Peeking his head over the hedge, the Doctor watched the two people before him. He hadn't meant to come here, quite frankly didn't know how he got here really, but yet here he was. And there they were.
The people were walking hand-in-hand down the park trail, smiling and talking about something he couldn't hear. The man must have said something good for the woman laughed and then grabbed his head to pull him down for a deep kiss. He gripped her against him as they worked their lips against each other's not even caring that the other park goers were glaring at them.
The Doctor smiled softly as he watched them. Rose Tyler and her Doctor. Together. Just as it should be. They broke apart and the Doctor watched as his older self whispered those three words to her. The words he had never gotten to say.
Rose gave her Doctor another kiss before they began making their way along the trail again. The Doctor ducked behind the hedge when they passed him. Their footfalls continued and then one of them stopped abruptly.
"Doctor?" Rose's voice called out and the Doctor had a clamp a hand over his mouth as he almost answered her.
"What's wrong?" Rose asked.
"Can't you feel it?" the other Doctor said in his previous regeneration's voice.
"What?"
"Hold on," the man said. The hedge crunched above him and the Doctor whipped his head up to see the confused face of his tenth regeneration staring down at him.
"Ah!" the Doctor yelped and scrambled back, tripping on his feet so that he fell ungracefully down on his bum.
The other Doctor furrowed his brow and gaped at him, "You…"
"Doctor, what, who's this?" Rose came up to stand beside her Doctor.
The Doctor looked from Rose to his other self, opening and closing his mouth but not saying anything.
"Wait just a minute!" the other Doctor grabbed Rose's hand and led her around the hedge until they stood in front of the Doctor. Bending down, he hauled the man up and then began looking him over.
"Ha ha!" he grinned. "It is you!"
"Yes, well," the Doctor smirked and adjusted his bow tie nervously.
"Who?" Rose was at a loss.
"Ooo, is this really what my next regeneration looks like?" the other Doctor frowned. "Got a baby face, you do. And what's with the bow tie?"
"It's cool," the Doctor defended himself. "And I do not have a baby face!"
"Wait," Rose put a hand on her Doctor's arm and then pointed at the other Doctor. "You… you're… Doctor?"
He smiled softly, "Hello again, Rose Tyler."