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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.

Ch 7 – A Calm Before the Storm

Jackie ran to the Tardis and started pushing the doors, they wouldn't budge so she started banging on them. Jack ran over to the doors and opened them a blonde woman rushed past him knocking him over. "Where is she?" she asked him frantically.

"She's in the Doctor's room" Jack answered her guessing that it was Rose's mum; he could see the family resemblance. Another woman ran past him and followed her.

Mickey walked in afterwards and helped him up. "It's so good to see you" Jack said as he hugged Mickey.

Donna and Wilf stood silently by the console watching everything. Jack walked over to them "Sorry we didn't get a proper introduction, Captain Jack Harkness" he said "And this is Mickey Smith, Rose's good friend"

Mickey walked up. "Hi"

"Donna Noble" she replied "This is my grandfather Wilfred Mott"

"Who were the other women that came with you?" Wilf asked Mickey

"Jackie Tyler, Rose mum and Sarah Jane Smith; she traveled with the Doctor before all of us" Mickey answered.

"Really, how long ago?" Jack asked.

"I think in the seventies, I'm not sure" Mickey replied looking around the Tardis. He remembered hating it for the longest time because it took Rose away from him, he remembered waiting everyday to hear the sound of its engines telling him Rose was back and he remembered traveling in it with them. "It's a spaceship! Brilliant, I got a spaceship on my first go"

"All of you traveled with him then?" Wilf asked amazed that all these people knew the Doctor. All these people were meeting aliens and fighting aliens this whole time. Everyone always called him a nutter when he talked about life out there among the stars. He knew they were not alone; he was right this whole time and now he was standing inside a real spaceship with time travelers. He couldn't help but feel the excitement even with all that was going on, he bowed his head to hide his smile. "Why did Rose bring me here?" He asked Donna "Why do I feel like I've met her before"

"She said you could help" Donna replied she knew she saw Rose in a on that beach but it also felt like she had met her before almost as if was in another life, the feeling was strange.

Rose was sitting on his bed next to him with one hand holding his. She had his stethoscope around her neck and her other hand gently wiped his hair from his face. She could feel the Tardis' warmth around them trying to comfort her, but she could feel the ships fear too. "What did they do to you?" She asked out loud as she wrapped both hands around his. She had checked his hearts they were both beating steadily and his breathing was normal. She couldn't find anything wrong; there were no injuries at least on the outside. She could feel that the Tardis was confused too

Jackie and Sarah Jane ran down the hallway and stood at the doorway watching them. They stood there silently not wanting to interrupt. Rose looked backwards and saw them. Jackie ran to her daughter and Rose fell into her mother's arms sobbing quietly, one hand still holding the Doctor's.

Jackie held her tightly, slightly relieved to see Rose let out some emotion. "Sweetheart" she said. She had not seen Rose cry in years not since the first year they arrived on parallel earth. Rose pulled away wiping her eyes and looked over at Sarah Jane. She laid the Doctor's hand down on the bed gently and walked over to her. The two women looked at each other. Sarah Jane had visited Rose's gravesite many times hoping to see the Doctor there but all she saw each time was the Sempiternal Maxima Rose. She remembered the Doctor telling her about once, it was something you would never find on earth. He said it was found on the planet Edenonia a garden planet, he said it was the most beautiful and perfect flower he had ever seen, it was the rose that never died.

"Sarah Jane" Rose said.

Sarah Jane looked at the woman standing in front of her she was no longer the teenager she met a few years ago; she was older and looked like she had the world on her shoulders. She was happy to see that Rose was having the chance to grow up but at the same time saddened by the look she saw in her eyes. They threw their arms around one another. "Rose…I thought…you died" Sarah Jane said softly her voice cracking. They held onto each other silently for a few seconds.

"I'm sorry" Rose replied "I didn't mean…"

"It's ok" Sarah Jane replied before she could finish. Jackie had told her what she could about what happened that day. "You're alive that all that matters now" she said while Rose rested her head on her shoulder.

Sarah Jane pulled away and looked at Rose then the Doctor. "What happened?" She asked.

"I don't know" Rose said turning around and running both her hands through her hair. "He's in some kind of coma…I think"

The rest had joined them in the room now they stood around looking at each other at a loss for words. "We need to defeat the Daleks" Rose finally spoke up. "That's what he would do…that's what we will do" She said moving closer to him. "And he will be there to help us, because there's one thing the Daleks can never take away from us or him" She said addressing all of them.

"What's that?" Donna asked.

"Our will to fight" She said her voice getting louder "We will not give up and either will the Doctor. Whatever happened to him he is fighting it and he will come back to us and when he does we will be ready to fight this battle by his side" She was standing taller now. Mickey stood at attention as his General continued; Wilf did the same her speech bringing him back to his military days. "That's what the Doctor taught us, we take a stand and we help people, this is our planet and nothing can take it from us."

All of them were standing straight now.

"We need to get Unit's involved…but they won't know me anymore…." She said thinking for a moment.

"They won't know you anymore! What does that mean?" Donna asked still having a feeling of helping Rose before. "Doesn't Martha Jones work for Unit, why don't we just ring her up?"

Jack looked over at Donna a little shocked "You know Martha?"

Mickey also looked shocked at the sound of her name, Rose and he looked at each other.

"Yes, she called him and we went to help with the ATMOS problem" Donna answered him.

"I should've known that he would be the only one to set the sky on fire" Jack replied smiling. "We should get her anyway she'd want to help. She traveled with him too" He said looking at Rose.

"Very well, then it will be easier to get in to see the Brig" Rose said thinking out loud.

"The Brig, you know the Sir Alastair?" This time it was Sarah Jane that asked.

"Well…I…do...he doesn't know me anymore...it's complicated…timelines and such" Rose replied "Do you know him?" She asked Sarah Jane.

"Yes, very well"

"Then you should come with" Jack said. "He doesn't like me much, Unit and Torchwood tried to work together once in the late seventies"

"What? How could you have worked with him in the seventies? Donna asked

"You could not have been more than ten years old or so" Sarah Jane said.

"Don't let the face fool you, I'm older then I look ladies" He said smiling at them.

"Well you do have the ego of a much older man, I'll give you that" Donna replied. Jack pretended to be hurt by that remark then winked at her.

"He must have been working this weapon" Rose said suddenly "We were just a distraction, this…this was his plan the whole time, he didn't want my earth he wanted this one"

"What?" they all asked.

"Who's he?" Jack asked

"A sadistic and malevolent being. He made them...the Daleks, he's called...Davros"

Tbc…