Rose hurried about her morning routine excited to see what the Doctor had planned for today. He always had the best surprises. She showered and got dressed, then did her hair and makeup. Once she had finished, she headed into the kitchen to make some breakfast, she was starving. She made herself a cuppa and some toast. Just as she sat down to eat, she heard the Doctor call from the control room.
"ROSE COME HERE HURRY!
" Sighing, she quickly ate her first piece of toast before heading towards the control room to see what the Doctor had gotten himself into this time.
Meanwhile, the Doctor was fiddling about in the console room, trying to find one tiny gap left between the universes where he could send a projection through. He was determined to make this work no matter what he had to do. Not just for Rose's sake, but for Jackie's too. He was all too familiar with what it felt like to lose your child and if he could he would like to spare anyone else from having to experience that.
He twirled, and flipped, and pressed, and fiddled, humming and muttering to himself, until he finally found it. He quickly set them into orbit around a supernova, and using its power, he successfully projected himself into the parallel universe.
"ROSE COME HERE HURRY!" He shouted down the corridor, knowing they only had a few precious minutes before the gap would close completely.
He stepped into place just moments before the image of Jackie Tyler appeared right in front of him. Her hair was whipping around her face and she looked freezing. When the Doctor looked into her eyes he saw nothing but brokenness in them, he knew that feeling all too well. It was the face of someone who had lost everything and anyone important to them. Someone who looked as though they could care less about their own well being.
"Please dear God, tell me you have her." Jackie croaked, tears prickling in her eyes.
The Doctor nodded. "She's safe. She's okay. She'll be here in a few seconds.
The tears in Jackie's eyes spilled over. "Thank you Doctor. Thank you. You just keep her safe alright? And treat her right. She is a Tyler and that means she inherited my slap."
"I'll keep that in mind." The Doctor said rubbing his cheek. He swore he could still feel the sting from when he had received one of Jackie's slaps in his last regeneration. "Where did we come out this time?"
"Bloody Norway again. I'm getting a bit sick of this beach."
"Ah well...that's understandable." The Doctor said, bouncing awkwardly on the balls of his feet and looking down the corridor to see if Rose was there yet.
"She loves you you know, even though you were both too daft to see it before, she really does." Jackie said.
"I know she does. And I love her too. We both know that now." He grinned.
At that moment Rose came into the control room.
"What is it Doctor?" She asked.
"There's someone here I think you might like to see." He said, holding his hand out to her. Rose was puzzled but she walked over to him. As soon as she stepped around the time rotor, she saw her.
"MUM!" She cried. Quickly covering the rest of the distance between her and the Doctor she reached out to touch her mother. However, her hand simply sliced right through the image causing it to flicker.
"I'm sorry Rose she's just an image, it's the best I could do." The Doctor said wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"No Doctor, thank you. Thank you so much." Rose said, tears starting to form in her eyes.
"I thought you were dead Rose." Jackie said softly.
"I know mum, I'm so sorry. I would have been if it wasn't for the Doctor. He saved me but there wasn't enough time, we had to come straight back through. We didn't have time to come see you. I'm so sorry."
"So you can't come back? Can we come through? Me and Pete?"
"I'm sorry Jackie." The Doctor replied. "We can't. The whole thing would fracture. Two universes would collapse."
"Well we can't have that can we. How long do we have?"
"About a minute."
"Okay." Jackie's tears had stopped and despite the situation she looked a considerable amount happier. "You two better take care of each other okay? Rose try and keep him out of trouble and Doctor don't you dare let anything hurt my daughter."
"I wouldn't dream of it." The Doctor replied, gazing affectionately at Rose.
"Good. Save the world plenty and spare me a thought now and then okay?"
"I love you mum." Rose choked out.
"I love you too sweetheart. I'm just glad to know you're alive and happy." Jackie smiled.
"I'll find a way to see you again I promise."
Jackie glanced at the Doctor, then gave her daughter one last sad smile as she faded from view.
I know another shortie with a long wait but I have had the hardest time writing this part and I was on vacation and yeah. Sorry. I'm thinking we only have one more chapter to go after this. Wow. Thanks for all the follows and favourites and reviews are still appreciated but thank you for putting up with my sloppy updates.
(oh and to write this i had to rewatch the doomsday scene. at three in the morning. it didnt end well)