just a year after they had met, Rose had a baby girl, Jenny, after he told her about what happened on the planet Messaline, Alec had got a promotion and they spent the baby's first Christmas in London again. Alec took her away for a few days, back to Bad Wolf Bay and while they were there standing on the beach with their baby daughter, holding hands, Alec felt a sudden loss in his mind and he suddenly bent forwards for a moment and Rose knew, her Doctor had just regenerated. Alec recovered, still no loss of being a part Timelord and Rose knew they would be ok.

She had Alec, who had now shaved his beard off and styled his hair differently since their daughter arrived and looked so much like his counterpart had done, they had a beautiful three month old daughter who Alec said looked just like her mother and the Doctor, her Doctor would live on in Alec.

The End!