She ran out of the TARDIS, and down the street. She ran and ran and felt the moonlight glimmering bright and beautiful in her hair, she wrapped her arms around herself and fell to her knees. She cried, she had to be dreaming, she HAD to. Or she didn't want to be awake at all, ever again.
She sat there and cried, feeling empty, feeling cold, feeling unwanted, until she heard the distant feet running toward her.
The man, the strange, strange man who had a very familiar ship called the TARDIS, ran toward her. He put his hands on her shoulders and helped her to her feet.
She stared him in the eyes, it was him. Those old eyes, the ones that had seen such horrible things, the same eyes that saw her become the BAD WOLF, the same eyes that looked at her as she drifted weightlessly into the void, the same eyes that screamed silently for her when her father teleported her into the alternate universe at the last second. The same eyes she felt when she leaned her head against the wall in her new home hoping to feel him there.
She knew these eyes, she knew them like the back of her hand, she wanted to kiss him, she wanted to hold him and never let him go, she wanted to be with him. But he was different, it wasn't the tall quirky man that joked around with her. She couldn't be with him, because it wasn't him, but at the same time it was, something that she could only understand.
She stood there looking into his eyes, and she felt more tears come, she fought them off. She was Rose Tyler, she was strong, brave, beautiful, and most of all she was lost.
He wrapped his arms around her.
"It's ok." He said.
"I know." She replied. "I just, need to get… get used to this-' She laughed. "New face."
They walked down the dark street, the only light was the ever fading moonlight, shining on the damp pavement. In the distance she could see the sun rising, soon in the universe she so falsely called home, her mum, her dad, and her husband, would be waking up, panicking, calling the police, and waiting, waiting to hear where she had gone, why she had left, and if they would ever see her again. She didn't even know the answer to those questions.
She would be lost, possibly forever, with the Doctor, just as things had always been, that feeling of adrenaline rushing through her vein's. She smiled and looked at him, she didn't care if they knew where she was, she didn't care if she wouldn't make it back. She needed this. She needed to go on one last adventure with him, she needed to see him smile, she needed to hear him laugh.
"Right." The red headed girl said when they got back to the TARDIS. "So, who is she then."
She felt the eyes of these people fall onto her, the red headed girl, the new Doctor, the tall skinny boy with the funny nose who she hadn't seen until now, and she knew just who she was.
"I'm Rose Tyler, defender of the earth."