Title: Doomsday Aftermath

Author's name: Elizabeth Rose Eve Defoe aka rosepetal

Fandom: Doctor Who

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Doctor Who they belong to the BBC and to Russell T Davies. I wrote this fan fiction purely out of love for the show and therefore do not stand to gain any profit from writing it.

Status: Work in progress (currently spans 11 chapters)

Summary: Rose has found herself separated from the Doctor after the dramatic events that took place inside Torchwood. This fanfic follows her life on the Parallel Earth as she struggles to cope living a day-after-day existence without the man she loves and the excitement that travelling with him brought.

An entry from a diary that Rose secretly confided in after losing the Doctor

It has been just over two months now since we said our last goodbye. That cold, wet and miserable day on the beach. I remember it well, the day I died…

My life is incomplete and without meaning now that he's gone from it. The adventure of a lifetime has slipped me by even though I thought it would go on forever.

Every night I go to bed wishing with all my heart that the next morning I will wake up and find myself looking around my bedroom inside the Tardis, but of course I never do.

This is my life now, here with my family and Mickey on a parallel Earth…a world without the Doctor…

It's not such a bad life I suppose but nothing this world has to offer could or ever will compare to travelling with the Doctor.

I got myself a job, working for Torchwood hoping that it would occupy my mind and distract me from the pain and sadness I feel…

Turns out nothing much ever happens here. The action is where the Doctor is on the proper Earth…where I belong…

This is the story of life after death…

CHAPTER 1

"Rose sweetheart, are you awake?"

Jackie knocked gently on her daughter's bedroom door. There was no answer. She tried knocking again.

"Rose…?"

Still no answer so Jackie pushed the door open, scalding herself slightly on the mug of tea she was carrying, "ouch."

"Rose...I've brought you a cup of tea...I thought it might...help somehow", she shrugged.

From underneath her duvet Rose muttered something that sounded like, "oh the solution to everything."

Jackie set down the mug of steaming tea on the bedside cabinet and pulled back the duvet. Rose was curled in the foetal position entwined in the bed sheets and it was clear from the streak marks that ran down her cheeks that she had been crying again.

"Oh sweetheart", Jackie sat down on the bed and began stroking Rose's hair. Rose turned to face her mother, her eyes glistening with tears that had yet to fall.

"Mum", she wept loudly, "I miss him so much and it hurts mum, it hurts so much like a part of me has just been ripped away and I'm broken without that missing part."

"I know darling", Jackie held her daughter tightly then dropped a kiss on her head and released her again.

"Drink your tea it's just the thing for heating the…oh what was it" , Jackie frowned trying to remember, "...oh I know the synapses." Jackie looked triumphant.

"What are synapses?" Jackie wondered to herself.

Rose sat up and reached for the mug of tea, taking a sip she turned to face her mother, a slight smile upon her face.

"That's what he used to say...the Doctor, oh and always take a banana to a party, bananas are good." She scratched the back of her head with her free right hand, a mannerism she had picked up from the Doctor.

Jackie sighed, at last she had managed to get a smile out of her daughter - since returning from Norway, Rose's expression had been stubbornly glum - which was to be expected under the circumstances.

"Hm he was always coming out with funny things?" Jackie remembered fondly. "All that technical mumbo jumbo."

Rose wiped her eyes with the sleeves of her pyjamas and ran her fingers through her tangled hair.

"That's one of the things that I loved most about him...the random things he came out with" , she choked. "I wonder what he's doing now."

"Probably running for his life on some alien planet somewhere, knowing his love for trouble."

"As long as he's not found someone else to travel around with…you don't think he has do you?" Rose chewed her nail anxiously.

Jackie sighed again, "I don't know...it must be so lonely in that Tardis."

Rose felt a wave of empathy for her Doctor, she had her family and he had no-one, he was all alone again in a big universe, the last of the time lords - the rest of his race being dead - so surely she couldn't be selfish enough as to begrudge him a little company. She felt a lump rising in her throat, she swallowed painfully and took another sip of tea.

"Oh I forgot to mention it before but we've been invited to a party next week" , Jackie broke the silence.

Rose frowned, "Where?"

"I dunno, it's at the house of someone Pete knows, isn't it exciting though?

Rose gulped down some more of her rapidly cooling tea.

"Yeah...yeah exciting."

"Well you could sound just a little more enthusiastic", Jackie was put out.

"Mum it's just...I've travelled through the whole of time and space, I've seen the sun expand and the earth die, I've experienced life during the blitz, I've seen so many kinds of aliens and monsters and impossible things like a planet that existed beneath a black hole without being pulled in. So I'm really sorry if I don't sound too thrilled at the prospect of a party but you can understand yeah?"

Jackie exhaled and rubbed Rose's shoulder. Rose gulped down the rest of her tea, trying to distract herself from the burning sensation in her eyes as more tears threatened to fall. She leaned forward on her bed and settled the mug on top of the cabinet once more.

"I thought we could go shopping later, when you're dressed."

Rose nodded. "Sure sounds great" , there was a little sarcasm in her voice.

"Well I'll let you get up now" , Jackie collected the empty mug and left the room closing the door behind her.

Rose sat still for a moment before slipping out of the bed and padding over to her closet. Most of her old clothes had been left behind in the Tardis so her dad had treated her to a whole new wardrobe.

Rose unbuttoned her pyjama top and shrugged it off, then she picked out a top at random and put it on. Her jeans were all folded neatly at the bottom of the closet and she just took the nearest pair, slid off her pyjama bottoms and pulled on the jeans.

She went to her dressing table and sitting down on her little stool she surveyed her reflection in the mirror. Her hair was a complete mess, her eyes were a little red from crying and she looked pale. Taking her hairbrush from the top drawer she began to give her tangled hair a good seeing to. Then she applied some makeup to her cheeks and lips - she didn't bother with eye makeup anymore as it usually ended up running down her face - finally she smacked her lips together and scraped the stool back across the floor.

As Rose descended down the stairs to the hallway Mickey came out of the lounge, he looked up as he spotted her out of the corner of his eye.

"Mornin' Rose you big sleepyhead."

Rose continued walking down the stairs and stopped a few paces away from him.

"It's the weekend, I'm allowed to sleep in" , she started in mock indignation.

Mickey laughed and held his arms out to her welcoming her into a hug. Rose obliged and felt Mickey's arms embracing her. Mickey's hugs were nice but it didn't stop her closing her eyes and imagining it was the Doctor's arms around her. She pulled away and stood looking at Mickey for a while.

He had changed so much in the last year from the cowardly Mickey who had been afraid of pretty much everything - including her mum, Jackie - to the strong, courageous Mickey who had taken it upon himself to continue the war against Cybus Industries and the Cybermen.

"What?" Mickey asked, frowning.

"Nothing" , Rose shrugged, "Just thinking how much you've changed."

"For the better I hope."

Rose nodded. "Definitely, you were such a wuss before, clinging onto me for support."

"Now it's the other way round" , Mickey grinned broadly.

"Hey" , Rose punched his arm playfully, "I'm not clingy."

"No, no just kidding, but seriously you have been a lot more affectionate since.…", his voice trailed away."

"Since the Doctor left me?" Rose asked.

Mickey looked at his feet, he had said the wrong thing.

"He didn't leave you Rose, you know that."

Rose sniffed. "I know it's just that he said he would never leave me and I thought I'd stay with him forever. I hadn't bargained on being trapped in a parallel Universe with no way back to him.

"Yeah, but you've still got me and your parents and soon a little baby brother or sister."

Rose smiled but again it was only a small smile, she didn't feel much like smiling nowadays.

Jackie appeared from the kitchen.

"Rose there you are. Are you ready to go shopping yet? Your dad's waiting outside in the car."

"Yep I'll just grab my trainers, you coming Mickey?"

"Yeah cos a girly shopping trip is right up my street" , Mickey shook his head.

"Your loss" , Rose called back to him as she ran off to fetch a pair of trainers.

"You took your time" , Pete remarked as Rose clambered into the Jeep.

Jackie was already sat in the front seat checking her reflection in the small wing mirror.

"Sorry, I was talking to Mickey."

"He didn't want to come then?"

Pete chuckled.

"No shopping's not his thing."

Pete turned the key in the ignition and put the gear in reverse. The jeep chugged noisily and the wheels crunched on the gravelly ground as it backed out of the driveway. Mickey was looking out of a window watching them leave and Rose waved to him. Maybe some retail therapy was just what she needed…perhaps.