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She is Returning

Summary - Rose Tyler returns home and is reunited with The Doctor but first she has to gather together his former companions to join him for the final battle. Some Spoilers for Series 4

Ch 1 - A Red Star in the Morning….

Rose appears to Donna with a message for the Doctor.

Donna opened her eyes and realized that she was standing up; she looked around saw that she was on a beach. She could feel the slight wind in her hair, she bent down and put her hands in the sand, it was real. "Where am I?" she asked out loud.

"You're on Earth…in Norway" she heard a woman's voice say. Donna turned around and saw a blonde woman standing in front of her wearing a purple leather jacket with a maroon colored shirt underneath and black pants. "NORWAY!" She shouted "How did I get here! I was going to the hospital" She remembered hearing something about hospitals before everything went black, maybe she was wrong.

"You are in the hospital" the woman replied

"…am I dying…am I dead?" She asked looking around again she sure didn't picture the great beyond looking like a desolate beach. She was frantically feeling her body to check for injuries not paying attention to the woman.

"DONNA!" the woman shouted

Donna stopped talking at the sound of her name "How do you know my name?"

"My name is Rose Tyler"

She felt like her eyes were bugging out of her head as she heard that name. "Rose…the Doctor's Rose?" She tried shaking her head side to side and hitting herself because she must be dreaming. There was no way she was talking to the Rose Tyler that the Doctor knew.

"Yes, I need you to get a message to him"

Donna was still rubbing her eyes and pinching herself. Then she felt the woman's hands on her shoulders. "Donna, this is very urgent I need you to warn him"

"Warn him, about what? I'm not even sure this real" The woman looked strangely familiar, like she'd seen her somewhere before.

Rose looked at Donna realizing that she would have to explain to her what's happened. "You are in the hospital back on your Earth, but we brought your consciousness here to my earth."

"You kidnapped my mind?" she asked still a little confused.

Rose was shocked by the question "Well…sort of" no one really put it that way before. She imagined the trouble this woman was giving the Doctor. It made her smile; her Doctor was in good hands.

"So you mean to say my mind is here but my body is on the earth?

"Yes"

"Then how am I feeling the sand?"

"Your brain knows what sand is so your consciousness is telling you to feel it" she replied "It's strange isn't? You can see and feel all that's around you but you're not physically there. Your mind only thinks it is." She paused and appeared to be staring at something in the sky "The mind is strange and wonderful thing" she said with a smile.

If this woman was indeed Rose, it was uncanny how similar she was to the Doctor. They would start talking then get this far away look in their eyes but continue to talk. It was almost like they weren't really talking to you anymore. So maybe this thing she was talking about was real because that's what she felt the Doctor did, his physical presence was with her but his mind was off somewhere else thinking about something else or someone else.

"Were using a technology called astral projection; we got it from this species called the Etherics."

"What do you usually use it for?" she asked.

This one sure asks a lot of questions she thought to herself. "For people to say goodbye to their loved ones when they are unconscious and dying"

"Oh, is that's what's happening to me?" she asked.

"No, you're fine." She said and then got the faraway look in her eyes again "That's why when you wake up, I need you to tell the Doctor that…that it's coming"

"What's it, what's coming? She asked and looked at her with her eye brows raised "I'm not telling him anything until you are more specific" Again similar to the Doctor with their cryptic replies.

"I don't have much information…that all I see. But I know something's coming from across the stars and it's going to destroy earth"

"Well…there that's more specific" Donna replied "Destroy Earth, that's not good. Is that all you want me to tell him?"

"No" she replied "Tell him…tell him…I'm coming home"

Rose started getting blurry, but it wasn't her that was fading because Donna looked at her hands and they were translucent. She was fading; her mind was going back into her body. And just as Rose faded from view it dawned on her where she saw her before. She was the woman on the street that she told to let her mother know what bin the car keys were in. "She was here before and I didn't know it" was her final thought before she no longer felt the wind or smelled the ocean, she was back in a bed.

Donna's eyes shot open and she had to blink from the bright light shining in her eyes. "Doctor, Doctor!" she started shouting she didn't get to tell him last time when she saw Rose but she was sure going to tell him this time, no one was going to stop her not even these orderly's trying to hold and push her back on the bed. She pushed with all her might and they both flew into the wall. Rose told me to warn him and i'm going to that. "Doctor, Doctor" she screamed running out in the hallway and straight into him. She started talking as fast as she could and he just looked at her like she was crazy.

Tbc….