Authors note: I would like to thank those who reviewed, favourited and put this story on story alert. I hope you enjoy this one last chapter.
Previously:
He locked my Father's essence in the very watch he had once lived in which can now be found hidden in the depths of Torchwood Three's achieves. He tricked my Mother into a collapse of a rising galaxy prisoned there...forever. He still visits my Sister, once a year, every year, I wonder if one day he might forgive her. He had trapped her inside a mirror...every mirror. Every time you look at your reflection and you see something move behind you, just for a second, that's her, that's all her. As for me, I was suspended in time and he put me to work, standing in the fields of Wales over watching them.
We wanted to live forever.
The Doctor made sure we did.
The Torchwood team stood up with their guns out the moment Jack Harkness walked into the flat.
"Whoa, whoa guys it's me" Jack said holding his hands out.
"Oh yeah prove it" Owen said raising an eyebrow out.
"Owen you are a complete and utter ungrateful twat" Jack said seriously.
"Ok it's him put your guns down" Owen ordered the others. Gwen, Ianto, Tosh and Martha put their guns down while Donna flung her arms round Jack's neck.
"Oh thank god" she murmured pressing a kiss against his neck, "never, ever, ever kiss Owen again it was disturbing to watch"
"I promise I won't kiss Owen again, he tasted like fish" Jack screwed his nose up.
"OI!"
Jack ignored Owen and glared at Gwen. "I thought I confiscated your gun" he said narrowing his eyes.
"You were possessed I needed all the protection I could get since my human shield was gone" Gwen said cheekily.
"Nice to know how much I'm loved" Jack muttered.
"Where's the Doctor?" Donna asked pulling away from Jack. "If he's gone and left us then I'm going to kill that freaking Paper cut!"
"Don't worry he's just gone to get the milk like you asked" Jack said. "Now I think it's time we should take the others home. Give the Doctor and Rose some space, yeah?"
Everyone agreed heatedly and ran as quickly as they could to the SUV not wanting to see what fight Rose and the Doctor would have. Knowing their luck it might end up with the building exploding.
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The Doctor walked into the flat to find it empty and dark apart from the small lamp by the sofa where Rose sat curled up in Donna's clothes reading the ripped out pages of John Noble's journal. He swallowed, he wasn't sure how to do this, he wasn't sure if Rose would want him after the way he treated her. He was also prepared for her to feel wrong around him, for her to make his skin crawl in the same way Jack does...but she doesn't and that confuses him.
"Aren't you going to run away like you did to Jack?" Rose asked calmly making him flinch. "Or are you going to use what happened before you opened the fob watch as an excuse to let me down gently?"
"Rose...I shouldn't have treated you like-"
"NO!" Rose stood up, the pages falling off of her lap and fluttering down on the floor. "Shut up! You didn't treat me bad at all...I...I...I wanted it"
The Doctor stepped forward and took her shoulders and shook her. "I raped you Rose Tyler. You couldn't have wanted that"
"It wasn't rape. I consented to it" Rose spat out, pulling away from his grip.
"I forced you into it Rose!" the Doctor shouted aggressively running his fingers through his hair, so aggressively that Rose was surprised he didn't pull chunks out. "You shouldn't want to be in the same room as me let alone want to be with me like that again!"
"Is this your way to get rid of me?" Rose snarled. "Because all you had to do was run into the TARDIS and fly to the end of the universe. In fact you should, it would hurt less if you do!"
"Jack told you about that then?"
"Oh Jack and Martha had told me loads of things. Twenty four hours is plenty of time to catch up, especially when you pull an all nighter because you don't need a lot of sleep" Rose said glaring at him. "I know all about how you and Martha met and what adventures you done and how you treated her. I know about Joan and I know about the Master. Donna and I haven't spoken a lot but she's already told me about Jenny. So don't hide anything from me"
The Doctor laughed bitterly. "So now you think you know me so very well don't you Rose? Well trust me that's not even the surface"
"Don't you think I don't know that you bloody bastard" Rose screeched.
"You don't know anything" the Doctor sneered. "You don't understand what it feels like to have your whole world torn to pieces. To lose people that you care about. To wake up and realise that you done so many dark and terrible things. You're nothing but a stupid ape that can't even comprehend what it's like"
Rose slapped him.
"Don't ever assume to know what I understand or what I know. I may not have felt more than a tenth of what you felt but I have lost people I loved, I have had my world torn away from me and you don't even want to know what I had to do for Pete's World to keep it safe. I may be a stupid ape to you Doctor but you're a pompous, arrogant, ignorant, selfish bastard"
There was a moment silence nothing could be heard but Rose's and the Doctor's heavy breathing.
"You're right"
Rose blinked. "Pardon?"
"You're right"
"Say that again I didn't quite catch that" Rose said holding a hand to her ear.
"I. Said. You're. Right" the Doctor said through gritted teeth. "But you also forgot to say that I'm a big dumb dumbo of all time and space"
"Donna called you that didn't she?" Rose asked smiling with amusement and mirth.
"Yeah..." the Doctor was silent for a moment. "Rose...I'm sorry..."
"S'all right" Rose said gruffly not looking at him. "Maybe I was a bit harsh"
"We both were" the Doctor said. "Thing is Rose. You're not exactly like Jack...you don't rub me the wrong way Jack does"
"I hope that Jack doesn't rub you at all!" Rose exclaimed in horror.
"Not like that!" the Doctor cried out blushing. "I just meant that you don't feel wrong like Jack does. I don't know why, probably the TARDIS blocking it out. She always liked you best"
They were once again silent, awkwardly avoiding to look at each other.
"Oh come here you big idiot" Rose said strolling towards him and flinging her arms round him. He picked her up in a rib crunching bear hug and spun her round a few times.
"I can't believe you're actually here" he whispered into her hair.
"Neither can I" Rose whispered.
He then kissed her.
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Jack and Donna quietly opened the front door the flat and peered round, it was dark and the living room was in a stare, the coffee tables and lamp was knocked to the floor, the picture frames were askew and Donna was very sure that it was her top lying crumpled on the floor.
"My god they actually killed each other" Jack muttered.
"Rose can't die" Donna reminded Jack. "And apparently the Doctor just regenerates"
"Well they sure made a good attempt" Jack said stepping over the coffee table to pick up the lamp. "They broke the shade of this"
"Who cares?" Donna asked. "We're not staying here for long. Back to the TARDIS and all that"
"Good point" Jack said throwing the lamp over his shoulder smashing the base.
The Doctor's bedroom door opened and the Doctor stuck his head out. "Shh..." he hissed. "Rose only just got off to sleep"
"Ok, ok we'll be quiet" Donna whispered.
"Thank you" the Doctor whispered before closing the door gently.
"Well someone got lucky" Jack commented. The Doctor opened the door and stuck his middle finger out. Jack gave out a little mock gasp. "Doc, where did all your manners go?"
The door shut with a snap. "I don't think he ever had manners" Donna said.
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"Right then!" the Doctor said nervously while tugging his ear. "Off we go and I suppose if I ever have to do this again-"
"Then there is no way in hell you're coming here for help" Jack finished off flatly. "We all almost died because of you and Owen can't stop sniffing now"
"I think he's just doing that to annoy us" Ianto muttered darkly, glaring at Owen who merely smirked back.
"But thank you" the Doctor said. "I was an idiot-"
"You can say that again" Martha, Rose and Donna mumbled.
"And it must have been very annoying to put up with me" the Doctor finished as if his female companions never spoke. "However your Operation Get John Noble (AKA: the Doctor) Laid was not right. How could you do that? That's like taking an advantage of an amnesiac!"
"We don't want to suffer the bloody ridiculous high levels of sexual tension" Jack said shrugging before turning round and hugging Gwen who was the nearest member of his team. "Bye honey you take care of that baby. Ianto take care of Gwen, Tosh make sure Owen doesn't do anything stupid, Owen ask Tosh out the sexual tension id just as ridiculous as those two over there and Martha good luck"
The Doctor and Rose watched Jack say goodbye to his team with confusion. "Why are you saying goodbye?!" the Doctor blurted out.
Rose elbowed him. "Rude!" she hissed.
"Donna invited me to come along and I said yes" Jack grinned.
"What?! Donna it's my time ship my decision!" the Doctor squawked.
"I live there as well so I get a say in things," Donna snapped. "And if you're going to have your lady love here then I'm going to have my bloke here as well. So suck it up!"
The Doctor groaned as Rose laughed and Martha smirked. The team were still hugging Jack goodbye and giving him a list of rules or something.
"Well then guess this is goodbye" Martha said to the others.
"You're always welcome to one more trip" the Doctor offered.
"And be the fifth wheel? No thanks" Martha laughed. "I got Tom here and I had just been made Head of Torchwood Three. Jack doesn't trust the others to not blow Cardiff up without him."
"Well I see you around then Doctor Jones" the Doctor said embracing Martha. "Thank you" he whispered in her ear. "For everything"
"It was nothing" Martha whispered back before pulling away.
Rose was next in line and hugged Martha just as tightly as the Doctor. "Thank you so much Martha Jones. I hope we can see each other again soon"
"Always my Wedding" Martha said. "I would love it if you lot turn up"
The Doctor groaned. "But I'm rubbish at Weddings" he complained.
"You're rubbish at everything" Donna said as she hugged Martha. "Bye love don't you dare hesitate to phone even if it is to say hi" she continued ignoring the Doctor's splutters of indignation.
"Right then off we go!" Jack said taking Donna's hand and pulling her into the TARDIS. The Doctor and Rose following. "Where shall we go first Doc?"
"I don't know" the Doctor said shrugging. "Shall we let the TARDIS deicide?"
"Oh random!" Donna cried out clapping her hands excitedly. "I love it when we go random, best alien planets ever!"
"Random it is then" Rose said laughing.
Outside the Torchwood Team watched as the TARDIS faded from existence. Ianto stood there with his arm round Gwen, Owen and Tosh in hand and hand and Martha standing proud like the leader she truly is. They stood there in silence when Owen broke it by saying.
"Doesn't Jack have any normal friends?"