I don't own Doctor I did there would be more happiness...maybe

Her TARDIS was giving Rose the biggest sacrifice she could give. By giving up her physical form she would have no means of transportation or communication with other beings.

Rose wouldn't accept that though. She wanted to attempt the impossible. She wanted to take in her consciousness into her own mind. With any other sentient beings it would have been impossible. Looking at the Time Vortex however changes you. Now that she was different a lot of things were opened to her of those she didn't even know about. That was why she believed that she could accomplish this task. If she couldn't she wouldn't even want to live anymore anyways.

A life without her TARDIS in one sense or another was not one she wanted. She placed her hand on the Time Rotor. The pulsating column comforted her and she knows the TARDIS felt some as well.

"We need to start now Cub."

Rose removed her hand and walked away from the console. Looking around the room she committed it her to memory. She would never forget how. How she took the coral for her mother, but also took a futuristic design to it. The glass floor and mess of wires underneath. To her she was perfect.

With tears forming in her chocolate brown eyes, she opened her mind. Almost immediately she could feel the TARDIS' presence. She was politely waiting for permission. Just as she always did when asked to alter peoples' minds. Rose gave a slight nod.

All of a sudden her mid was full with gold. It felt exactly the same as when she was first opened up to a heart of a TARDIS. The Time Vortex rushed into her head and filled in the spots it had previously occupied all those years ago. It felt like coming home. It felt like how a newborn baby would feel being held in it's mother'a arm for the very first time. It was wonderful, amazing, molto bene!

"Rose? What? How?"

She gave him a quizzical look. What could possibly be troubling him about her? In the middle of this craziness of a med-center she thought she would be the least of anyone's problems.

"What is it?" Rose questioned.

His pale far just stared at her. Like her very existence was something he couldn't believe. He took a large swallow, his Adam's apple bobbing, before speaking.

"How did you survive? One minute you were running towards the van and the next there was an explosion. Y-you were dead. We had to leave you behind."

Rose's eyes widened. Dead? That couldn't possibly be. She was standing right here. Having a conversation. He couldn't possibly have seen HER dead.

"I don't know. I mean-I'm here now. Maybe I just passed out?"

"No. No one of our guys called it. We would never leave you behind. Ever."

She wanted to shake her head in disbelief. But then she remember the darkness and the...the thing that lived in it. She remembered being terrified. And then she woke up. She jerked away from him with a start. What was happening to her? She knew she would live for a long time, but not die?

Was she like Jack now? John had told her what she had done to Jack. What he had become. And all that he did. She was so so sorry, but she was proud of him. He had done so much good and saved the world even without the Doctor. He had shown everyone else he was the man Rose always believed him to be. And he did so brilliantly.

Rose looked towards the young man standing in front of her. She couldn't run away from herself any longer. She was going to save this planet an try to get back to her original universe.

Rose smiled through her tears and began the process to travel to her original universe and hopefully save her TARDIS.

A.N: Umm so this didn't happen as quick as I promised or as I expected. Whoops? Bonus points to whoever sees the Torchwood snippets I've been putting in. Will it mean something? Who knows?