"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," was the first thing he said after she closed the door to the police man who had told her the news.
She starred at him for a minute and then walked into their kitchen completely silent. He followed her playing with his wedding ring, a habit he had developed recently, whenever he was nervous or worried about her.
She reached up into the cupboard and took a glass down. Then she walked over to the fridge and filled the glass with water.
"Rose?" She looked up at him after staring at her glass of water for over an hour. He stood up from his seat and walked over to her. She stood there emotionless as she just stared at the spot he left.
He wrapped her in his arms and rested his chin on her head. She let go of the glass and grabbed his arms. Then no longer able to stand she collapsed to the ground.
They sat on the kitchen floor for hours. His back rested on the island with his feet pressed against the fridge in the narrow space. She sat in between his legs her hands intertwined with his.
"You should eat." John said, uttering the first thing either had said since ending up on the ground.
"Doctor, I can't." He stood up and lifted her up with him.
"Come on, we can't stay in here forever."
"Can't we try?" He ran his fingers through his hair as he stared down at his damaged wife. He had no idea what to do.
He had lost so many people in his own life, but he hadn't lost like this for so long. He decided to suggest to something he was good at. "Let's run."
"Run? Run where?" She looked up at him, surprised to see that he had been crying.
"Anywhere, just not here." He ran down to the basement, where the Tardis was. She heard the door of the time machine open and close.
Alone for the first time since learning that she no longer had any family she could no longer hold in the tears. She wasn't crying out loud but tears were streaming down her face.
Hearing him climbing back up the stairs she wiped the tears away from her face onto her sleeves and turned to look at him.
He was carrying a huge pile of collapsed cardboard boxes. He walked over to the middle of their living room and dropped them all onto the floor.
"Well then, we've got an entire house to pack." He started to assemble one of the boxes as she tried to muster a smile but couldn't. Instead she walked over to John and picked up the pillows from the couch behind him and shoved them into the box.
"Then we should start now."
The sound of the Tardis lurched Rose out of her flashback. She looked up to see a strange new family surrounding her. They could never replace them, but the hole in her heart was starting to sting less.
"Alright, we're here, now what?" John said turning to face the Doctor.
"I, I don't know. I could show you the Tardis. I changed her desktop again."
"You didn't, did you?" Amy said looking heartbroken that the Tardis had changed while they had gone.
"It felt like it needed something new." He said, pushing the doors open, "Come along Ponds and Smiths?" He said turning to look back at John and Rose. "Nah, come along Ponds and Tylers. We have a Tardis to find." They all left to go and find the Tardis.
"So you parked it in New Central Park and you don't even know where?" River said as they stepped into the large park.
"I wasn't paying that much attention when I landed it."
They started to walk through the enormous park and after an hour of searching they all stopped at a fountain in the middle of the park, next to where they had begun their search.
"It's here somewhere. By a tree I think."
Rory turned and looked at the Doctor, "We're in a park."
"Well, okay but there can't be too many trees in a park that's famous for its genetically altered banana orange trees, right?"
"Bananas?" John said perking up at the sound of his favorite food. Everyone laughed everyone that is except for Amy.
They all started to talk about where they would try to look next. Amy was silent as she stared up at the top of the fountain. She was staring at a statue of angel identical to the Bethesda fountain in New York, except for one thing. Her hands were covering her face. She was weeping.
Her heart beat fast as she tried to say something, anything. Her nightmares kept flashing back. She was too terrified to look away she couldn't move or speak. She felt her world become dark as she began to black out.
Amy fell to the ground, "NO! NOOO!" John yelled looking at the empty space next to him that Rose had occupied seconds before. River stared in complete shock at the empty spot where the Doctor had been sitting moments before. Rory tried to rush over to Amy to help her without losing eye contact with the angel.
"We have to get back to the Tardis," he picked up Amy in his arms and started to back up to the Police box, never blinking.
River still in shock followed her parents to the box. "John, we have to go into the Tardis. It's our only way of finding them." Rory said as he tried to open the doors.
John stood there immovable. "John please!" He turned back to Rory and walked straight into the time machine, his face completely emotionless. No one would want to get in his way. There was no denying that this man was the oncoming storm.