PREVIOUSLY:

The Doctor couldn't see who was speaking, but he didn't want to take any chances to find out who he was dealing with.

"Or… else what?" The Doctor asked curiously.

"Or else this pretty blondie gets the taste of my blade."

The Doctor's body was paralyzed with fear, anger, and hatred. He didn't care who the person was at this point, but if they were talking about Rose they were sure to face an equal punishment.

"Look, I don't want any trouble…just hand over Rose." The Doctor said slowly.

"Rose? That's her name? Very pretty… perfectly fitting for her body but I'd thought she'd be a Sarah." The man said.

"Just give her to me." The Doctor replied, now withdrawing his sonic screwdriver.

"Haha! You make me laugh little boy, what are you going to do to me with a screwdriver? Build a cabinet for me?"

"I've got two things to say to you, whoever you are. One: NO ONE hurts my companions and two: It's a sonic screwdriver."

Then the Doctor pulsed his sonic screwdriver at the man and he disappeared. Then he ran to the ex-hostage who was coughing and gasping for breath.

"Hey, can you tell me what's wrong?"

The person tried to speak but they would just cough even more so the Doctor just summoned the TARDIS. He then dragged the person inside carefully and when his eyes were finally able to adjust to the light he filled with fear. It was Rose… and her neck was cut. The Doctor's head was too crowded with thoughts for him to think properly, he couldn't decide whether to scream in terror, bring her down to the med bay again, or take her somewhere else. However he concluded that she needed to go to a hospital because if he wasn't thinking straight right now then operating on her wouldn't be a very good idea. He quickly took the TARDIS near a hospital in Glasgow. When the TARDIS landed he picked Rose up and went and fast as he could to the doors of the hospital. Gasping, Rose struggled to keep the flow of Oxygen going and in her mind she feared that this time… was her last time. She saw doctors and nurses rushing her into the emergency room, but that was all she saw before her vision went black.

Meanwhile the Doctor slowly walked back to the TARDIS. A drooping head and his hands tucked away in the depths of his coat's pockets. When he got inside the TARDIS he set coordinates and sighed before he pulled down the lever. While the TARDIS was in flight to its destination he looked up at the screen that read," Target Location: Gallifrey, Arrival Time: Seven Seconds" he smiled a little. When the screen indicated that the TARDIS was at Gallifrey he ran to the doors and flung them open. He tripped backwards at what he saw…which was nothing but space.

"That can't be right. How could the TARDIS have overshot a planet that is four times bigger than the Earth and yet perfectly land on Earth?" The Doctor thought to himself.

He ran back to the screen that showed him the solar system.

"No… that's not right. We're in Kasteborous and we're in the right spot, but… there's no Gallifrey. It has to be a mistake." The Doctor wanted to believe it was a mistake but deep inside of him he knew he was in the right spot and Gallifrey was missing.

"I did it." The Doctor put his hand over his mouth. He didn't say that, it just sort of blurted out. He couldn't be here any longer he felt as if it was torturing him. He quickly set coordinates back to Earth, but about a week after Rose's incident so he wouldn't have to wait.

When the Doctor first landed he couldn't get out because he had landed the doors of the TARDIS right next to a wall.

"Oh. Oops"

He stepped back in and this time he landed it so that he could actually get out.

"Oh almost forgot!"

He sprinted back into the TARDIS and came back out with a bouquet of flowers.

"That's better."

When he walked into Rose's hospital room she was in the bed looking out the window.

"Um. Rose?" The Doctor asked shyly.

Rose quickly turned her head in his direction and smiled. "Oh. Hey Doctor."

"I um. I-I got these for you." The Doctor placed them on the table next to her.

"Thanks Doctor! They look very lovely."

There was a kind of awkward pause but the Doctor spoke up again.

"Do you remember what happened?"

Rose's smiled dropped a little, "Um yeah" but it quickly recovered, "But thanks for saving me like you always do!"

The Doctor just nodded then he sighed.

"So um Rose."

"Yes Doctor?"

"I um. Went to Gallifrey."

Those three words were the three exact words IN ORDER that Rose NEVER wanted to hear from the young Doctor.

"A-a-a-and?"

"It wasn't there. Where is it?"