I'm on time! Yay!

And we split. (I'm warning you now that some of you might really hate me for this. Believe me when I say I was just as surprised by the turn this has taken as you.) We are now running in the AU plot line. The cannon plot line will be posted under another title. Any ideas? I'm think Beyond the...something. Someone think of "something." Please?

Also, more stuff that I can add to Jane's character. Backstory people! Pipa has been very helpful and I will be using her stuff. (I actually have a few good ideas so watch for it. ;) So let me know what you think of this chapter. I'm anxious about it.

I'm waiting for it. I fully expect to feel the pain but there is nothing. I open my eyes and Rose drops in front of me.

"No!"

I drop next to her. She's still breathing but the blood is coming fast. I can hear the smile in the creature's voice.

"And the hunter kills the wolf. Now for the girl in red."

I stand up. This isn't happening. Not by a long shot. Rose doesn't die. It just doesn't happen. It didn't happen. It won't happen. The universe has taken everything else, it has taken all that really mattered to me. The least it can do is let live the person who deserves to. My planet, my family, my foundation is nothing more than a distant memory. The universe can have it. All of it. Even my life. But it won't take this. It won't take her. No more. No more.

"No."

"What do mean? She's as good as dead and you're not far behind."

"I said no."

I stand up and I know that I must look insane. I don't care.

"You have nothing left to lose but your life. Wouldn't it just be easy to give in?"

"It would be. But I'm not a coward. I have nothing. You're right. And at this moment, I don't care whether I live or die. Doesn't that frighten you?"

"Nothing frightens me."

"Well I should."

I'm advancing on her. She's shocked by it. She doesn't know how to react. She doesn't know how to fight off a hunter, she only knows how to end the flight of the hunted.

There is a kitchen knife on the floor and I bend to pick it up, my eyes never leaving hers. I keep pressing forward. I dodge any blows she sends my way. This is my fight to win. The amulet embedded in her chest is pulsing a sick green color and my mind labels it as fear.

I feel the grin spread across my face but I'm detached from it. It's like I'm watching this play out as an outsider. I'm back on my couch, in the house I grew up in, with popcorn and candy and I'm watching this. Red Riding Hood advances with the blade poised.

She has to go for the amulet. It looks weak. It's what had to be controlling Peter. These shows are so cliche. Good will win. Good always wins. Peter called this creature a demon. And though I wouldn't call myself a man, nor would I call myself good, the point still stands. I'm on the side of the angels. As long as they aren't weeping. This is war. And demons run when good men go to war.

The girl rushes forward and thrusts the blade into the amulet and the creature.

"What have you done?"

The girl in red pulls out the blade and I'm no longer on my couch. I back away, the knife clutched in my hand as the creature shouts at me. And then the look of fear becomes intense as she looks to the sky.

"No. They found me. What have you done?! What have you done?! You've killed me!"

"No second chances."

And then she disappears and I just know that she had been transmatted out. I drop the weapon from my shaking fingers and I rush to the limp form of Rose Tyler.

"Rose? Rose?"

"Is...she...gone?"

"Yeah," I sob.

"Good..."

"Come on. Let's get you back and they'll stitch you up."

"You go on...I'm gonna sleep."

"No! No Rose you have to stay awake. Come on stay with me."

"I...know...you don't like...promises... But...could you do something for me?"

I wipe the tears from my eyes.

"Yeah. Yeah I can. Anything."

"Find him. Find the...Doctor. Fix the stars. Tell him...tell him I'm sorry. Just..look after him Jane. He needs someone...to look after him."

"No Rose. You're gonna find him. You're gonna look after him yourself."

"Promise me...please."

"I swear. With everything that's left of me. I won't let the Doctor be alone. I...I promise Rose. I promise."

She sighs then. She closes her eyes and nods. And then she's not breathing.

"Rose?"

"Rose?"

"You have to stay awake Rose."

"Rose!"

The tears are flowing freely now. I'm crying for her, and my parents, and the future, the adventure I'll never have, and the adventure that can never be without Rose. But the stars are still going out. Someone has to find the Doctor. Someone has to be there for Donna. Promises are just lies told in advance. But not this one. I told Rose that he wouldn't be alone. I meant it. Someone has to be the Bad Wolf.

I rest my head on Rose and I keep crying as I come to a decision. I will play her part. I will go to journey's end. I'm going to make sure the Doctor won't be alone. But I'm done. After that, I'm done. Donna will live. Donna will travel with him. He won't be alone. The meta crisis will have to make do with Jackie Tyler instead of Rose. He can carve out a life here. And I will sleep.

I'll sleep like Rose is sleeping. I'll let the memories of the doctor burn my mind. And he can't save me by stealing them. The memories run too deep, they go back too far. Erasing all of it, my memory of him and the show, will leave me with well and truly nothing. I would be a little girl alone in the world with no idea why.

So I will burn. I'll ask him to take me to the cove. I know it's there. It has to be there. We went camping there. The year before my parents divorce. It's my last happy memory of the three of us. Before it all fell apart. Before the yelling. Before the broken promises. The cove. Where my father asked my mother to marry him. The cove is where I began in fire. It's where I will end in fire.

And Rose is dead. Rose Tyler is dead and I can't do a thing. I failed her. My friend. My fictional, real life hero. The one I loved, and hated, and wanted to be, and never wanted to meet. I hold her hand as I take a ragged breath.

Should her hand feel warm? I thought the dead were cold. Cold as death they say. I glance at her hand in mine and I see light moving beneath her skin.

"What?!"

I look at her face. Did her eyes just twitch under her eyelids?

The fire in her hand gets too hot and I drop it before it burns me. The light is beginning to seep through and I scramble back, recognizing it for what it is.

Rose's eyes spring open and she looks at me. They're bright and golden and hold power and see right through me.

"Bad wolf," I whisper.

And then she bursts into a flaming being like a celestial star. When the light fades, she's still her. Her face is the same. I slide over to her and her eyes, normal now, roll back into her head as she loses consciousness.

I put my fingers to her pulse point and then rest my head on her chest.

"Who are you?"

I whip around to see Peter, standing there with a bewildered look on his face.

I smile. "The stuff of fairytales."

With that, I trigger the cannon. It pulls us both back since we have contact. It's easier this time. But that's probably because my mind is still reeling from what I just discovered.

Mickey rushes over along with other personnel. Rose is placed on a stretcher.

"Wot 'append?"

"Rose regenerated. You might want to make sure the medical staff that treats her is trustworthy."

I take a shaky breath.

"She has two hearts."

The gobsmacked expression on Mickeys face is one that I know matches my own.