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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 18
Every End has a New Beginning.
They dropped Sarah Jane off at her car and said their goodbyes to Luke, Maria and Alan who were all chatting excitingly as they got in the car.
"It was good to see you again" Sarah Jane tells Rose.
"You too" Rose replies hugging her.
The Doctor smiles, Sarah Jane holds her arms out to him and he hugs her tightly."You're never alone, you know that now don't you?" she asks him.
He nods and smiles. "Goodbye Sarah Jane"
"Goodbye Doctor" she says and gets in car and he waves at them as her car backs up and they all wave back at him. He watches until her car disappears down the street.
The next stop was the Torchwood Hub.
They walk out onto the pavement looking at the people milling about like it was any ordinary day. "With everything that's happened people can still walk around like nothing happened" Martha says to them.
"That's the thing with humans if they don't understand something it's easier to pretend it never happened. It's a defense mechanism" The Doctor tells her.
"Gwen, Ianto, thank you for taking care of my ships" Rose says to them.
"My pleasure" Ianto say tilting his head.
Rose walks over to Martha. "It was nice to meet you Martha Jones"
"It was nice to finally meet you" Martha replies back "Course you are already knew another me, which is still very weird" Martha says smiling at how strange it sounds.
"You never quite get used to it" Rose says smiling.
"Are you staying here with them?" The Doctor asks when Martha stands in front of him.
"Yea, I think so" She replies walking over to stand next to Jack. "We get our fill of aliens here on earth; I think I should be here to protect it"
Jack brings Rose into a big bear hug. Happy to see that all sadness he saw in her before was not as strong. For those few moments when he was Bad Wolf with her he felt the weight of the world in his head and it was painful and depressing.
"Doctor" he says
"Captain" the Doctor replies.
Jack brings his hand up in a salute. Martha, Gwen and Ianto do the same. The Doctor and Rose salute back.
"Why do you keep staring at me" Gwen asked the Doctor.
"You're very brave, just like your ancestor" he replies
"What was that supposed to mean?" Gwen asks Jack as they ride the elevator down to their headquarters. Jack just shrugs his shoulders and smiles at her.
The Tardis materialized in front of Sparrow and Nightingale Antiquarian Books and Rare DVD's.
As soon as they were out in the street Larry hugged the Doctor. "Thank you!" he says grinning from ear to ear.
"You're welcome" the Doctor says back to him.
"Sally Sparrow" The Doctor says to her smiling.
"It's nice to have properly met you again" she says smiling up at him and then grabbing onto Larry's hand.
"We were in space, actually outer space, Sally!" Larry says as they walked into their shop.
"Yea, because that was the biggest thing that happened to us" Sally says closing the door.
The Doctor smiles at Rose and Donna as he begins to press and hit the controls on his ship. "Next stop Parallel Earth" He says pushing the lever up.
The TARDIS materializes on the sand just like before.
Jackie walks out of the Tardis first. "Norway, bloody Norway. You couldn't have dropped us off somewhere else" she says staring straight into the Doctor eyes.
"This was the beach I first met you" Donna says to Rose who came up stand beside her.
"It is, it's called Dårlig Ulv Stranden" Rose tells her "Translates into Bad Wolf Bay"
Donna looks at Rose and nods her head. "Makes sense then"
"This looks exactly like our world" Wilf says walking out of the Tardis and looking around at the beach he was standing on.
"This does, if you go into the city it won't" Jackie replies.
"Do you have flying cars!" Wilf says getting excited.
"No, we don't have any cars"
"How do you get around then?" he asks curious.
"Teleportation" Mickey replies to him. "Don't go into the water!" Mickey yells as he runs after his kids with Martha.
"Really?" he smiles
"Yes and the next teleport station is miles away" She says looking angrily at the Doctor. He just shrugs in return.
"What are we doing here?" Rose asks.
"I brought you home" He says to her.
"This was never my home, don't you understand" She says "You were my home, the Tardis is my home"
The Doctor walks up to Rose. "You understand that when we close the Rift, there's no going back. You won't be able to see your mother, brother or Pete ever again"
Rose looks him in the eyes. "I know"
"Are you prepared to give them up for me?" he asks. "What I told you before still applies"
"I'd rather die with you, then without you" She says to him looking at her family standing on the beach with her.
"So your leaving then" Mickey says walking up to her, knowing what finding the Doctor would mean for her.
"Yes"
"I figured you would" he says and they pull each other into a tight hug.
"Captain Jones" Rose says saluting her.
"General Tyler" Martha says back. "It was pleasure serving under you"
They smile and Rose hugs her. She then bends down to say good bye to Ricky and Vicki.
"Good Luck" they both say. As Rose walks over to her mother, who bows her head then looks up at her. "I always knew you'd leave one day and when you started traveling with the Doctor I thought I'd never see you again" She starts to sniffle. "I was brought across to another universe to be with the man that I love" She says and they both have tears coming down now. "So I will understand if you want to go across to another universe to be with the man that you love" Rose falls into her mother's arms. Rose suddenly remembers something and pulls away and reaches into her pocket and pulls out a necklace with crystal on it.
"What's that?" Jackie asks her daughter.
"It's called…well I don't know what to call it" she thinks for a minute. "I hadn't really figured that part out. I made it one day in the lab or rather Bad Wolf did."
"What is it?" she asks again
"It's a dimension communicator"
"Why don't you just call it that" Tony says to her with a smirk on his face.
"All right, then" Rose says as she turns to look at her brother. "It works sort of like a mobile, you think my name and it will connect to me." She looks at the Doctor "It won't hurt the walls of universe since its sending pronon energy" She continues "If I don't answer you can leave a video message and when I get I will contact you" Rose placed the necklace around her mother's neck and took out hers to put around her own neck. "Bad Wolf must've seen this too" she pauses "It won't be the same as seeing me"
"I know sweetheart, all I want for you is for you to be happy and you weren't happy here and you never would be" She brings Rose into a hug again. "I love you Rose" She holds onto the necklace. "This was better then what I had before, because I will still be able to see what you are up too. Thank you"
"I love you too mum" Rose says "And I love you" She says messing up her brother's hair then bringing him into a hug. "I'll miss you"
"Does this mean I get all your stuff" Tony says.
Rose smiles at him. "Yes, you can have my stuff"
"Not the weapons" Jackie pipes up
"Aww!" Tony says
"What is with you lot and fighting"
"I'll miss you Rose" Tony says looking down at the sand. "I'm sure you'll find ways to annoy me on the…dimension communicator"
"Take care of her, Doctor" Jackie says to him.
"I will" he tells her sincerely.
Wilf, Donna and the Doctor walk back into the Tardis as Rose says the last goodbyes to her family. She takes a deep breath turns around and follows them in.
The home of Donna Noble.
Sylvia was enjoying a nice cup of tea when she felt a sudden gust of wind across her face accompanied by a loud whooshing sound. She was sitting on the couch with the cup half way to her mouth when a blue box appeared in front of her.
"Hi, Mum" Donna says walking out.
"Donna?" she says confused.
"Sylvia, dear how are you" Wilf says taking the cup from his daughter and placing it on the table.
"What do you think you're doing coming here like that, with that" She says to the Doctor as he walks out and pointing wildly at the Tardis.
"It's too bad we didn't come here earlier, there was someone you'd probably get along with" He says to her.
"Never mind that, Sylvia, We saved the world" Wilf tells her excitedly. "I've never done anything like that, it was amazing"
"Well, you can come with us…if you want…for one trip" He says to Wilf.
"Really!" He says his face lighting up. "To an alien planet?"
"Yeah, I'm sure we can find one"
"Dad, you are not seriously thinking of going with him?" Sylvia turns to him in shock.
"Sylvia, honey. I've said there was life out there among the stars and no one believed me. But now I've actually been up there among the stars." He says holding on to her shoulders. "This old man still has the need for adventure in him" He says smiling. "It's just one trip, right?" he asks the Doctor.
"Right, one trip, perfectly safe" He says grinning at Sylvia.
His two companions raise their eye brows towards him as they walk up the plank to the Tardis. He turns to face Wilf as he closed the doors. "Well I can't promise safety, but I can promise it will be exciting" He says with a grin.
They open the Tardis doors to see the most beautiful sight they had ever seen. A rich smell of aromatic plants hit them as they walked further outside. "Welcome to Edonia, the garden planet" The Doctor said taking a deep breath and closing his eyes letting the sweet smell fill his senses. This was paradise.
Wilf looked around at the planet and it looked like the grass was a permanent rich green and that the leaves of the trees firmly attached the supple branches. Exotic flowers and plants covered were every where. "This place looks like it has every single kind of tree and plant you could think off"
"It does" the Doctor answered.
"Welcome travelers" Said a voice from behind them. Wilf turned around and widened his eyes as he saw a being standing before him made entirely of leaves. Donna grabbed onto her grandfather's arm smiling at his amazement.
"I am called Selaginella" the leaf being tells them.
"Hello there, Selaginella" The Doctor says to her. "I'm the Doctor and this Wilfred, Donna and Rose" he says pointing each of them out.
"Rose, that is a pretty name" Selaginella says to her. "We have many Roses here"
"Thank you" Rose says smiling.
"Please enjoy yourselves" the leaf being said and bowed her head and walked away.
"That leaf was just talking to us" Wilf said confused yet with a huge smile on his face.
"They are called the Lycopodiophyta's" The Doctor tells him "They are one of the oldest living species in the Kingdom of Plantae"
"Are they like Jabe, then?" Rose asks, talking about the tree they met on Platform One on their very first trip together.
The Doctor smiles at her. "Jabe's species are the ancestors of this" The Doctor says holding his arms out.
"Who's Jabe?" Donna asks Rose.
"A tree we met"
"Oh, that's nice" Donna replies smiling.
Wilf starts running out into the field and the rest follow him. They stopped when they came to a Palace made of dark oak columns. A waterfall was rushing down the center of it and exotic plants covered almost every inch of the building. A path of cypress trees and palms led the way to the entrance. So they walked towards the garden Palace. As they got closer they saw underneath the canopy of plants and trees were various spaceships parked in neat little rows with a sign in front that said "Visitor Parking" The Doctor noticed a red space shuttle and didn't know why he would. So he just shook his head and continued following his companions.
They entered a room full of various creatures and beings standing in front of the trees and holding their hands out and fruit would drop right into their open palm. "Ooh Alien fruit" Wilf said with a smile. "Can we eat some?"
"Please" says another Lycopodiophyta that was standing near the door.
Rose and Donna smiled at each other as Wilf ran to one of the trees and held his hand out. He nearly jumped for joy when a piece of fruit fell down in his hand.
The Doctor still had a strange feeling in his gut. It wasn't a bad feeling, just a strange one. But they continued on their way. His eyes were suddenly drawn to a blond woman with her back towards them eating a square pinkish colored fruit. He stopped and stared at the back of her head. She turned around and smiled at him.
"What!" The Doctor says out loud as he stepped backwards and Donna grabbed onto his arm. They both looked on in shock. Rose looked at them wondering what was going on.
"Hello, dad!"
The End.