Hey guys I'm back and I just got my GCSE results and I did so much better than I expected and I'm over the moon right now lol i only got one B n everything els so happy! I FEEL FANTASTIC he he! Here it is the last chapter of A Blast from the Past, and a huge thank you must go to those who reviewed, but for those who different this is your last chance to tell me what you thought overall, and trust me depending on the number of reviews I get in this chapter will determine whether or not I will continue to make a sequel. But most of all I hope you enjoy this chapter, it is a 'feel good' chapter really, which to be honest all Rose/Doctor fans deserve, especially since the Doctor put on that radioactive blue suit and picked a companion straight out of Terminator 3 lol.

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Chapter 20:

Explorations Ahead:

The Doctor was sitting on a chair perched right next to the flat screen TV which was showing the slideshow of photos. The Minister was sitting on a couch opposite the Doctor's chair on the other side of the flat screen. The TV was sandwiched between the two Time Lords.

The TV wasn't currently showing that specific photo right now, it was showing a different adventure (on the planet Loref), but unfortunately Rose couldn't remember whether they went to Loref before or after that incident. If it was before Rose had to find a way of disrupting the slideshow. But if the incident happened after visiting Loref…well then Rose was in some serious trouble and could only hope that the Doctor hadn't bothered to look at the photos either because he was too jealous or arrogant. She didn't care which would have been his excuse for not looking she just hoped that one was the case.

"Hey! Hey Rose calm down, I know I said the TARDIS door could handle severe blows to it without breaking but I don't think it is Tyler Proof!" The Minister spoke loudly with a cheeky grin on his face and the Doctor gave a slight chuckle but didn't look at her. He was busy reading a thick book in his hands.

Rose who stood motionless at the door looked at both the men and then at the TV. The fact that they were acting normal and sharing jokes caused a huge bundle of emotions to build up inside of her. A huge, big fat load of fear. OK now I'm scared…has he seen the photo? If he has then why isn't he biting the Minister's head off or shouting at me calling me unfaithful? What if he is giving me the silent treatment? God I hope not…Right well it seems like there is really only one probable answer – the Doctor obviously hasn't seen the photo. Now is my chance to try and stop the slideshow. Damn it where were the controls to that TV again? The Minister showed it to me once but I can't remember!

Rose slowly began to walk towards the middle of the console room moving in a circle along the centre railings. As she glanced over the several buttons trying to find one she recognised the Doctor spoke.

"Rose, you seem to be staring at the controls, I hope you're not intending on pushing random buttons. I know how tempting it is but I think we deserve one day off our wild adventures don't you?" Rose head snapped up whilst the Doctor was talking to her and their eyes locked. He seemed to have a mysterious look on his face which Rose couldn't quite understand, this worried her even more.

Trying not to seem suspicious she left the controls and came to sit down on the couch beside the Minister struggling to keep her eyes from wandering on to the TV nearby. She didn't want to divert anyone's attention to the TV but she had to know if that photo was on the screen so she could create a diversion to distract the Doctor from looking.

As she sat down she spoke, "Sorry, I hope I'm not interrupting anything."

"Rose Tyler it's hard to think what you couldn't interrupt with that entrance!" The Minister joked, and Rose began to feel her face changing colour and burning. She playfully slapped the Minister's arm and replied.

"Oh so would you have preferred me not to have apologised then? Right mental note, no need to have manners on board the TARDIS" Rose replied with a light hearted and joking tone. She almost managed to fool herself into thinking nothing was wrong.

"Rose when we are on the TARDIS might I remind you that you have to listen to my rules and disobeying them has consequences. Remember? Hmm?" The Minister's head was tilting towards Rose and he had a huge grin plastered on his face with both his eyebrows raised.

Rose's eyes widened and were staring straight at the Minister, she didn't notice that the Doctor had slowly lifted his eyes to look at the situation that lay opposite him, however once they both went silent he gazed back down to the book.

Rose was completely god-smacked. THAT IDIOT! What is he saying! Surely he knows that could have the most dreadful consequences! I need to talk to him and remind his big fat and obviously empty head just what is at stake! Wait keep cool Rose don't act suspicious, act like your playing his game. But just as she was about to reply with some rebellious speech including 'you can't use that on me forever' or 'this is just getting boring and repetitive' the Minister stood and walked over to the Doctor.

WHAT IS HE DOING? Is he really going to tell him? I have to stop him! Rose was on the edge of her seat about to bolt up, grab the Minister and drag him deep into the TARDIS when the Minister spoke.

"Doctor, if you're done with that book I'd be more than happy to go and put it back."

The Doctor looked up and shut the book, "Yes thank you, it was of great help."

The Minister and the Doctor both grinned and the Minister began to walk deep into the TARDIS hallways. Rose was just getting up to go follow him when the Doctor spoke.

"Rose why did you burst into the TARDIS, is something wrong?" The Doctor spoke in monotone, but emphasised the 'did' with a humorous tone.

Rose just sat there on the edge of the seat and gazed at the ground. She didn't know where else to look. Should she have looked at the Doctor? No that would have been torture. Whilst Rose was trying her hardest at coming up with an excuse the Doctor had sat up and walked over to sit beside her on the two-seater couch.

Rose's heart was beating so fast it began to disrupt her hearing. O God, its over, I'm finished. Its too late to make an excuse he'll see straight through it. Rose began to sit back in the couch and curled her legs so they were on the couch.

She was in so much pain and agony she didn't know how much more of this she could take. All of her memories of that night were coming back to her and she was feeling incredibly stupid. After stupidity the feeling of guilt began to eat her soul away. She should have kept the Doctor in her life. Even if she thought they would never see each other again, that way maybe the incident wouldn't have happened. Secretly she knew that wasn't the case, the small amount of alcohol she and the Minister drank knocked them out of their senses, and if a Time Lord couldn't handle it how the hell was she supposed to? Stop making excuses Rose, you made a mistake and the only thing you can do is to live up to the consequences, even if…even if it may mean you lose him, its better than lying to him.

At that Rose raised her head high and opened her mouth to speak. It was then that she noticed how close they were sitting. Rose was leaning her back against the wall of the couch and the Doctor mirrored that image except he was leaning on his right shoulder facing her. She looked to him and he looked back, the moment was tense and Rose knew what she had to do.

The Doctor during this whole time was just looking at her, with an expression which she couldn't figure out. He was hiding all of his emotions and he knew when he looked at her face she was trying to tell him something which she was obviously struggling to do.

Rose took a deep breath in and spoke, "Doctor, there is something…something I have to tell you." Rose looked again at the Doctor's face and realised his expression hadn't changed. Why can't I tell what he is thinking?

"Doctor, what I'm about to tell you…it's not what it seems. You see it was when we, me and the Minister of course, had visited this planet. It was a lovely planet, great scenery lovely people too, looked like a human crossed with an eagle, but they couldn't fly which I found weird and anyway we were invited by them – the bird people of course, don't remember their species' name bit rude I know but you know me Doctor my memory is pretty poor." Rose was babbling like there was no tomorrow and she knew she was. She was hoping it would help with telling, but it did quite the opposite, it refrained her from telling. She was doing a bit of a 'Doctor'. She was babbling like he used to except in her voice a hint of fear could be heard because every once in a while her pitch would change or she would stutter.

The Doctor tilted his head down and raised it again and softly spoke, "Rose…"

"Remember the time when we were drifting through the Time Vortex and you told me to hold that button down and a split second later I forgot which one? Ha! Yeah me and my bad memory ay?"

"Rose…" The Doctor spoke again in the tone with the same quietness.

"I'm just a silly silly ape who forgets things and you know what I wonder how on Earth you managed to put up with me. Well actually I can't say 'on Earth' seeing as most of the time were in some distant galaxy."

"Rose!" The Doctor spoke much louder and this stopped Rose as she turned to face him. She knew she couldn't keep waffling, because he had seen straight through her.

The Doctor moved slightly closer to her and pulled her into a hug. Rose at this point couldn't speak and wasn't even thinking. Why was he hugging her? Gosh he definitely didn't know, wonderful one more slate of guilt added to her huge load of it…

"I know" He whispered gently into her ear. Rose shivered slightly as his breath warmed the skin on her neck.

They pulled apart and Rose regained a little brain activity, just enough to say, "You…you know?"

Rose was now completely defenceless, he obviously saw the photo and that was it, finto Rose Tyler and the Doctor ended before it even started. Though that didn't explain why he hugged her so tightly and pulled her so close.

Rose's eyes began to swell up with tears at the thought of her and the Doctor's relationship finishing because of a stupid little mistake which she made. She would have done anything, anything to go back and change her decision.

"Rose, while you were outside I was looking through your photos of adventures with the Minister and he was giving a running commentary on all the places you had been and of course we reached that photo."

"Doctor –" Rose spoke quietly before being interrupted by the Doctor.

"Rose please," Rose gazed back at the Doctor dreading what was coming. Maybe he was dumping her, and trying to do it in the kindest way possible but that trail of thought was stopped as the Doctor continued.

He sighed, "The Minister explained to me what happened. At first I didn't know what to think. I had just finally found you and another Time Lord. Then I find out him and you had a 'thing'. After my state of confusion anger began to settle in and unfortunately the Minister had to bare it all, though mind you he some how managed to twist the words flying out of my mouth and caused me to stop and think. We continued talking and the Minister then showed me something. After that all of my anger seemed to melt away and I spent a good half an hour apologizing to him for my behaviour."

Whilst speaking the Doctor had averted his eyes to the TV screen looking at the show of photos showing the pair of them happy and joyful. This made the Doctor smile for a moment and then turned to Rose, "Do you know what he showed me Rose?"

Rose shook her head, slightly afraid but hopeful. If he was admitting he was angry and that he got over it maybe, just maybe, there was a chance at things working out.

The Doctor stood up and reached down to Rose's hand and grabbed it gently as he slowly lifted her to her feet. He began to walk ahead as Rose followed close behind. They began to walk deep into the TARDIS and took a couple of turns, but through out there slow journey Rose didn't pay any attention whatsoever to where they were going.

Rose gazed ahead to the back of the Doctor's head. His hair was a little messy, he had clearly ran his hands through his hair several times, and he only did that when he was stressed. And yet now he seems to be in a complete state of calmness and tranquillity. This was what made Rose scared. How could he be so calm?

Soon the Doctor stopped and Rose did so too as if it was a reflex action. The Doctor turned to his left and then turned again to face Rose, who was staring at him. Slightly embarrassed at her gazing Rose quickly diverted her eyes to her surroundings immediately recognising where they were. They were standing outside her bedroom door.

Rose looked at the door then turned to the Doctor with confusion written all over her face. But before she could summon the courage to ask the Doctor what they were doing he was already opening her bedroom door and pulled Rose with him. They walked across to one of the walls plastered with photos of her adventures with the Minister.

Rose was now beginning to think this may be the Doctor trying to make Rose feel guilty about what she had done. Well it was certainly working. She let her eyes roam over the countless photos until her eyes stopped on the photo of her and the Doctor, right in the middle of the sea of images. Her eyes remained there thinking back to when that photo was taken. It was taken a few weeks after the Doctor had regenerated. The photo was beautiful because it showed the Doctor and Rose smiling at each other completely unaware of the photo being taken. It showed them as they truly were, it showed the love between them. Rose felt her eyes beginning to swell with tears as she remembered exactly what she was thinking when that photo was taken. In the back other mind all she could hear herself say was, all I want is your love Doctor…She tried extremely hard to fight against the tears, and she was winning. She closed her eyes for a moment and re opened them when they were slightly less watery.

"Rose," The Doctor spoke with such a gentle voice as Rose turned to look at him, to look at the first man she ever truly loved. He placed his left hand on her moist cheek and she leant into his touch as he stroked her cheek with his thumb. He then took his hand away and began to pull down the photo of him and Rose from the wall.

So he really is ending it…I don't blame him, I never deserved him anyway…o Doctor, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry and now you will never know how much I regret doing what I did.

The next thing she saw the Doctor do was a little shocking to her, but she had forgotten that the Minister had something to do with it obviously. The Doctor turned the photo round and began to read something written on the back.

"To my dear Doctor, where ever you may be,

I will never forget you. Even now as I travel with another Time Lord everyday I am reminded of you. You touched my heart and stain every breath I take. My love for you will never die, just as my hope of being reunited with you. I wish you all the best, in your future adventures and can only pray that you have found someone to travel with.

Over the lonely and empty years of waiting and hoping for you to return, I was never alone. Because I had you in my heart and in my mind and that was more than I ever deserved from you.

Love from Rose

Rose was already crying quietly looking down at the ground. She didn't know what to think or what to do, but she knew one thing, she wanted the Doctor.

"Doctor, I –" But Rose was cut off as the Doctor quickly in one movement with both his hands cupped Rose's cheeks and had pulled her into a kiss. What began as a slow and loving bond between two lovers grew into a passionate and affectionate kiss. Rose lifted both her arms and threw them round the Doctor's neck and the Doctor released his hands from her cheeks to grip her by the waist as he drew her close to himself.

As they slowly parted, both lost for breath, the Doctor spoke, "Rose, I know you regret what you did, not only from this photo but also from what the Minister has told me and Rose I forgive you, I wouldn't even consider being angry at you Rose, because I need you Rose Tyler and because…because I love you."

Rose was grinning madly with tears still pouring down her cheeks as she openly declared again, "And I love you Doctor, more than you'll ever know."

Just as they were about to close in for another kiss they were interrupted by a cough.

"None of that business on here thank you very much!" The Minister spoke mocking the tone of a parental figure with a fake look of disgust.

Rose giggled and the Doctor grinned madly as the Minister walked over, "I'm just messing with ya! I was wondering how long it would take for you two to sort this out I was getting bored!"

At this Rose reached for a pillow on her bed and threw it at the Minister. He cried out as he was hit, "Right Rose Tyler this means WAR! La liberte!" He cried the last statement in an extremely high pitched voice as he charged at Rose who could not help herself laughing and was eventually grabbed by the Minister and slung over his shoulder.

"Oi! Put me down!" She shrieked.

"Hmm. Let me think about that one, NO!" He turned to face the Doctor who was now completely grinning and trying really hard not to burst out laughing at the sight before him. It was now extremely clear that the love between Rose and the Minister was the kind of love you would find in a family. "So Doctor I'm thinking we should put her into a Stereo Spectrum room, or is that just too predictable?"

"You have one on board your TARDIS?" The Doctor cried, completely ignoring Rose who was becoming extremely dizzy and was still clinging on to the Minister upside down.

"Indeed I do! Though come to think of it, it probably is a bit too cruel to put Rose in. I got a better idea." The Minister stepped back a little and began to twirl round in a circle faster and faster. Rose was now screaming as she couldn't grip any longer and was praying that the Minister wouldn't let her go. Soon the Minister stopped and spoke.

"So Rose how are we feeling?" He spoke in a cheery tone.

All that could be heard was a mumble and the Doctor and Minister both burst out laughing.

"Doctor, I think you better take over here, I have had my revenge for her recent indecent actions on board our ship."

The Minister gently placed Rose on her feet and she soon stumbled falling to the floor, however the Doctor had caught her and swept her up in to his arms knowing full well there was not chance of her walking.

As the Minister and the Doctor, who was still carrying Rose, walked outside into the green meadows, they stopped a few meters away from the TARDIS and sat down. The Doctor began to lay Rose down gently and he too lay beside her. Eventually after all there chit chat and talking, the Doctor and Minister both got up and headed towards the TARDIS again.

"Oi! You better not be leaving me here on my own again!" Rose cried.

The Doctor stopped at looked to Rose as he extended his arms out to her as she wrapped herself around him, and he did the same. Slowly the Doctor turned with Rose and as they held on to each other side by side they followed the Minister who was heading towards the TARDIS.

The Minister stopped about four meters away from he TARDIS and the Doctor and Rose joined him by his side. Rose was imbedded between the Minister and the Doctor. Rose was gripping the Minister's hand pretty tightly and also had her other arm snaked around the Doctor's waist.

"Rose while you were sleeping the Doctor and I weren't only talking about you and the little situation that we had in our hands." The Minister spoke in a cool and bland voice looking straight ahead at the two TARDIS in deep concentration.

"I thought you guys were gone for too long, what were you doing fiddling with the TARDIS or something?" Rose replied curiously when in the back of her mind she was beginning to get a sense of dread and fear.

There was silence for a moment and Rose now turned to look at the Doctor who was also deep in concentration staring straight ahead.

"I suppose you could say we were fiddling with the TARDIS, but we had a bit more purpose behind what we were doing. When you burst in the TARDIS we had actually just finished preparing." The Doctor spoke as he kept his gaze straight ahead, but noticing Rose's rising fear he gripped her waist tighter and turned to look at her. Simultaneously the Minister turned to look at her tightening his grip on her hand.

Rose turned her head from side to side staring at the two Time Lords. "Minister, Doctor please whatever it is your trying to say just say it, you're worrying me…" Rose continued to look from side to side at the Doctor and the Minister. Both men took upon an expression of pride but clear sadness could be seen behind their eyes.

"Rose, when you were reunited with the Doctor and when we landed here did a thought not occur to you along the lines of 'what now?' or 'where do we go from here?'".

Rose's eyes widened and her heart plummeted deep into an unknown hole within her soul. O God, they have thought about it too, please don't make me choose…please. She silently begged in her mind, closing her eyes for a moment trying to force back the tears beginning to grow in her eyes. She re opened them looked straight ahead just as the Doctor and Minister did. The scene that lay before her was too much to handle and Rose was beginning to feel her knees go limp, but she did her best to remain balanced.

Before Rose she saw two identical Police Boxes and in the corner of her eye she saw the Minister on her left and the Doctor on her right. Her mind was going insane, thoughts and feelings were flying all over the place and Rose couldn't compose herself to form sentences.

"Hey Rose, look at me." The Minister spoke quietly as Rose opened her eyes to look at the Minister's face smiling warmly. "Rose, I knew that we were going to be faced with this sort of a situation as soon as we met the Doctor. I also knew you would inevitably begin to think that you would have to choose between the Doctor and me." He paused for a moment looking to the Doctor who turned his head to look at the Minister, his face was incredibly difficult to read. There were no signs of emotion and he was bottling up everything within himself until the end.

Rose's eyes began to sting and she let her face fall looking to the ground, tears now falling freely to the floor.

Now it was the Doctor who turned to her and comforted her, "Rose we would never, ever, put you in that sort of a situation, you hear me? Never. So we realised there was another way. You see Rose Time Lord's have a little trick which you are about to see."

Rose's head shot up to look at the Doctor and was about to speak as her mind was suddenly back on track from the moment he said 'another way', but the Doctor prevented her from talking just by one look as he and the Minister withdrew a small oval shaped device from there pockets and pointed towards the TARDIS.

"Don't be scared Rose" The Minister spoke just before he and the Doctor moved their thumbs in a circle upon the surface of this device and suddenly a blinding amount of light began to shine from both TARDIS.

Rose cried out a little as she turned her head to shade her eyes and face, the sheer amount of little was burning and aching her eyes. Before she knew it she was sandwiched between the two Time Lords as they blocked as much of the light from Rose. They were huddled together for about half a minute when the bursting light abruptly stopped. Rose was still in a state of complete shock and she lost her balance. The Minister was the one to catch Rose and help her up as the Doctor turned and stepped forward towards where the light had been emitted from.

As Rose regained her balance she too walked ahead with the Minister hand in hand and the sight before her was not one she expected. Where there were once two TARDIS was now only one, and was now standing in the middle of where the two TARDIS stood.

Rose looked on in disbelief and spoke, "What happened, where is the other TARDIS and who's TARDIS is that?"

"That Rose Tyler is our TARDIS." The Minister grinned madly at her as she turned to look at him as if he was mad.

"What do you mean?"

"Rose, this is the trick, that bursting amount of light you saw was the energy being used." The Doctor paused and turned to look at Rose with one of his classic grins and continued. "The Minister and I merged the two TARDIS together. Everything inside will be a combination of the two characteristics of the two TARDIS. Everything from the buttons on the control board to the wall structures to the items in every room."

Rose walked forward towards the TARDIS whilst the Doctor and Minister stood side by side smiling and looking at Rose. She withdrew her TARDIS key and inserted it into the lock and after the sound of a click the door opened squeakily. "I'm guessing then this is the Doctor's TARDIS door!" She turned to grin at the Doctor who was too happy to reply with some sort of 'come back'.

Rose stepped into the TARDIS and couldn't even describe in her mind what she saw. The walls were clearly from the Minister's TARDIS and yet the beams that were supporting them were from the Doctors. She ran down the hall to see all the rooms and they too were a mix of both. She stopped when she saw a door which resembled her bedroom door on the Doctor's TARDIS. She extended her hand and rest it against the door as she gently opened it. The room was again a mix and but what surprised her the most was all of her belongings on board the Doctor's and Minister's TARDIS were now neatly arranged in one room. She smiled then ran out towards the console room to find the Minister and the Doctor standing side by side. She ran and hugged them both. As they all held each other's hand Rose spoke.

"I would scream 'Incredible' and 'fantastic' but they can't even begin to cover how I feel." Rose grinned madly.

"Well then now that that is over and done with I do believe we have a Universe waiting to be explored and saved, don't you?" The Minister spoke whilst grinning madly.

The Doctor grinned and Rose nodded as they all stood around the central column wondering what terrifying adventures this magnificent machine would take them to.

But now things were going to be different because for these three adventurers danger may lay ahead in their future, but they would face it head on together, hand in hand.

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Well that is it! The End Finto Capush lol I hope you really did enjoy the story, to all my fans and reviewers thank you for sticking with this story, and again sorry about the delay! But I must stress again for those who don't review now is the last chance you have to tell me what you thought overall and what you think I should do next. So again its really important that I get some reviews now. And for those who have begun to read the story now that it has finished please don't hesitate to leave a review on the story because ill be checking what you guys think I should do! Again thank you to all my reviewers and to all the friends I made over the course of writing this story.
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