Her wet hair started to whip in front of her face as the wind started to pick up. She knew that Martha and the Doctor were probably waiting for her to come back but she couldn't stop staring at the house that in a parallel world had been there's.
"Rose, what are you doing?" He asked walking into their living room from the kitchen, half eaten banana in hand.
She was standing on the back of the sofa faced towards the wall holding the broom parallel to the top of the window. "I'm measuring for curtains."
"With a broom?" he finished his banana and tossed the peel into the bin and walked over to her.
"I couldn't find a tape measure, so I thought I could just compare it to the broom length."
"The window's larger than the broom." He smiled up at her as she dropped the broom onto the floor and sighed. He grabbed her around the waist and helped her down from the back of the couch.
"We have a tape measure." He let go of her and walked into the kitchen and pulled open a drawer, revealing different tools. He grabbed the tape measure and the step ladder from the pantry. "Why do you want new curtains anyway? I thought you liked the old ones."
"You mean the ones the house had when we moved in here? They're different shades of red." After taking the measurements he jumped off the ladder and walked over to where Rose had thrown the old curtains.
"No they're not, you see," he picked the two up and compared the shades, "this is definitely a darker red, you're right."
"Do you want to come with me? I know this great shop on main."
"Rose I go with you everywhere, if you haven't noticed yet." He gave her an enormous smile as he pulled her closer to him, "but I know somewhere else we could look."
"Where?"
"It's a surprise, to the Tardis!" He grabbed her hand and started to pull her behind him.
"Allons-y!" She yelled behind him and he turned around and looked at her, her grin almost matching his.
"Hey that's my line."
"So we don't get joint custody on catch phrases?" She laughed as he pulled her into the Tardis. They came back hours later with curtains the Queen, or in this universe, President of England would have had, that is until they disappeared.
He almost fell twice running up the steep hill in the rain, but he never slowed down. He wanted to yell her name to get her attention but he still didn't completely believe that she was actually there.
Part of her wanted to open the gate and walk into the house, like she had so many times before. She wanted to be carrying a bag of groceries in, with John right behind her and her mum gossiping to her on her cell.
She could have stood there for hours, looking at the house, that was and wasn't hers.
He was seconds away from her now and he could truly see that it really was her. "Rose!" he yelled, she turned quickly to look at him.
At first she thought she was seeing a ghost, but then her face burst into an enormous smile. She ran the last few steps to him, jumping into his arms. "Tell me you're real; tell me I'm not dreaming." She cried into his neck.
"Oh Rose, I wouldn't dare!" He twirled her around in a circle finally setting her down so that he could look at her.
Her breathe caught for a second as she noticed his coat. "You're not the time lord Doctor are you?" He held up his left hand and wiggled his fingers so that she could see his wedding ring.
"Nah, I'm all yours Rose Smith." She grabbed him closely and kissed him.
"I've missed you more than you could know." She said as they finally stopped for breathe.
"Oh, I doubt that Rose." He hugged her tightly as the rain came to a stop. To their surprise a man walked out of their house carrying a large FOR SELL sign that blocked the man's view of the couple in front of his house. He walked through the drenched grass and was just about to wedge the sign into the ground when John stopped him, "we'll buy it."
The man, shocked, looked up from behind the sign first noticing John and Rose, "excuse me?"
"We'll buy it."
"Do you want to see it first?"
"Nah, I have a feeling its good."
"Do you want to know the price?"
'No, I'll just write you a blank check. You fill in what you think is right."
"Don't you want an inspection?" John shook his head as Rose giggled next to him.
"Nah, you look like an honest man, I trust you. When can you be out?"
"I—I can be out in two days, three tops." The shocked man shook his head as John handed him an empty check.
"See you then, oh no, it's raining again." John said as it started to pour again. "Rose we have some people to find." He grabbed her hand and they walked down the hill back to where the Tardis was, John picking up his abandoned umbrella as they walked past it.