Chapter Two
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He felt like he had lost Melody all over again. The doctor had been searching for Rose for months, and still he had found nothing. He had picked up traces, little trials and whispers of her but he was always too late. His stops on each planet became longer and longer, hoping that she would eventually show up and everything would be okay.
Today the Doctor found himself on a hill of apple grass, on a planet far away from earth. New earth was one place that The Doctor was continuously drawn back to, he remember the last time he was here. With Martha jones, that had been the last time he had seen the face of Boe…
Jack, he hadn't heard anything about him since he had regenerated into this new man. Maybe he should go and visit him; maybe he would have a lead on Rose, or be able to help the Doctor find her. But could he do it alone?
He found himself again on a door steep, in front of a very familiar door, a door that was opened immediately as the TARDIS engines where heard. Amy had a huge grin on her face when she saw the TARDIS, surely the Doctor had found Rose and that's why he was back.
But the man that stepped out of the TARDIS was much more alone and lost then the man that had left a few months ago.
"Doctor?" Amy ran to him and hugged him, before pulling back and kissing him gently on the cheek, "Are you okay?"
The Doctor looked at her and smiled "I'm always okay, but Pond in need your help. Will you come with me?"
Amy nodded and ran back inside, coming back a few minutes later and going straight into the TARDIS without a word. The Doctor walked in and closed the door behind him. Taking a deep breath he went to the console and set it for Cardiff.
Rose had left Jacks apartment two weeks ago, and Jack was starting to worry. He had heard nothing from her since then. She had resolved to continue searching for the Doctor, sure that she would find him soon. Jack had an intake of breath when he heard the familiar whirl of TARDIS engines. He raced outside going straight away to the place the TARDIS always landed.
And there it was, the blue box, and out of it stepped a red headed Scottish girl who looked straight at him and gave him a small smile before going back inside. A few moments later a young man stepped out. A young man who was wearing a tweed jacket and a bow tie but was defiantly the Doctor.
"Doctor?!" Jack ran up to him, giving him a bear hug, before backing off.
"Hello Jack" The Doctor had a new, boyish face, yet his eyes held more age, and looked more like he carried the earth on his shoulders than ever.
"You regenerated" Jack said quietly, walking in the direction of his apartment with The Doctor and the girl following.
"Yeah I did, a while ago actually" The Doctor smiled sadly before gesturing to Amy, "this is Amelia Pond, a good friend of mine"
"Nice to meet you Amelia Pond" Jack extended a hand which Amy took and smiled,
"Nice to meet you Jack" He returned the smile and looked at the Doctor,
"So what's the story Doc?"
"Can… can it wait for a bit?" he looked so sad, under so much pressure. Jack nodded and turned to Amy as they walked
"So how did you meet the Doctor?"
Amy laughed "that's a long story actually Jack, he crash landed in my garden when I was seven. I have practically known him my entire life" she smiled at the Doctor before looking back at jack, "he had told me he had to take a quick trip to the moon and back" Both the Doctor and Amy smiled fondly at the memories, but Amy's face fell at her next words, for they still bothered her "he told me he would be five minutes… he was a bit late"
Jack looked unsurprised "how late?"
"Twelve years, I was furious at him by that point. I had spent my life in physiatrist's offices, while they told me over and over that he wasn't real. But I never would believe them"
Jack let out a whistle "way to go Doc" The Doctor just glared at him.
They soon found themselves at Jacks apartment, and sitting on the couch.
"So Doctor, what brings you and Amelia here?"
The Doctor sighed before speaking "I'm looking for Rose" Jack nodded.
"Yeah Rosie… I haven't seen her for a couple of weeks now" The Doctor quickly looked up,
"So she was here?!"
"Yeah, she lives here with me, though not very often. She travels the universe, searching for you, Doctor"
The Doctors face fell and his voice became quieter "but why is she here? How is she here? What happened to the Doctor I left her with…"
Jacks face also fell with the Doctors words, "I think that is a story you should hear from her not me"
"Sorry but who is Rose?" Amy interjected, looking confusedly at the two sad men in front of her. When the Doctor didn't respond Jack began to talk.
"You know how the Doctor regenerates? Changes?" Amy nodded "well before he was this man, he was someone else. He traveled with a girl, a girl named Rose Tyler. She was only 19 when she first met the Doctor, and he was the 9th incarnation of himself, not the eleventh you see now…"
They spent the afternoon talking of Rose Tyler; Amy listened carefully to her story. After a while the Doctor stood and left. Jack paused only for a second before he continued.
"And so Rose's Father saved her, and she went to live in the other universe…"
Slowly Amy understood another piece of the Doctor, another thing that weighed him down, made him the man that he is. Even though Jack never said it, Amy knew that the Doctor was, is, in love with Rose. And Rose loves him, but will this man be the same man she loved?
Amy cut jack of mid-sentence "So the Doctor loves her?" Jack nodded sadly and looked at her, narrowing his eyes slightly.
"Oh Amy please don't tell me you-"
"I'm his mother in law" Jacks mouth dropped open, before he regained his composure.
"He's married!?"
Amy nodded, "to my daughter, River Song"
Jack laughed, "That feisty piece of work? Of course, makes sense" But Jack still looked confused.
This time it was Jacks turn to listen, he listened to the story of Amy life, he laughed with her, he cried with her. Amy had never told anyone all of this, and Jack felt heartbroken by the end of it.
"So she is your daughter, and part time lord?"
Amy nodded, "so now… I don't know what will happen. But how do you know her?"
Jack smiled "she just turned up one day, in the middle of a crisis, and started ordering everyone around. We were all in too much chaos to stop her, but she did get things fixed I suppose" he shrugged, "I knew straight away she was a time traveler, and that there was something different about her… she never would tell me who she really was. She knew everything about the Doctor, but she was always so cryptic, never giving anything away"
"Rose and River are good friends actually, they both visit from time to time. But ofcourse they have a complicated relationship, neither of them can give anything away"
Amy frowned, "so how come you all know eachothers stories? You seem to know Rose's entire life"
Jack had a sheepish smile on his face when he replied "we all got drunk one night and spent out time telling each other our life stories, well Rose and me did, River just listened"
The Doctor found himself aimlessly wondering the streets of Cardiff, wondering about Rose. His thoughts turned to River Song. He wondered if Jack knew her, he wouldn't be surprised if those two where on friendly terms. He knows he loves River, she is everything to him. The one thing that always grounds him, knows exactly what to say, always puts things right. But Rose… she was something different. She once had pulled the entire of time and space into her head, to save this little planet. She was an amazing Woman, and one that the Doctor loved dearly.
Would Rose even accept his new self? He had changed a lot since he last saw Rose on that beach. He had hoped she would be happy, in the days following that he always pictured her living happily, with her Doctor, maybe a child. He could feel his hearts breaking as he thought back to the image he saw all those months ago. Of a broken and lost Woman, who was on the verge of giving up hope. He wondered how long she had been looking for him.
What had happened to her life? What had made her the Woman she is today? Well the same question could be asked of the Doctor. What had made him the man he is today, his companions? His experiences? The things he has seen and done? The Doctor wonders aimlessly, not just with his body, but with his mind. His entire being wondered, searching for answers as to who he is, and who Rose is to him.
Amy sat with Jack sipping tea and making small talk.
"Where is the Doctor?" Amy finally spoke up, holding her tea in her hands. Jack looked up from his and shrugged
"I don't know, off being the Doctor"
An hour later the Doctor returned, with new enthusiasm, and was determined to find Rose. With a goodbye to Jack and a 'come along pond' to Amy they were gone and flying once again through space. The Doctor was doing complicated things to the console, trying to make it find Roses time signature, which was very individual thanks to the bad wolf. Soon he caught a small trace of it and went flying off.
They spent days on the next planet, the Doctor was sure Rose was here, but eventually they moved on. They did this for planet after planet, Amy's heart falling over and over every time she saw the pain in the Doctors eyes when they failed to find Rose.
A couple of months later found the Doctor again in the same place. He was alone, wondering through the streets of Cardiff. They had come back here to see if Jack had heard anything from Rose, he hadn't. Jack was getting really worried; he had never gone this long without seeing her.
What if something had happened to her? The Doctor would never forgive himself…
Amy and Jack found themselves siting on the couch, drinking tea and sharing past adventures. In the front of both their minds were worry for the Doctor, and for Rose, but neither of them said anything about it. That was until there was a banging on the door, Jack stood and walked to the door and opened it.
There was once a time where seeing Rose cry would make his blood run cold, his heart seeking revenge on whoever had hurt Rose, but these days it just meant another bad day, another day without the Doctor, slowly ripping Rose apart.
In front of him was Rose, broken as ever, silent tears on her cheeks. She had just transported from some planet to right outside Jacks door. She wrapped her arms around his neck and cried while Amy stood behind Jack, dumbstruck. Rose opened her eyes and her arms dropped from Jacks shoulders as her eyes widened.
"Amy?" she choked out her hands wiping the tears from her face, she walked slowly to Amy before reaching out a hand. Amy gave a sad half smile and took Rose in her arms, hugging her. Amy sat Rose down between herself and Jack, handing her a box of tissues, Rose looked so vulnerable like this.
Rose slowly calmed herself down, and then looked at jack "Is he here… is The Doctor here?"
Jack nodded slowly, "we don't know where at the moment, but he will be home soon"
Roses body shook, and she felt a small piece of hope well up inside her, "he is here… after all this time" she couldn't help but worry if the Doctor would even accept her back into his life, if she will even fit with this new Doctor.
"But Jack…" her voice wavered as she spoke, she felt so childish as she asked her next question, like a little kid of to their first day of school "but what if he doesn't want me anymore?"
The door opened behind them.
"Ask him yourself" Jack said softly.
Rose's eyes widened as she stood at faced the door, there stood The Doctor, his face was more open and valuable then Rose has ever seen, he was lost, worried. Rose didn't say a thing as she rushed towards him, tears in her eyes. The Doctor own eyes where stinging as he saw Rose, different, yet the same.
Rose stood in front of him for just a moment before she launched herself into his arms, she was laughing, crying, but for the first time in a very long time they were happy tears. They hugged and laughed and cried, before they both pulled back to look at each other.
"Doctor" Rose said quietly, smiling at him. She didn't look a day older, even though many years had passed. The Doctor pushed that to the back of his mind to deal with later.
The Doctor grinned back, one hand on the side of her face "Rose, my Rose" Both their hearts fluttered as they looked at each other. Rose looked into his eyes and what she saw made happiness well up inside her,
"You're the same, you're still you" she muttered quietly, one hand settling into one of his.
"Yeah" he smiled as Rose pulled him towards the couch, settling herself down and pulling the Doctor down with her.
Jack and Any both smiled at the two of them as they grinned at each other, there was still a lot to be said, and big obstacles to overcome but they had found each other, and for now that was the best thing in the world.
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