Last chapter! *wipes away tear* Well it's been a journey hasn't it? Thanks for reading. Enjoy.

After taking Martha's family home, the Doctor had settled the Master's last affairs, leaving him burning on a pyre, on a remote planet as near to the constellation of Casterberous as they could get, Jack at his side. The pair didn't speak and merely watched as the fire blazed against the night sky. Both silently mourning one of the Last Time Lords in existence.

Now the Doctor ran down the corridor of the TARDIS hearts pounding fast. Skidding to a halt outside his own room, he cautiously opened the door to find a group of figures huddled around the bed.

They turned to face him as he poked his head around the door.

"Oh Doctor," said Martha, moving towards him, throwing her arms around his neck.

He hugged her back and smiled over at Mickey and Jackie who parted so that the Doctor could see the bed.

Martha pulled away from the Time Lord and glanced at Rose who was sleeping peacefully.

"I've sedated her, she was in a pretty bad state," said Martha, walking towards the bed, "but I've dosed her up. With a little rest she should be feeling as right as rain in no time."

The Doctor lingered at the door. Unsure as to whether he should venture over to the bed or not.

Suddenly Jackie stood.

"Doctor," she said taking his hand, "you should be with her."

With that, Jackie led the trembling Doctor over towards Rose and sat him down in her vacated seat.

Mickey stood and patted the Doctor on the shoulder and the three left the room.

The Doctor grasped Rose's hand in his own. Her skin was now warm, and she looked a little less pale than earlier.

He was so relieved that she was OK and could barely take his eyes off her sleeping form.

He had missed her so much, being without her for a year made him realise how strongly he loved her. He just hoped she still felt the same.

He didn't know how she would react after being alone for a year without any sort of human contact. He wasn't sure how a human would cope with this kind of torture. He knew Rose was strong, but had she been able to handle a year of being on her own?

Gently stroking her cheek with his thumb he sighed and continued to watch her.

Martha walked slowly down the corridor towards the Doctor's bedroom. She hadn't seen the Time Lord in a few hours and wondered how he was coping.

The last year had been a whirlwind, passing by in the blink of an eye, but the past 24 hours had crawled by so slowly. Martha was exhausted, tiredness finally catching up with her.

Knocking softly on the door she pushed it open to find the Doctor still sat on the chair next to his bed fast asleep, his head resting on the mattress in front of him, and his hand still clutching Rose's.

Martha smiled at the sight and moved over towards the table, setting down a cup of tea beside the Doctor gently, hoping he wouldn't tip it over.

As she moved away she turned to see Rose shifting underneath the covers and looked up see her slowly open her eyes.

"Rose," said Martha, quickly moving over and hugging her friend.

"Martha," croaked Rose, smiling.

Rose's gaze fluttered around the room until it landed upon the sleeping Time Lord. Lifting her hand she stoked his soft brown hair that stuck up at an angle.

Murmuring a little, the Doctor opened his eyes and lifted his head.

"Hello," croaked Rose.

The Doctor's eyes widened. "Rose," he gasped, before leaning over and hugging her tightly and pressing a kiss to her lips.

Pulling away he began to brush her hair away from her face with his hand, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"I missed you," he whispered, looking deep into her eyes.

"I missed you too," said Rose, her voice rasping.

"Is there anything you need?" asked Martha, making the Doctor, who hadn't realised that they had company, jump slightly.

Rose shifted up the bed a bit and glanced at the mug of tea, resting on the table beside her.

The Doctor noticing this lurched for it and pressed the warm mug into Rose's hands.

Rose grinned. "I could get used to this," she said, laughing hoarsely.

The Doctor and Martha grinned.

"Well you're throat might be a bit sore for a while, so if you want I can make you something soft to eat. Some soup or mashed vegetables-"

Rose shook her head. "If I ever see mashed Swede again I think I might be sick," she said grinning over at the Doctor who smiled back at her.

Martha chuckled. "Um maybe the TARDIS has got some ice-cream or something, I'll go check," said Martha, leaving the room and the couple in peace.

The Doctor and Rose chatted for a while. The Doctor retelling the past years events, and more importantly the last 24 hours, explaining in great detail what happened. As much as this pained his to do so, he felt so relieved when he told all to Rose. She didn't say anything, merely listening to his tale, holding his hand tightly, when tears threatened to engulf him.

"Oh I feel so bad, Martha's done so much this past year and now she's fetching and carrying for me!" said Rose shaking her head.

"It's because she cares about you Rose, we all do," said the Doctor, stroking her face gently.

Rose suddenly looked thoughtful and gazed at their entwined hands for a moment.

"Doctor, when I was in that cell all alone, I could hear your voice in my head," said Rose difficultly.

The Doctor looked deep into her eyes for a moment before answering.

"Time Lords......we have this sort of connection with the person we bond with......it's like a link that binds us together."

"So can you read my mind?" asked Rose.

"No, nothing like that......I guess when we were separated for so long the link decided to kick-in. Humans and Time-Lords aren't really compatible, I can't share the same connection with you as I would be able to with another of my species....." The Doctor trailed off.

"Oh," said Rose sadly, looking away.

The Doctor noticing this swiftly placed his hand to her face, lifting her chin so that he could look into her eyes.

"But Rose, don't you see, we're connected, you and me. You're the one I want to be with, the one I love, the one I want to spend my forever with."

Rose smiled sadly.

"But Doctor, I can spend my forever with you, but you can't spend yours with me," she said gazing away.

"But Rose don't you see-"

"ROSE!" Shouted a sudden voice from the door, interrupting the Time Lord.

"Mum!" rasped Rose, holding out her arms as Jackie ran forwards to hug her.

The Doctor watched as the mother and daughter embraced. He knew he would have to tell Rose sooner or later but surely a little longer wouldn't hurt.

The Doctor and Jack stood in the console room of the TARDIS talking, while Rose snoozed on the jump seat. It was the first time she had been out of the Doctor's bed this long in a few days, but she was still very exhausted after her ordeal.

They had just come back from dropping Jackie off. Her Mum had said a long goodbye to Rose. Rose promising that she would try to visit at least once a fortnight. She had noticed Jackie having a quiet word with the Doctor but had pretended not to notice. The Doctor had looked a little worse for wear after the conversation if truth be told.

The Doctor had stayed with her almost constantly. Barely leaving her side in the daytime, running off only to find the others rooms and to land the TARDIS. He slept in the bed with her during the night and Rose was comforted by his strong embrace when the nightmares began to creep into her dreams.

Everyone had run around after her fetching and carrying. By this she felt extremely guilty. She had not been the one out there, walking across the world spreading the word that would save their lives.

Her Mum had fussed as usual, threatening the Doctor into feeding her up. The Doctor had of course obliged, stopping off in modern day London so that Jackie could stock the TARDIS with Rose's favourite foods.

The Doctor had told her almost everything about what happened on the Valliant, but when she had asked him why the Doctor had let the Master die, he had quickly changed the subject. Rose didn't want to push things. She knew the Doctor would tell her eventually.

Suddenly she got woken by Martha and Mickey running into the console room.

Opening her eyes she turned around and looked at them.

Mickey and Martha stood there happily, arms wrapped around each other, both smiling at the others.

Looking down, Rose noticed Martha's bags packed at her feet.

"You're not leaving are you?" gasped Rose, looking at the two of them.

The Doctor, seeing that Rose was awake, ambled over and wrapped his arms around her from behind. She leant back against him gently.

"Yeah," said Martha smiling and glancing at Mickey.

"When did you two get together?" said Jack nodding at the couple.

Martha blushed as Mickey pulled her closer.

"Mickey was there for me, that whole year-" started Martha.

"We were there for each other," finished Mickey, looking at her lovingly and kissing the side of her head.

Once upon a time, Rose knew she would have felt jealous at this sight but not anymore. She had the Doctor now, and she was so happy that two of her best friends were a couple.

"But you're leaving?" said Rose.

Martha looked up at Mickey.

"Yeah, we wanna' see the world together. We made so many plans when we were out there....so we thought why not just go for it," said Martha smiling.

Rose glanced up at the Doctor who was beaming at the couple.

Martha walked over to him.

"I've loved this, all of it and I wouldn't change a thing," said Martha, hugging the Doctor, "thank you," she whispered.

She pulled away and turned to Rose.

"I'm gonna miss you," said Rose tearfully.

"I'll miss you too," said Martha sadly, before the pair embraced.

As Martha pulled away and went to say goodbye to Jack, Mickey stepped forwards and stroked Rose's face.

"Make sure you visit us yeah?" said Mickey.

"Course we will, wont we Doctor?" she said looking over at the Time Lord who smiled.

"Course we will, Rose's got Martha's number, give us a call," said the Doctor clapping Mickey on the back.

Mickey turned back to Rose as the Doctor sauntered off to fiddle with the TARDIS controls.

"Like I said, make sure he treats you okay and doesn't go losing you on some alien planet, otherwise he'll have me to deal with," Rose nodded and chuckled before hugging Mickey tight.

"Right then where do you want to be dropped off? Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Sydney-" began the Doctor.

"Or how about Cardiff?" said Jack cutting in.

Mickey and Martha shrugged.

"Yeah alright," said Mickey.

"Yeah sounds good," piped Martha.

"Seriously? Cardiff? Of all the places in the world, you want to go to Cardiff?" said the Doctor exasperatedly.

"Yeah why not?" said Jack grinning, "I have a brilliant little team I'd love you to meet."

The Doctor shrugged. "Cardiff it is," he said slamming down a leaver.

Rose and the Doctor stood at the TARDIS doors waving the trio off.

"Oh I'm gonna' miss them," said Rose wandering back up the ramp as the Doctor shut the doors.

"Isn't my company good enough?" said the Doctor in jest, grabbing Rose around the middle.

"Ouch," yelped Rose in pain.

"Ooh sorry, sorry," said the Doctor backing off.

"My ribs are just a bit tender that's all," said Rose, turning towards the Doctor and smiling. "Don't worry though, like Martha said, I'll be back to normal in no time."

The Doctor grinned. "But in the mean time, it means I can spoil you rotten Rose Tyler," said the Doctor scooping her up in his arms, and heading down the corridor, "ice-cream and movies it is!"

Rose turned to the Doctor and planet a large kiss upon his lips.

"What's that for?" said the Doctor beaming.

"For not leaving me on some planet somewhere," said Rose smiling, remembering what Mickey had said, "or ditching me on some sort of parallel universe."

The Doctor and Rose both laughed.

"Like that's ever going to happen," said the Doctor, gazing down at the woman he loved with both his hearts, "I promised you forever didn't I?"

It's finally over! :(

I hope you all enjoyed. I really wanted to make this chapter like the ending of each Harry Potter book, when all the action is over and there's just some loose ends to tie up. I hope it was OK.

Just so you all know, I will DEFINATELY be writing a sequel –Series four with Rose: All the bits inbetween. It will continue on the story of Rose and the Doctor still in the relationship. I may do Voyage of the Damned too, but I might do that separately. It will all be the same sort of stuff, but it may be more interesting to put in some of the parts from the episodes too from series four, like Silence in the Library and Midnight etc, rather than JUST doing the stuff inbetween.

Anyway let me know what you think, and I'll start the next series ASAP when I get some good ideas in my head.

Also, please, if you could review one last time, let me know what you thought of this chapter or just the story in general.

Thanks so much for reading! KP xxx