Disclaimer: None of it is mine. Not the characters, not the plot line, not all of the dialogue.

Spoilers: Stolen Earth, which, for those who don't know, is the beginning of the end of s4. However, there will be Spoilers from now until the end of the fic. These Spoilers will be for the Stolen Earth and Journey's End. These Spoilers are not minor spoilers but major, plot point revealing Spoilers. You have been warned of the Spoilers.

A/n: Okay, so these chapters are...I'm sorry. They're just...gah. I'm trying to stay as true to the episode, and that means watching it, and taking notes, and watching it again, and taking notes, and watching it again...you get the idea. Which leads into my next point, that the updates are going to slow down...a lot. :( School+Sleep=no writing.

OOOOOOOOOH! And before I forget, if you know of any characters that weren't in the s4 finale that were human and lived on earth during/close to the time frame the episode occurred, please please please tell me, because I can't think of one and it's vital to a later chapter.

000

Sometimes, people have the strangest conversations. Like just now, for instance, those two weirdoes over there next to the blue box thing. Was that always there? Must have been, boxes don't just appear out of thin air, and he never noticed anybody bring it in.

At first they had seemed nice enough, if a bit disoriented. The man hadn't even known what day it was, and the woman kept looking around like she couldn't quite believe that they were here. He had assumed that they had been at some crazy party, gotten incredibly drunk, and were just now waking up with no idea where they were. That would explain the man's getup—a suit and trainers indeed! The things people wear these days…

But then they had started talking. He never meant to overhear, but it's a quiet street and they're the only ones about.

"So, you going to tell me what that was in the alley?" asks the ginger. She sounds a bit frightened, actually, but a curious kind of frightened, if that's even possible.

The man runs a hand through his already tousled hair and says, probably without thinking, "Yes, well, that was Bad Wolf."

They're probably talking about some new band, even though they look a bit old for that sort of thing.

Clearly the man doesn't want to talk about it, if the way he's avoiding his friend's eyes is any way to judge, but she pursues the subject anyway. "But…Rose, she was glowing. Rose was glowing in the middle of an alley and then that man turned into dust. How did that happen?"

"Yeah, Bad Wolf tends to do that."

Drugs, it had to be drugs. These two had been watching a band in an alley and doing some drug called Bad Wolf that made them think that they were seeing glowing, disintegrating people. The ginger must have never tried it before, so that explained why she was so surprised at the effects.

"But that wasn't some wolf thing, that was Rose! And she was glowing! How did she do that?"

Okay, so this Rose girl was probably the lead singer of the band, and she had some kind of stunt where she could make it look like she was glowing. Ridiculous.

"I don't know. But if Bad Wolf is coming back, then that means everything is in danger."

"Yeah, the stars are going out, reality is dying. Who is 'Bad Wolf'? Why was Rose glowing?"

So…the man was a recovering addict from the Bad Wolf drug, named after it's…creator…and the man was usually really overdramatic…and the glowing singer was unexpected…

"Rose is the Bad Wolf. Long ago, she absorbed the Time Vortex and became linked to the TARDIS. She had the power to control life and death, time and space, everything, and she called herself the Bad Wolf. But I got rid of it, the Vortex is gone from her…" The man spits this out at an incredibly high speed, like he doesn't even want to say it but has to anyway.

So Rose was linked to a politician nicknamed…the Tardis…and it made her really powerful…and she was in control of a…gang! Yes, she was the head of a gang, and she sang in a band that played in alleyways.

The ginger is talking again. "She said the world was ending."

"Yes," the man replies. "But how?"

Rose was also overdramatic…and she knew the man because he was in her gang…and he got her off of a drug that forced her under the thumb of a politician called Tardis…and she called herself Bad Wolf and created a drug named after herself…and the man had gotten addicted…and it made you hallucinate and see people exploding…and she sold it when she sang…with her band…that played in alleys…and somehow the ginger was all mixed up in this too…Yeah, that totally made sense. Totally.

He hears the sound of a door closing, and when he turns around, the woman and the man are gone. The only thing left on the street corner is the box thing.

The milk bottles start clanking together, like there's some kind of earthquake. But that's impossible, there wouldn't be an earthquake here, he's nowhere near a fault line…

Darkness falls. He looks to the sky and screams.

000

She opens her eyes and finds herself back in the white room. She's been here before, when she first started traveling with him again, and then every time she got hurt before, with other him and this him, but not before that when everything was dull and gray.

She can't even think without her thoughts going in circles now. Sometimes, she still can't even think, and she doesn't know if that's good or bad or neither, sort of inbetween-ish like him and her and friends and more. It's been like this ever since he started doing that thing he does with her and she can feel him inside her mind and he starts doing things, gentle and loving and picking up the pieces like he never did with any other adventure and mending them like he always did with her and the world and the universe and tiny insignificant things that meant everything.

She gets up and walks out, to the room with a name she doesn't know or can't remember where everything happens and they go places from. He's there, and she's there, not herself but other she, the loud lovely one who takes care of them and yells and says things to hide the fear she holds inside.

Then everything tips and shakes and falls, including her and other she and him, like it always did when he flew but he isn't flying, he is standing and confused like he always gets and got when she crossed too many lines, blurred lines that had to be crossed but couldn't be for reasons that neither of them had set but both believed.

She, proper she, not other she, who has a name but proper she doesn't know it, gets up and walks to the door as him and other she stand and shout something about confusion and fear and some anger, but not too much. They always open the door when they travel, and everything always falls and shakes when they land, so that's what she does.

Outside is floating dust and dark color and bright fire, nothing like he's ever taken her this time, but always outside the window of so many other places he has, hurtling through the stars or whirling around a world, always flying somewhere. There's a word for this, the light and lack of it and the floating nothing all around, but she wouldn't know it even if she did.

"The TARDIS is still in the same place, but the earth is gone, the entire planet!" He says from behind her, and in front of her and on her sides where his arms are, all around to hold her back from falling, safe from the cold…and close to him.

Something is wrong, she knows because she knew his voice and learned his voice now and learned it again before, and with so much learning and knowing she must be right. He's confused, and she should be scared, but he's with her, holding her, and nothing can be wrong then, nothing has ever been able to be wrong this way. There was life outside, and there should be now but isn't, and he will bring it back and smile and be happy that he has won once again, saving everything and everyone and her.

He will save her, if she needs to be saved, as she needed to be saved when he took her from drab and dull to exciting and dangerous. He promised, and he always keeps his promises.