Reverse.

" Now you've heard from me, I wanna hear from you. What happened, how did you end up on that planet ?" The Doctor asked looking at her.

Romana swallowed another gulp of her tea and folded her hands in the same way the Doctor had done earlier.

" After I called you about the Moment and Rassilon's plan, he found out and had me imprisoned. He was an animal Doctor, he was a raging beast. There was no sign of the calm and the rationality of a Time lord in him, he beat me almost to death. He subjected me to zed neutrino radiation and a portion of the time winds. It wasn't enough exposure to force me to regenerate but it was agony."

Romana paused watching him, the Doctor's face was furious and was getting angrier by the moment.

She wondered how angry he'd be by the end of it.

Romana carried on, " Leela rescued me, she managed to get me as far to the dry docks where the TARDISes were, but it wasn't enough. Rassilon was coming, personally, to finish me off. He was going to execute me in front of the council as an example. Leela held off the soldiers so I could get my hands on a Time ring. There wasn't time to find a TARDIS, besides most of them were off fighting."

" I managed to set the ring, just as a guard shot a staser bolt at me," Romana stopped, hearing the Doctor wince.

" That was the final straw, plus the fact Gallifrey blew up and the wash of artron energy and the injuries made regeneration more likely. I landed on the planet, regenerated and spent a good few hours recuperating."

Romana took a sip of her drink, " I found the wreckage of a number of ships and tried to build a portal to take me to Earth."

The Doctor frowned, " Why Earth ?"

Romana looked down, slightly embarrassed, " It was the only planet I ever truly enjoyed visiting, plus the fact that if you'd survived the war then that would be a frequent place for you to visit."

The Doctor nodded.

Romana carried on with her story, " I was the only person on that planet, the time ring had burnt out so it was just an ornamental bracelet. No matter what I did, no matter how I did it, I couldn't create a stable space - time field to take me to earth. Then you arrived."

The Doctor nodded again, then decided to add his own two pence, " Do you blame me ?"

" For the destruction of Gallifrey ?" The Doctor nodded again, and Romana sighed, " Not really, I think I'd have done the same thing if I was in your position. Rassilon was selfish, a political manipulator who didn't care about upholding Time lord principles."

The Doctor didn't look convinced so Romana took his hand into hers. " Doctor, I know you. You showed me that no matter what you can do anything providing you had other options. I know that you would never have used the Moment, not unless you could see no other option."

" But I did," the Doctor protested, " I wired it in to the eye, I detonated it. Because of me, because of my stupidity, I failed in destroying the Daleks, completing my mission from the Time lords and changing history."

Romana frowned angrily, " They should've altered history themselves, they had the power. They could've stopped the Daleks from ever evolving, from ever existing. I sometimes wonder why they never did that."

The Doctor also frowned, " Yeah, now you mention it, it is a good question. Problem is, we're never gonna be able to answer it fully."

For a moment neither of them spoke.

Romana broke the silence, " I still can't believe we're immortal now, I understand the theory and the idea. But the concept is…." she broke off lost for words.

The Doctor closed his eyes and replied softly, " I know."

" I wonder whether it's worth it."

" What do you mean ?" The Doctor asked slowly.

" Well, what good will longer lives have for either of us ? We have no planet, no people, the only things we do have at this point is each other and a TARDIS that is ageing rapidly."

There was a rumble from the ship and Romana winced, " Sorry sweetheart, but you do know I'm right."

There was a burbling grunt.

" Don't forget that we have friends, like Jack and Martha. Plus the former companions I've had."

" Do they know, about Gallifrey ?"

The Doctor rubbed his eyes, " Sarah Jane does. I met her not long after I regenerated into this incarnation."

" The reporter you travelled with ?" Romana asked curiously.

The Doctor grinned, " Yeah, she's doing well. Except she was pining for me and wasted so many opportunities. She didn't get married, have kids. Pity, she'd have been a great mother."

Romana looked at him thoughtfully, " Martha Jones fancies you."

The grin on the Doctor's face vanished, " Yeah, I know." he looked down at the table.

" Is it because of Rose ?" Romana knew the Doctor and knew that he probably thought platonic thoughts about Martha.

The Doctor sighed, " More or less. My last self latched on to her, far more than was healthy. When she saved her father she said as I was leaving, " I know how sad you are, " when the reapers started manifesting themselves into this dimension, she smiled. It wasn't a nice smile, but rather a smug smile. It vanished when she saw the reapers for the first time."

" Rose became obsessed with me, she might call it love. I know love and it isn't the weird little fairy tale Rose had dreamt up for herself. For all I know, Martha might be the same."

" Then again she might not." Romana pointed out.

The Doctor frowned, " What do you mean ?"

" Explain to Martha, show her memories of Rose on the TARDIS scanner, show her the way she acted." Romana implored.

" I love you, Romana."

Romana looked at him stunned, " You love me ?"

The Doctor started babbling, " Look, you probably don't feel the same eep," Romana latched onto to his lips with her own.

There was a spark and the Doctor deepened the kiss. Romana tasted like honey and caramel. Romana felt like she'd died, regenerated and died again as the Doctor kissed her. Without breaking the kiss, she came round and sat on his lap.

After 6 minutes of non stop kissing, they broke apart.

" Tell me, do you like Martha ?"

" Of course, oh, yeah. I do," The Doctor sounded resigned.

Romana smiled, " Tell her, I wouldn't mind sharing you."

The Doctor looked troubled as Romana giggled.

Martha woke from a very pleasant….dream she'd been having when there was some loud knocking on her door.

" Alright, ok, I'm up," Half asleep, Martha walked to the door, prepared to blast the knocker to death. If it was Jack, she'd castrate him with a blunt fork.

Opening the door, she found it wasn't Jack.

It was the Doctor and Romana.

" Sorry I woke you up, Martha but we need to talk to you. Can you get your dressing gown on and come with us ?" Romana asked softly.

Nodding, Martha picked up her dressing gown, yawning as she did. The 2 Time lords and one Human walked to the console room.

Sitting the girls down, the Doctor pulled up some visual files.

He showed the girls the true side of Rose Tyler.