Okay as much fun as that was I am done teasing. Here you go.

He doesn't hear the Door again as the Tardis starts to demarterialize but when he looks up again he sees Rose standing there next to Donna. Tears are streaming down her. He looks a the scanner and sees that they are back in the normal universe and that the walls of the universe have closed.

"You tried to leave me." She says angrily. He stands up with Kiam in one arm and holds out the other arm to her. "I am sorry. I am so so sorry." He doesn't trust himself to move and is relieved when she comes over to him. He wraps his arm around her and kisses her on the head. Happy to feel her warmth.

"I missed you so much." he manages to choke out through his tears. After awhile she pulls away telling him she needed to get cleaned up

He held Kiam close to him and leaned against one of the coral of the control room as he watched Donna walking around the console.

"I thought we could try the planet Felspoon. Just because. What a good name, Felspoon. Apparently, it's got mountains that sway in the breeze. Mountains that move. Can you imagine?"

"And how do you know that?" He asked sadly.

"Because it's in your head. And if it's in your head, it's in mine."

"And how does that feel?" He wanted so badly to be wrong. But he knew what was happening to her and he knew what he had to do. She was rambling uncontrollably. He sat Kiam down in his playpen and walked over to her.

"Oh my God."

"Do you know what's happening?" he asked.

"Yeah." She said softly.

"There's never been a human Time Lord metacrisis before now. And you know why."

"Because there can't be. I want to stay." She said to him sadly, breaking his hearts all over again.

"Look at me. Donna, look at me." He took her chin gently in his hands and turned her face to him.

"I was going to be with you forever." She told him.

"I know." He didn't want to do this but he had no choice.

"The rest of my life, travelling in the Tardis. The Doctor Donna. No. Oh my god. I can't go back. Don't make me go back. Doctor, please, please don't make me go back." Her panic makes the decision even harder. He didn't want her to leave as much as she didn't want to go.

"Donna. Oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry. But we had the best of times."

"No." She begged him.

"The best. Goodbye." He gently places his hands on her head and closes his eyes as she keeps repeating no. He takes away all the memories of him and the wonderful things she did aboard the Tardis with him. When he takes the last one and releases her mind, she collapses against him and he stands there holding her, feeling more alone then ever.

He took her home and left her with her mother and grandfather. Telling them how important she was and that she could never know the truth for even a second otherwise it would kill her. He told her goodbye and even knowing she didn't know him anymore, her not caring he was leaving nearly killed him. He stepped out in the rain and headed back to the Tardis.

Her grandfather stopped him in the doorway and he stood in the rain and told the man goodbye.

"Doctor, when it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky, and think of you." He told him.

He headed back on to the Tardis and closed the doors tightly behind him. He picked up Kiam again and after sending the Tardis back into the time vortex he went to find Rose. He walked to her room first and knocked. Not receiving an answer, he opened the door and peeked in. He saw that it was empty but the clothes on the ground made it obvious she had been there.

He went to Kiam's room next and seeing she was there, set the boy down to play and closed the lower half of the door. He smiled as the toddler started to play. "Now to find your mother." He says and walks on. He heads down the corridor leading to his room. "Rose" he calls out. Not hearing a reply he heads into his room. The blankets on the bed had been pulled back and her robe rested on the end. His bathroom door was shut. He went over to it and knocked lightly. "Rose" he called through the door. He didn't receive an answer. Concerned he opened the door and peeked in. She was in the bathtub and she was sound asleep. He tried and failed several times to only look at her face as he headed to the side of the tub and sat down on the edge.

"Rose," he said gently and touched her shoulder. "Rose," she opened her eyes and looked at him, slightly confused, then tears filled her eyes. "I thought I had only been dreaming," she told him as he gently wiped away the tears with his thumbs. "No, I am here." he wiped away the tears with his thumb and leaned down and kissed her head.

"Come on now, you're going to get sick, you've been in here an hour." He helped her stand up and then left the room to give her some privacy as she got dressed. He returned to Kiam got him cleaned up and ready for bed and then headed back to his room. He saw Rose sitting on the edge of his bed waiting for him to return. "Go to Mommy." He handed Kiam to her and sat down beside them.

"I still can't believe how big he has gotten since I've been gone," She says. "Thank you for listening to me and not leaving him."

"I wanted to," he admits.

"I know, but you didn't" she tells him. He stood up not trusting his voice and went over to his closet and pulled out his night clothes. He went into the bathroom, showered and got ready for bed. When he came back out she hadn't moved from the end of the bed. He snickered to himself, and climbed into his side

He watched as she stood up and set the sleeping child down on the opposite side of the bed. "Goodnight," She said and started to leave the room. He looked at her confused. "Rose." She turned and looked at him. "Stay." he said simply and lifted up the blankets next to him. She climbed under the covers and rested her head on his chest. He turned his head and breathed in her scent.

-DW-

He held her long into the night, not daring to fall asleep and find out that he had been the one dreaming. But eventually his eyes drifted closed and he slept peacefully for the first time in awhile. When he opened his eyes in the morning, he was alone in the room. He grabbed his robe, wrapped it around himself and rushed out of the room.

"Rose," he called frantically.

"In here," he heard her call from the kitchen.

He went in and saw her sitting there eating non other than a pear. His eyes narrowed he would really have to have a talk with the Tardis about letting pears on his ship.

She frowned at him. "Something wrong." she asked him.

Realizing he was still scowling he quickly smiled. "Everything's fine." He grabbed a bundle of Bananas and sat down across from her and for the first time in along time he wasn't lying.

They spent the next couple of days getting recaught up and enjoying each others company. As he stood throwing the Pears into his new favorite supernova he heard her and Kiam laughing in the background. He was becoming domestic, but as he watched her chasing Kiam around the console, he decided being domestic was okay, as long as it was with her.