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After a long day sitting and doing next to nothing, the Doctor and Rose decided to call it a day. They had planned to do more than one trip that day, but they had had such a good time on New Earth that they had stayed there for the whole day.

As they made their way back to the TARDIS, Rose flew onto the Doctor's shoulder and settled down. The Doctor looked at her and smiled, like he always did when he landed on his shoulder. He had to admit, it was a weird feeling, having one of your best friends sit on your shoulder. But then again it wasn't exactly normal for your best friend to be a butterfly, but there you go.

The Doctor took his key out of pocket and unlocked the door letting them both in. When they were inside, the Doctor closed the door and Rose flew off down the corridor.

"Where are you going?" The Doctor asked her.

Rose turned around and looked at the Doctor. "I'm going to my room. I've been here for a while now, but I haven't yet been back in my old room." She told him. The Doctor nodded.

"OK, you fly ahead, I'll walk behind you." The Doctor said. Rose smiled and turned back round before flying down the corridor. The Doctor followed her shaking his head. His life had got a lot weirder, but the good thing was that he was happy.

On the way down the corridor, the Doctor met Donna who was having a conversation with Rose who was sitting on her hand. Well, the Doctor assumed they were having a conversation, he couldn't hear Rose at all. He hoped they were talking to each other and Donna was not talking to herself. That would just be weird.

"Hey, Doctor, Rose was just telling me what you have been up to today." Donna told him. The Doctor nodded.

"Good, that gets me out of having to say it." The Doctor smiled again and Rose turned to look at him.

"I was also telling Donna that you snore." Rose said.

"Hey, I do not!" The Doctor protested.

"You do, when you were asleep last night all I could hear was you snoring." Rose smiled at him and Donna laughed. Rose was obviously talking to the two of them.

"I do not snore Miss Tyler! Thank you very much!" The Doctor told her.

"Yes, you do! Anyway," Rose turned to Donna who was still in fits of laughter. "I'll see you later Donna. I want to go and see my room with the Doctor." Rose told her. Donna nodded and Rose flew off of Donna's hand and onto the Doctor's.

"OK, see you later then." Donna waved as the Doctor and Rose made their way down the corridor to Rose's old room. Donna then made her way down to the living room, laughing all the way at what Rose had told her.

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Rose flew into her old room as the Doctor opened the door far enough for her to be able to get through. He then opened the door further so he, too, could walk inside.

"You haven't moved anything." Rose said, slightly shocked. "I thought you would have cleaned it up."

"I couldn't do that; I couldn't bring myself to do that. I wanted to leave it as you would have." The Doctor told her. Rose turned to look at him and she flew over to him landing on his shoulder.

The Doctor walked over to the bed and sat down. Rose stayed on his shoulder and the two of them didn't say anything for a while. They were both lost in thought.

Then the Doctor spoke:

"How about we go back to the place where we met?" The Doctor asked.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. Just try not to blow it up this time." The Doctor laughed at that and Rose joined in after a couple of seconds.

"Come on then, let's go." The Doctor stood up and Rose flew off his shoulder and flew in front of him.

"Guys, we're popping back out. Don't wait up." The Doctor called down the corridor, hoping that Martha, Donna and Jack would hear him. They obviously did as the Doctor and Rose heard Jack's voice from deep within the TARDIS:

"OK,"

Happy that they were ready to go. The Doctor and Rose made their way to the console room and the Doctor began to set the controls for London.

Soon they were off. The Doctor grabbed the side of the console to keep his balance. Why was it that when they always went to London that the ride was at its bumpiest? He looked across at Rose, who was flapping her small wings in an attempt to stop herself from fly all around the TARDIS and causing herself any damage – though, she probably couldn't do herself any damage, she was technically dead.

Finally, after what felt like an age of riding down the time vortex, trying to stay in one place, they landed with a bump. The Doctor fell to the floor and Rose hovered over him as he lay on the floor.

"Y'know, it's at times like this when I wish I was a butterfly as well, or at least something that could fly." The Doctor told her.

"Yeah, maybe we could swap places then? I would quite like to be human – or something that looks human in your case." Rose said.

"I know. Anyway, let's get going." The Doctor stood up and grabbed before opening the TARDIS door and watching as Rose flew out. He followed her and shut the door behind him. The two of them looked around at their surroundings. They had landed in an ally way near to the shop that started their life together.

It was slightly dark and the rain poured down heavily. The Doctor looked at the people rushing past with newspapers above their head trying to keep as dry as they could as they ran to find some sort of shelter.

"Right, well, this is interesting." The Doctor said. "How about you sit on my shoulder and try and keep as dry as you can." The Doctor told Rose. Rose did as she was told and flew onto the Doctor's shoulder. She thought about how weird it was going to look that there was a butterfly on a man's shoulder, but she couldn't bring herself to mind about that.

The Doctor walked out into the rain and headed for Henrick's shop. It felt like they were going back in time without physically going back in time. It was a weird feeling. Rose had only passed the shop since she had met the Doctor, but since 2005 she hadn't been inside the shop.

"It feels weird being here, y'know." Rose told him.

"I know," The Doctor said. A passerby looked at him strangely as they walked past the Doctor, hearing what he had said. She obviously thought that he was mental and quickly walked away, looking back a couple of times as she did.

"Maybe telepathy would be better, Doctor?" Rose laughed.

"Yeah, I think that might be a good idea." The Doctor told her.

The two of them continued to make their way towards the shop. The rain was getting heavy now and the Doctor could feel his wet hair plastered on his forehead. His suit and coat were wet through by the time the two of them got inside; he looked like a drowned rat!

"You all right, Doctor? You look a bit wet there." Rose couldn't help but laugh at him.

"Thanks a lot Rose, nice to know you care." The Doctor replied sarcastically to her sarcasm.

The shop looked exactly the same as when Rose had worked here, though maybe there were one or two changes, due to the fact that it had to be rebuilt after the Doctor blew it up last time he was here. The thing that Rose noticed first was the till where she used to work. The till was still the same make – old and in dire need of an upgrade. The desk was the same colour as well. It was strange that the company hadn't changed much after rebuilding. Maybe they liked it this way.

"How 'bout you and I go down to the basement where I first took your hand and told you to run?" The Doctor said.

"We won't be able to get down there. Staff only." Rose said.

"Rose Tyler, I thought you knew me. We're going to use the physic paper to get in. Well I am, you don't really need to." The Doctor told her with mock shock.

"Oh yeah, how could I forget?"

"Come on then." The Doctor walked through the shop, trying to find the entrance to the basement. "Just remind me where it is again."

Rose laughed and told the Doctor where to go. The Doctor followed her, trying not to look too suspicious.

At the entrance of the basement, a woman eyed him suspiciously.

"Where are you going? You're not allowed down here." She said with her hands on her hips. She reminded the Doctor somewhat of Rose, but with a meaner expression and tied looking eyes.

"Well, you see...Anna," the Doctor read her name tag, "I am from the...basement inspection company and, obviously, I'm here to inspect your...basement." The Doctor could hear Rose in his head laughing her wings off at the Doctor's confession. He tried sending her messages to shut her up, but nothing worked.

The woman – Anna – didn't look convinced in the slightest. She eyed the Doctor, trying to seek the truth in his brown eyes. "Really? Let me see some identification then." She said, still not convinced that the Doctor was who he really said he was.

The Doctor got out his physic paper and showed it to her. Anna looked at it, looking to see if it was in anyway a fake. She seemed happy enough, though and let the Doctor past. Even though she let them past, she still seemed slightly suspicious about the whole thing. The Doctor and Rose too, didn't think that there was such thing as a 'Basement inspection company' and if there was, it would probably be called something entirely different.

Rose flew off the Doctor's shoulder as they entered the basement. She flew just in front of the Doctor so she could get a proper look around. It had been so long since she had been here. It almost felt like coming home – almost. What really felt like coming home was when she first came back to the TARDIS after dying and becoming a butterfly.

"It feels strange being here, Doctor." Rose told him.

"I know, I know. Same here." The Doctor told her.

"It almost feels like our time is starting again. Do you know what I mean? I know it doesn't make much sense, but still."

"No, I get what you mean, Rose. You're right, it does feel like that. Well, it's hard to say what it feels like, really. But I guess it feels like that." The Doctor told her.

"So how long do you think that we have before someone realises we aren't really what the physic paper said that we were?" Rose asked.

"Gosh, ages probably, some humans can be so dim a times. Y'know, the physic paper always has worked best on you lot. Never really understood why but considering the likes of some people on this planet, I can now see why." The Doctor said. "I'm not trying to be horrible about humans, cos y'know how much I love the lot of ya, but it's the truth."

"I'll let you off this time Doctor, but I'm not going to be so nice next time." Rose told him. The Doctor could hear the smile in her voice, but took her word for it all the same. She could be pretty scary at times and that was before the whole 'magical butterfly' thing, so God knows what she could do now. Though, the Doctor was sure that Rose wouldn't hurt him: too much.

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The Doctor could've sworn that they had been down here for more than two hours. How, he hadn't a clue. But he guessed it was because they landed up talking to each other about trips that this place had led them to. This place was the beginning of it all. Cat-nuns, gas ghosts, Daleks, Cybermen, Canary Wharf, Bad Wolf Bay, more Daleks, Davros and then the thing that they both hated to bring up: Rose's death. The Doctor had begun to think that if he had never met Rose, she would still be alive. She may be still working here in a dead-end job, but she would be living a life and not living in death as a butterfly. Rose had kept reminding him that if she hadn't had met him, he would be a mess, he wouldn't be the person he was now and that none of this was his fault. For all they knew, Rose couldn't have died on her way home that night that they met if they hadn't had met. So she had told the Doctor that he couldn't keep blaming himself for what happened.

It was a while before the Doctor and Rose made their way back to the ground floor of the shop. Anna was still up there. The Doctor and Rose were sure that she didn't need to stand around all the time. She must have a job to do, surely.

Deciding that there was no need to ask her what she was doing. The Doctor smiled at her as he past with Rose hidden under his coat by his neck.

"No need to worry, everything's fine. Nothing down there." The Doctor smiled at her again. She didn't smile back. The Doctor then walked on and made his way to the exit.

"What shall we do now?" The Doctor asked.

"Go back to the TARDIS, I'm tired. Maybe tomorrow we can go somewhere different." Rose said. The Doctor nodded and led them back to the TARDIS.

All the way back, Rose kept thinking about how long she had left with the Doctor. And the truth was, she really didn't have long at all. In fact, Rose reckoned that she only had about a couple of weeks left. Soon she would be pulled away to a place without the Doctor. Rose didn't want to dwell on it too much, but the reality of what was inevitably going to happen was coming faster than anyone had thought.

It was only a matter of time...

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Sorry for the long-ish wait. I hope it was all right though. All my exams are over now and so I'm a little bit freer now. Hopefully I might finish this during the Easter holidays if I'm not being ill after eating loads of chocolate since I will be trying to get 40 days worth of chocolate into a couple of days...

Anyway, please review! I can't wait to hear from you and I will get the next chapter up as soon as I can. Once I've thought of two more places to take the Doctor and Rose...any ideas?

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