She is Returning

Summary - Rose Tyler returns home and is reunited with The Doctor but first she has to gather together his former companions to join him for the final battle. Warning: Some Spoilers for Series 4

Ch 5 - My Immortal

Rose looked around Jack's office; he said he's been living here for about a hundred years, yet everything in here while Jack's didn't feel like a home. It was her fault that he could never really feel at home anymore, she made him. He's going to live forever and watch while the people he loves die. "You can spend the rest of your life with me. But I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on, alone. That's the curse of the Timelords" She heard the Doctor's words in her head. She made Jack so the Doctor will always have someone when he needed them. He needed someone to hold his hand to help him through it all. So she gave Jack the same curse, maybe that's where the bad from bad wolf came from. "I'm sorry, Jack" she said to him.

"Sorry for what?" He asked watching her look around at his things, still trying to see if he could see any part of the old Rose in her.

"Sorry for what I did do you" she replied looking up at him.

"You didn't do anything" he replied looking in her eyes.

"I cursed you with eternal life…without asking"

"You saved my life Rose, I'm here today because of you" he said walking closer to her. "When I met you, I wasn't a…good man"

"What are you talking about, you were a good man"

"I lied to you; I was trying to cheat you, Rose. I was a con" he said thinking back to the day he met her. After she woke up from having her brain scrambled by the tractor beam she asked him who he was not afraid at all of being inside a spaceship, which why he thought she was a Time Agent.

He hands her his card "Captain Jack Harkness, 133 Squadron, Royal Air Force. American volunteer" She looks at it and raises her eyebrows and says "Liar. This is psychic paper. It tells me whatever you want it to tell me" He smirks because he's not surprised but she was hot so he asks anyways. "How do you know?" She smiles back liking the attention "Two things. One, I have a friend that uses this all the time, and two, you just handed me a piece of paper telling me you're single and you work out" His smile widens. "Tricky thing, psychic paper" he says hoping to get her tell him something "Yeah. Can't let your mind wander when you're handing it over" she says doing just that. He smiles and reads what she hands him back "Oh, you sort of have a boyfriend called Mickey Smith, but you consider yourself to be footloose and fancy-free" She looks at him a little shocked "What?" He looks at her and grins "Actually the word you use is "available". She's smiling now "No way" He cocks his head to the side "And another one, "very" He smiles at the memory.

He notices a slight smile on Rose lips but before he can ask why she moves closer to him "I know that, but you were never a bad man because your heart was always in the right place" Rose replied putting her hand on his chest.

"Yes, and that was because of you and the Doctor. You showed me a better way to live my life and made sure I could keep doing that." He did things in his past that he wasn't proud of and because of Rose he was given a chance to make up for all. Not being able to die is what saved others and yes it did hurt to watch his friends die he knew that he would keep fighting in their memory making whatever sacrifices they made mean something.

"I…I couldn't let you die for me" she says with her hand still on his chest.

"Don't apologize, I wasn't ready to die then, and I'm not ready to die yet either." He said bringing her into his arms. "I told you that day that you were worth fighting for and I still believe that." Rose closed her eyes and laid her head on his chest.

Ianto and Gwen watched through the window as Rose and Jack were talking. "She met him in 1941, do you suppose she's like him then?" Ianto asked as he watched them get closer and hold each other. He knew that with everything going on it was selfish to be jealous but he couldn't help feel it a bit. Because he may be with Jack, but that woman knows him.

"I don't know, she different alright" Gwen replied watching them as well. "She seems to know a lot more about him then we do"

They walked out of the room together and Ianto and Gwen ran around to make it look like they weren't ease dropping. Jack just smiled at them.

"This is Torchwood?" She asked while they were walking out of his office.

"Yes" he replied

"This is it, just the three of you?" Rose asked and looked as they all looked away from her with their heads bowed. "I'm sorry"

"We had two more Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper…they died saving the world" Jack told her. "After the battle at Canary Wharf when I thought…you died, I broke off communications with Torchwood One. I never really agreed with their tactics anyway"

"Died, what?" I thought you said you weren't from this planet" Gwen asked.

"I said I didn't come from this planet and I didn't I came over from a parallel world. But I was born on this planet and lived here for twenty years."

"You just decided that you didn't like living here and went to live on another world?"

"No I got trapped there" '

"Oh, sorry" Gwen replied sadly.

"CANARY WHARF!" Ianto shouted suddenly scaring them all. "You were there" he said remembering when he saw her. She was running down the basement hallway in a lab coat, he thought she was one of the scientists. He watched her through the security screens that where he and Lisa went when the Cyberman came through and started taking people. He saw her get right up in the face of the creatures called the Daleks, the audio wasn't working but he saw the Dalek back up from her as if she burned it. Maybe it's a good thing she's here, because the Daleks were not afraid of anything else the Military and Unit were throwing because in that little moment it looked like they feared her.

"You were there?" Rose asked surprised.

"Ianto worked for Torchwood One" Jack replied surprised that Ianto had seen Rose there. He never asked about Canary Wharf, even after he found out Rose was alive. It was still their fault that she was ripped from her world and forced to live on another. So he didn't like to talk about it and he was sure Ianto didn't either.

"I saw you stare right into the Daleks eye…thing, what did you say to them?" He asked

"I told it that I killed the Dalek emperor" Rose said looking him straight in the eye.

"Did you?" Gwen asked

"Yes" she replied.

"She killed every single Dalek on that base" Jack added.

"We were at war with the Daleks for two years on my world; they lost and found their way here. This world is not prepared to fight them, that is why we followed them through." She said quickly not wanting to retell the other story.

"Who's we?" Ianto asked

"Torchwood or Parallel Torchwood to you"

"You're Torchwood?" They asked surprised. There was another Torchwood out there a parallel one, on a parallel world.

"Yes, since there are so few of you, it would be wise to join one of my teams?"

"Your teams, do you run it?"

"I'm the Director of Torchwood Intelligence" She replies

"Torchwood Intelligence" Gwen repeats

Rose put her hand to earpiece and said "Take us up"

Gwen blinked looked around and saw that the Hub was replaced with some kind of metal paneling and out of a big bay window was the Earth. Out of all the things she's seen, all the aliens and creatures, she's never been in space and seen what the earth looks like from the outside. It looked so tiny with the black sky surrounding it; she couldn't imagine why people would even think they were alone in universe not when there was all this space. She stared transfixed out the window.

"Welcome aboard the Bad Wolf" Rose told them and started walking.

"Bad Wolf, I've seen those words around, in fact I saw them before I saw you, who is bad wolf?" Jack asked running to keep up with her.

"I am" Rose replied without looking at him.

"You're Bad Wolf!" Jack said very loudly

"What's bad wolf?" Gwen asked startled by Jack's yelling and running after them to catch up. Jack of course had probably been space thousands of times so this was nothing to him and Ianto was too busy wondering if Rose and Jack were ever together to pay attention to where they were. Or she was still so new to this that even after all that's happened she could still be surprised.

Soldiers walked up to Rose and started handing her scrolling devices and asking her a million different questions, so Jack could get her to follow up on what she meant by her being bad wolf. She took them into what appeared to be a meeting room with chairs set up facing a podium. "This is Professor Noble" Rose said introducing the red-haired woman that entered "She will fill you in on what you have to know and how to use our equipment."

"What are you and Jack going to do?" Ianto asked.

"Find the Doctor" Jack replied looking at her.

"Find a Doctor, what for?" Gwen asked,

"Not a Doctor, the Doctor the Daleks will listen to him, he's who we need to really win this fight" Jack replied going up and hugging her. "Be careful" he said to Ianto and brought him closer and kissed him long and hard.

Jack looked at Rose as she placed the strap of her gun around shoulders. She was every bit the professional solider he didn't know if he liked that look on her. Rose was always a warrior he knew that but she also knew how to have fun. This new version of her looked so sad and lonely that it looked she forgot how to have fun. He hoped that when they found the Doctor she would change back even though he knew it didn't work like that. He knew that when you go through something so emotionally draining like war, that you need to find something worth living for.

She beams them back down the street. "Do you know where he is?" Jack asks even though he had million other questions to ask her but he decides to stick with what is more important.

"Yes, but first we have to do something else" She replies and takes off running down the street. Jack runs off after her. They see an older man holding a paint gun being cornered by a lone Dalek. She watches as the Daleks eye was roaming around in different directions with blue paint covering it. The old man holds his paint gun steady and takes slow steps backwards.

"...human. you ..be …"

Rose pulled the trigger of her gun and the Dalek exploded mid-sentence. "Are you Donnas' grandfather? I'm Rose Tyler and I need you to come with me"

Wilf looked at the woman holding the gun, her eyes were very serious and her blond hair glowed in the moonlight. "You…you know my Donna?" he asked "Where is she, I've been looking all over for her"

"Yes, I know Donna and I can take you to her"

Jacks walks slowly with the old man. "Wilfred Mott"

"Captain Jack Harkness" He replies

"You're American! You lot are involved too?" He asks

"No, just me" Jack replied walking a few feet behind Wilf to keep him in the middle in case they were attacked. "Who's Donna?" Jack asked after they had been walking in silence for ten minutes.

"She's the Doctor's companion" Rose replies still looking forward.

"The Doctor…you…you know him too?" Wilf asks both of them.

Jack answers yes and before Rose can, they hear a familiar sound. She stops in the middle of the street as the Tardis starts appearing, she watches silently as it becomes solid. Her heart is racing in her chest. She hears the familiar squeak as the doors open and out he walks, her Doctor.

He looks the opposite way first and takes a step back and turns around and starts running. A Dalek suddenly appears in the air. Rose brings her gun up and aims, she watches the Dalek she doesn't see a beam come out but she sees that the Doctor has been hit with something and falls to the ground. Donna runs out and stops when she sees the Doctor fall. She looks and sees her grandfather standing next a handsome man with black hair and a strange looking gun.

Rose blasts the Dalek into pieces and starts running towards the Doctor she throws her gun and drops to her knees.

Their hands automatically grab on to each other as if they were two magnets. The Doctor looks up and sees her staring down at him, his Rose. "Missed you" he says softly.

"Missed you too" she replies holding his head up. His eyes stare up at her and he smiles. She feels his grip loosen. "Doctor!" She screams as his head drops to the side.

"Get him inside quick, there's more coming!" Jack shouts.

Donna and Wilf run to Rose side and help her lift the Doctor and up and carry him into the Taridis. "Get my gun!" Rose yells to Jack. He picks up and starts shooting the Daleks as they appear.

Tbc…