It had been three months since the fob watch incident. The Doctor hadn't told the Ponds of the fob watch, and it wasn't constantly on his mind. He couldn't rush the Bad Wolf, he would just have to wait. It wasn't on his conscience thought, when the Doctor, Amy, and Rory were chatting in the console room. Well not really chatting, more of making fun of his lovely bowtie. As the Doctor defended his bowtie and Amy ranted on about being embarrassed to be seen with him in a bowtie. Rory was half-asleep on the console chair. "...and I'll have you know, whenever I used to wear bowties, I looked quite fantastic," he grinned at his reference to his past self. "But not as cool as I do now." Amy huffed. Before she could reply, the console screen beeped. The Doctor glanced over to it. It was in Gallifreyan, so it briefly translated to: WARNING: CRASH LANDING.
Before the Doctor could tell the Ponds, the console turned pitch black, and started shuttering. They tumbled all over. Finally they came to a stop. They scrambled to stand up right in the dark. "Ponds, you alright?" the Doctor asked. "Yeah we are good." Rory said with a groan. "What happened, Doctor?" Amy asked nervously. The TARDIS just doesn't start shaking and go black. The Doctor wasn't sure, "I don't know, one way to find out." The Doctor signaled with his hand to the door, now they're eyes were adjusted to the dark. They slowly made their way to the door. The door wouldn't open. The Doctor put some shoulder into it. He tried again. Aaaand Again. And again. "The door is jammed." the Doctor said nervously. Amy and Rory looked every bit as nervous as he felt. He sighed. With his eyes adjusted, he looked around the TARDIS walls. His jaws dropped with an audible click. Amy and Rory also looked around. There jaws didn't drop, but they were obviously confused. All of the TARDIS walls the words "BAD WOLF" were seemingly spraypainted.
"Doctor, what's going on?" Amy asked slowly. The Doctor came to his senses. "Well..." he said with a higher pitched voice. They suddenly heard a snap. The TARDIS doors opened quickly. They turned to see a blonde girl in black combat boots, black leggings, a deep blue shirt, a black fitted leather jacket, blonde hair, and golden eyes. No, her eyes weren't glowing gold, it just seemed her eye color was gold. Her fingers were posed like she had just snapped. She waltzed forward into the TARDIS. Ignoring the stares she got. She put her hand on the wall. The TARDIS hummed happily, and the lights turned on. She grinned, and looked around. "You have redecorated. I dunno if I like it." her Londoner accent, said happily. The Doctor came to his senses. "Uh, hello." he said slowly grinning. The woman looked him up and down, smiled bigger, "Hello, Doctor, I ne-" before she could finish, the Doctor hugged her extremely tight.
They hugged for a long moment. She looked at the Doctor for a moment, and glanced over to Amy and Rory, who were shocked at the Doctor's show of affection. "Hi, I'm Rose Tyler. Defender of the Earth and the Big Bad Wolf at your service." Rose stuck her hand out and Rory shook her hand, "I'm Rory, and this is my wife Amy." he said, still in awe. "Hi Rory!" she said cheerfully. "It's quite nice for you to show up, Doctor. I am in a bit of a jam, well I was. Untill you materialised next to me, squashing the poor baddie alien next to me. Literally turning him to jam. Well, I'm quite the babbler aren't I? Think I picked that up from you, Doctor." she finished. The Doctor grinned. He had to tell her about the fob watch, but he wanted to see what she was like with his clone. He always envied his clone. But, now was his chance to really find out what happened.
"Rose, where are we?" he asked. She smiled. "Welcome to Cardiff, Pete's World, just outside of Torchwood." she grinned. He returned the grin. "I'll show you guys around. Come on Rory. Amy." she turned, and walked out of the TARDIS. They stood there for a moment. "Doctor, who is she?" Amy asked. "Amy, Rory. That was Rose Tyler. The Big Bad Wolf. My...er... my best mate." he smiled and followed her out, Amy and Rory followed. "So Rose, how's the handy dandy clone of mine." he asked cautiously. She visibly darkened. "He...is no longer around. Doctor, what year did you drop us off?" she asked hastitly. "2009..." he answered slowly. "Welcome to the year 2773" she said sadly. His jaw dropped. "B-b-but" he stuttered. She didn't look a day over 25. He looked around at the slightly futuristic tech. He realised what had happened. "Oh Rose, I'm so sorry." he said. He felt horrible. "Don't." she snapped. "We had a good life," this set the tone for the next 15 minutes.
Rose told some her adventures to the others as she toured them around Pete's World. They had been walking around Cardiff for 4 hours, when Rory excused Amy and himself to go back to the TARDIS. The Doctor and Rose needed to talk. After they were gone, the two of them sat on a park bench. They sat in comfortable silence, and Rose rested her head on the Doctor's shoulder. His hearts races increased. "Bow ties eh?" she said finally. He chuckled. "Bowties are cool!" he defended. "I love it though. The bowtie, I mean." she said quietly. The Doctor grinned widely at this. His mouth started talking with out his brain's approval. "I missed you. Would you consider-er coming with me again?" he asked nervously. He scolded himself, he wanted Rose to come, he missed her so much, he still loved her, but she had a life here, he couldn't take away her life. "Of course I would, Doctor." she replied simply.
He beamed. He didn't know why, but he blurted "I love you, Rose." Rose lifted her head from his shoulder. Turned to him in shock, and smiled and snogged him right there. She pulled back, "Quite right, too." she teased. The Doctor suddenly remembered the fob watch. He studied her now golden eyes. He had to bring her back to the other universe, or reopening would kill her in this universe. "Rose, when can you leave?" he asked. "I can leave any time." she replied softly. He grinned. "Meet me back at the TARDIS 20 minutes, okay?" she nodded. He took off for his blue box, and Rose closed her eyes for a moment.
She still had a bit of the Bad Wolf in her. That's why her eyes were tinted gold. She detected the Doctor had important to tell her. She inhaled the air of this Universe's Earth. The pure wrongness of it. She opened her eyes, she might as well find out what the Doctor had to tell her.