A fair amount of time later, the Doctor and Rose were back in the med bay.
"Alright let's have a look at those scans!" The Doctor said, pulling the files up onto the screen.
His jaw dropped when he saw what they said.
"What Doctor?" Rose asked after he was silent for a few minutes. She couldn't read anything because it was in Gallifreyan.
"What?!" He finally exclaimed. "That is not in any way possible! What?!"
"Doctor what?! What's going on?!" The Doctor finally tore his eyes away from the screen and looked at her. Her eyes were wide with fear.
"You...your DNA...it...changed."
"Changed? How can it change? Changed to what? Good change or bad change?" She looked even more scared now as she looked down at her arms, as if expecting them to be green or something.
"It's...it's part TARDIS."
"I'm part...TARDIS?!" She exclaimed. "What? How?!"
"I don't know!" He started to pace and ran his hands through his already wild hair. "You didn't- oh."
"What?"
"The game station. You absorbed the time vortex. I thought I took it all out of you but some must have stuck. It was killing you so the TARDIS...she must have bonded herself to you...In the parallel universe, how did you feel? Physically I mean. You had headaches didn't you?"
"Yeah. They got really bad the days leading up to you getting there, and I could hardly keep any food down."
"Oh of course. That's how I got through. You were dying, being away from the TARDIS like that, it was killing you. She didn't like that so she pulled herself through. But if she bonded with you...that means..."
"What? What's gonna happen to me?"
"Well Rose, I think it means that, unless you are killed, you'll live as long as the TARDIS. As long as...as long as me."
"You're joking! That means...I can give you forever. Your forever, not my forever!" She laughed.
He just stared at her.
"That's good, yeah?" She asked when he still didn't respond.
"No Rose, that's not good. That's fantastic! Molto bene!" He started to laugh too.
"Good because you're stuck with me now." She grinned at him cheekily. "Forever."
"Forever." He smiled back, and then pulled her in for a kiss.
"Well I know just where to go to celebrate!" The Doctor exclaimed when they finally broke apart. "Allons-y!" He shouted before grabbing her hand and pulling her along, back to the control room.
"Where?" Rose giggled as he tugged her along behind him.
"It's a surprise!" He grinned before setting the coordinates and taking off.
The moment they landed, Rose ran to the doors and flung them open. She stopped abruptly as she took a look around.
"Where are we?" She asked
"Torchwood." The Doctor replied.
She turned around to face him. "Torchwood. You wanted to celebrate so you took us to Torchwood. Do you remember what happened here?" She exclaimed.
"Rose?!" A voice from behind her shouted. She spun around.
"Jack! Oh my God Jack!" She cried running to him. He swept her into his arms and twirled her around.
"How did you get here?" He asked putting her down.
"Someone missed me too much and decided to come pick me up." She smiled at him.
"Took you two and a half years to realize that did it?" He said looking up at the Doctor.
"Oh it wasn't him." Rose laughed. "It was the TARDIS!"
"Oi it wasn't all her! Well yeah it maybe kinda sorta was, but I had tried before!" The Doctor said walking over to them.
Rose and Jack both laughed at the mock hurt expression on his face.
"So Rose, how long have you been back for?" Jack asked.
"Just since last night." She replied.
"Wow you came to see me right away. I'm honoured. Is there something you wanted?" He asked winking at the both of them.
"No we just needed a little pickup. Well Rose more so than me." The Doctor answered.
"Oh you're finally letting me at her?" Jack smiled.
"Oi!" Rose shouted smacking his arm.
"We can handle that on our own now Jack, thanks." The Doctor said, and Rose blushed. "I just thought Rose would kinda like to see you again because..." He glanced at Rose to see if she wanted to be the one to tell him. She nodded and continued where he left off.
"Well Jack...I am sorta responsible for your death. Not this you. Parallel universe you."
"Oh...how?" He asked.
"You were on my field team, I worked at Torchwood. We had to deal with some Sontaran and, well, I ran my mouth and caused them to shoot. The blast would have hit me but you knocked me out of the way. You saved my life Jack." She said sadly.
"Well if that's the case, then I would say that my death was quite worth it. Besides you still have this me, and you don't have to worry about me dying."
"What do you mean?" Rose asked.
"You haven't told her?" Jack said looking at the Doctor.
"I thought you better." He replied.
"Well Rose...I died on the game station. But when you became Bad Wolf, you saw me dead and that didn't make you very happy so you reversed it, but you went a little too far. I can't die. Every time it happens I just spring back to life a few minutes later."
"Oh Jack. I'm sorry. I didn't know I could, I-"
"No it's fine Rose. I've come to terms with it and I'm perfectly okay with it. Thankful at times even considering the number of accidental deaths I've experienced..." Jack reassured her.
"But still I-"
"No Rose. Honestly it's okay. Now let's talk about something less depressing. Come on we can go sit in my office."
A few hours later, after they were all caught up, the Doctor announced that they should probably be going.
"Got a universe to explore after all." He said, opening the TARDIS doors.
"It was great to see you again Jack!" Rose gave him a hug. "We will come visit, often, I promise. Right Doctor?"
"If we have to." He huffed stepping through the doors. "See ya Jack."
"Goodbye you two. I expect to see you again soon! And have fun." He winked at them.
Rose giggled. "Bye Jack." She said before following the Doctor into the TARDIS and closing the doors.
"So Rose where to next? I never did take you to the planet Barcelona. Oh or how bout the Triangulum Galaxy? It's beautiful this time of year!"
But Rose hardly heard a word he said. She sat down on the jumpseat, biting her lip.
The Doctor looked up when she didn't reply.
"Rose what's wrong?!" He asked running over to her and pulling her into his arms as he sat next to her.
"I ruined Jack in both universes..." She said looking up at him, tears forming in her eyes.
"Oh no love, no you didn't. Other Jack died saving your life. To me, that sounds like a pretty good cause to die for. As for this Jack, you saved his life. Also, now he will live as long as us so he won't be lonely. And he turns out all right in the end, you know. He's gonna end up being the Face of Boe."
"You're joking." Rose laughed.
"Nope!" He said popping the 'p', and smiling cheekily at her. She smiled back.
"Thank you Doctor." She said snuggling into him.
They stayed like that for a long time.
Woah two chapters in one day look at me go.
I just thought I should put this up because I'm going away next week so I won't have time to write at all I don't think.
Thanks for the reviews and reading!