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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. 9 - A Unified Front

The three of them were walking down the street silently the only sounds were their footsteps and Rose's gun banging against her hip. Sarah Jane looked around the deserted street; it was quite eerie seeing the earth like this, she thought to herself. She hoped that Luke and Maria would be safe on Rose's ship; they told her that they got Clyde and is family on board the ship as well. They were off on a tour when she arrived.

Jack watched Rose as she walked down the street. "So General, huh?" he said trying to break the silence that was surrounding them.

"Yeh, they kept promoting me" She answered. "I didn't ask for it, I just did my job"

"Well, apparently. General Tyler" he said saluting her.

"Don't salute, I don't like the saluting" she said "I'm no different than anyone else that goes out there and fights. I shouldn't be treated any differently because of that"

"A General on the front lines, I didn't think they could keep you behind a desk. You're a warrior, you always have been" He said

She was silent again and then she said "There was so much fighting and so many wars…and I kept fighting and people kept dying "He looked at her knowingly. He knew all too well about the casualties of war. "It wasn't just that, they kept dying and…I didn't" she said looking straight ahead. He knew that feeling too, watching your friends die, while you somehow were spared the same fate. He didn't know how that worked and if it was just luck that kept him alive or was it something more he wasn't so sure anymore.

Rose sighed and kept walking then she felt it starting. "Not again" Rose thought to herself as she doubled over. Jack and Sarah Jane ran over to her.

"Rose, what's wrong?" Jack asked wrapping his arm around her back.

"Stay back" Rose said

Sarah Jane stepped back because it sounded like two voices were coming from her.

"Rose?" Jack said again also hearing the two voices. Rose was shaking and twitching. Jack now standing in front of her trying to get her to lift her head up, when she did he was met with two bright glowing eyes.

"Stay back" She said again this time it was almost a growl. The light in her eyes started getting brighter forcing Jack to step back.

"Run!" She yelled at them. "We have to run"

Jack and Sarah Jane looked at each other and started running with Rose running behind them telling them where to go. "Turn left" She said "Go down that alley and stay there." They did and Rose joined them, the three of them flattened themselves against the wall. Rose laid her back on the wall and hung her head down. When she looked up again Jack saw the light start to fade until he saw Rose's brown eyes once again.

"Rose, what happened?" Sarah Jane asked.

Before Rose could answer they heard a loud noise, they peeked around the corner and saw a Dalek ship hovering above the street. A giant laser beam shot out of the ship in a straight line down the length of the street cracking it in half. The cars and whatever else was lying on the street started to fall into the chasm. They then watched the ship disappear.

"We would've been standing there" Sarah Jane said looking at Rose.

"Did you…just see that happening?" Jack asked Rose.

"Yes" She replied "It's what happens when you take in the Time Vortex"

"He said he took it out of you"

"Not all of it, she wouldn't let that happen"

"Who?"

"The Bad Wolf"

"What does that mean?" He asked.

Sarah Jane just looked at the two of them. "Time Vortex, Bad Wolf" she said to herself.

"We created the Bad Wolf when I looked into the Tardis, we made…myself" She said "The Tardis and I we needed to create something to save the Doctor. It's sort of both of us, but a separate entity. Over there they call it my alter ego. But that's why I can talk to her I'm a part of her and she's a part of me. And so are you Jack." She told him "You are made from the energy that the both of us share. She didn't agree with me though, which is why she rejected you when you met the Doctor again."

"How did you know about that?"

"I see all that is, all that was and all that could be. It comes in phases sometimes I see a few weeks, months or even years ahead other times it's a few minutes or seconds. I have to determine if it's going to happen now or later. I wish he had taken it out of me." She said and continued walking.

Jack looked into Rose's eyes and saw the same look people must see in his eyes. "Your eyes are older than your face" that's what Christina said to him. "It means you don't belong. You come from nowhere" He thought he was alone with that feeling but he wasn't' Rose was across the universe feeling the same way. Maybe they were meant to find each other in 1941 and again now. The Doctor said he was a fixed point in time, but maybe this was supposed to happen. Maybe Time saw that they were needed Rose and him, she to protect another universe and he to protect this one. She could see through time and he was timeless so after their encounter with a Time Lord, they became the children of Time.

They finally reached U.N.I.T's London headquarters. They stood outside the non-descript building for a few minutes deciding how to handle this. It was a military operation after all and you couldn't just waltz in the front door and talk to the Leaders.

"It would be easier to just teleport in, to skip all the security, we don't have time for that" Rose suggested.

"Yeah, you're probably right"

Rose nodded her head at Jack. "You ready?" she asked Sarah Jane. The older woman nodded her head and Rose grabbed her hand. "Control, bring me to U.N.I.T Command"

Jack covered his eyes as a big flash of light took Rose and Sarah Jane. He smiled and pressed the button on his wristband and disappeared.

The soldiers in Unit were running around and typing into their computers. Col. Mace was watching the screens that were tracking the Daleks ships, more and more kept appearing on the screen. Normal Alien invasions they could somewhat handle, but these were the Daleks. He had only read about the Daleks in the files and in each report he could feel the fear that the writer had written down. And the Doctor was nowhere to be found. Suddenly they all heard a loud sound and what looked like lightning and two then figures appeared. The soldiers all had their guns drawn at once and pointed at the two strangers.

Rose and Sarah Jane appeared with their arms raised. Rose has swung her gun around so it was on her back. "Identify your selves!" one of soldiers shouted.

Col. Mace shook his head in disbelief. "You" he said to her.

"Hello Col. Mace" Rose replied.

Sarah Jane looked at Rose. "How do you know him?"

"I was here before, my Torchwood monitors timelines to make sure everything is going in the right direction" she told her. "Col. Mace I've come to ask for your help"

"What sort of help were you looking for?" He asked her.

"I have my soldiers here with me, we should combine our forces"

"We don't even know your name or where you came from, I can't just give my soldiers off to a complete stranger"

Sarah Jane walked closer to Col. "Sir, the world is in crisis and the only way we can stop it is if we work together. We both want that don't we?" Sarah Jane asked him.

"Ye…Yes," He stuttered "Well can we at least know your name?"

"Her name is Rose Tyler" said voice from behind them. Col. Mace turned around and stood up straight and saluted. "Sir" he said.

"She's from Torchwood Intelligence on a parallel earth" He continued.

"You met her? Sir" Col. Mace asked.

"Yes, she came to me three weeks ago while I was in Peru." He said. "We will listen to her and join her team" Alistair said walking all way into the room and standing besides Col. Mace.

"Yes, Sir" he said saluting him again.

"Sarah Jane!" Alistair said smiling at her.

"Brig" Sarah Jane replied.

"It's good to see you again" he said

"And you as well, Sir" Sarah Jane replied. "I can vouch for Rose Tyler as well."

"We haven't had much time to talk. How is Luke?" Alistair asked Sarah Jane.

"He's good, Sir. Thank you for asking"

"Sir?" Col. Mace asked. "May I ask why we should trust her?"

"Because she just repeated your entire conversation to me verbatim three weeks ago" he told him. "She knows things before they happen and we are going to need that to defeat the Daleks"

He looked over a Rose "Do you prefer General or Director?"

"Just Rose, if you would Sir" Rose replied.

"Very well, Rose. Do you require anything else from us?"

"Yes, the Doctor would require the services of a Dr. Martha Jones"

"Dr. Jones, of course"

Jack landed inside the infirmary. People were running around every where getting into uniform and going towards the weapon room. He walked through unnoticed to the medical examination room. He saw Martha with her stethoscope in hand listening to the heartbeat of a shirtless good-looking solider with brown hair and bright blue eyes. "Well hello" Jack said smiling.

"Jack!" Martha said surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"I came here for you" He replied winking at the solider.

"What, why?" She asked marking down the results on her clipboard. "All right Daniel, you are cleared to go" she told the soldier. The soldier buttoned his shirt slowly and smiled back at Jack, before jumping off the table. Martha playfully hit Jack in the arm. "You're taken, Jack be faithful"

"I can look, but not touch, there's nothing wrong with looking" he told her watching the soldier leave the room. "Right, I've come to take you us"

"I can't just leave Jack; I have a job here" she told him "And besides I take my orders from Unit"

"Dr. Jones, you have call from the Brig coming through" said one of the nurses.

"The Brig! Ok patch it through" Martha told her, she stood straight with her hand at her forehead. "Sir" she said as he appeared on the screen.

"At ease" He said "Dr. Jones, your services are requested by the Doctor side, you will go help him" Martha furrowed her eyebrows and looked at Jack then back at the Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. "Umm, yes Sir!" she said saluting him again.

Jack smiled hiding behind the curtain not wanting the Brig to see him. "She's quick" he said to himself. "You have Unit's orders, so let's go now"

"How?" she asked him while gathering her things together. "Is he here? The Doctor, did he ask for me?"

"No, the Doctor's been shot" Jack told her sadly. "She's gathering all of us together to help him."

"Who, who is she?" Martha asked him.

Tbc...