Matt had no idea what had caused Rose's sudden reaction following their second kiss because once again it felt like he had found the right person for him. Rose would sometimes be mysterious and unexplainable, but he actually liked that quality about her. She was by far the strangest, but most wonderful women he had ever met. Hopefully he had read her wrong. Matt smiled at her hopingly. "So, good?"

Rose could have addressed him. She could have even mentioned the Doctor, who on second glance was walking about back to that machine. Instead she did neither and muttered as if nothing had happened, "Matt, we need to get to work."

"Oh." It was like she had kicked him in his crotch.

Rose pulled out the sonic screwdriver, set it to 523, and began to use it on the mountainside near her as the rubble began to fall away crumbling to the ground below. Matt saw her tension and very loud silence, but he had one more question for her because it had been eating at him since he met her. Who really was this mysteriously beautiful woman and where did she come from?

"Where's your family?"

Rose suddenly turned the device off and blinked holding back tears. Her family. She was prepared to talk about leading Matt on and kissing him, or even on her conflicts with the Doctor, but her family was the deepest buried regret in her life. She up and left them and was even more upset at herself in having not even thought of them for the past few months because it had hurt so much. The hills and mounds of regret were all beginning to avalanche at once. Oh, she had always told herself that everything would always work out and that she was strong enough for it, but she was not the Doctor. Their was no forever and there were no more dreams, especially not for her. Not anymore. Rose expressed her sadness and confusion in just one very emotional word. "Gone."

Matt laid his hand comfortingly on her shoulder. This woman that he had thought so highly of was beginning to crumble before him. "I'm sorry."

Rose brightened up as she turned to face him. She needed that. "Still, nasty ghoulish General on the loose. Need to collect this gold and fuel that machine up!" Rose began scanning the rocks again willing herself to move on as the rubble again started falling off.

Matt sighed. "Yeah." It was clear where this was going. The first piece of gold was now almost completely uncovered as he reached under Rose's body to pull it out. "A couple of these and we'll be ready!" Matt stuck the heavy piece in one of his pockets as much as he could fit.

As Rose and Matt put the awkwardness behind them and begun to work, the Time Lord above the hill walked back to the Golwenderum 5000 dejected. The Doctor had come bearing the good news that he was ready for them, but had just seen exactly what he had been fearing to be true. Rose had fallen for Matt and she would leave him soon. The process was inevitable and even Rose who had promised him a forever would follow suit. The Doctor had known it all along. His former self would have been furious that he was taking it this nicely, but now being older and less confrontational had brought him here. Matt was an alright guy and he supposed he should invite the bloke to come with them after trapping this General. After all, it was the prudent thing to do.

The Doctor made it back to the old machine originating from the distant future with a very low mood. Even though the machine was fixed and ready, he played with it a little bit in thought. The analogy to the TARDIS would amuse most people. Rose and Matt would arrive soon and he would be ready to explain brilliantly exactly why the Golwenderum 5000 was here. He'd worked it all out and no matter what happened he could always impress.

The Doctor turned a wheel while pushing a lever much like he would on the TARDIS making a compartment open up containing a pit. He grinned as the machine opened up. He stood excited and ready!

Matt now had a couple pieces of gold housed in his pockets. The pieces were heavy and some were rather pointy leading to a very uncomfortable condition. As Rose removed the last piece they would need Matt shifted. "Ow!"

Rose laughed out loud. "Tell ya what, I'll take this last one." She proudly put it in her pocket. "See, not so bad!"

"We should get…" Matt stopped himself as both him and Rose were alerted to what sounded like a crack near them.

Rose asked, "You hear that?"

"Sound like a twig snap?" Rose nodded dreadfully. "Thought so."

Another twig snapped seemingly in the shadows that blocked them from the Doctor. There was definitely a body near them and it definitely wasn't the Doctor.

Rose held out her hand and motioned for Matt to follow her. "Just stay low so whatever it is won't notice us." They walked slowly and as quietly as they could toward the hill where the Doctor was waiting for them at the machine.

After a couple minutes of tense quiet Rose and Matt began to slightly relax. Matt quietly laughed to Rose. "False alarm?"

This time the twig snapping sounded behind a tree close by to their right. Rose warned him, "Look, we can't go investigate. Just keep moving steadily."

Again silence fell around them. The tension was driving them both crazy as every little sound made them look around protectively.

The wind picked up and blew as a couple leaves rustled behind them. Matt turned his head looking to find nothing there. He couldn't take it anymore. "I think I'm going crazy here!"

Rose put her finger to his mouth teasingly. "Shhhh…"

As she removed it pebble seemed to drop to their left as both of their attentions turned that way. Again nothing.

Rose turned back around and saw something terrifying as her eyes grew in sock until Matt joined her in the same deathly gaze. In unison they looked at each other and screamed, "Run!" as they gazed at the ghostly miner dressed figure of the General.

They promptly ran up the hill toward the Doctor for their lives not daring to look behind them as the General screamed with vengeance, "Give me my gold!"