"I dare you." Her tongue stuck out as she smiled.

"Well if you dare me." He stood up and made his way to the end of the dock. She stood up and walked behind him, as he edged his way toward the water, and then pushed him. He started to fall into the lake but before he did he grabbed her hand and pulled her in with him.

They both emerged from the water seconds later, he was laughing and she was pretending to be mad at him. "How dare you!" She stuck her tongue out at him.

"How DARE I Rose?"

"Oh shut up," she swam over to him and tried to push him further down into the water but failed.

"ROSE!" Jackie yelled from the beach and beckoned them over. They swam over to the ladder and climbed back onto the dock and then started to walk over to Jackie.

"Right so how many vacations are we going to take to the lake with your family?" John asked looking over at her. This was the sixth time they had been to the family lake house this summer.

"I don't know how long is it going to take you to build a new Tardis?" They had only been in Pete's world without time travel for one year, but both had been anxious without it.

"Fair point."

"Come on you two, into the house lunch is ready. Oh and your sopping wet." They walked in and wrapped towels around each other and sat down at the table with Jackie, Pete, and Tony.

John instantly shoved his sandwich into his mouth. "Mommy are the Doctor and Rose going to get married?" John almost choked on his sandwich as a response to Tony's question.

"Not for a while Tony." Rose answered and casually ate her carrots. John's eyes dashed around the room and the only one to flash him a look was from Pete. His eyes seemed to say you're in it for the long haul mate.

After panicking for a moment he realized that he was actually okay with this. He reached over and grabbed Rose's hand, his smile enormous.

She sat in bed awake. She felt silly sleeping with a bowtie wrapped around her hand, but the smell of him on it was undeniable. Looking over at the clock she saw the time. Twelve o' one, merry Christmas.

She stood up and gathered the nightgown that Martha had purchased her, or for all she knew she had bought herself in the future. She slipped on her slippers and walked into the bath room. She tucked the piece of fabric into her pocket and looked into the mirror.

It was hard for her to be strong, to pretend like it wasn't killing her. Her husband was lost, lost with someone he had loved before. Someone he had loved so much that he had let her go. She knew that he could never love her that much.

She had to be brave though, because if she wasn't, the bravest person in their group would be Rory. And who knows if he could keep things together.

River sat down on the edge of the tub and leaned her head against the cool tile, doing so she noticed a bright pink sticky note sticking out of one of the magazines.

She opened it up and smiled. The magazine she had picked up was for men's fashion, the page the sticky note was on was filled with at least thirty different bowties. The sticky note had something written in the Doctor's handwriting on it. Since it is Christmas.

"Oh that man." She took the magazine back into the bedroom with her setting it on the night stand. She took the bowtie out of her pocket and sat it on the magazine.

"ROOOOOOSE where are we going?" the Doctor trailed behind her dragging his feet as they went, walking through a neighborhood just outside of London.

"I thought we were going to see Mickey and Martha?" She turned around a corner and started to walk up the street.

"Can't we eat first?"

"We can eat once we get there I'm sure they have food at their house."

"Right," he ran up to her and grabbed her arm, interlocking it with his. "So Mickey, Mickey, Mickey. How do you think he's doing?"

"Good I suppose, probably working at Torchwood or something,"

"Martha too?"

"Suppose. Listen Doctor why don't you ever go and visit them? Martha and Mickey I mean, not Torchwood."

He ran his hand through his hair, "I don't know really. Maybe I should go visit them more often"

"Promise me something Doctor."

"Anything."

"Come and visit me and John after this is all over with. Don't leave us behind."

"Rose Tyler I think I could do that." He looked down at her with a smile. They stopped in front of a well sized house with a beautiful garden and a door painted dark blue. "Is this it?"

She looked over at him and laughed. "As if the door didn't give it away."