She crossed her legs as she sat on the chair next to the console, watching everyone happy to be reunited.
She studied each person as they buzzed around him trying to gain his attention or for some trying to ignore him. River stood next to him, she held the clip that was in her hair in her hand, and played with her fingers as she tried to pretend like she didn't mind sharing him with them.
Rory leaned against one of the railings and laughed at every appropriate moment but his eye's continually flashed down at his wife trying to see how she was feeling about everything that was happening. He was happy, but he was happier for her than he was for himself.
Amy's smile was enormous as she laughed and listened to everything he had to say, totally enthralled by his every word. Amy was the happiest she had ever seen as she told him about their lives for the past few years using excessive hand gestures and occasionally hitting him or Rory when they would joke with her.
She looked back at John the only one but her apart from the group. He worked at the console, pretending to fix one of the monitors that she knew he had fixed only days before. He was quiet and his emotions somber and stone hard. He looked back more at her than he did the group. Each time he did she just smiled at him and he went back to fixing the unbroken monitor.
She stood up and walked over to John. She reached around him just under his arms and above his waist and grabbed her other hand holding him. She leaned her head against his back as he grabbed her arms and turned around to look at her.
"Why don't you go and talk to them? Talk to him? We came all this way to find him didn't we?"
"We didn't come here just for him. We came here because there was nothing left for us there…not after, not after−"
"Rose, don't do this to yourself again. You know it wasn't your fault." She clutched her arms around him as she pressed her head against his chest listening to the one singular heart beat.
"I'm glad we found him though. It's like getting a piece of my family back, even if he does were fezzes now."
"You don't like fezzes?"
"No I do, I just think that I'd look better in them." She flashed him her grin as he couldn't help but laugh.
"I think you should tell him. Tell him what happened. He'd like to know."
"You think so?"
"Yeah, I do."
As she walked over to him her heart starting to beat faster, she didn't know if she could tell him. It had happened so recently and her heart was still broken.
"Doctor," she tapped him on the shoulder, "can I talk to you? Alone?" Everyone's faces dropped from their smiles to looks of concern.
He knew her so well; he knew that the only thing that she could have to tell him was bad news.
"We haven't left yet, so we could go outside and talk if you want to." He reached down and grabbed her hand. It was something he had missed terribly, the feeling of Rose's hand in his.
They walked out and he spread his coat down on the ground for them to sit on like he had done years before. "What's wrong?"
"Well exactly twenty three days ago my mom, Pete, and Tony went on a trip to Brazil for Pete's business." She swallowed tears growing in her eyes, "John and I, we decided not to go with them because we were invited to go to one of John's mates weddings and we just got back from a trip that we took to one of the moons of Jupiter. On their way back from their trip," she was crying hard now gasping for air before she could continue. "The plane's engine malfunctioned. They crashed and everyone in Pete's jet died on impact. They're dead Doctor, they're all dead."
His head was ringing. Today had been such a happy day, he thought nothing could've brought him down. He was wrong.
He reached over and put his arm around Rose as she cried. "That's why we're here, because we didn't have anything left."
"Oh Rose, I, I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Please, I don't need anyone to feel bad for me. Just remember them, always." She took a deep breath and then stood up and turned to face the man still on the ground. She wiped the tears off of her face and put her hand out to help him up. "We have a Tardis to find." He grabbed her hand and she helped him up.
They walked over to her Tardis together and when they went in she let go of him and went to John and wrapped her arms around him and buried her head into his chest.
The Doctor walked back over to the group he had left, his face much more serious and forlorn. "Doctor what is it? What happened?" River asked looking at the broken time lord.
"Rose, her family, her family died." Amy gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. Rory looked down at the ground and shook his head. "They were fantastic, oh what I would give to be slapped by Jackie Tyler one more time."
