Author's Note: I'm so so sorry about the forever long wait for this chapter. There was a lot going on the last few months.

After a couple of debates, I'm excited for this and for what I've got planned for the next chapter.

Sorry about the earlier version, I'm not sure what happened.

70 years ago - Pete's World

Somewhere, Rose had heard that doctors made the worst patience and unfortunately for her, neither Jonathan or The Doctor were exceptions to that rule. The Doctor spent the entire time whining about superior biology (especially when he'd been Big Ears and Leather) and Jonathan whined about how he used to have superior biology.

He was lucky sometimes she loved him…

Rose slammed the door to her car shut and quickly made her way in side, her arms full of groceries. She really hoped Jonathan hadn't gotten into the trouble in the thirty minutes it had taken her to run to the store.

Why she got her hopes up was beyond her.

"I'm back!" She listened out for the sounds of her husband as she made her way into the kitchen.

The house was quiet.

Perhaps too quiet.

"Jonathan?"

Silence met her.

Putting away the cold things, she left the rest sitting and made her way upstairs to their bedroom. She peeked in, wondering if he was finally listening to the doctor and resting.

Appendicitis and half Time Lords don't mix well.

He was propped up against the headboard, glasses perched on his nose even though. Rose well knew he didn't really need them.

Her mom had brought a tray table over and was using it to perch a diary on it.

"Whatcha writing?" She slid into bed next to him and peeked over his shoulder. A drawing of a landscape met her gaze. Two tall mountains, a globe covered city, and Jonathan was starting to color in a red sky. "Is that?"

"Gallifrey." Jonathan quietly answered. "The Citadel of the Time Lords located between the mountains of Solitude and Solstice."

Two figures lay on the hillside underneath a tree their backs to the drawing facing the Citadel.

"Koshiel and me. We used to run away from school and play in the trees. I wonder what younger me would have thought if he knew what was coming."

He'd told her, one night when a nightmare about the year that never was had awoken him.

Snuggling closer to him, she took a chance. "Tell me about it. You lived there?" She pointed at the city.

"I was a part of the house of Lungbarrow. I told you about the schism before."

She nodded.

"Then we lived in a dormitory as we did school. But the citadel housed more than just the Academy. This is where our Lord President and High Council lived and worked. Most Time Lords chose to live here in the Citadel."

Rose let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. "Weren't you elected a few times."

"Unfortunately." He ran his hands through his hair. "My fifth self actually liked it, well one time he ran away but another he stayed and gave it a shot. If I do say so myself, it wasn't a horrible presidency."

"I'm sure you were great, President Doctor."

"That's Lord President Doctor to you." He wiggled his eyebrows.

"Oh, I'm sure it is." She laughed. "So you had a Lord President, a High Council, an Academy."

"And the CIA. Oh, I wasn't supposed to know about them but I do." There was an odd edge to Jonathan's voice. "They went and made sure no other race created time travel. Had enough problems with the races who figured it out as it was. Granted, the humans slipped past them that had to be embarrassing."

"CIA, like the American agency?"

"Celestial Intervention Agency."

"Wait a second. I thought your lot was non interventionalists. I thought that's why you ran away?" She sat up, staring at the picture below.

"The CIA worked in the shadows. What people knew didn't hurt them. Last I heard of them, a bloke named Narvin was running it."

He turned and gave her a quick kiss. "Grocery run went well?"

"Yes, I got more tea." She got up. "I'll bring you some."

"Thanks, love." He smiled at her, picking up his pencil to color the sky more.

"Auld Lane Syne, Jonathan." She murmured quietly as she wandered back downstairs. "Don't forget them just because it hurts."

Rose tucked away that information for future reference. Eventually she would stop living in a paradox that threatened to either choke her or throw her back into another universe.

How did The Doctor keep these things straight sometimes?

"Narvin?"

"Yes, Lady Goddess?" He smiled weakly at her. "It is truly an honor."

"It's Rose here."

"Where is here?" He groaned as he sat up, Martha took a step back.

"Earth."

That earned them a louder groan. "Not Earth, what is with this backwater world."

"Watch it." Rose felt her hands go to her hips. "This 'backwater world' happens to be my home."

"My apologies. But what am I doing here? What are you doing here Leela, Lady President? I thought Rassalon had taken you prisoner when he took over."

"Let's discuss this inside. We'll use the lift and meet you down there. Jack, get his other side, the rest of you head on."

Rose helped Jack support his weight and they led him to the lift. "Did you know, Narvin, that when a TARDIS is used to almost crack open a planet due to rift energy, that the spot sometimes leaves energy traces?"

Jack took a step up and helped fit him onto the stone. "Comes in handy, now and then, when you want to make an entrance."

With that, the lift began to descend and the Hub appeared below them. "Welcome, Narvin, to Torchwood 3."

"Torchwood, didn't that organization collapse a few years ago your time?"

Rose shuddered at the memory of the event he was referencing. How many things had been set in motion because of that one day? How many others because of a thing like it?

"That was Torchwood 1 in London. We're in Cardiff and were a lot smaller and a lot more underground than them." Jack explained as the lift came to a halt. It was a simple operation until someone decided that they would come and cause me all sorts of trouble."

"I think the real trouble started at the London Blitz."

"We'll always have The Blitz." Jack's eyes seemed to wander years away. For a second, Rose let her mind wander to that day and that dance and the one day that the Doctor got what he rarely did: a day where everyone lived and one could believe that everyone would in fact live happily ever after."

"Martha." Rose snapped out of her thoughts. "Check on Narvin. Between the file you have on The Doctor and information from Roman and Narvin, you should be able to perform an exam. Narvin go with her."

His grumbling told her what he thought of the idea but she knew that he wouldn't question an order from her.

"Ianto?" She turned to see him standing by the door, looking a little lost. "Caffeine would do wonders right now."

"Of course, ma'am." He quickly disappeared.

Rose wandered into Jack's office where she added the note about Narvin to the already fairly long list of things she needed to do. How would she know when she needed to do it all?

Trust me, My Wolf, you will know.

Rose quickly looked around, hearing the ship in her head. "Glad one of us thinks so."

I know so. Patience My Wolf. For you have helped so many and for my Thief. Soon you will be able to keep your promise.

The memory, one Rose had never truly forgotten but often forced herself to ignore, flashed across her mind.

"How long are you going to stay with me?"

"Forever."

"Talking to yourself isn't the best of signs, Rosie." Jack broke through her thoughts as he entered her office. "And you're sitting in my chair."

"Since I'm the most powerful one in this room, I think it can be my chair if I want it to be while I work on this."

"I'm older."

"Because of me. Which I still feel awful about." Rose bit her lip, making a note in her diary.

"Don't." Jack picked her chin up, forcing her too look at him. "Don't ever feel bad. I've gotten to do so much and I'll get to do so much more. Plus, someone has to help keep you and The Doctor in line."

"You are so not the best candidate for that."

Both laughed.

"He's nearby." She shut the diary, vacated the coveted chair and wandering to a sofa. "The TARDIS reached out and put her two cents worth into my wandering thoughts."

"Why not go to him? It's been almost a century, it's been over a quarter of a century since you became a widow."

She laughed. "I must use some great moisturizer."

"You and me both."

Rose looked at her dear friend. "I wish I could. Jack, you don't understand just how badly I wish I could run right now into that mad blue box of his and tell him to take me anywhere and everywhere and that we will run as long as there are stars to run to in all of space and time…"

She pulled out the book she'd taken from the TARDIS. "But the Bad Wolf, The Goddess of Time, me, we've or I've got more to do and if I go to him I won't want to leave to do it."

"Your coffee, Miss Rose?" Ianto cam into the office, the steaming cup of liquid magic in his hand.

"Thank you, Ianto." She inhaled its rich smell before taking a sip. "I needed this."

Settling into the couch, she covered her legs with the blanket that lay there. "I have to choose what's better for the universe over what I want."

"A decision that he has to face all the time." Jack looked up from his paperwork. "I'm not complaining about you sticking around, I love having you around."

"I know, but someday I need to do what I need to do. Fulfill my destiny and finally get my happily ever after."

"Fairy tale to match the dress."

"Something like that." She smiled but before she could comment further, her phone rang. She smiled when she saw it was Mr. Smith. "Hello?"

"I found some of the information you requested. Rose Tyler."

"I'm on my way."

"Leaving me already?"

"You can come with, if you'd like."

In a whoosh of gold, Rose and Jack arrived in the attic of Sarah Jane Smith. Mr. Smith was already out, and his interface let out a surprise guest. "I wasn't aware that you were bringing a guest with you."

"Captain Jack Harkness." He waved at the computer. "Sarah Jane would be the one to have a super advanced computer hiding away in her attic.

"I'm a Xylok."

"He's a Xylok." Rose answered at the same time.

"I wasn't aware there were any left in existence." Jack took a couple steps forward, examining the interface. "This is incredible."

"I'm the last of my kind. Sarah Jane helped create an interface for me to be able to help protect planet Earth."

"And he's done a magnificent job at doing it." Sarah Jane walked into the attic. "Hello, Rose. And Jack Harkness I believe I told you to come around for tea sometime. Cardiff isn't that far away."

"Hello Sarah Jane." Jack walked over and wrapped her in a hug.

Rose waited for her turn to get a hug from her friend. "Sarah Jane."

"Mr. Smith mentioned you had a visitor, today. A Gallifreyan signature appeared near your base."

"Are you keeping tabs on my base?" Jack face was trying to look surprised but Rose could see he didn't completely mean it.

"You watch mine." Sarah Jane crossed her arms. "Mr. Smith found something for you."

"The TARDIS was nearby and we compared information, it was brilliant the chance to talk with another sentient computer, and she gave me the information on Jenny."

"You found her?!"

"Yes. She went about a solar system away before crash landing. You can rescue her there but you have to help her be created in the first place. Timing here is going to be crucial. You have a matter of minutes before he shows up and that's far too early in his timeline for him to see you."

Rose nodded, thinking back to a conversation she had with Donna about that particular adventure. "Okay. Jack, let me take you back and then go rescue her."

"Who is Jenny?" Jack and Sarah Jane asked at the same time.

"The Doctor's Daughter." She turned to Jack. "Some days, and they are so very rare, everyone lives. And this day, the day where most everyone lived was a victory that Doctor has no idea existed. He suffered from the pain, the heartbreak for nothing and the universe owes him this."

"Keep looking, Mr. Smith. We need to find the others. Sarah Jane, keep me posted and I'll be back soon. Jack, I'm taking you back to the Hub. Keep an eye on Narvin's exam and let me know if there's any problems. With any luck, I won't be gone too long."

Messaline would be a nice planet one day, once these clones figured out what was really going on and got around to doing what the original versions came here to do.

Sadly, at the moment, there was none of the beauty Rose had heard would exist there one day.

Instead, she found herself underground looking for the exact machine that would later be used on the Doctor to create Jenny.

Her dress billowed around her, really playing up just how out of place she was in this environment.

Finding the machine, she rigged it to take not one but two sets of DNA. While talking to Donna, she'd already guessed that this would happen and having Mr. Smith confirm it didn't surprise her. From what Donna told her, her daughter, their daughter, was going to be one special girl.

And in a bit, Rose would meet her for the first time.

She'd just gotten out of the way when the familiar sound of the materializations sequence started and she saw the box.

Hello

Hello, My Wolf. It's great to see you again though My Thief isn't very happy.

He's just upset because he doesnt' know what's going on.

The door creaked open and Rose steadied herself against the cave wall as her Doctor stepped out. Coat on, pinstripe suit, wild crazy wonderful hair, and brooding face. "Why Would the TARDIS bring us here?"

"I love this bit." Martha Jones' voice came from inside the TARDIS as she stepped out with Donna.

"I thought you wanted to go home?" Donna's face matched her smug tone.

"I know, but all the same… it's that feeling you get…"

"Like you've swallowed a hamster?"

Rose had to cover her mouth to stifle the giggles that came out at Donna's odd yet accurate description of traveling in the TARDIS.

Oh, how she missed it.

Her musings were quickly interrupted as the group was discovered and Jenny was created.

Rose's heart leapt into her throat as she saw the girl standing there. She looked like the two of them and she knew from Donna that she carried some other personality traits.

And of course, The Doctor was upset because he didn't know what was going on.

He was lucky she loved him.

Big egotistical dork that he was.

Jenny trigger an explosion and Martha was nearby. Rose leapt out as rubble blocked her from The Doctor's life getting Martha to safety as a shield of golden energy protected them. Before it could settle and Martha realize who she was, she disappeared.

"Take care of him."

AN: Thank you so much for reading!