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"Mickey!" Rose exclaimed as the doors burst open and she ran through into the white laboratory. She didn't waste a second getting to the point. "Mickey, it can work! I have a plan! We could take the Dimension Cannon back in time, with the help of the Time Agency. We could travel to a time in this universe when the rift was open and when the ghosts were there and I could go through. Once there, I could travel to a place where I can meet the Doctor in his current timeline. We could lock on to him and I could find him, Mickey! I can-"

"Whoa, Rose! Hold on there. What are you talking about?" Mickey interrupted, holding his palm out toward Rose to slow her down.

"Mickey, I can get back!" She could barely hold in her happiness. She was going to see him again.

He sighed. "We talked about this. It doesn't work we ca-"

"Yeah, see. There's where you're wrong. Guess who I've got sitting upstairs in my office." She challenged.

"Who?" He asked, although looked as if he didn't really care.

She smirked. "Captain Jack Harkness," She laughed as Mickey's face morphed into an expression of astonishment and maybe just a hint of jealousy. Although Rose and Mickey had been over since Blon the Slitheen, Mickey still seemed just a bit hung up on her.

"How'd he get here?" He asked.

"Well," she drew out the vowel just like the Doctor used to. "His name is actually John Harbor and he really isn't like Jack in the slightest. My guess is that he's this world's version of Jack."

Mickey folded his arms. "So, how would he get you to the Doctor?"

That was where it got good. "He's a time agent. The Time Agency could take me back to when the ghosts were trying to come through and I could get back to the Doctor using the Dimension Cannon."

He drew his eyebrows up in confusion. "But, Rose, you said that everything that had traveled through the Void would get sucked back in. If you go back, won't you just get pulled in again?"

She considered that for a second. "Well, we can simply send me to a time earlier than when the Doctor and I arrived and once there, we could lock onto the TARDIS somehow. You can do that, right?"

"Yeah, I think I can. It'll take some time, but…yeah I think so. But, Rose, how're you gonna get the Time Agency to help you?"

"I'm not for sure, but as an agency, they're bound to want something."

He nodded. "Just one more thing, Rose." He hesitated and Rose was worried that he remembered something that could ruin this all over again. "Are you sure you really want to do this? Think about it. Are you sure you really want to leave everybody - Jackie, Tony, me – just to go back to the Doctor? You'd never be able to see us again."

She knew that and she'd considered it hundreds of times while constructing the Dimension Cannon. She really did, but…the Doctor was so alone. He had nobody. His people and planet were gone. Somebody had to be there for him. "Mickey, you've known me my entire life. You know how it was, but you've also seen how I am with the Doctor. I promised him forever. And I'm not about to break that promise. Besides, you don't need me anymore. Look at you. You're all science genius now."

Mickey chuckled, but pulled her up in an abrupt hug. Rose laughed. "I'm not leaving yet!" But she hugged him back all the same.

He loosened his grip and they separated. "Right. Well, I better get back to it."

"Yeah, and I probably shouldn't leave John for too long. He'll probably have broken something else by now."

"So, you see? Your help would not only be vital, but it would be rewarded." Rose had just finished telling John her plan and how he could be a part of it. So far he hadn't said anything and she couldn't tell much from his facial expressions. "What do ya think?"

He had his hands in his pockets and he was leaning against her office wall. "Well, I don't know too much about parallel dimensions, but from how you described it, it sounds like it'll work. Just, uh, one question: How do you expect to get the Time Agency to help?"

"Well, I figured we have those items you want, maybe I can help get them to you for a lower price? I know it isn't much, but perhaps you could persuade them?" She batted her eyelashes at him and gave one of her tongue-in-teeth grins, hoping that he wasn't too much unlike Jack.

It appeared to have worked. "Yeah, I think they'll be up for that. I'll try to set up a meeting with the higher ups. It may take some time, though. Um, when exactly are you planning on getting this thing started?"

She didn't even stop to think. "Immediately."

John seemed surprised. "Uh, really? Don't you think you should take a week or so before getting started?"

She shook her head. "I've waited long enough to get back to the Doctor. I'm not gonna waste any more time."

"Um, okay. Does that mean," He pointed over his shoulder with his thumb. "I mean, d'you want me to go, uh, talk to the Agency now?"

She'd never seen Jack so insecure. And really this wasn't Jack, so she couldn't help but inwardly giggle. "Yeah, it would help."

He nodded. "Okay. I'll be, uh, out there." He pointed at the door and walked out, turning around to smile and wave before closing the door.

Rose sat down at her desk and sighed happily. Just you wait, Doctor, she thought. I'm coming back.

About a week later, Mickey was all but finished modifying the device to lock on to the TARDIS's time signature so she could track the Doctor. The whole scheme was going along just nicely. Thing only thing that could stop her now was the Time Agency. If they didn't want to exchange technology for just one trip back in time, then all of this would be in vain.

So that's why she and John were walking through the long corridors of theMistress, the enormous airship sitting over the Thames that was the central location of the Time Agency in the 21stcentury. She had noticed it before, but no one had been able to answer truthfully what it was. She was surprised that no one had ever tried to do anything about it, but now that she knew what it was for, it made sense.

"So, who exactly am I meetin' with?" She asked Jack as they strode through the ship. Rose knew that she was here to strike a deal with the Time Agency, but she'd not been told about the actual person she'd be negotiating with.

"You'll be speaking with the Head of the Technological Branch. Her name is Jody Bark. There's a, uh, joke we have about her. It's actually kinda funny. We tell everyone that her bark is worse than her bite."

Rose groaned and wished, not for the first time, that she was dealing with the real Captain Jack Harkness. John wasn't too bad, but she kept getting it into her mind that he was Jack and then he'd do something and it came crashing back to her. And that was definitely something Jack wouldn't say.

"She really isn't too bad once you get to know her, but she'll definitely come off a bit…harsh at first." John informed.

"Got it, but shouldn't something like this be up to someone with more, let's say, power in the Agency?"

"Believe it or not, this sorta thing happens quite a bit."

"Really? You have several people coming through the Void, then?" She asked sarcastically.

"No, not like that. That's not what I meant. What I do mean is, there are many organizations that are willing to exchange with the Time Agency for little trips like this."

She was surprised by this. "And you just let them?"

He smiled. "No. Most cases don't get taken seriously."

Rose crossed her arms in a thoughtful gesture. "So, why is my request getting considered?"

"Well, I like you and your situation is a little direr than most." He gave what Rose assumed to be a mischievous smirk. "Plus, I'm rather liked by the higher ups."

She raised her eyebrows. Perhaps, he wasn't too much unlike Jack.

They continued walking and making innumerable turns until John stopped in front of an iron door.

"Okay, I've already explained to her what you want to do, but not why. So, she may ask you some questions herself. She's not the most trusting of people."

"Y'know, I don't think that I've heard one reassuring thing about this woman." Rose said. She was kind of worried about whether this Jody Bark would really be willing to help her at all.

"Well, she's-she's…hmm. I think you're right. Just get on her good side and you'll do fine."

Without warning, the door swung open and a dark woman was glaring at them with an impatient look on her face. "In the future, if you are to talk outside of my door, you are going to need to find a more discreet way of discussing me." She turned on her heel and walked around a desk to sit down. "Enter!"

That snapped Rose into action. She walked through the doorway and stood in front of the woman. Pull yourself together, Rose! You are not intimidated by her! Not one bit, Rose lied to herself.

"So, explain to me exactly why you need us to take you back to 2007." Bark ordered.

"Uh, well, it's-well, I'm-"

"Spit it out, girl!" Bark actually "barked".

"Well, it's complicated! So, just hold your horses!" She said without thinking. "Sorry. Let's just say I'm tryin' to get home."

Bark raised an eyebrow. "You aren't from this time?"

"Actually," Rose knew this was where she was going to lose her. "I'm not from this universe."

Bark's face was one of utter unbelief. "Really? And how, pray tell, did you get here, then?" She asked, although not completely serious.

Rose sighed. "I was getting sucked into Hell and this world's version of my dead father saved me before I fell in. He brought me here."

Bark smiled in a way that told Rose she didn't believe a word of it. She stood. "Ms. Tyler, thank you for the lovely story, but I don't have the time for jokes like this. Mr. Harbor, would you please escort her out?"

"No, you don't understand. I'm telling the truth. All of that happened. Remember the Cybermen? The came to my world through the Void and me an' my friend sent them back. That's how I got here. I wasn't supposed to leave. I'm not supposed to be here and I need to go back!"

Her mouth was set in a thin line. "Ms. Tyler, that really is enough." She said firmly.

Rose stood planted to where she was and crossed her arms. "No, I'm not leaving 'til you help me."

Bark looked at her with annoyance. "Mr. Harbor, ge-"

"Just listen to me!" She almost shouted. "I need help. You have a way to help me. And I have payment."

Bark's eyes were wide and her jaw was set. "I'm not interested in money."

Rose held out a clipboard she had forgotten she'd even brought along. "That's not what I was talking about. Torchwood is prepared to supply all of your technology for the prices listed there if you help me."

She watched as Bark looked over the papers with wide eyes. "Why would they allow this for you?" She asked without looking up.

Rose smirked. "Let's just say, I have a good relationship with the director."

The woman asked a few more questions concerning the deal before sighing greatly. "I suppose I could arrange something." She said reluctantly.

Rose grinned and held her hand out to shake. "Fantastic."

Do you think that Rose's return to the Doctor's universe will be so simple? What is in store for her as she makes this journey and will it be so easy to say goodbye? Write any weirdos in a review! y'all