It was an ordinary day for Rose Tyler. But it was also the day that changed her life, forever.

She had just woken up to the lovely sound of her alarm clock. 4Am, that was the time she got up every morning for Torchwood. She rolled over and put her hand on the empty pillow next to her.

She didn't like to thing about it, the love and lost of the only person she ever cared about in the universe. Or universes she should say. She sat up and swung her feet up, and over the edge of the bed, with her alarm clock still ringing. She groaned and slapped the clock quite.

"I bet Jack wouldn't do this, 4 am." she said to herself, grinning, then wincing at her own remark to her old friend. Her alarm clock read: '19th March, Wednesday 2098.' She then hoisted herself off the bed and took a quick shower. Not bothering with her hair she put it in a pony tail, still wet. She wore a pair of BDU's with a black mussel shirt, with her black leather boots, she looked like a solider, but she didn't care.

Also, she didn't bother with breakfast anymore. She started to notice she didn't bother with a lot of things recently, since... well, since the death of John Smith Noble, her husband. It has been way to long since he was shot and died in Rose's arms. They were on a mission for Torchwood and there was a new species of alien on Earth. Torchwood tried to negotiate with them to leave in peace, but instead they attacked. John got hit in the process.

The leader of the Cyndessions pulled out a gun and started shooting. Everyone who was Torchwood started to take cover behind some wooden crates and pulling out their own weapons to defend themselves.

"Everyone on my count of three we attack, standard formation, and I know there isn't very many of us but if we can get a message back to base they can beam us back home. Got it?" commanded Jeff. Jeff was the general of the force team at Torchwood.

Everyone nodded their heads.

"One, Four, THREE!" He yelled his signature countdown and they popped up out of their hiding place. And by 'they' I mean, The general, three trained soldiers, a computer tech, Rose and John.

"I got your back!" the tech yelled to Rose. Rose nodded and advanced forward. 'Right.' She thought, 'Aim and shoot, aim and shoot.' Rose didn't go on missions like this very often, neither did John. But for Torchwood its required to go on a mission every 3 months, just to keep you on your toes.

Only one solider down, injured in the leg. The aliens were advancing on them; and quickly, soon they were outnumbered by over 20 Cyndessions.

"Gen! We cant hold them for much longer!" Rose yelled out.

"Torchwood should beam us up any moment now!" The General yelled back. Rose faced forward and started firing again. Then she heard a body hit the ground, she looked over for her husband, just to make sure it wasn't him. But she didn't see him.

She looked down across the floor, then she saw him.

"NO!" She screamed and ran towards him. Then all of a sudden she was holding him in her arms back at Torchwood's base.

"No, please, please don't." she cried to him. There was blood gushing from his human heart, as she rocked him back and forth.

"Rose." He finally breathed out,"My brilliant Rose Tyler, I love you." He whispered.

"Please! Don't leave me! You promised, you promised you'd never leave me alone." She sobbed to him.

"I'll never leave you, never." He smiled one of his brilliant smiles, then exhaled and fell silent. She started bawling and she held him close to her. They had only been married three years, next week would have been their fourth anniversary, the fact of that just made her cry even harder.

She didn't care if people were whispering all around her and asking questions. Then someone came up to her and gently grabbed her shoulders and started to pull her away. She knew who it was, the only person that saw her own daughter fall for such a daft alien and saw her heart get left behind twice.

Rose stood up, barely. She was leaning on her mother and sobbed into her shoulder. "Oh my Rose." Was all she said and hummed a lullaby to her.

The funeral was three days later, it wasn't very big. They only invited close friends and family. Yet when Rose was the only one standing there, by the grave of her husband, and everyone else was walking away; there was a woman, about 10 meters away and waring all black. She had very frizzy, curly blonde hair. And this look in her eyes of despair, yet also hope.

Rose walked over to her. "Excuse me, but who are you?" Rose asked.

"I'm an old friend, and this is the funeral of John Smith Nobel is it not?" The strange woman asked.

"Yes it is." Rose answered in a hollow voice.

"And are you Rose?" She asked.

"Yes, I am." Rose replied, confused. The woman rummaged into her coat pockets and pulled out a VHS tape.

"He wanted me to give this to you if anything happened to him." She held it out for Rose.

"What is it?" Rose asked, taking the tape from the mysterious woman.

"I don't know," She shrugged "Never watched it."

Rose looked down at the tape. "Wha-" Rose began looking back up, but the woman was gone.

Rose went back to their flat to watch the tape, well she should say 'her' flat now. She went to go change, she peeled off her black, wet dress, because it started raining after the anonymous woman had left. And then Rose changed into old sweats and a cami, she had also put on the pinstriped jacket John had often wore.

Then she sat on the couch and clicked the remote to play. The tape started to role, then John's face filled the screen of the television.

"Hello Rose." He said with one of those smiles, the same smile he had given her right before he had died.

"Now if anyone else is in this room right now with you, make them leave. I don't care who it is, just say something to make them leave." He paused a moment, but no one was there with Rose. Just the fact of that made her feel even more alone.

"Okay Rose, if you are watching this it means something happened to me, and for that I am so sorry." Rose held back a sob and continued watching.

"But also if you are watching this it means that I didn't get the chance to tell you something before I left. Rose, I want you to do me a favor right now. I want you to put your hand on the left side of your chest." Roses brow furrowed but she did so.

"Now put your other hand on the right side of your chest." Rose did so, "Now, feel." He said then paused. Rose felt her heartbeat, it had speed up at the sound of his voice but nothing unusual.

Then she felt it. Not a single heartbeat, but... "No." She whispered aloud.

"Oh yes. You feel that don't you. Now I know what your gonna say; I should have told you but of course I didn't get the chance to do that yet, because you're watching this." He continued.

"Rose you haven't aged a day since... well since Bad Wolf. And I took a notice to this in 2010, three years since I've been here. And well, apparently the Doctor didn't take all of the Bad Wolf out of you then, because all of that time spent in the TARDIS and time traveling and when you add in the Bad Wolf bit..."

He sighed, "Rose, this is the reason why we couldn't conceive a child." He finally said. Roses hands flew up to her mouth and started to cry. "And I'm so sorry for that. The day after we went to go see the doctor about it I took the test results and ran them through Torchwood. Rose, you're... you're not human anymore. And if you have two hearts, don't age and cant conceive a child with a human, then... then I don't know what species you are."

Rose couldn't stop the tears anymore, she clutched the pinstriped jacket even more now. "I am so sorry I didn't get to tell you in person. And I am so sorry I'm not there to hold your hand." Rose cried even harder now.

"Rose." The tape said. She looked up at his face, but not wanting to. "Don't give up, and as always... Allons-y" He finished with the same smile as the tape stopped a started to rewind itself. So Rose just sat there, all alone. With no one to love.

Rose walked into Torchwood and it seemed to be busier than usual. Then when she walked into the main area for alien research, a squint came up to her handed her a cup of coffee and started talking.

"Uhh- Mrs. Tyler, I think you need to see something." The young girl said behind her thick glasses.

"Ugh, what now? Did something else came out of the rift?" She asked sipping her coffee and walking away.

"Umm, well no. Really, you have to come and see for yourself." The squint stopped walking and Rose stopped as well.

"Fine," Rose finally said, "Show me this... this thing that is so important." Rose said in a sneer, not because she is mean or went all rotten when John died, she just wasn't a morning person.

The squint nodded and started to walk the opposite way. Rose followed her all the way to a team of people who were surrounding something on the wall. One of them looked up at her and started to walk towards her.

"Mrs. Tyler, I'm Matt Johnson, I was put in charge of this investigation called The Crack." A man in a lab coat explained to her.

"We require you're expertise in this situation, we've never seen anything like it before." Rose chuckled at the word 'expertise'.

"Okay, but why did they call it The Crack?" She asked.

"Well, let me show you." He said and indicating her to follow him, he lead her over to where they were all standing before. The others on the team parted to let Rose through. Then she saw it. A crack, now she understood the title.

She went up and touched it, one of the team members winced behind her. She turned around, "What?" She asked to one of them.

"Well, we didn't do that many tests on it yet, and we still don't know what it is. It only showed up last night." One of them answered.

"Well no need for that, I can tell you what it is right now." She said turning back to the crack and took another sip of her hot coffee. The team leaned in for her word on it.

"Its two parts of space and time that should never have touched." She said, then hearing the awe of the people around her.

"What should we do with it?" Johnson asked.

"Well, if you broke down the wall the crack would still be there. So," She said taking a step back from it, then turned around. "just monitor it, you know the usual. Energy fluxes, any sort of radiation."

Johnson nodded and some of the team took notes.

"And if anything, anything happens to it, like it opened or god forbid that something comes through it, don't touch it. Just come and inform me soon as possible." She said warningly to him.

He nodded and Rose began to walk away. "Thank you Mrs. Tyler!" Johnson called out.

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Rose went on with her usual work for the next few months. The normal alien wanting world domination and human enslavement. But also the after effect of that, paperwork.

It was Tuesday the 13th of May, and Rose had a treacherous amount of paperwork to be done. She sighed and look at her clock, it was 7:43pm. She groaned and leaned back in her chair, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

Then she heard feet pounding down the hallway outside her door. Before she could even react to the fact that someone was running down the hallway, one of the team members of The Crack was starring at her.

With blood drained from their face and panting, they managed to get out the words: "Crack- something- came- flying- out." Rose was up and out of her seat before the member could go on.

"Show me." She said. The scientist started to run again with Rose following him. As soon as they got to the main area, Rose saw soldiers around the perimeter of the crack and Matt Johnson came flying up to her.

"Okay so, just a normal day and there was nothing unusual about it. Then six minutes ago it opened up and... well come and see." He said almost way to fast for Rose to register it.

Rose walked up to the crack, but then a arm stuck out in front of her stopping her form getting to close.

"Sorry, no closer." a soldiers said.

"Let her though!" yelled Johnson. The soldier put his arm down and let Rose though. Rose stepped inside the circle.

"What am I suppose to be looking at?" She asked anyone who was listening.

"That." One of them pointed at the floor. Rose looked down and she saw a blue letter. She knelt down beside it, it was addressed to her.

It read 'Rose Marian Tyler, Parallel universe.' It had stamps on it and didn't have a return address on it. She took out a pen from her jacket and flipped the envelope over, making sure not to touch it. On the back there was a 0 printed in sliver on it.

"It's safe." She called to them all, picking up the letter. Then the soldiers lowered there guns and walked away. The Crack's team came up to her and started asking questions. "What is it?"

"How did it get here?"

"Is it dangerous?"

"Are we gonna open it?"

Rose put her hands up in surrender, with the envelope still in her hand, and stood up to all of them.

"Whoa, one at a time." Rose said with her hands still up. Johnson stepped forward.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Its a letter."

"To who?"

"Me, apparently."

"Who's it from?"

"I don't know."

Then they just stood her in silence while Rose studied the letter,

"Well, are you gonna open it?" Johnson asked.

"Yeah, but I think I'll do it back in my office, thank you." Rose said and walked away back to her office. As soon as she did, she closed the door behind her and locked it. Then she sat behind her desk and studied it some more. It wasn't just any kind of blue, it was the bluest of blues, and that only reminded Rose of one thing that could be that blue.

She pushed that possibility aside and opened the letter. It was only two slips of paper. One of them was a thick kind of paper, like a card. It had a date, a time, and map coordinates. The other slip of paper was for...

"Oh. My. God." Rose whispered, shocked when she realized what the other piece of paper was for. She looked around her office frantically. She needed to pack. But she didn't need anything.

She ran over to her computer and typed in the map coordinates.

"America, Utah." She said to herself. She ran out of her office.

"Kevin!" She yelled.

"God." She heard a voice behind her. "I haven't heard you yell that that since I forgot to make you your coffee one morning." He said jokingly.

"Kevin, I need you to do something for me, because I have to go home and get ready." She said shoving the piece of paper at his chest. He took it from her and read it.

"But his is for the-"

"I know! But right now I need you to do exactly what it says until I get back, okay?" He nodded still confused.

"Look at me." She said and he obliged, "This is very important. Get you're best people working on this right now. I don't care what they're doing right now, just make them stop and do whatever this says."

Then she ran to her car. "I'll be back in a tick!" She cried over her shoulder.

She practically speed home in her car. She ran up to her flat and ran into her room. She grabbed her 'handy bag' she called it. John fixed it her, its bigger on the inside. It holds about 5 suitcases full of stuff, and its only the size of a small handbag.

But Rose didn't need very many things. She grabbed her sonic screwdriver, (its pink), her vortex manipulator, about 5 days worth of clothing, and she also changed from her Torchwood uniform and into regular clothes. She wore a pair of black and white converse that were Johns; dark blue jeans, and a plain red v-neck shirt. And with her black leather jacket she was ready to go.

Then she also remembered something, something very important. She stopped her packing and went over to her dresser. She opened the very last drawer and took out about everything, until she found what she was looking for.

It was a picture of the Doctor, Jack, and herself. It was the 9th doctor and his funny big ears. Rose picked the picture up and put that in her bag also. She shoved the blue envelop into her bag and locked up her flat and ran back downstairs.

She decided to leave her car there and just run back to Torchwood, it wasn't that far. When she came back to Torchwood she could tell it was ready. She walked over to where Kevin was standing.

"Rose, I want to know what is happening." He demanded.

"I can't tell you, but all I can tell you right now is goodbye." Rose said. Kevin sighed, and nodded. Rose stepped on to the platform in front of her.

"We haven't done the last thing on the directions yet, in case you didn't get back in time." Kevin call out to Rose from behind his computer

"Complete it!" Rose yelled from the platform. Kevin didn't reply he simply typed the codes that are on the sheet of paper onto his desktop. Rose clutched her bag in her hand as she listened to the typing of keys.

"Kevin?" Rose called out.

"Yeah?"

"Tell him I love him and that I'll miss him." Rose said with a single tear from her eye.

Kevin understood who she was talking about.

"Its ready." Kevin called out.

"Then do it!" yelled Rose. Kevin met a glace with another person and nodded his head, then the other person pushed a button and then with an alarm blare there was a big bang and it shook the ground. The lights went out, but only for a few seconds then the backup system came on.

"Rose!" Kevin called out, there was no reply. No one could see anything, there was too much smoke and dust. Once everything was cleared Kevin looked over at the platform, there was no platform.

"Sir!" someone yelled.

"What?" Kevin called back.

"The Crack is gone sir!" Kevin sighed.

"What the hell was that?" an old boss-like voice called out.

"It was the dimension cannon." Kevin replied and stood up from his desk.

"What do you mean? How did it work? Who did you send?" The man was in suit and tie and barely walking on his own.

"Mr. Tyler, you should really sit down. Your wife says-" Kevin began but was cut off by;

"My wife is to worried about me, now tell me what happened."

Kevin explained everything that just happened. When he mentioned Rose the man sat down and when he finished Mr. Tyler rubbed his face with his hands and then leaned his head back on the chair.

"God help you Rose." Tony Tyler whispered to his sister.