Spoilers: NONE

After Wilf was home and a quick look in on Donna, the Doctor returned to the TARDIS to find Rose running her hand along the console…laughing as she did. "I know, I've missed you too…because of you I'm back."

He eyed her and stood at the door, watching as the brunette he had lost and found and lost again stood chatting with his TARDIS. A mental kick from the TARDIS for that thought made him realize it was not his anymore but theirs. Rose looked at him and laughed, obviously having sensed the mental kick as well.

He walked to her and wrapped her in his arms, Rose laid her head on his chest and listened to his hearts. "I missed you."

Rose looked at him and waited, waited for him to finish what he was saying. She knew he'd have to think about what to say, after all it had been only a year for him and over half a century for her.

Allowing him to think, she began to play with his tie and smiled, "you need to change your suit…its in pieces." She took his hand and pulled him to the back of the TARDIS.

They made their way to the wardrobe, where Rose pulled another suit out…another brown one. She held it out and he took it, looking at her. "Rose…"

She watched as he laid the suit down and pulled her to him, kissing her. Rose wrapped her arms around his neck and was grateful for her respiratory by-pass system that allowed her to go without air for a while.

When the pulled back, the Doctor cupped her cheek and smiled. "I love you…loosing you was loosing part of who I was."

"Isn't that why Bonded Souls need to stay together…balance?" She eyed him, "why the High Council did everything to prevent it…you saw Rassilon's face when I told him who I was…that the Savior of Gallifrey is the Bonded Soul to its destroyer."

"You are brilliant…absolutely brilliant and I am," he took the medallion in his hand and eyed it, "so glad I have you back." He eyed her and spoke, "did you…did you leave children behind?"

"Just a grave…Callie died before birth…the Vortex killed her. It was fifty-one years ago so I do not find it as painful as it was soon after her death."

"Callie?"

She removed a picture from her pocket and held it out to him, he found it was a picture of a newborn infant…looking as if she was asleep. "Callisandastria Martha Tyler, she was stillborn."

"You chose a Gallifreyan name…why?"

Rose smiled, "its all I could give her…it means 'way to the stars' and she was my way. From the womb of death shall come the giver of life…that's what the prophecy said."

She removed the letter and held it out, he read it and Rose watched as his expression changed. She tried to read his thoughts and after a few mental pushes, he lowered his shields.

She found he was full of remorse but also thankfulness, remorse for his clone who knew he was going to die but thankfulness that the clone had done all he could to send Rose back.

Placing a hand on his arm, Rose hugged him both physically and mentally. She felt his mind wrap itself around hers…as if to hug her. Taking the letter, she folded it up as well as the picture of Callie and placed them in her pocket.

"The past is the past, the present is what is important. We can only go forward, not back…isn't that what you told me?"

"Yes I did."

So they moved on, Rose went to start the TARDIS while he redressed, afterwards the Doctor found her preparing the TARDIS for the Iola Galaxy in the 208th Century.

"Shiver and Shake together again." She smiled and threw the lever.