Right, I've now rewritten this chapter to help everything flow better so. This is the new version of this chapter, so I've just replaced the content. ok, never mind my talking and lets get on with this.
The Doctor slipped the 'World Hopper' around Rose's neck "I love you." he whispered in her ear
"What're you--?" she asked. Pete quickly pressed the button. They all disappeared, leaving the Doctor alone and staring at the place his wife had been with a heavy heart.
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Rose was angry at the two of them, her husband and her father. When she was aware of her surroundings, she looked around and knew by the state of the room that she was in the Parallel Torchwood
"Oh no you don't." she said under her breath. "He's not doing that to me again." she pressed down the button and she reappeared in her own Torchwood "I think this is the on switch." The Doctor looked up from what he was doing when he heard her voice.
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Pete snatched Jackie's button away from her before she could press it. "But I've gotta go back!" she said
"The Doctor said every time we use one of these, it damages the whole world." Pete said "Now that's it."
"She's your daughter!" Jackie argued
"She's your daughter, not mine."
He walked away. snatching Mickey's button as well
"Mickey, tell him." Jackie said desperately "Tell him, Mickey! MICKEY!" Mickey did not respond
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The Doctor grabbed Rose by the shoulders and looked her in the eyes "Once the breach collapses, that's it." he said "You will never be able to see her again. Your own mother!"
"I made my choice a long time ago, and I'm never gonna leave you." The Doctor stared at her for a moment. Then released his grip "So what can I do to help?"
"Systems rebooted. Open access." Rose stubbornly held her husband's gaze. Finally he gave in.
"Those Co-ordinates over there, set them all at six." he told her. She did as he asked "And hurry." She leant over the computer, removed her button from round her neck and set the coordinates
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Jackie pushed Pete away "Get away from me!" she said angrily. She broke down into tears and covered her eyes with her hands.
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Rose looked at the computer "We've got Cybermen on the way up." the Doctor asked. Rose noticed that he'd put his wedding ring back on. She did the same
"How many floors down?" he asked as he ran over to look
"Just one." the screen showed the Cybermen marching up the stairs.
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The Doctor tapped in a command on the laptop.
"Levers operational." The Doctor grinned
"That's more like it, bit of a smile!" Rose said "The old team...!"
The Doctor picked up one of the magnaclamps and went over to her "Hope and Glory, Mutt and Jeff, Shiver and Shake!"
"Which one's Shiver?" Rose asked
"Oh, I'm Shake." he said. He gave her the clamp and then he kissed her. "Be careful." he told her
"I love you." she said, smiling.
"Love you, too." They went over to opposite sides of the room and they attached the clamps to the wall next to the levers. "Press the red button." the Doctor told her and she did just that. "When it starts, just hold on tight. Shouldn't be too bad for us but the Daleks and the Cybermen are steeped in Void Stuff. Are you ready?" he asked. They got into position beside the levers.
"So are they." Rose said as she looked out of the window. The Daleks were right outside
"Let's do it!" the Doctor said. They pushed the levers upwards and then grabbed hold of the clamps
"Online"
The area was filled with the white light once more, but this time, there was also the sound of a strong wind. The Daleks were sucked through the window, smashing through the glass as they were pulled into the white light and back to the Void. Rose and the Doctor held on to the clamps tightly, struggling to hold on. "The breach is open!" the Doctor shouted over the wind "Into the Void! Ha!"
Rose smiled across at the Doctor as they were billowed by the wind. Suddenly, there was a small explosion of sparks and the lever on Rose's side moved back towards the 'off' position. The smiles fade from their faces. A Dalek flew past and knocked the lever back online again. Relief filled the Doctor's face as Rose smiled over at him again, he returned it. Both of them thinking that it was ironic that the Dalek had seen that it's own destruction was successful and for the first time in his life he was grateful to a Dalek, because he knew if that hadn't happened, he would have lost his wife forever. Soon the wind died down and the couple let go of the clamps. Rose ran across the room to her husband and flung her arms around his neck and buried her face in his chest. He wrapped his arms around her waist and placed a kiss on the top of her head before resting his chin there. Rose pulled back slightly and looked up at her husband "I never thought that I'd ever be grateful to a Dalek." she said
"I know. Me neither." he answered. "Rose? Why did you come back?"
"Because, I made my choice when you sent me home from the Games Station that I would never ever leave you and because I love you."
"What about your mum, though, Rose?"
"I've had 19 years with my mum and I can live without her, but I can't live without you and after everything I've seen I can't go back to a normal life and I don't want to."
The Doctor pulled her back into their hug and held her tightly. "I thought I was going to lose you there." Rose never said anything she just tightened her arms round her husband and buried her head in the crook of his neck. Eventually she let him go and walked towards the wall.
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In the parallel Torchwood, Jackie was hammering on the wall. "Take me back! Take me back!" she shouted hysterically. She broke down in tears of raw grief, slamming her fists against the wall like there's nothing else. "Take me back..." Jackie said again, through her tears. Pete looked at the buttons
"It's stopped working." Pete said "He did it. He closed the breach."
"No..." Jackie said, sobbing. She laid a hand on the wall
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The Doctor watched as his wife walked slowly up to the wall. She laid one palm flat against it and then rested her head there, empty.
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As though Jackie sensed her daughters presence there, she pressed her cheek against the wall as though listening for her, palm matching hers. They both stay there for a while. Jackie continued to cry.
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The Doctor stood and watched, fighting the urge to go to his wife. When she finally let her hand slide from the wall, he crossed the distance between them and brought her into a comforting hug.
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Jackie does the same as though she knew that her daughter was no longer there.
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Rose looks up at her husband "Let's go home." she said. He smiled slightly and led her back to the Tardis.
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Jackie leant against the wall wiping her eyes. The only three people she has left, Pete, Mickey and Jake watched her uncomfortably, at a loss for words. Pete takes both of her hands and she allowed the three men to escort her from the building.
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Once they arrived at the Tardis Rose took the key from round her neck and unlocked the door, she entered and the Doctor followed his wife into the ship. "Rose?"
"Hmm." in a tearful sounding voice, as she had just realised that she would never be able to speak to her mum again.
"There might be a way that you can see your mother again, but we can't go through to the parallel universe, all the gaps are sealed off, but there might be a gap big enough to send a transmission through and you can speak to her again, say goodbye."
"Can we do that?" she asked hopefully.
"We can try." she hugged him quickly then walked further into the console room so that she was now standing at the end of the ramp with her back to him.
"Good cause there's something I want to tell mum."
"What's that then?" he asked as she turned to face him again, she was smiling now, and he was glad to see it, as he knew that she wouldn't be smiling soon.
"Well, that we're married and that I'm pregnant."
"What?" he didn't think that he had heard her properly, he thought she'd said that she was pregnant.
Rose said the words slowly. "I am pregnant." The Doctor grinned at his wife and hugged her "This is brilliant." he said as he spun her round and then he put her down. He took her to the Tardis medical room and grabbed some weird medical instrument and ran it over her abdomen. "Two months." he said answering his wife's questioning eyes. He put the device back where he got it and took his wife's hands and pulled her to him "I love you, both of you." he said before he captured her lips in a loving kiss. "I love you too." she said when they broke their kiss.
Rose left the medical room and headed to the kitchen and put on the kettle to make a cup of tea. The Doctor followed her out of the room and headed to the control room, once there he pulled some levers and pressed a few buttons and put the Tardis into the Time Vortex and searched for a supernova large enough for his wife to say goodbye to her mother and to make sure that Jackie and Mickey were ok.
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He'd found the gap and a large enough nova a few days later and when he told his wife she was happy, but she knew that she would soon be speaking to her mother for the last time in a few short hours to her and she started to cry and headed off to their bedroom to calm herself down. When she entered the room she sat down on the edge of the bed and lay back and swung her legs on to the bed and continued to cry, curling herself in to a tight ball with her hand protectively over her stomach, still not quite believing that she would soon be a mother, but she was happy about that, the only thing that was bothering her was that she was crying at the thought of seeing her mum again, her hormones were completely out of her control. That's how the Doctor found her when he'd finished setting up the Tardis so that Rose could contact her mother, she was asleep but he could clearly see that she had been crying. He placed a hand on her shoulder and gently shook her to wake her. "Rose, sweetheart. Wake up" Rose stirred and looked up at her husband with tears shining in her eyes. "Hey." she said as she gave him a watery smile.
"Hey." he smiled back and then said. "Everything's ready but we have to hurry, sweetheart. I'm sorry."
Rose stood up and the Doctor wrapped his arms round her, she didn't cry this time though. She stepped backwards out of their hug and straightened herself out, she brushed her hair and changed her clothes and then followed her husband to the control room and as she went she prepared herself to say goodbye to her mum.
Once Rose and the Doctor were in the control room he explained to Rose what she had to do. "Rose, you need to call to your mum. Close your eyes and call out to her in your mind." Rose did as he asked and inside her head she repeated 'Mum...mum...mum'
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'Mum'
Jackie was asleep in bed in her new home with Pete lying beside her, his arm casually draped over his waist
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"Last night I had a dream." Jackie said
'Mum'
"I heard a voice and it was calling my name." Jackie opened her eyes and sat bolt upright, unsurprisingly waking her husband"
'Mum....Mum... Mum.'
Still in their pyjamas, Jackie, Pete, Mickey and Jake sat around a roaring fire as Jackie related her dream to them. "I had a dream, um..."
"I told Pete and Mickey and Jake. Anyone else would think I was mad. But not those three. They believed it. Because they've met the Doctor. So they listened to the dream."
"Rosee was calling me, and..."
The three of them listen to her intently.
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It is still dark when the four of them left "And that night, we packed up..." They loaded their luggage into the boot and jumped into the car. "Got into Pete's old Jeep and off we went." They drove away into the night. "Just like the dream said. Followed the voice... across the water... kept on driving hundreds and hundreds of miles. Because she's calling."
'Mum'
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Now they stood on a deserted, bleak beach. Pete, Mickey and Jake stood by the Jeep as Jackie walked across the sand as though looking for something. "Here I am at last. And this is the story of how I died." Jackie came to a halt in the middle of the beach and stood there waiting. A short way to her left, Rose appeared out of thin air. Jackie turned to her, she's slightly translucent.
""Where are you?"
"In the Tardis."
"You look like a ghost." Rose turned to look at someone that Jackie couldn't see and said "She can't see me properly." suddenly Rose looked more solid and Jackie reached out a hand to touch her daughter, Rose shook her head and smiled sadly at her mum. "I'm just an image, no touch" Jackie removed her hand and let it fall to her side. "So where did the gap come out then?"
"Norway." Jackie said
"Norway... Right."
"Dalig Ulv Stranden."
"Dalek?"
Jackie shook her head and said "Dal
Jackie looked at her daughter and observed her, she looked different. "Rose are you happy?"
"Yeah. I'm very happy. There's three of us now, me, the Doctor and the baby."
"You're not?"
Rose was smiling now. "Yeah I am, I'm two months gone."
"I'm going to kill him." she said "DOCTOR!"
The man in question came up behind Rose and wrapped his arms lovingly around Rose's waist as she said. "No mum, you won't."
"Why not?" asked Jackie. She looked at the two of them confused and Rose said
"Maybe I should have told her this bit first." she looked at the Doctor who simply shrugged his shoulders. What Rose said next floored Jackie, "We're married, we have been since a few months before the Doctor regenerated."
Jackie stared at her daughter in shock and said "Oh….."
The Doctor watched his mother in law process the news that she had just been given and tried not to laugh at her. Jackie for her part was happy for her daughter and she told her so. After telling her that she asked. "Will I ever see you again?"
Rose allowed the Doctor to answer this one as she tried not to cry. The Doctor tightened his hold on his wife as he spoke. "You can't. I'm sorry." the Doctor allowed her to process the fact that she would never see her daughter again or meet her grandchild and spoiled the moment by saying. "You're dead. Officially back home. So many people died that day and you went missing…"
Jackie nodded at him and turned round and motioned to Mickey to join them. He had been standing by the car a short distance away with Pete and Jake. He came over quickly and Rose smiled at him. "I'm sorry." she said when he reached out to touch her. He then noticed the way that the Doctor was holding her and said. "It's fine, its always been you and him and it always will be." he smiled at them and Rose shocked him when she spoke
"We're married, Mickey and I'm pregnant."
Mickey was silent, but the smile that he gave her indicated that he was happy for her. "I love you mum and you too Mickey. Tell dad that I love him and tell Jake thank you." Rose turned her head into the Doctor's chest as her mother and ex- boyfriend disappeared and started to cry as his hold on her tightened.
Right, that's the first chapter of this rewritten. No I think that this will link together better with the next chapter and the last chapter of Evolution of a Relationship. Anyway. I'd better get organised with the rest of this story now and work out how I'm going to do blink whether that's before or after the baby is born. But I think I'll have to read through what I've got already. TTFN Julie.