The huge "boom" the ship gave as it exploded caused them all to cover their ears for several seconds and cringe at the sound.- They had destroyed the sontarans ship. Rose's past knowledge had led them to the basement where there was a teleport straight onto the ship, which the sontarans had been using to control the warehouse and its workers before UNIT took control. Their surprise attack had been a massive advantage and had lead to an amazingly quick defeat of captain spud and co. The toxic gasses had been burned up almost immediately with the explosion of the ship which had caused them to be set on fire. Earth was saved once again. - Donna was the first to recover and began jumping about shaking a fist in the air shouting

"HA! Take that ya giant pile of mash!"

The doctor groaned, still getting over the sonic- type boom that had just been heard and not quite ready for Donna's over exuberant yells quite yet.

"Eaagg, Donna, not so loud. Time lord ears over here thank you"

Rose giggled quietly

"Oh poor baby" she said laughing now "want me to kiss it better?"

The doctor brightened considerably. Especially when she proceeded to do exactly that.

"You know," she smirked "it's a good thing you don't still have your old ears. These ones are super- sensitive enough, those big old floppy ones would never have coped." She said affectionately while toying with one of said ears

The doctor laughed at her comment, fingering his ears and meeting Rose's fingers as they same.

"yeah, yeah, you know you loved them really" he grinned cheekily

Donna and Martha looked at them both strangely, wondering what they were missing- Donna looking slightly amused by their crazy chatter and Martha once again glaring as though her life depended on it- although neither the doctor nor Rose seemed to notice as they were still standing smiling at each other, completely oblivious to everything else.

Growing serious suddenly, Rose whispered, her voice threatening to break and tears filling her eyes

"I've really missed you; you have no idea how much."

"Rose" the doctor murmured, pulling her into his arms and embracing her tightly. Tears filling his own eyes as he spoke "i know. Believe me i know, i thought i would die when i had to leave you there- permanently-" he added with a small chuckle. Rose raised her head from his chest and gave him a small smile which he returned. "i love you Rose, I've always loved you." His voice changed to light and playful as he added "i loved you even when you were just an annoying chip eating human working in a shop and getting in the way when i was chasing automatons, trying to take over earth."

Rose laughed, tears still in her eyes making them shine while she recited the line he had said to her on the beach when she told him she loved him.

"Quite right too."

They both burst out laughing at her words and he took her hand smiling as they left the room to rejoin the others. A happy looking Donna had pulled a very reluctant Martha- who no doubt wanted to stay just to cough loudly every few seconds, to try and distract the newly re-acquainted lovebirds- out of the room at the beginning of their conversation claiming she wanted to see if there were any "dishy" generals lurking about she could play with.

They finally found Martha and Donna in what was serving as the main command centre, Donna was quite obviously flirting with one of the sergeants who looked pretty happy with the attention and Martha was standing in the middle of the room with the general and was rapidly barking orders at everyone, a prissy and slightly superior look on her face as she did so.

"Smyth!" Martha suddenly yelled and the soldier flirting with Donna quickly stood to attention and glanced warily at her, everyone knew Dr Jones was pretty damn irritating when she was in a good mood but when angry she was someone to be reckoned with and right now she looked downright pissed, why he had no clue since they had just saved the planet "but hey, someone with as stick as far up their arse as her is bound to be pretty grouchy, it can't be comfortable acting so frigid all the time" he thought and smirked slightly at the red head beside him, he much preferred women like her, fun, bubbly, slightly dopey but a hell of a lot nicer than Martha- bleedin' grumpy bitch- Jones

"Would you stop flirting with Donna and go do something useful. We're moving out within the hour and things need to be ready. NOW!" she shrieked when he remained standing there for a second too long. He went.

General Matthews leaned down and muttered something in her ear; she looked up at him scowling slightly before nodding sharply and turning towards the door. When she caught sight of the doctor and Rose standing there hand in hand her glare returned and she looked them over distastefully.

"Ah. There you are, General Matthews was just sending me to find you. We're moving out soon, back to the main base." Looking at Rose with a slight gleam in her eye she said "Oh i suppose you'll be needing transportation somewhere, I'll arrange a driver for you to wherever you need to go. Can you be ready in 10 minutes?"

Narrowing her eyes very slightly at Martha, Rose answered her in an almost too sweet voice silently thinking "what is her problem with me anyway? She's been looking like she wants to kill me all day."

"I'm fine thanks Martha, the only place i need to go is back to see my mum and anywhere else i want to go I'm sure the TARDIS can take me"

Grinning up at the doctor and completely forgetting Martha for a moment she said in a sly voice

"I almost forgot about that with all that's been happening. But YOU" she pointed a finger into his chest and grinned evilly "are coming with me right now to see her"

"The TARDIS or Jackie?" he asked fearfully. He had thought she was joking earlier when she had mentioned him going back to see her mother, now from the looks of her grin she was serious.

"mum" she stated plainly

He groaned while she laughed at him "Oh please Rose, feed me to the Slitheen or make me fight the Sicorax again, just not Jackie, you know she'll only slap me again." He cringed at the memories

Rose continued to laugh at him, she couldn't seem to stop smiling or laughing now, not now she had her doctor back. It seems foreign to think she hadn't laughed in almost three years and had smiled only rarely.

"She's not that bad" Rose exclaimed looking at his cringing face, "she loves you really. Anyway, i promised she'll make you some tea so shut up winging, it's not all bad. Besides" she decided to add in a lower voice which immediately caught his attention "i need to get my stuff.

"Oh really" he asked in the same voice as her "and why would you need to do that exactly?"

Rose looked up at him for a moment frowning slightly, her playful mood forgotten as her eyes searched his face "what if he didn't want her back like that. Maybe his dumping her in a parallel world was his way of saying "get lost". What if she had been making a complete fool of herself and didn't even realise it, maybe that was why Martha had been glaring at her so much, she was with the doctor now." Rose's eyes filled with tears at the thought and she looked down to hide it.

Catching Rose's sudden shattered look and the tears in her eyes the doctor pulled her to him and lifting her chin he said forcefully in answer to all the doubts in her eyes "NO" then more gently and stroking her face softly as he said it "why would you need to get anything when all of your things are still in your room of the TARDIS exactly where you left them, even Hughie."

Looking at him in amazement Rose stuttered "y-you k-kept all my things?"

"Even Hughie" he added with a smile "in fact he's on my bed right now."

At this Rose burst out laughing, happiness filling her once again "but... but you hate Hughie, you always said he was ratty and should be in the bin" she frowned slightly at the thought of her childhood bear being thrown away before turning back to question the doctor some more but was AGAIN interrupted by Martha who looked like she had a thundercloud over her head

"I thought you didn't do domestic?" she asked with ice in her voice and reminding Rose and the doctor of their original conversation.

"Well..." the doctor started uncomfortably "er... i don't, not usually but... well Jackie is kind of hard to say no to. And she also makes really good tea." He added as an afterthought

Martha's scowl only worsened at his comments. She was offended beyond reason, her mother had invited him to dinner several times and he had always declined, saying he didn't do domestic but now here he was talking as though it were a regular occurrence with Her family. Martha stood and fumed silently as she watched Rose rest her head on the doctors shoulder while his arms came around her automatically. When she heard Rose's irritatingly chavvy voice say "oh did i tell you, mum and Mickey are together now, things went sideways with Pete after she lost the baby and her and Mickey started seeing each other a few months later" her anger levels rose a few notches higher than they already were but when she then heard "you know i always thought there was something with those two, do you remember when we were trapped in Downing Street that time and we came back and found them together in the kitchen, i thought i sensed something then. Just goes to show 

you, my Timelord brain truly is fantastic" Martha thought she would literally explode and quickly stomped away to yell at the soldiers some more, "where's Donna gone anyway, probably off flirting with everyone again" she muttered angrily to herself.

Yo people sorry for the weird ending but i got a sudden bout of writers block on this story, ill update again as soon as i can though but I'm working all next week and then going on holiday so it might be a while,

R and R please

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