A/N: see, no life now. But thats good news for anyone still reading this story. Which by the way, thank you everyone that didn't give up on me.

S O M E T I M E S

An idiot is right

Rose burst through the doors that kept the Bad Wolf project top secret, Jamie and Linda were not far behind.

"The director...is your dad?"

"Will repeating it fifty times really make you believe it any more?" Linda hissed. Jamie didn't respond. He was too busy repeating his new mantra. All in one day the mysteries of Rose were coming unraveled. Not only was this girl from another universe, but she traveled with a time lord (last of his kind) through space and time, only to end up living with her mom and parallel pops who happened to be the director of Torchwood. It was a lot to handle.

Rose was not fazed by any of this of course. Stranger things had occurred in her life. "What is Bad Wolf?" she shouted. All heads popped up at the outburst. "I have access from the director," she added.

One lab coat approached her with a clip board. "Its not so much a something," the man said looking at his charts more then Rose. "We aren't sure exactly what it is, yet." He added.

Rose leaned in, placed her hands on his face, and forced him to look up at her. "Then tell me what you know." Her smile was sweet, but her eyes were threating.

"R...right. Well, as you know this was the area were a tare was formed between this universe and another. After the tare was repaired, everything was fine again. However, within the past few months we've been picking up signals which were tracked down to this spot. After extensive research and testing we found that radio signals and almost anything on a wave length can get through. We aren't sure at what rate, though." The man finished. Rose let him go and he ran back to his desk. Every once and a while he would look up in fear that Rose would go after him again.

Rose stared at the wall were three years ago she had been banging her fists in rage and unimaginable sadness. She felt less assured now. If signals were the only thing that could get through, then this wasn't how she would get home. Rose placed a hand on the wall. "But it was called BAD WOLF. Why did I..." The wall rippled under her hand. "Odd." she pressed harder. It felt like a sponge. "Is it supposed to be like that?" Rose asked.

It was only a moment, but she felt it.

Someone was pushing back. She remembered the feeling. The day she died. The day she pressed herself to this very wall to feel, just a little more clearly, his presence.

"He's here!"

Linda ran up to Rose, excitement taking over her confusion. "Were?" she asked, almost hopping up and down.

"Calm down, there is no one here," Jamie said striding over casually. Apparently over his shock of Rose's family.

"Oh but there is," Rose said, more assured now then ever. "He's just on the other side of this wall."

"In the next room over? That is a bit convenient, isn't it." Linda punched Jamie.

"No, he's on the other side of this wall, right next to me, in another universe." Rose was beaming brighter then ever. "If hes there, then he heard me on the phone. He thinks there is a way."

"Or he could be trying to stop the messages," the lab coat said. Rose shot him a horrified look. "Listen, when we first started getting the signals we thought it meant that the void was opening up. Tried fixing it and everything. It took us two month to realize that this was just an after effect." a smug smile wormed its way onto his face.

Rose broke his pride with one sentence. "He's more clever then you." she smiled triumphantly. " f it took you two month, then the doctor probably figured it out in two seconds." She turned to Linda. "now all i need to do is figure out how to use this to my benefit."

Linda pressed her pointer finger to her lips and sat in thought for a moment. Jamie let out an exaggerated sigh. "Signals Linda! Not people! Rose, I'm sorry," he said turning to address the blond. "But it seems that you are stuck with us. There is no magic "heart of the TARDIS" to take you back to the doctor this time."

Linda slammed her fist into her palm in revelation. "Jamie you idiot! That's it!" Linda grabbed him by his collar and pulled him into a startling kiss. Rose and Jamie stood dumbstruck at the strange display. After a moment, Jamie recovered, and let out a sheepish laugh.

"Um, whats it now?" Rose asked, her eyes darting back and forth between her two new friends.

"Signals! It's just like Jamie said!" Rose and Jamie were still lost. "Ok, footnotes time. Signals get through, not people, but a real time image signal, that can go through. The Doctor is over there right now, so we'll need to do this before he takes off. You send the signal, get to the heart of the TARDIS, and take over that power again, and you can bring yourself over!"

Crickets.

"Explain how that works?" Jamie asked.

"I can't take the time vortex into me again. It nearly killed me the first time, and it did kill the Doctor. I won't let him sacrifice another life on me." Rose explained.

"Won't have to," Linda said proudly. She crossed her arms and smirked. "If you are a signal, you can send another signal back. If you take something like, oh i don't know, the time vortex, and send it as a signal to yourself, it will be diluted, and therefore not as detrimental to yours or anyone else's life!"

"That's a nice theory, but that's all it is," Rose said. Defeat fought it's way into her voice.

"I may not think it will work, " Jamie said with a strange air of defiance in his voice, "but it is worth a try. You have brooded here in our world for three years, and now that there is finally a chance, small as it may be, to go back you are willing to throw it away cause it might not work?" Jamie was getting angry now. "I only met you today, but I thought you were the never give up type. The kind of person who will search every cave, try every theory, until you got what you wanted. That is the kind of person your Doctor is searching for, the kind of person you were before you got here. If this is who you are now, then maybe you don't deserve to go back."

"Jamie!" Linda couldn't believe her ears. Rose smiled.

"Fire up the machines, we're sending a signal."