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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 11 – The Changing of the Guards

The gust of wind knocked the blonde woman into Jack's arms. "Well hello" he said with a smile.

"Hello" She said looking into his eyes and smiling back.

"Oy, that's my fiancé" the man said holding his hand out to her. She took his hand and stood next to him.

"I apologize" Jack said with a grin. "But a hello to you too" he winked.

"Does he flirt with everyone?" Sarah Jane asked out loud.

"Yes" Martha and Rose said in unison.

Martha looked at the woman again. "Sally…Sparrow?" She remembered meeting her on the street in front of this very shop a year ago. The Doctor always had a way of running into blondes when she traveled with him. So she was very surprised and happy to see that Donna was ginger.

"Yes" Sally answered "Wait your Mar…tha. Martha Jones" She said remembering her. "You were with the Doctor, where is he know we could we really use him"

"You two know each other?" Jack asked both of the women.

"Yes Sally helped us out, the Doctor and I when we were stuck in 1969" Martha replied.

"I'm Sally Sparrow and this is Larry Nightingale" she said smiling at him.

"The Doctor's been wounded" Jack told Sally. "I'm Captain Jack Harkness, this is Sarah Jane Smith and Rose Tyler. We all traveled with the Doctor at one point"

"Wounded, how? Is he ok?" She asked frantically

"We don't know, all we can do is wait" Rose replied.

Larry looked over at Rose who was looking out the window. He walked over and joined her. He saw the Daleks descend to the street looking around confused because they couldn't find the four people that were just standing there. Then he looked at the humongous gun in Rose's arms and the arms of all of them. "Those weapons, are they new?" He asked her. "Because I've seen the Military try to destroy the Dalek things and their weapons had no effect, but yours blows the tops clean off"

"These are from my world" Rose answered.

"Your world! Are you an alien?" He asked with a huge smile.

"No sorry. I'm from a parallel world" she replied.

"A parallel world!" He said excitedly "You mean like an alternate reality?"

"Yes"

"That's brilliant! Alternate realities exist I knew it!" He said smiling "If we still had the internet the boards would've exploded over this!" he paused to catch his breath "Is there….copies of us over there?"

"Umm…If there are I didn't meet you" Rose said "I don't know everyone over there" She said smiling back at him. "My own family doesn't even know me; I didn't exist over there until a few years ago. My parents over there… or the alternate versions of my parents didn't have any kids"

"Really?" he asked

"Yeah, I got trapped there"

"Oh, sorry" He replied to her.

Martha, Jack and Sarah Jane were talking to Sally. "So you got back from 1969 then" Sally said.

"Yes, thanks for helping out with that" Martha replied.

"1969 is was a great year" Jack said with a huge smile.

"I'm sure it was" Martha replied shaking her head.

"So all of you traveled with him then? That must have been amazing being able to travel in time" She said wistfully.

"And space" Sarah Jane added.

"Space too!"That's brilliant."

Rose put her hand to her ear. "My ships back so its best we get up in the air the ground is not a safe place to be. Do you two need anything here?"

"Why?"

"You saved our lives; I'm not going to just leave you here with a fleet of Daleks outside your door. You're coming with us"

"All we need is each other" Sally replied taking Larry's hand.

"Ok, take us up"

They appeared back on the Metis. Larry stood around with his mouth hanging open taking in sights with a huge grin.

"Is that the Earth?" Sally asked looking out the bay window.

"Yes" Sarah Jane answered smiling at the young couple.

"Oh my God!" she exclaimed while her and Larry ran closer to the window.

Ianto and Gwen came into the room dressed in Torchwood military uniforms. Jack nodded his head and smiled at Ianto. "I think we need to somewhere private to talk" he whispered into Ianto's ear and they both left.

Gwen and Martha hugged each other and Sarah Jane introduced herself. "We've been monitoring your work. Nice work with the Siltheen"

"Thank you" Sarah Jane replied.

"Your son actually told me to come in here and get you. He wants to show something" Gwen said to Sarah Jane. They walked out of the room and Sally and Larry followed wanting to see more of the ship.

Rose and Martha were now alone in the infirmary. They looked at each other awkwardly and smiled. "I'm going to go check on the Doctor" Rose said pointing towards the Tardis.

Martha followed her in. They both pushed open the doors and heard the familiar clanking of the metal ramp. They slowed when they neared the Doctor's room. Rose stood at the doorway watching the doctors running around looking at their various machines that they had hooked up. They turned around and saw her. Dr. Samuels the Chief Medical Officer walked over to her.

"I'm sorry Ma'am" Doctor Samuels said "There's nothing we could do" He hung his head sadly.

"It's alright, I know you tried everything in your power" she looked around telling them all that. She looked over at him lying completely still on the bed her mind taking her back to that Christmas before when saw him like that. "…I want to be alone with him"

The Doctors filed out of the room along with Martha. "Martha" she said "You can stay… if you want too"

Martha didn't know what to do, she wanted to stay, she wanted to be near him to give her courage to go on, but Rose was here, his Rose and she didn't want to intrude. She saw Rose smile at her so she walked back and Rose stood one side of his bed and she stood at the other.

Rose grabbed his hand. "If he's dying, he's going to regenerate" she said out loud.

Martha looked down at him; she's heard about it and saw it when Professor Yana changed into Harry Saxon. They were two completely different people.

Rose looked down at his hand and watched as it started to glow. She took her hand away startled by the suddenness of it. Last time she had some warning. They both watched as the light started radiating throughout his body getting brighter and brighter. They both had to look away and close their eyes.

Rose opened hers carefully and saw that the Doctor was now standing at the foot of the bed with his head tilted upwards and his arms outstretched behind him with the yellow flame engulfing him. She saw his hair recede inwards and his body shrinks down just a little. She sees his ears start to grow out. She opens and closes her eyes in confusion as she sees more and more him start to form. "What!" she shouts.

"What!"

Tbc….