A/N First fan fiction! Reviews and comments welcome but no flames please :-) Read and (hopefully) enjoy

Chapter One: The Changing of Ways

Rose Tyler fell to her knees just seconds after the Doctors image fade away as it hit her that she was never going to see the man she loved ever again. All those times she promised him forever she'd meant it because for her there was never anything or anyone that could stop her wanting to be with him, hell she'd proved that when she opened the TARDIS. She felt a pair of arms wrap around her and pull her into a hug.

"It's alright darling, it's going to be alright" Jackie whispered to her daughter as Rose's tears soaked her top.

"N…n…no it's not! He's…he's gone! And he didn't even get to…to finish what he was saying! And I'm n…n…never going to see him again!" Rose cried.

Jackie's heart cried out for her daughter because even though she'd never really like the man and thought he put her into danger when she could have been safe and sound at home she knew Rose loved him more than anything and nothing she could say or do was going to change that.

"Come on darling let's get you home, alright? Have a cup of tea and a rest, it'll feel better in the morning."

Rose let her mother pull her to the car and put her seat belt on all the while thinking of her Doctor and how the pain in her head was getting worse, almost as though her brain was rejecting the idea of the doctor being dead. No not dead just in a different universe with no means to get to him. Gone, lost forever trapped in a world without the man she loves and no way to back.

Rose had no idea how long they'd been travelling as the car pulled up outside her new home, the mansion her and the Doctor first saw this worlds version of the Cybermen from. Even though she had stopped crying a while ago she felt as though she had merely pulled the pain more towards her, inside, just to get people to leave her alone. How could they expect her to forget the man who meant everything to her? Who had been such and huge part of her life? That she'd never wanted to leave? It made no sense.

"Darling, why don't you go have a lie down upstairs? Hum. I'll check up on you in a little while ok?" Jackie asked her daughter quietly.

Rose mumbled something and started to head towards the stairs to her bed and her nightmares. The first thing Rose noticed about the room was how wrong it looked, the colours, the bed, the view everything. She missed the TARDIS's way that she changed how her room looked depending on what had happened and how she felt, or just for the fun of it sometimes.

Rose noticed that the more she thought about the TARDIS and the Doctor how the pain in her head got worse but she couldn't stop herself, and even if she could she wasn't sure she wanted. What if she forgot the Doctor? No she knew that was impossible, that she would remember him forever. She started to remember little things about her Doctor that she hadn't thought of in a while

"Nice to meet you, Rose. Now run for your life."

"Lots of planets have a North!"

"Now, don't antagonise her. I love a happy medium!"

"You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?"

"The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers! Or is that just me?

"Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! Go! To! Your! Room! I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words."

"No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do: I'm gonna rescue her! I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!"

"I'm coming to get you"

"Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I!"

Then he changed into the man she knew better and fell in love with even more.

"New-new doctor"

"Rude and not ginger!"

"We just met Queen Victoria!"

"I don't age. I regenerate. But human decay; you wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to some that you…"

"Hold on a minute. You've got hands, Mr Connolly. Two big hands. So why's that your wife's job?"

"Oh, come on! Did you have to? "No turning back?" that's almost as bad as "Nothing could possibly go wrong" or "This is going to be the best Christmas Walford's ever had!"

"Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother!"

"I'm still just an image. No touch"

"And I suppose, if it's my last chance to say it: Rose Tyler…"

Her Doctor, those last words haunted her, she knew what he was going to say because they both knew that they had crossed a line a long time ago before he was even himself but no matter what, even with all this pain she knew she wouldn't change it for the world. And with that last thought she collapsed.

"Where am I?" Rose asked no one in particular. As she looked around what seemed to be her room in the TARDIS but knew she couldn't possibly be, just as she was about to move the door opened.

"My Wolf, at last you're here"

"Who are you? And why do you look like me?"

"I'm the TARDIS as you and my Thief call me. As for why I look like you I needed a form to contact you in and this is the form I chose."

"Ok then, say this real and not just some bizarre dream I'm having. What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to bring you back. Back as there is only one of you in the many universes and you're not supposed to be here."

"But I can't get back! The Doctor said so! If I could he would have found a way"

"He can't, but my Wolf can. You controlled time and space and some of that power was left with you waiting. You can go back but if you chose to you have to know that you'll have to back to beginning, when you first met my Thief before you became my Wolf."

"Ok but what is stopping me from making the same mistakes as last time? How will I know?"

"You'll keep your memories and be the only person to know what is going to happen; I will keep an eye on the timelines and stop you from changing anything that needs to stay the same, however horrible the moments may be."

"Ok then. What do I do? How do I go back?"

"Take my hand and think back, think back to first words he ever told you."

Rose opened her eyes as she felt a hand slip into hers with only one word.

"Run!"