That's Very Me

Emma

Donna was beginning to panic when someone answered.
"Hello?" It all came out in a rush.
"Please, I don't know what else to do. She just appeared in my room and she's hurt and she said no hospitals and her phone is dead, the battery if not the thing itself and she had a picture with the number on the back and oh god! Please can you help."
"Slow down. Tell me again."
"There's a woman, she appeared in my hotel room, giant flash of light. She collapsed and only woke up enough to tell me not to take her to a hospital. But she's hurt, she's bleeding all over. I found your number on the back of a photograph in her wallet and didn't know who else to call."
"Look, I'm sorry, but I can't help..."
"Her name is Rose." Donna blurted and the man sucked in a sharp breath.
"Where are you?" Donna gave her address.
"You gotta name?"
"Donna Noble."
"I'm Jack, Captain Jack Harkness. I'll be there soon." Donna got dressed and did what she could to help the woman on her floor. There was heavy knocking on her front door, waking up her grandfather and mother. Her mother screeched when she saw the girl in Donna's room. Donna jumped up when the man in the World War II coat strode in and knelt next to the girl. He tilted her head to face him.
"Rose.... Oh god Rosie, what happened to you?" He said to himself. Donna held onto the girl's things as Jack carefully scooped her up into his arms. He carried her out into the kitchen, to look her over in better light.
"She wasn't wrong, these claws, too deep for any animal on earth and too sharp. And the burns look like metal-acid burns. It doesn't exist yet."
"How do we help her? Is there anyone we can call? A Doctor, someone must know about aliens, there has to be someone who can help." Jack smacked himself and hit speed dial on his phone.
"Martha, please tell me you're in London, I have an emergency."
"Donna give her the address." She did, rattling off the address to the woman on the phone." She handed it back to Jack.
"Change of plans, meet me at UNIT, she's gonna need more than average modern medical care." Jack once again scooped the woman up.
"Donna, you're with me." Jack settled Rose into the backseat of his SUV, Donna steadying her. He drove at breakneck speed, careening onto the sidewalk in front of a building marked as Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Donna rushed ahead to get the doors open. The woman at the desk gawked at their appearance before a dark skinned woman dashed out from a side hallway.
"Jack! This way!" He headed after the woman at a swift pace.
The dark skinned woman had Jack lay the girl on a medical table before she told him to get out. Donna was roped into being her assistant. The woman worked furiously, using things Donna knew had to be alien. Finally she stood back from the blonde girl, sighing in relief. She shooed Donna outside to get the girl cleaned up. When the door opened again, Jack looked up apprehension. The woman, Martha gave him a smile.
"She'll be fine Jack." He relaxed and entered.
"Who is she?" Martha asked, standing near the counter.
"She's Rose." Martha crashed into a tray of medical tools sending them crashing to the floor.
"That's Rose, Rose Tyler. What the bloody hell happened!?"
"I don't know, Donna called, told me Rose just appeared in her bedroom. Told her no hospitals and passed out."
"I can imagine. Jack..." Her hesitation made him tense up.
"Martha..." He said, warning clear in his tone.
"Jack. Not all of her injuries were caused by an alien."
"What do you mean?"
"Some of her injuries, they were consistent with abuse, torture even, human torture." Jack gripped the edge of the bed tightly.
"You think..."
"Based on the evidence, Rose Tyler has been consistently tortured for the last 3 years."
"Right after she said goodbye." Jack said hoarsely. "I'm going to kill him."
"The Doctor?" Donna asked. They both turned to look at her.
"You've met him?"
"Ruined my wedding, but he did save my life I suppose... Been trying to find him." Martha and Jack exchanged glances, but said nothing.
It was four days before she woke up. In a room more like a bedroom than a hospital, but still she woke up panicking. Jack was there in an instant, calming her down. She immediately wrapped her arms around him and sobbed into his jacket. He met Martha's worried eyes, his eyes saying the same thing. She was hurt, in more ways than one. Rose seemed to calm down pretty quickly, but she wasn't the same Rose Jack had known. She seemed to constantly want human contact, but only from people she knew. She seemed to know who Martha and Donna were, and treated them like old friends. Jack almost called Sarah Jane, but Rose had nearly broken down in tears. They kept her in the infirmary for a week and a half, before she went home with Donna. She seemed to know who Wilfred was too. Wilfred saw instantly how damaged she was, physically and emotionally. He instantly took the blonde girl in, helping her. Rose healed slowly, her physical state often reflecting her mental state. Some days were better and some days were worse. It took a month and a half for her body to heal, another for Rose to get comfortable, to feel safe. She continued to stay with Donna in Chiswick, even after Jack went back to Cardiff. It wasn't long after that Jack, Donna and Martha came to learn three things. One, she still loved the Doctor, two, Rose's hair was both naturally wavy and a dark red-brown color and three, she didn't want to be Rose anymore, she had another name, Emma Smith. It was the name on one of her IDs. When she was asked why that name, her answer was heartbreaking.
"Emma, it's the name mum and Tony used when they phoned my in secret. Smith, well that should be obvious. She held out the psychic paper. Jack's breath caught. The fake name the Doctor had always used was engraved on the cover. And on the inside, in the Doctor's handwriting, obviously his last thoughts, were some of the most heartbreaking words ever.
Rose Tyler, I love you, for as long as my forever shall last and even after that.
Jack hugged Rose tightly.
"Alright Emma, I think I understand sort of. You don't want him to know it's you, not at first."
"No, as much as I love him, I'm not the same person, if we tried, I'm not sure that we both wouldn't end up miserable." Jack kissed her forehead.
"Alright, I'll miss you Rosie" Rose smiled slightly as he and Martha left. Donna gave her an odd look. Rose smiled.
"I'm Emma Oswin Smith, would you be opposed to a little investigating, Donna Noble?" Donna grinned and linked arms with her.
"Absolutely not!"