AN: Sorry! I am terribly sorry that it has been so long. Also, I plan on making some changes to the story. First off, Rose isn't going to be a Time Lady, only had a short life on a gallifrey were only the Lord President knew whom she was. Not even a proper gallifreyen she was. I think I spelled that wrong.. idk. But I'll describe later on what the jizz is going on. So I am sorry also if you were looking forward the whole "Oh I'm Rose, I got two hearts and just so happened the be dropped off at the planet and meet the Doctor! The only Time Lord left!" Yah, no, I thought it over and it seemed a bit far-fetched. Even if there Time lines were somehow tangled and meant to meet again, It bothers me so much I'm just going to stop with the Idea.

And thanks to you guys who stayed through the time I wasn't writing, I just didn't really have that much time is all. Sports, family, friends, all that.

The Doctor was met with a sight that melted both his hearts. Rose Tyler, the clever shop girl, and his newest companion. She ran up the console, resting her hands on the edges and looking at him with wonder.

"Right then, Rose Tyler – you tell me, where do you want to go? Backwards or forwards in time, what's it going to be?

"Forwards." She grins.

Pressing a few buttons, "How far?"

Thinking for a second Rose decides, "One hundred years."

Pulling a lever, and turning a knob, the engines lurch and then stop after a few seconds.

"There you go, step out-side those doors, and it's the 22nd century."

Mouth slightly agape, she looked at him in awe, "You're kidding."

"That's a bit boring though, do you wanna go further?" he tempts. Knowing what she'll answer.

"Fine by me!" she replies excitingly.

Starting up the engines again, after a couple seconds they stop and he looks up at her, "Ten thousand years into the future. Step outside, it's the year 12005, the new roman empire."

"You think you're so impressive." Teased the human girl.

"I AM impressive!"

"You wish!"

"Right then, you asked for it. I know exactly where to go." Revving up the engine and pumping a lever "Hold on!"

The console and the whole TARDIS shakes as it shoots through the Time Vortex, causing Rose's grip to tighten. Once it stops the Doctor walks up to an excited Rose.

"Where are we?"

"Hold on, before we go. That Locket," he gestures to the little golden sun around her neck,
There's something with it, and it's frustrating."

Sighing she reached for the clasp, almost hesitant until she heard the little voice whisper it was okay. Rose gathered it in her hands and handed it to the Doctor. "You know, if you lose that I'll have to kill ya." She threatens jokingly, but with a hint of seriousness.

Inspecting the little golden locket, the Doctor's time senses caught something almost alien about it. What was it? "Be right back, go out and see my little surprise." He tells her with a grin. Striding towards the console, he opened a compartment towards the bottom and gingerly placed the pure gold sun on a padded surface. "What are you?" he spoke quietly, then left and caught up with the blonde human outside.

That was the beginning of Rose and The Doctor.

Skipping forward, let's go to the last time you see the 9th Doctor and Rose Tyler together.

Jack's bullets run out as he reaches the end of the corridor. He tosses the Defabricator and produces another small gun, and begins firing that but to no avail. The Daleks advance, untouched until finally the gun clicks, empty, and Jack is backed against a wall with no weapon and facing 3 Daleks. He faces them squarely, defiantly.

"EXTERMINATE!" the Dalek yells in its forever screaming voice.

"I kinda figured that." He opens his arms slightly, ready.

He'll never forget those two he met. The Doctor and Rose Tyler. He'd never imagine he'd fight by their side when he tried to con them back at the London Blitz. Saving Rose from a blimp, and dancing with her on top of his ship, and being slightly disappointed by how close she was with the Doctor. And if he had to admit it, he even liked that big eared, moody leather clad Time Lord. Jack's just glad he'd got to know the two before he died.

The Dalek fires and there, slumped against the wall, lay Captain Jack Harkness, dead.

The Doctor pulls up the lever to the device he had just finished. Amazed, "It's ready!" he looks up as the Daleks begin to file in the room, surrounding him. "You really want to think about this! 'Cause if I activate this signal, every living creature dies."

"I am immortal," stated the Dalek Emperor on the screen.

"D'you wanna put that to the test?"

"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the great exterminator!"

Angrily he placed both hands on the lever, "I'll do it!" he threatened.

"Then prove yourself Doctor. What are you, Coward or killer?"

The Doctor tenses, and his grimaces into one of pain. Then, he just lets go.

"Coward. Any day." He states, looked slightly relieved to not be holding the lever anymore.

"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness."

"And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?"

"You are the Heathen. You will be exterminated."

Unresisting, "Maybe it's time." In all of his 900 years of glory, maybe it was finally time to end it all. The Doctor closes his eyes, ready. Then, something almost magical happened. The sound of TARDIS rang through the air.

"ALERT! TARDIS MATERIALIZING!" screams a nearby Dalek.

The Doctor's eyes snap open and he turns around in disbelief.

"You will not escape!" yelled the emperor.

The TARDIS full materialized and the doors fly open. The Doctor throws a hand above his eyes as the blinding golden light of the Time Vortex pours out in tendrils and in the doorway stood the one person he thought he never thought was going to see again. There stood Rose Tyler. The Doctor stares, awestruck as the light curls around Rose when she steps forward. He stumbles back, falling to the ground.

"What have you done?!" The Doctor questioned in a scared tone.

"The Locket, it whispered to me to look. I looked into the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me.

"You looked into the Time Vortex – Rose, no one's meant to see that!" especially if you're a human, your mind would burn. Unable to hold all that power and knowledge in that tiny ape brain of theirs.

The Emperor Dalek roared, "This is an abomination!"

"EXTERMINATE!" The Dalek fires at Rose, who holds up her hand. The bolt freezes and reverses back into the gun. The Doctor watched this in amazement, and then looked at Rose intensely.

"I am the Bad Wolf, ever since long ago. I create myself. I take the words… and scatter them in time and space." She waves her hand and the words BAD WOLF rise from the wall and float away. "A message to lead myself that is trapped and the one that is free, here." She continued in an ethereal voice.

The one that's trapped? One that is free? The Doctor starts talking urgently, "Rose, you've got to stop this. You've got to stop this now!"

Rose just stares ahead as if she hadn't heard him.

Concern etched in his voice, "You've got the entire vortex running through your head. You're gonna burn!"

Looking at the concerned man, "I want you safe. Both of us do." She pauses. "She says she'll want to see you soon, but that would mean to lose me."

The Doctor is taken aback, and he stares at her. Traces of tears stain Rose's cheeks.

"My Doctor. Protected from the false god."

"You cannot hurt me, I am immortal!" Claimed the Emperor Dalek.

"You are tiny. I can see the whole of Time and Space – every single atom of your existence, and I divide them." She finishes by raising her hand, and the Dalek in the middle separated into golden, liquid like particles. "Everything must come to dust… all things. Everything dies." She looks to the side and the Daleks in her line of vision disintegrate into the golden particles. "The time war ends." Rose declares.

The emperors voice rises in fear, "I will not die! I cannot die!" The entire mother ship soon becomes nothing but golden particles in space, and the screen goes black.

Rose stands there with her arms raised, staring straight ahead of her, shaking.

"Rose, you've done it. Now stop, just let go."

In a hushed and blissful tone, "How can I let go of this? I bring life…"

Jack takes a huge intake of breath as his eyes snap open. The only thought running through his head, I'm alive?

Terrified and slightly a taken back, he feels Jack from across the ship. Just the entire wrongness that now surrounds the captain, "But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!" The Doctor tries to explain.

Rose looks at him again, glowing with gold and her eyes burning with the Bad Wolf. "But I can. The sun and the moon… the day and the night," and with a trembling voice, "But why do they hurt?"

"The power's gonna kill you and it's my fault." He lowers his head in anguish.

A tear trickling down her cheek, "I can see everything."

The Doctor raises his head again, and almost sees a look of understanding cross her features. Rose's eyes drift a moment, like she's viewing something else not even in the room.

"All that is… all that was… all that ever could be."

The Doctor abruptly stands up, looking down at her in understanding. "That's what I see, all the time, and doesn't it drive you mad?"

"My head…" she replies in a scared, tiny voice. The little human sees so many things, so many outcomes and possibilities of time, and crowded in her head.

"Come here."

"…it's killing me…"

Taking her hands, "I think you need a Doctor." He knows it sounds cheesy, but oh well.

And they step slowly around to face each other, "You're going to lose me, Doctor, but you'll see her again. All will happen soon enough." Rose whispered.

The Doctor gazes into her eyes, and then gently, carefully, leans down and presses his lips against hers. As he kisses her, the Time Vortex flows out of her eyes and into his. Thoughts almost abandoned, and one being that he wished he could've kissed her before this, before he needed to save her from burning.

They part slowly and they gaze at each other for a few more moments before Rose's eyes flutter closed and she falls into his arms, unconscious. He lays her carefully down on the floor and then stands up straight, facing the TARDIS calmly. He slowly exhales and the Time Vortex is expelled from his mouth and it streams back through the doors into the TARDIS. The doors close quietly, and the TARDIS looks completely normal once more. The Doctor opens his eyes and smiles softly to himself. He kneels down and leans over Rose, stroking her face and neck tenderly.

Groaning and wincing, Jack stands. He staggers forward through the doorway. Spotting dust, he knelt down and examined where the Daleks once stood. He runs his hand through the dust in confusion. Suddenly, he hears the sound of the TARDIS engines roaring to life. Jack runs as fast as he can.

He's too late as he emerges the room and sees the TARDIS fading away. Hurt and confusion whipped through him. Why would the Doctor leave him? How did he even get the TARDIS back? Did Rose save them?

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor is at the console kneeling by the place he had put the locket. In the compartment, still on the padded surface he gazed at the pure gold sun.

Rose had mentioned the locket as Bad Wolf, it must've been tied with that. She kept on going on about how she's two people. One that's trapped and one that's free. The Doctor guessed Rose was the one that was freed, but who was locked up? And where? Is it the bad wolf locked inside of Rose? What's so special about the little piece of jewelry?

A random thought ran through his head, but he quickly dismissed it. Only Time Lords have that technology and Rose has lived the whole of her 19 years of her life as human.

A small noise brought the Doctor out of his thoughts and he quickly shut the hidden compartment and worked on the console.

A little disorientated, "What happened?" asked Rose, still on the floor.

Mildly surprised, "You don't remember?"

Sitting up, confused, "It's like, there was this singing." She said uncertainly.

"That's right! I sang a song and the Daleks ran away!" He told her cheerily, looking between her and the TARDIS.

"I was at home… no, I wasn't I was in the TARDIS, and…"

Unseen by Rose, the Doctor looks at his hand as gold light shimmers through his veins, and it goes back to normal.

"I can't remember anything else." The Doctor looks uneasily as she's shaking her head, completely oblivious, trying to remember. She notices him watching her and the leather clad man smiles.

"Rose Tyler," he said followed by a short laugh, "I was gonna take you to so many places. Barcelona – not the city Barcelona, the planet. You'd love it. Fantastic place – they've got dogs with no noses!"

He laughs as his own joke and Rose giggles along accompanied by an eye roll.

"Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny."

"Then why can't we go?"

"Maybe you will. Maybe I will. But not like this." He tells her while shaking his head. He doesn't elaborate, but goes back to looking at the monitor with a vague smile gracing his face.

"You're not making sense!" exclaimed Rose while standing up.

"I might never make sense again! I might have two heads. Or no head!" He laughs and Rose gives him a bemused smile. "Imagine me with no head! And don't say that's an improvement," The Doctor exclaims jokingly.

Rose grins, eyes twinkling.

"But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're gonna end up with—" and suddenly he's propelled backwards with a blast of golden light. The Doctor clutches his stomach as if he'd been punched.

Rose rushes forward, "Doctor!"

"Stay away!" he yells urgently.

Rose stops and stares at him wide eyed as the Doctor winces in pain. Her voice, it's coming back. She looked towards the bottom of the console and heard the voice whispering to her from there. The locket. So that's where the Doctor put it. It's all right Miss Tyler. He's regenerating. Be warned, he's going to become a new man. But, do not fret. I have seen and everything that's going to happen will be fine. This process may hurt him, but it's the Time Lords way of cheating death. Now, back up Miss Tyler. Regenerating is dangerous. Come get me after he is finished and I will guide you.

"Doctor! Why are you regenerating?" Rose asks. The words from the locket comforted her, but why was this happening?

"How do you, never mind. I absorbed all the energy in the Time Vortex, and no one's meant to do that." He explains in a light, forced, tone. Even through all the pain. "I'm not going to see you again, not like this. Not with this daft old face." He laughs not wanting to scare her. "And before I go,"

"Don't say that! She said you'd just be different! You'll be back!" she cried.

He looked towards the locket. Let's hope his next self will figure out that locket. It's connected to Rose and knows things of Gallifrey and Time Lords. It might be dangerous. "Rose…"

She backs down. Listening.

"Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic." He smiles at her, so proud. The Doctor couldn't have found a better human. "Absolutely fantastic." He pauses, "And you know what?"

Rose shakes her head, blonde hair swishing with the movement.

The Doctor, the one with cropped hair, a leather jacket, big ears and a northern accent gave his fantastic human one last maniac grin, "So was I."

Finally Rose smiles back. There both grinning madly when he suddenly convulses and orange energy bursts from his skin; blasting out from the neck of his jumper, the sleeves of his jacket and the bottoms of his trousers.

Rose staggers back, shielding her eyes from the bright light emanating from the man, but she can't look away. She stares, transfixed, as gradually the Doctor's hair lengthens, his face changes… until the energy eventually dies away and a completely new man is stood before her, still wearing the old Doctor's clothes.

The clothes hang loosely on his lanky body and it appears now his hair is brown, he has big brown eyes, and he even has freckles.

He looks slightly surprised for a moment before turning to look at Rose. "Hello! Okay- - oo." He gulps. Rose stares at him with fascination as he runs his tongue over his teeth, brow furrowed.

"New teeth, that's weird. So where was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona!" He states with boyish grin. Rose just stares at him in shock.

She can't get over the fact that part of her brain is saying run, but a stronger part is keeping her here. Nothing's wrong, he's still the same man, just new body. That's what the locket told her.

"6 pm, Tuesday," The new Doctor says while doing this and that to the console. Rose stays half hidden behind a pillar, unsure of what to do. "October… 5006… on the way to Barcelona!" He straightens himself and grins, seemingly pleased. "Now then… what do I look like?" he inquires.

Before he gives her a chance to answer he holds up his hand to silence her, "No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me." He rambles.

Rose just stands there, completely bemused by this man with the new face.

"Let's see… two legs, two arms, two hands…" he decides to test his wrist, circling it, "Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle." Then his hands fly to his head, "Hair! I'm not bald!" he shouts excitingly.

Rose now just looks shocked as the Doctor runs his hands through his hair.

"Oh – Oh, big hair," feeling his sideburns, somewhat delighted, "Sideburns, I've got sideburns! Or just really bad skin. Little bit thinner..." he exclaims slapping his stomach, "That's weird. Give it time, I'll get used to it." With the air of someone making a most wonderful discovery, "I have got a mole. I can feel it. Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole." Now rolling his shoulders, "That's all right. Love the mole." Grinning at Rose, "Go on, tell me," standing up straight up before the somewhat scared blonde, like he's ready for assessment, his hair somewhat ruffled, "What do you think?"

She was about to ask him who he was, but the locket had told her he was the same man, just a new body. If so, maybe she won't mind it. Weirder things have happened, why would this be any different. "You're still the Doctor, right?"

His smile falters a bit, was she scared of him? "Yes, I'm still the Doctor."

"So, you regenerated?" she asked timidly.

"Yah, right in front of ya, right over there." Looking at her slightly scared eyes, he can see she wants to trust him, but she's not sure. "I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but… it's still me."

"I- I don't know anymore. So many things have happened." Rose says shaking her head.

The Doctor takes a few steps closer to her, and looks down at her eyes. "If I wasn't the Doctor, then how could I remember this? Very first thing I said to you. Trapped in that cellar, surrounded by shop window dummies… oh…" he looks away for a moment, reminiscing old memories, then back to her eyes, "…such a long time ago. I took your hand…"

He emphasizes his point by taking her small hand in his. Rose glances down at their joined hands and back up at him. The warmth is familiar, but it's still a different hand. Yet, it seems as if his hand was made for holding hers.

"I said one word, just one word, I said run." He still gazes at her, her own eyes filled with unshed tears.

"Doctor…" She whispers.

"Hello." He says, sort of gently too.

Rose sighs in an exasperated fashion and stumbles backwards as the impact of what has happened hit her. The Doctor takes off to the other side of the console.

"And we never stopped, did we? All across the universe running, running, running." He flicks a few switches, "One time we had to hop. Do you remember, hopping for our lives?" The Doctor starts hopping around, and Rose just leans back on the pillar and watches.

"Yeah, all that hopping, remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the…" the wild enthusiasm ebbs from his voice at Rose's lack of reaction. His hopping subsides. "…no?"

"Can you change back?" she asks quietly.

"Do you want me to?"

"Sort of."

"Oh."

"Can you?"

"No." he sounded pretty disappointed. Looking briefly to the floor, "Do you want to leave?" he asks.

"Do you want me to leave?" she asks shocked.

Almost too quickly, this Doctor talked fast, "No! But… your choice… if you wanna go home…" he finishes sadly.

Rose still looks a bit upset, and he goes to the console again. "Cancel Barcelona. Change to London, the Powell Estate, ah, let's say, the 24th of December." The Doctor looks up at Rose, "Consider it a Christmas Present."

Rose edges towards the console as he finishes with a simple, "There." He steps back, his arms tucked under his armpits in an almost defensive manner. Rose looks up at him, then back at the console. The TARDIS shudders as it changes direction.

"I'm going home?" Rose asks, quiet still.

"Up to you. Back to your mum… it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast - - no, Christmas! Turkey! Although… having met your mother… nut loaf would be more appropriate.

Rose quickly looked down, trying to hide the smile that crept up on her face. She didn't want to be mad at him, it's just she should have told her before that he could even do this. So she could better prepare herself for all of it. He even sounded like the old Doctor.

That's because he still is the Doctor, Miss Tyler.

The locket whispered to her. She looked in its direction and reminded herself to grab it before she went back to her mum.

"Was that a smile?" asks the Doctor teasingly.

"No." she says, trying to be cross.

"That was a smile." He states knowingly, unable to smile himself.

"No it wasn't."

"You smiled…" The Doctor continued teasing.

"No I didn't." Rose snapped.

"Oh come on, all I did was change. I didn't-" he was stopped when he made a gagging noise, and golden wisps flowed from his mouth.

Miss Tyler, something is going on with his regeneration.

As the Doctor goes on, going mad and flipping levers, Rose quickly reaches toward the compartment and it opens automatically. Grasping the little golden sun in her hand, she feels the usual warmth it brings and almost smiles.

Then, the TARDIS starts racking more violently, "Doctor! What are you doing?" Rose yells.

"Oh, regeneration's going a bit wrong," he murmurs, then a curious almost insane look crosses his new face, "Haven't used this one in a while, let's go faster!" He yells with glee. Looking back at the frightened pink and yellow human, his face goes sad for an instant, then back to insane as he goes about the console yelling at it to go even faster.

When the TARDIS finally comes to a full stop Rose clips her necklace back into place around her neck, and safely tucks it under her shirt.

Throughout the adventure with the Sycorax invasion, Rose's sun pendant stayed silent, never even giving her the comforting warmth that usually accompanies her. When she saw the Doctor coming out the TARDIS with a pair of jim jams, robe, and slippers, she couldn't help but smile. The new Doctor certainly has a gob on him, and great hair too, she doesn't quite get why he wants it ginger so much though.

Sitting at the table with her mum and Mickey, she hears the door open and close and she looks over and a wide grin spreads over her face. This was her Doctor. Dressed in a brown pin-striped suit, tan trench coat, and a pair of white trainers.

With his hands in his pockets, he grins back and Rose can't help but feel her grin grow. That smile, well, she could get used to that.

After eating and during the interview with Harriet Jones, Jackie gets a call to which she exclaims to the group, "Its Beth, she says go and look outside."

"Why?" asked Rose.

"I don't know. Just go outside and look." When nobody moves for a moment, Jackie adds a little louder, "Come on, shift!"

As everyone ventures outside, Rose can't help but gape. The ground was covered with white flakes, and there was still some coming down. Even streaks of light were covering the night sky. Even with how much Rose has already seen, like the waters of Women Wept, and the room in the TARDIS with the meadow of red grass, Earth was such a beautiful place.

"Oh, it's beautiful. What are they, meteors?" Rose asks the man standing beside her.

"It's the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere. This isn't snow, its ash." The Doctor responds with an emotionless mask. She could get why too. Harriet Jones had blew up the whole ship with hundreds of Sycorax on board. The Doctor had vented angrily had the Prime minister, saying doing that was saying a message. That the real monsters weren't them, but you humans, look out because here they come, that's the message Jones had just sent out by blowing up a surrendering ship.

Looking sadly back up at the sky, "Okay, not so beautiful."

"This is a brand new Earth," Stated the brunette. "No denying the existence of aliens now, everyone saw it, everything's new."

Looking down from the sky, she glanced back over at the changed man in the pin stripped suit, "And what about you? What are you going to do?"

"Well," he shrugged, "back to the TARDIS, same old life." The Doctor finishes looking down at Rose.

"On your own?"

"Why, don't you want to come with?" he asks puzzled a bit.

"Well, yah." She answers, as if it's a matter of fact.

"Do you though?"

"Yeah!"

"I just thought, because I changed…" he said, looking down at his trainers a mo then back at the blonde human.

"Yeah, I thought, because you changed you might not want me anymore." And she really did think that. He's an entirely new man, well, almost. The question had been bugging her, had he still wanted her along?

"Oh, I'd love for you to come." The alien answers, not even stopping the boyish grin that had crept on his face with that statement.

"Okay." She smiles that wide smile with her flushed cheeks. Just smiling at one another, another voice decides to speak up.

"You're never gonna stay, are you?" Asks Mickey with a sad tone, almost adding "with me" in that sentence.

"There's just so much out there, so much to see, I've got to go." Rose replied, smiling sadly at Mickey, knowing he deserves better than her and hoping he would find someone soon to replace her.

"Yeah." He says with a nod, understanding crossing his features.

"Well I reckon you're mad, the pair of you. It's like you're looking for trouble." Spoke up a slightly shrill voice. Jackie looked pointedly at the Doctor, then her daughter.

"Trouble's just the bits in-between. It's all waiting out there, Jackie, and it's brand new to me. All those planets, and creatures on the horizons, I haven't seen them yet! Not with these eyes, and it's going to be fantastic." The Doctor finishes, using the word his old self had used quite frequently. Holding his hand out to Rose, he grins and waggles his eyebrows.

Rose just laughs and points at the offered hand, "That hand of yours still gives me the creeps." They both just smile and she takes his hand anyways. "So, where we going to go first?"

Both now looking up at sky and leans his head near hers and points up at a constellation, "Er, that way, no hold on," he draws his hand back a bit before pointing in a different direction, "That way." He looks at Rose and smiles at the concentration on her face as she tries to deduct which area he's exactly talking about.

She nods the same direction of his hand, "That way?"

"Hmmm?" he asks, the brunette being distracted for a moment just staring at the blonde in front of him.

She smiles a bit knowingly and answers her own question, "Yeah, that way."

Not even noticing herself, as its such a normal thing to do for her, her free hand reaches up and grasps the golden sun. What was going on that made her old Doctor so concerned over a necklace?

AN: Thanks for reading! I think I did better on this chapter then my others, i don't know. That's my opinion anyways. Remember to review and or favorite or something. I like the acknowledgement, I mean, who doesn't want to crave it, even if ya don't admit it? I hope to be quicker this time in posting my next chapter, and again Thank ya kindly for reading.