Light flooded the room, at first the Doctor thought the machine had caught fire but it wasn't coming from the machine, it simply encircled it. The bright golden light was coming from Rose in the queen's body. The light then turned from gold to soft green and became so bright he had to shield his eyes.

Then the voices that they had heard when they'd come through the tunnel filled the space, growing louder and louder. There were too many voices for the words to be distinguishable except for one, souls just like Rose had said.

The golden light seemed to thinly surround the bright green flood and soon it all focused tightly on the machine itself. Before the Doctor could do anything to inspect it or try to communicate the machine suddenly crackled with the same blue lightning that had trapped them and exploded.

"Rose!" the Doctor shouted, rushing to Rose's body first. "Rose? Answer me, please. Rose, please, wake up love. I can't.. You have to wake up!" He pleaded with her as he untied her wrists.

"What?" She mumbled, opening her eyes very slowly. "Did it work? Am I...me?" she asked, still blinking away the sleep.

"Yes!" He exclaimed, hugging her tightly. "Yes, you are you! Fantastic Rose!"

"Ugh, enough. Untie me now!" The Queen screeched at the same moment that two of her guards teleported into the room.

"WHERE have you BEEN!?" She screamed at them.

"So sorry, your highness. We couldn't use the transport, there's been a huge lightning storm out there. It's only just stopped." One of the guards explained fearfully. The other ignored them and walked straight to the Doctor and Rose.

"Aren't you supposed to be the Queen now? and you, you should be in the tower! I'll get that set right straight away." He growled, gripping both Rose and the Doctor's wrists. The Doctor grinned and using his other hand he took hold of the guards transporter cuff,

"Allons-y"

At first Rose thought something had gone very wrong. She was standing on solid ground and could still feel the guard's grip on her wrist but she couldnt see anything. It was absolutely pitch black.

"Rose, got your phone on you?" The Doctor asked calmly.

"Uh, yeah," she said, pulling it from her pocket and holding it out in the direction of his voice, "Doubt it works though. All that electric shock stuff couldn't have been good for it."

"We'll see." He replied and she could hear the sonic at work. Then suddenly there was light. "Works as a torch at least!" He announced cheerfully.

"What did you do!?" The guard exclaimed, releasing his grip on both of them in his anger. Rose rubbed her wrist and moved to stand on the other side of the Doctor.

"Just transported us back to the field where we landed. There's the orange flowers. Remember them, Rose?" The Doctor explained calmly.

"Yeah, wow, it seems like it's been forever since we first got here. But... The stars, they're gone. "
The guard stood angrily pressing buttons on his transporter cuff, trying to get the settings back to normal. "When I get this fixed, you both are going to be so sorry." He growled.

"Good luck with that, mate." Rose scoffed, smiling a little.

"The stars are gone because of you, Rose. You set them free. You used all that time energy to save people again. They were trapped in the atmosphere, they caused the lightning to send us to the machine so that maybe we could save them." The Doctor explained, totally ignoring the guards threats.

"Are they..." Rose was too afraid to finish the question.

"Their souls are free now." He answered softly. Rose nodded with tears filling her eyes.

"Okay," She said, taking a deep breath. "Now what? Just as she asked, five more guards transported themselves into the meadow. The Doctor raised his eyebrows and took her hand. "Run."

They ran fast to the end of the meadow where they could see the light on top of the Tardis glowing. The guards were not prepared to chase them through the darkness and so were easily avoided.

"Okay, now you've got some explaining to do, sir." Rose announced as she caught her breath and he started typing coordinates at the center console.

"What? What did I do?" He asked, startled by the accusatory tone.

"Well, for starters you could tell me how you just happened to well, almost regenerate." She said, folding her arms across her chest.

"Oh, well... that was...I was just...dying. Remember the Shatter Bomb? They got me with that a few days ago. Just a little thing, really. Although, we're going to have to pay another visit and deal with that... Anyway, didn't want to worry you about it so just thought I'd wait." He said without looking at her, still fiddling with the control panel.

"Why? Doctor, you should've told me!" She asked, saddened that he might not trust her with information like that.

"Because... I thought maybe you might not want... That you would want to go home when I changed." He sighed, finally looking at her. She reached out, holding his hand tightly.

"I stayed with you after you changed the first time didn't I? I told you, I'm gonna stay with you forever, no matter what." She announced so forcefully it made him chuckle.

"All right." He said as she finally smiled and then frowned again.

"But what about the queen? Is she the bad wolf now? I mean, she's got all that regeneration energy or whatever in her..."

"No," The Doctor turned back to the controls, pressing more buttons and pulling more levers. "It's gone now. You expelled most of it to set the clones free and destroy the machine. She may live a little longer than she would have before but she is many hundreds of years old and that's going to catch up to her soon. No one there is going to have to worry about her rule anymore."

"Good!" Rose exclaimed with a shudder, sitting in the jump seat next to him.

"Now, how about that water slide?" The Doctor asked with a grin looking down at her. Rose laughed, " As long you have the proper permits and bathing suits."

He laughed, finally feeling free, "I always have the proper permits."

The End.

How did you like it? Thank you to everyone who read/followed the story. Please, let me know what you think!