Chapter two: Hello Again

Rose awoke, lying flat on an unfamiliar bed with three unfamiliar faces over her. Wait, one of them was The Doctor, the new new new doctor. That's hard to say Rose thought. She managed to slowly sit up and she rubbed her eyes.

"What the bloody hell happened?" she asked.

"Don't you remember?" asked The Doctor

"I- I don't know, we… we kissed and then there was this light and well I woke up here," she glanced around at her surroundings "actually where the hell am I?"

Suddenly Rory found his voice, "you're in the infirmary on the TARDIS, this big flying time spaceship thing"

"I know what the TARDIS is," Rose laughed "I did spend about 2 years living here. But the infirmary, it looks different."

"Ah well you see, when I remodelled the TARDIS it changed all the rooms. The only rooms that remain the same are my room and," he paused as he looked at Rose.

"Your room and…?" she pressed

"My room and yours."

And with that Rose was up like a rocket, running through the corridors searching for her room. Amy, Rory and The Doctor were following her, but Amy got to her first as Rose stopped outside a light pink door, with Gallifreyan writing on it.

"Makes sense." She said

"What does?" asked Rose

"This room, of course it's yours. The Doctor he's very… touchy about it. When I first started travelling with him last year, I went to go in here. He went ballistic. And when I asked him about the symbols he just went all pouty and said it was Gallifreyan for 'Rose'. Makes sense now"

Rose was shocked at how sentimental The Doctor had been about her room. In his previous incarnations he had been quite protective over me, but I didn't think it would last once I was gone… She quickly turned the handle and she was shocked to see what was inside. Her room had been left exactly the way she had left it, on the day of… the incident. Her now horrifically outdated clothes were strewn across the floor and the bed was unmade. Half of her makeup was scattered onto the dressing table, and lying on her dresser was her passport. She sighed as she looked around, everything was perfect and The Doctor had done the right thing, leaving it. She knew she would've been distraught thinking The Doctor had cleaned it, or gone through her things. Keeping it how it was and locking the door had been much less creepy. A small part of her had feared that The Doctor would have gotten rid of her room. Moved on. Sometimes she had wondered if he had ever loved her in the first place, but all that doubt in her mind had been filled with the words and the kiss on the beach barely hours ago.

Amy left Rose alone in her room, and went to find The Doctor and Rory who were in the control room.

"Where's Rose?" asked The Doctor

"Oh she's just in her room," said Amy "now, care to explain to us who exactly she is?"

The Doctor took a deep breath, "my Amelia, always asking the right questions." He shook his head sadly, but smiled all the same. "Doctor, you're my best friend. You can tell me anything." She said.

"I am right here too you know" said Rory

"Oh shut up, stupid face" said Amy. The Doctor laughed, "alright Amy, you do always get your way don't you. Ha, humans." He rolled his eyes and proceeded to tell the story of him and Rose. "Well, at first she was just… a companion. I saved her life and she saved mine, down in the basement of the department store she worked in, before I well- blew it up. I guess I fancied her a bit, I mean she's gorgeous, always has been but it wasn't just that. She was so smart, even if she didn't realise it. It wasn't until she, changed a Dalek. Stopped me from destroying it when I realised that she was the one. But still, I suppressed it. I was mister high and mighty timelord, fresh out of the time war. Full of blood and hate. But she changed me, I sent her away to save her. I was going to have to destroy the whole of earth to save the universe in the distant distant future, I would've died too but, I couldn't do it. I had pretty much sold the universe to slavery by the daleks when Rose, she came back. Looked into the heart of the TARDIS, became the bad wolf. Sent the message 'bad wolf' everywhere through time and space, a message to lead herself there. She used the power of the vortex to destroy the daleks, but the power… it was killing her. I had to take it out of her, ha" The Doctor laughed to himself "that was our first kiss. Anyway she was safe but the vortex, it killed me. I regenerated and Rose, she accepted it. We adventured together, through time and space. Mutt and Jeff, Shiver and Shake; but then we were... separated. Battle of Canary Warf, daleks and cybermen all over London. We had to stop it, but Rose she… she fell. But her dad caught her. Pete Tyler, her dead father, but so completely alive in the parallel universe. He took her, and her mum and her best friend to safety in the parallel world, the one we've landed in today. We'd been there before, by accident and it drained the TARDIS's power supply. Wrong sort of rift energy, that's why it was so hard to land here. But now, I've got backup power supplies, in case of emergency. We can be here safely for about 24hours. But when I was separated from Rose, I didn't have that kind of power, and the walls were closing. I burned up a sun just to say goodbye. Sent through a little video link. And she told me that she loved me."

"And you told her, right?" asked Rory

"I wish I had. Could barely get out the words Rose Tyler before the video shut down. Gone forever."

"I'm so sorry, I didn't realise. Her room and that, I tried to go in. I shouldn't have"
"you weren't to know Pond, I shouldn't of snapped it's just, when you love someone but you can never, ever see them again. It hurts. I loved her, and I still love her. Where has she gotten to actually?"

"I'm here"

Rose was standing mere feet behind them, and had been listening to the whole conversation. "Doctor, I love you too." And suddenly they were together. Locked in each others embrace, and everything was perfect.

"I am never losing you again Rose. I promise."

"Doctor did you say we can stay here for twenty-four hours?"

"Yes…"

"I want to say goodbye to my mum and dad and mickey."

"I understand"

"But doctor, can I ask you something?"

"Anything Rose."

"I thought the walls between the void had closed? How did you get here?"

"I don't even know that myself."
"Do you think you could ever come back?"

"Maybe?"

"So, I could visit them. Maybe?"

"I don't know Rose but, don't get your hopes up. If you want to stay here you know you can."

"Doctor I made my choice a long time ago and I'm never gonna leave you."

The Doctor smiled and kissed her on the forehead. "Let's find Pete and Jackie Tyler then."