Five days had passed before Rose saw the Doctor again. She had been working hard with the animal control faction of Torchwood, a section of the organization established solely to find some means to end the nightly wolf invasion they'd been experiencing for two years. This had served as a great distraction, however fruitless it seemed. She had received intelligence of a breakthrough in wolf control in Austria, where they had been employing a viral warfare strategy to kill off the beasts, or at least cause them some hindrance. The virus was of alien decent, and while it worked for a matter of 2 hours, the wolves built immunities quickly and soon the virus spread to humans, and an anti-virus was released into the populace immediately.
Strategies like this popped up monthly from all over the world. The wolves seemed immortal, unable to be killed, and almost impossible to be stopped in their tracks. The only thing that seemed able to stop them was tranquilizers, and those only lasted a minute or so. The only solace anyone could find was that they only appeared in the night, and there were no home invasions on record. As of yet, all attacks occurred outside any form of shelter. Rose was exhausted by what seemed a losing battle, and though he frustrated her, welcomed the presence of 'Doctor Two'.
"Someone looks busy." The Doctor strode into Rose's office, craning his neck to look at all the papers sprawled out across Rose's desk.
"Wolves." Rose said darkly, without so much as looking up.
"Ah yes, well it's your own fault, you know."
"Ah, don't start. When I said 'Bad Wolf' I didn't think I would be so damn literal about it." Rose looked up. She noticed the Doctor looked a little paler then usual. "What's happened to you?"
"Oh you know, a bit of this, a bit of that…and some cheese. Anyway, I have some news."
"The bad kind, I'm assuming." Rose chimed, sitting back in her chair.
"Since when were you a pessimist?" The Doctor enquired, picking up a miniature slinky from the desk while propping himself against it, playing with the toy with mild childlike amusement. "I love these things."
"Since I had a great be chunk of leg taken from me, I'm sure." Rose gestured towards a bite on her right leg, given to her two years earlier by one of the first wolves that had appeared.
"Still going on about that, then aye? Ought to be glad you have a leg at all. Some people lose legs, some people are born without them, some people are born on planets where having legs is considered sacrilege and they are cut off at birth."
"Yes, yes, the planet of no legs, I get it. What's this news then?" Rose sat up, slightly curious.
"Yes, right, well, I've made the tower more accurate." He announced proudly with a ginger smile planted on his face.
"What do you mean, 'more accurate'?" Rose felt bubbles of hope boil inside of her.
"Well, you see, it's like a game of darts. Well, no, it's like playing a game of darts except with a live bee as a dart and the board is really, really, really far away. You see, you're the bee, and the board is the Doctor. And what I'm trying to do is throw you at the board with the TARDIS. But the board has to be at the rift and the bee has to be given…ah, this bee analogy is going nowhere." The Doctor grabbed a chair from the corner of the room, dragging it towards Rose he sat in it, his eyes staring into hers. "Alright, so the TARDIS supplies you with a tunnel within time through the rift, to get from this world to that. You are naturally attracted to the TARDIS in the parallel universe, so when you step through the rift, the time tunnel is altered and you end up close to where the other TARDIS is. Got it?"
Rose nodded.
"So, as you know, the time vortex is more complex then that, and the TARDIS can't be quite as accurate as one would hope, most of the time. Last time you ended up in a general area, in a general time frame inclusive of the other TARDIS's residue. But now I've made it more precise, I've narrowed the time tunnel." The Doctor gave Rose an even bigger smile.
Rose looked back at the Doctor disconcertedly. "But…how?"
"Because I'm that good Rose, because I'm that good. Haha!" The Doctor stood up excitedly, bending himself over the desk, bringing his face close to Rose's. "I'm going to put you back where you belong Rose. Just you wait, four days and you will be back with your Doctor, and all will be right with the universe. Well, as much as it can be." The Doctor stood upright and left promptly without a goodbye, leaving behind an excited yet somewhat bewildered Rose.