Alec just looked at her. She had been willing to do that for him, well at least it had looked like him a few years previously it seemed, not that he remembered.
"You said you were never romantic."
"We weren't but it didn't stop me from loving you but we've not yet established it is you."
"Come on Rose, who else could it be?"
"Don't you think I want it to be true? I tried for years to get back, almost got stuck myself a few times when the device I was using wouldn't work properly but I never gave up. You want to know what happened that Ryan went in my place?"
He didn't really, it must have been bad.
"I landed in a universe where he was dead, you were dead, I was too late and the world was thrown into chaos because you weren't there."
"What difference could I have possibly made?"
"Because of who you used to be."
"I take it I was not a police detective then?"
"No. I shouldn't really tell you because it could make your heart give out."
"It's that bad then?"
"Yeah. OK, here goes then. Me, mum and Mickey, like Pete said, we're from another parallel universe, right?"
Alec nodded. She carried on explaining then came to the crunch. He was a Timelord. He listened as she tried to explain how they had travelled, in the Tardis and how they'd got here accidentally and helped defeat the Cybermen and how they'd come to be in Pete's house that night. He remained as calm as he could, Rose trying to keep things simple and that when the Cybermen had escaped, they tried to stop them.
"So that's how we got parted? Pete took you with him but you defied him and went back to help me?"
"Yeah, how could I leave you all on your own?"
"You could have been pulled in with them and who are these Daleks?"
"Worse than the Cybermen, believe me, you don't want to know about them."
"Then how did I get here? Did I get left one of those devices and I got it working? If I did, why don't I remember?"
She wanted to tell him that was how he'd found her but she couldn't lie to him like that.
"No Alec, we think the Tardis sent you here."
"The ship? How could it do that?"
"You were a part of each other and we think something happened to you and you asked to be brought here, to me."
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Life after regeneration
FanfictionWhat if after each Doctor regenerated, they lived on in other lives? The 4th Doctor was a curator, the 5th a cricketer and what if ten was somehow transported across the void to become a detective inspector, finding himself in Broadchurch and disco...
