Dårlig Ulv-Stranden. Bad Wolf Bay. Also known as the location for the worst day in Rose Tyler's life. She could live for thousands of years and still she would always view this day as her worst.

I can't think of what to say!

It was here on this beach that she had been forced to finally admit that she would never see her Doctor again. Never see him smile or laugh...never see him go off onto one of his mad tirades or rants. She would forever be stuck in this parallel world. Darlig. Dalek. Stranden. Stranded. She was stranded in this world because of the bloody daleks...it always seemed to come back to them in the end. The Doctor's eternal enemy.

Rose Tyler. Defender of the Earth.

She remembered everything about that day, even if it was things she would rather forget. The way his hair had been tousled, as if he had repeatedly run his hands through his hair. Skin pale enough that she could see his freckles. Puffy and baggy eyes, as if he hadn't gotten sleep in God knows how long. She didn't care what he said about "superior Time Lord biology" he still needed sleep like any other living creature. And his eyes... Pain that was only outmatched by her own.

Am I ever gonna see you again?

Even though she knew every inch of this new face of his, being there since the beginning and having actually caused it, this was one expression she had hoped never to see. A mixture of grief and rage...and self-loathing. And something...hidden deep within the eyes that she didn't dare name. Not now.

You can't.

Holding on was harder than she would have thought. She had only managed to get about a minute into the conversation before the tears had started coming. Oh she had tried to hold them back...but she couldn't. It was a mixture of grief and relief. She would never see him again, that she knew...but she was so relieved she had finally said it. The thing that had been left unsaid between them for far, far too long.

I lo- I love you.

Really she had known both of their feelings from the start. It was in everything they did together. Every look, every touch, every hug, every single adventure. They loved each other. Absolutely. Unashamedly. Unreservedly. Even though Rose loathed to sum it up in a word as simple as love it was the only thing she could really do. Besides...he had known all along.

Quite right, too.

So sure. She had been so sure that she would hear those words. Even if she already knew, and even if she knew those words would hurt them both so, so much...a part of her still yearned to hear them. To know something was one thing, to hear it said in words was another thing entirely...and she wanted so much to hear those words said back to her.

And I suppose...if it's one last chance to say it...

The second he had locked eyes with her she knew. Without a doubt what he had been about to say. She knew every single emotion on his face, even if he tried to hide it, and this one was the one she had loved to see the most. They knew they only had seconds left before they were cut off for good. And they knew that this may only hurt them as soon as the shock of knowing the other was gone settled in...but they also each longed for this. More than anything.

Rose Tyler-

He never got to say it though. Even though Rose Tyler knew what those next three words would have been she still couldn't stop the heartbroken sob that escaped her, nor the tears that now freely poured down her cheeks. It was useless to sit and cry when it would change nothing, she knew that. Her travels with the Doctor had taught her that more than anything. Crying solved nothing...but it still didn't stop the tears.

As Jackie Tyler ran forward to embrace her daughter Rose shuddered, the name of the beach they were on floating into her head once again. Dårlig Ulv-Stranden. Bad Wolf Bay. Why Bad Wolf though. Why now, why here? Bad Wolf was gone, taken out by her Doctor to save her life. But still...still it was here... And that werewolf...

Look! Inside your eyes! You've seen it too!

Even if it had been for only a few short minutes she had still been the Bad Wolf. She had seen all of Time and all of it's complexities, everything that had ever happened, ever would, never would, and might just. She may not have remembered being the Wolf but she had remembered one thing.

The Wolf! There is something of the Wolf about you!

Bad Wolf had been a message. All throughout Time and Space it was leading her to the Doctor. Back with Gwyneth in 18th century Cardiff. The young boy who had spray-painted the words onto the side of the TARDIS. The poster she had seen back when he had taken her to see her father. Margret the Slitheen and her project which she had called Blaidd Drwg. And the Gamestation that had taken them captive. The words sprayed all around the Powell Estate.

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words... I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here.

Bad Wolf had seen it all. All of time. She knew that this had been coming, that Rose would be torn from the Doctor's side by Torchwood's meddling. Bad Wolf had seen it all so she had left the young human yet another message.

But if it's a message, what's it sayin'?

A message to tell her that not all hope was lost. She was Rose Marion Tyler. She had faced Gelth and Daleks. Werewolves and Cybermen. Parallel worlds and Devils. She was not going to give up now. She would let herself cry, just for today. Just this one day she would let her grief show. And then she would do what she did best. She would fight to get to her Doctor's side.

It's tellin' me I can get back!

She had promised him forever and he was damn well going to get forever! She didn't care if he was a bloody Time Lord or that she was trapped in an parallel world and cut off from hers. She would find him and then she would either slap him or snog the hell out of him.

It was probably going to end up both.

I have much to say about this. Quite a bit. First off, why am I doing this? Because I can! Look, all you see is series 3 and 4 rewrites. Don't get me wrong, I love them all. (Especially With Starlight in Their Wake) But I have been dying to see 5 and on rewrites. I have found none. So what do I do? Create my very first Doctor Who story. Ever.

Guys. This is going to be a long, bumpy ride. I won't lie to you...I am coming up with this as I go. I mean...really...I have no freaking clue what I'm doing... But you just get one of those ideas, you know? One of those small niggling ideas and you can't stop. You just have to do it. No matter what.

The Doctor in the TARDIS with Rose Tyler. As it should be.

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Que? Que...just... I know. You can kill me. It's okay. I'll come back as the Guardian of Fate after all! No? Okay...well... I'll just... Go hide then.