Authors Note

I reedited the chapters of this story. You may want to reread, as a few minor changes were added in.

Now sorry for the delay. I wanted an original chapter. It didn't want to be written yet. So instead? We're going to do a mini interlude and then we're skipping some episodes. We're off to do the Impossible Planet and Satans Pit (and Get Mr. Jack back after that!). There are reasons for that. Perhaps you will guess why! Oddly enough the talking about Emergency program one, twisted it a bit to fit for me and tada! And? On that Note? The Emergency program one idea will be delved into in a one shot I'm writing!

Chapter 7-Nightmares

After the events with Cassandra, they had ended up on a planet where she got to shopping. That was a wonderful and fantastic experience, right now she was putting away bag fulls of items. Jack had of course decided to flirt with a few people and had asked to stay behind for two days his time. He'd cited that Rose and The Doctor needed to have a few adventures on their own. She'd miss him, because lord knew how long they would be off without him, but really she had a feeling he'd needed a bit of time to process what had happened to him on the game station as well. Now, she was going to grab a shower and then catch a bit of a kip before they ended up on well...god only knew where they would end up.

Forty minutes later, she was fresh from the shower and getting ready for bed. She'd settled in, got comfortable and smiled as she heard the sounds of the TARDIS filling her ears and at one point the Doctor's footsteps as he moved by. Sighing, she rolled over, trying to get comfortable in her bed.

Time passed, she fell asleep. And then she found herself lost in a dreamworld, images filling her eyes of things that hadn't happened, could happen, will happen? She wasn't even sure what it was honestly.

Golden fog filled the area, but she could hear words echoing in the air. The Valiant child will die in battle so very soon.. She kept hearing those words as a vision filled her mind. She was falling, the lever hadn't been enough to hold on and she could hear the Doctor, a different doctor, but his face, his appearance changing into her familiar well known doctor, screaming out her name as she flew through the void. Everything she'd ever wanted in life flashed before her eyes. She continued her falling, her name still leaving the Doctor's lips and she caught a look on his face, breaking her heart. He let go of the clamps, falling towards her, reckless of the danger he was in, and now she was screaming his name, yelling that the Universe needed him more then it needed her. He couldn't be sucked into the Void, the galaxy, the universe, everyone in all of it, in all of time needed the Doctor. She was not important, not like he was. He needed to survive, but just as she flew into the void, she could hear him still yelling for her even as he was sucked into it with her..

She shot up in bed, hair sticking to her face as her eyes blindly searched her room, a scream still leaving her mouth as she did so. Her door crashed open and there was the Doctor, sans leather jacket. He stared at her for a moment as she ran her hands over her face. "You alright?" He stepped in closer then and she nodded slowly.

She couldn't get the image of him falling into the void with her out of her mind and she nodded slowly. "Yeah...yeah...just a nightmare. I'm sorry." She crawled out of her bed, wearing a pair of sweatpants and a tee-shirt and rubbed her face. "Not sleeping again anytime soon...may go make myself a cuppa.."

She didn't know what to say, the nightmare was so intense. Those bright blue eyes of his had looked so defeated in her dream, as if he couldn't survive, couldn't bear to have to deal with anymore guilt. She wasnt so fanciful as to image that dream him loved her, it was just too much to bear. Suddenly, tears fell from her eyes and she shook her head as the Doctor moved closer, pinning her with that intense stare of his.

"Rose, what was the nightmare about. You can tell me."

She sighed for a moment. "I...its a jumble in my head, but the void again. I keep dreaming I was sucked into it and tonight.." Another sigh and she was picking up the water by her bed and taking a sip. "I heard a voice saying that The Valiant child, so far from home, would die in battle so very soon and then? I was in this...white room and these Cybermen and Dalek's were flying by and I had to let go of this...thing..." She rubbed her neck for a moment. Her voice wobbled then and she didn't really want to say what happened next,but he was giving her this look, like he wanted to hear, cared to hear it all. She sighed and continued. "And at first it was a different you, a regenerated you I guess..but then it wasn't and you were yelling and I was yelling and then...I fell and then you let go? I don't know...but then it was the void and it was...so .." She stopped and bit back the shiver that wanted to appear as she thought of the dream. The Doctor moved closer then, arm going about her shoulders and he guided her from the room.

"It didn't happen Rose, you'll be alright. It was just a dream. We'll get you settled down, then you can rest and tomorrow? We'll have some sort of adventure."

She nodded as they moved into the kitchen and he actually fixed the tea. It didn't happen often, but he'd done twice for her. Once when Adam was asleep before they went to Satellite Five and once right after her fathers death. Things had been hectic then, but why did this time feel so different to her.

She was settled in and the Doctor handed her tea, and noticed her eyes starting to glow golden again before she spoke, in that ethereal voice one more.

"The time has come my Doctor, for me to speak to you. When, and it will be when, Rose has dreams like this, you must pay attention to what she speaks for it is possible for it to come true. She knows many more things then she can realize at the moment. My gift to you my Doctor is this, know that the Storm does approach but there will be ways around it, ways to deal with it. You may be separated but all hope will not be lost." A slow smile appeared on her lips as she spoke. "And I ask one thing in return. Speak the truth to Rose about emergency program one. It bothers her more then she knows yet."

The Doctor spoke quickly, before Bad Wolf could disappear this time. "She is speaking of future events? What are you trying to warn us about?" His blue eyes narrowed for a moment then when she spoke about the Storm approaching and all hope not being lost. He didn't like the sound of it at all. "And what do you mean tell her the truth. It was just a projection.."

Bad Wolf let out an ethereal chuckle and spoke again. "I cannot tell you all of it, for there are things you would both want to change. Things that cannot be for all of our sakes. When the time is right, she will be able to explain things to you, the memories will be unlocked completely. Until then, few pieces of it will be revealed as needed. As for the projection, speak the truth to her, all the truth. One day, she will need that knowledge to continue on her path. Understand that Doctor." And with that, the golden glow left Rose's eyes again and she moved her tea to her lips, sending the Doctor a concerned look when he seemed a bit out of it.

"You alright Doctor?"

"I'm always alright Rose, I was just thinking..."

She sipped her tea once more and then spoke up. "Well, you sure your alright? You can talk to me ya know." She took his hand then, squeezing gently before smiling at him. " 'S better with two isnt it?"

He grinned at her when she mentioned that and nodded. "Alright Rose, there's something I have been meaning to talk to you about, just things have been busy. You remember when I sent you home and the Emergancy program one came on?"

Her eyes lowered for a moment as she thought about that moment, it'd been horrible. She really thought she'd never see him again and she couldn't imagine a world without her Doctor in it. A slow nod was given for a second and then she spoke. "Yeah, when exactly did you get to recording that anyway...It really felt like you knew everything I was saying."

The Doctor took one last sip of his tea and sat it on the table, staying quite still for a moment. "It was because I could see you Rose. I used the sonic to bolster a connection, so I knew what was going on." A pause as Rose digested this information and then brown eyes met blue as he spoke again. "It was...there wasn't time for a proper goodbye."

She stared at him for a moment, the whole of what he said to her in her head.

"This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one'll even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world'll move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life. "

For a moment longer, her eyes met his as she let the fact that he could see her as he said goodbye made her sad and she felt shaken. She'd had no idea what was going on, had been trying her best to get back to him, but he had to think he was dying, that it was it. There was no way to survive all those Dalek's. How hard had it been for him to know why he had sent her away? She could go either way with this. Be mad he sent her away, knowing there had been no other option for him, just like there had been no other option for him or? Let it go, understand why he had done it and forgive it. She was choosing option two. Why hurt him more then he'd already been. The pain in his eyes was truly enough to make her understand why he did what he did.

Instead, she stood up, placed her tea cup down and then moved over to him, hugging him for a moment, laughing at the surprised noise he made before he hugged her back. She pressed her face into his jacket, just taking in the moment for what it was before she pulled away and grinned at him cheekily. "Next time, well, just dont send me away again Doctor. Please. I'm already having a fantastic life and I dont plan on going anywhere anytime soon. I'm staying forever don't ya know." With that said, she hugged him once more nd headed off towards her bedroom, not noticing the look upon his face. It was almost wonder at her not yelling at him and awe at her promise of forever, and heartache, because her forever wasnt nearly as long as his was, but he found he liked hearing it anyway...