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Author's Note: Hello all, been a while. Sorry 'bout that. Thank you for the follows, favorites, and reviews; they are, as always, appreciated. Everyone loves an ego boost. However, on with the show.

Rose saluted the fading UNIT team on last time and hopped to the moment of Donna's death.

"When you see the Doctor, tell him two words." She leaned in and breathed "Bad Wolf." In Donna's ear right as her eyes fluttered shut. Rose pressed the button on her dimension cannon and opened her eyes back in her room in Pete's world. She sat down on her bed as a warm, glowing feeling washed over her. Time was righting itself and the Tardis was coming back to life. Rose took a deep breath, finally realizing that she'd barely been able to breathe the whole time she was in the collapsing causal nexus.

Footsteps echoed outside her door and it burst open. Mickey Smith burst in.

"She's here!" He called

"Mick?" Rose said as he swept her up into a tight hug. "What are you doing here? How did you know I was here?"

Mickey pointed at a round, white device on her dresser after he set her down. "We set up Tony's baby monitor in here so we'd know when you got back. I'm here 'cuz I didn't want to get left behind. I'm coming with you."

Rose wasn't surprised, River had hinted at it pretty strongly.

The rest of her family piled into her room through the open doorway.

"Oh, Rose. You're back." Jackie said, pulling her daughter in close.

"How long've we got, Rose?" Mickey asked.

Rose pulled out her journal and checked what River had written. "'bout an hour."

"I'll get everything ready then, boss." He nodded to Pete and ran out of the room.

"You know, spacious as this room is, I think we'd all fit a bit better downstairs." Pete suggested.

"Rose, when was the last time you ate?" Jackie asked.

Rose had to think about it longer than she should of. She wasn't even sure how long she'd been gone. "I had chips with UNIT, twelve hours ago?" She estimated.

"Right. Tea, now." Jackie ordered and led the way out of Rose's room. Rose had a slightly more difficult time following as Tony was imitating a barnacle on her leg.

"Well, squirt. This is a little difficult. You gonna let go?" She asked him.

He shook his head, hiding a grin by burying his face against her leg.

"Then, I suppose I have no choice. It's tickle time."

He squealed and giggled as she tickled his sides, eventually letting go. Rose scooped him up, set him on her hip where it was easier to carry him, and followed her parents downstairs.

Jackie had started the kettle and she and Pete were reheating leftover roast and potatoes.

"Cake, cake, cake!" Tony chanted. Jackie gave him a look, but pulled a pound cake out of the cupboard and added that to the table as well.

"Yay!" The little boy cried.

"Yay!" Mickey echoed from the doorway, "What?" He asked as Rose turned to face him, "Can't I like cake too?"

Tony squirmed and Rose set him down. He ran over to Mickey, "Uncle Mickey, whatcha doin?" He asked.

"Do you wanna help, Tony-baloney? Come on then."

"Two minutes!" Pete called after them.

"Sure thing boss!" Mickey answered back.

As they sat down to eat, Rose was a bit surprised that her mum wasn't a bit more emotional. But it did make it easier to relax and eat, so she wasn't going to start the waterworks early.

"Good food, Jackie." Mickey said.

Jackie snorted. "That's the third time you've eaten that roast."

"And it's the third time it's good." Mickey grinned.

Rose laughed. "I've missed you all. I don't know what I'm going to do without you."

"Well, good thing you don't have to." Jackie told her.

"Mum, I told you. I have to go back."

"Course you do, sweetheart. But we're coming too."

Rose looked between her and Pete. Both of their faces were set stubbornly. "Mum, both of you are dead in that world."

Jackie brushed that comment off. "The Doctor can take care of that, I'm sure. We've had a lot of time to think about this, sweetheart. We're coming with you."

"Your money isn't any good over there." She warned Pete. The money had made it an awful lot easier for Rose and Jackie to get settled.

"We've thought of that." He smirked. "Besides, it'd be kinda nice to start over again, try some new things. I'm quite a good business man now."

Rose sat contemplating that for a bit. It was good news, she just didn't quite know how to react.

"That's brilliant." She decided on finally.

Her parents smiled at her.

"I'm going on an adventure!" Tony chimed in.

Rose's smile slipped off. Whatever was going on in the other universe, it was dangerous, and she didn't want to subject her baby brother to it. "I need to look at those dimension jumpers." She said. Mickey brought her a stack of them and a tool box. She popped one open and examined it. A few adjustments later, she sat back, frowning. "I added a teleport feature and keyed it in to the same frequency that I use, that should guarantee that you end up in the same universe that I do. But it'll need half an hour to recharge between jumps."

"When do we leave?" Pete asked, standing and clearing the table.

"I need to leave in about twenty minutes. You all need to wait ten more minutes for me to establish a grounding so the jumpers can find me. Also, you can't tell the Doctor about River, not ever. She's part of his future and he has to live it to find out. Otherwise it will mess everything up. One more thing, Tony's jumping with me. I'll be able to get him somewhere safe."

"But I wanna fight the monsters too!" Tony protested.

"Not this time, squirt. When you're older you can fight the monsters." Rose told him.

"Are you sure that's safer?" Jackie asked.

"Yeah, Mum. Positive."

"Got something for you, Rose." Mickey said, grinning. He led the way to the sitting room where there were three adult backpacks and a child's one. Mickey, however pointed to a stack of four long, heavy plastic boxes. He flicked open the clamps and pushed off the lid, revealing one of the largest guns Rose had ever seen.

"We've been developing them all year. These suckers will shoot through just about anything. We don't know what's going on over there, but these will blast Autons, Cybermen, Daleks, Krillitanes, Clockwork men, Robo-Santas, even got a vinegar setting for Slitheen."

Rose whistled. "Got a stun feature?"

"That too." Mickey said.

"Good." She said.

Fifteen minutes later, Rose stood in the sitting room. Her red backpack was once more strapped to her back, the massive gun on its strap was slung across one shoulder, and her baby brother sat clamped on her hip opposite the weapon. She kissed her mum. "I'll see you soon." She promised. She hit the button and hopped universes for the last time.

Donna screamed as she broke free of the alternate nexus. Something clicked feebly behind her and the fortune teller backed away from Donna in horror.

"What the hell is that?" Donna cried.

"You were so strong. What are you? What will you be? What will you be?" The fortune teller asked before fleeing.

The Doctor poked his head into the tent. "Everything alright?" He asked.

As he calmed down the hysterical Donna and reassured her that the world she'd been in would vanish into nothing, he pondered the coincidence. Then she had to bring up parallel worlds.

"Hold on, you said parallel worlds are sealed off."

"They are." He said rubbing his jaw, "But you had one created around you. Funny thing is..." He added slowly, "seems to be happening a lot. To you."

"How d'you mean?"

"Well, the Library and then this."

The Library, there was something about that she should remember. While she thought about it, she gave him a vague reply, "Just... goes with the job. I suppose."

The Doctor gave her a very intense look. "Sometimes I think there's way too much coincidence around you, Donna. I met you once. Then I met your grandfather. Then I met you again. In the whole wide universe, I met you for a second time. It's like something's binding us together."

Donna waved him off. "Don't be so daft. I'm nothing special."

"Oh... yes you are. You're brilliant." He insisted in the tone he usually reserved for particularly unusual aliens.

Donna was too distracted to be insulted by it though. "She said that."

"Who did?" The Doctor asked, wondering if the subject changed when he wasn't paying attention.

"That woman... I can't remember." Donna closed her eyes tightly, trying to bring back the memories which slipped away like a dream.

"Well, she never existed now."

"No, but she said the stars. She said the stars are going out."

"Yeah, but that world's gone." The Doctor reminded her.

"But she said it was all worlds, every world. The Darkness is coming, even here."

That piqued the Doctor's interest. Donna had stumbled across someone who knew about multiple universes in a timeline where he didn't exist? "Who was she?"

"I don't know." Donna said.

"What did she look like?" The Doctor persisted. It couldn't be, there was no way, and yet, and yet...

"She... No! It was that friend of Martha's!"

"What?"

"From the Sontaran ship."

"What?"

"She saved you, we thought she was dead because the ship exploded, but she knew River, River said she wasn't dead."

"What?" the Doctor paced furiously, trying to put the pieces together in his head. "River's from the future, and my future, so maybe she knew her before that, but she was friends with Martha? You're sure?"

"River knew about the Sontaran ship. She must've survived." Donna insisted. "She knew Martha from some funny time. Something about that Saxon bloke. Hang on, Martha said she was a friend of yours too, from before."

"What? What was her name?"

"Marion. Marion Wolfe."

No. No, it was impossible, completely impossible.

"She told me, to warn you. She said to tell you two words."

"What did she say? What two words? What were they?" The Doctor was so very intense now that he was scaring Donna in a way he hadn't since they were under the Thames.

"She said, Bad Wolf."

Anyone surprised? I hope so.