History Fanfic / BeingToTimelessness

* Adaptationalbadass: Lee, who in canon was nothing more than Donna's virtual husband, is now a time agent like Captain Jack.

* TheRevealPromptsRomance: In chapter 31, Rose is aroused by the revelation that her body now contains the strand of Time Lord DNA that makes regeneration possible and thus she now has a lifespan that matches the Doctor's. She attempts to initiate sex with the Doctor, but the Doctor hastily pulls away from her because he has his own plans for how he wants their first time to go.

** The scene in "Utopia" where the Doctor catches up with Jack Harkness on what he's been doing since the Game Station is moved up to happen in between "The Runaway Bride" and "Smith and Jones", when the Doctor and Rose jump back in time after "The Runaway Bride" to clear out Rose's mother's flat in the Powell Estate a few days after the battle of Canary Wharf. Despite the setting change, Jack still uses his "Doctor detector" (the Doctor's severed right hand from his duel with the Sycorax leader) to track the Doctor down. The Doctor is angered to find his severed hand in Jack's possession, and takes it back so he can destroy it, which has lasting repercussions on the rest of the next two stories.

* AdaptationalContextChange: When Donna first appears in the TARDIS during "The Runaway Bride," she remarks to the Doctor at one point, "I knew it, acting all innocent. I'm not the first, am I? How many women have you abducted?" In the original episode, she said this in regards to finding Rose's jacket, whilst in the fic, she's saying this with regards to Rose herself turning up in response to the commotion Donna is causing.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Jack first appears in this fic after "The Runaway Bride", when he shows up at Jackie's flat while the Doctor and Rose are clearing out the place. They end up talking shop, the Doctor gets to explain to Jack just how Bad Wolf made him immortal, and the Doctor also ends up taking back his severed hand (which has major implications on the Master storyline in this fic and the resolution to the stolen planets storyline in the series 4 rewrite).

** Rose doesn't take nicely to being called a "chav". When Lance insults her by using that word in "The Runaway Bride", the Doctor has to restrain her from punching him and basically making him prefer to be Racnoss food. This is right after an earlier instance where Lance's betrayal and deriding Donna for not being able to find Germany on a map gets ''Rose'' pissed off on Donna's behalf, being reminded of way too many occasions where she's been looked down upon because of her lack of education.[[note]]Before she got involved in her disastrous relationship with Jimmy Stone, Rose planned on sitting for her A-levels in art[[/note]]

-->'''The Master:''' I've tolerated your cheek all year, but the year is almost over. The only reason why you are still alive, Miss Tyler, is because I want the Doctor to witness the moment when I kill you for real.

* GambitPileup: "The Lazarus Experiment" is being used by the Master for several purposes: 1) he funds the experiment, knowing that a machine that will "change what it means to be human" is guaranteed to get the Doctor's attention; 2) he's made sure Martha's sister works for Lazarus and that Tish is in a position of influence to invite her siblings and her mother; 3) he weaponises the whole incident to convince Francine to hate the Doctor (or at least, tries to) and 4) he gets a lot of enjoyment out of putting the Doctor and Rose's names on the guest list, knowing that the rules of paradoxes will prevent them from investigating his name until it's too late.

** Very prominent in the Dalek two-parter of "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks". When the Doctor, Rose and Martha are entering Hooverville, Martha is incredulous about the concept of shantytowns popping up in the middle of Central Park. Rose, who grew up in a council estate, instantly understands the citizens' plight, having seen way too many of her neighbors on the Powell Estate get evicted for falling way behind on their rent. Later, when they first run into Tallulah, Rose understands (unlike Martha) that Tallulah couldn't report her boyfriend Laszlo's disappearance because she didn't want to lose her job:

"[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Did you really think I would let Rose Tyler go free?]]" The Master shook his head and tsked. "It's been too long since we've seen each other, if you could misjudge me so badly. I've got your bond mate, Doctor. [[FantasticRacism Your]] ''[[FantasticRacism little]]'' [[FantasticRacism human-Time Lord hybrid.]]" He twirled his laser screwdriver between his fingers. "[[ShameIfSomethingHappened If I remember correctly, you aren't positive she'll be able to regenerate. And--again, if memory serves--you aren't too keen to find out.]]" His smile disappeared and he pointed the screwdriver at Rose. "[[ImpliedDeathThreat Have you changed your mind?]]"\\

* AdaptationalIntelligence:
** Lee (Donna's husband from the library), who is revealed to not only be a time agent sent to investigate the Libary but also familiar with the Vastna Nerdada when filled in about what went down, causing Donna to be irritated that she's the only person around who doesn't know. He even correctly identifies a TARDIS at first sight and correctly identifies the Doctor as a timelord.
* AdaptationalJobChange:
** Lee, again as a time agent colleague of Jack's

** Lee, who is revealed to not only be a time agent sent to investigate the Libary but also familiar with the Vastna Nerdada when filled in about what actually went down, causing Donna to be irritated that she's the only person around who doesn't know.

** Lee, again as a time agent collegue of Jack's

* Adaptional smart guy:

* Adaptional job change:
** Lee, again as a time agent college of Jack's

* PragmaticAdaptation: With the Tenth Doctor's regeneration into the Eleventh Doctor delayed, "The Eleventh Hour" plays out much differently. This means the story takes place entirely in the 1990s and only has Amy and Rory as children, without any twelve year time skip.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The addition of Rose does vastly alter the events of "42". With just the Doctor and Martha, only Riley and Scannell survive the episode. By adding Rose and allowing her to fly the TARDIS, there are a few fewer fatalities.

* FreudianSlip: When Rose is ripping into Rickston Slade for expressing delight in profiting off the ''Titanic'' disaster, she begins to have a panic attack and calls him "Harry", Rickston's behavior having reminded her too much of the trauma she endured at the hands of the Master, a trauma she's only freshly been removed from.
-->'''Rose Tyler:''' I’ll tell you what I think, Harry, I think you’re a self-centred, egotistical bastard who needs to learn that other people matter just as much as you do. People died today, and all you can think about is your bank account. What kind of cold, heartless… ''[She growled incoherently, gesturing in the air. Rickston narrowed his eyes, and Rose welcomed his attack. She wouldn’t hold back]''\\
'''Rickston Slade:''' Who’s Harry?\\

-->'''Steward:''' I beg your pardon, sir, but if you’re going to engage in behaviour like that, I’ll have to ask you to return to your stateroom.\\
''[For a few seconds, the Doctor contemplated doing exactly that. They might not have a stateroom, but their bedroom was close enough to count, right? But then he heard Rose’s muffled snort and knew from her laughter that the moment was gone. And while he was fairly confident he could bring it back, he wanted to give her the party she’d been looking forward to]''\\

'''Steward:''' She is lovely, but all the same, I must ask you to maintain the decorum that would have been expected on the original ''Titanic''’s maiden voyage. A chaste kiss is acceptable; kisses that seem to be a prelude to indecent acts are not.\\

'''Rose Tyler:''' "Indecent acts!” That was worse than the hayride driver on our honeymoon, with his "no canoodling" rule. I haven’t been hand-checked on a dance floor since I was fifteen.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Being launched into this story merely a few weeks after having spent a year as the Master's prisoners, the Doctor and Rose both are still dealing with the trauma of what happened. When Morvin dies, Foon's reaction to his death causes the Doctor to have flashbacks as he's reminded of what it felt like when the Master cut off his and Rose's telepathic bond. Likewise, Rickston Slade's general attitude reminds Rose of the Master enough to cause her to have panic attacks. After the adventure, they come to the conclusion that they've developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the Master's actions and they should take some time off before they go on any more adventures. [[spoiler:This was all by design of Dalek Caan after what he saw during his emergency temporal shift]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Astrid ends up surviving the ''Titanic'' voyage rather than turn into particles. This is because the Doctor has her stay with Mr. Copper and Rickston Slade, and Rose takes Astrid's place as the one to drive the forklift to push Max Capricorn to his death.
* StableTimeLoop: Rose forming a bond with the Tenth Doctor bonds her to every regeneration of the Doctor pre-Ten and post-Ten. After "Time Crash", Rose wonders why then the Ninth Doctor didn't recognize her in Henrik's if he'd already run into her as the Fifth Doctor. The Doctor's explanation for that is that "if I meet you as my bond mate before I meet you properly in my ninth incarnation, I have to hide the memories so I don’t ruin my own timeline." Plus, anyone who's seen "The Day of the Doctor" knows that when two regenerations of the Doctor run into one another, the earlier version is unable to retain the memories of interacting with their future self.

* ActorAllusion: In chapter 22, when the Doctor and Rose are discussing having kids of their own, the Doctor mentions that "[[Creator/GeorgiaMoffett Jenny]] looks like [[Creator/PeterDavison my fifth incarnation]]".

* ForWantOfANail:
** The point of deviation is when the Doctor awakens Rose's telepathy. As a result, when Rose is sucked into the Void in "Doomsday," she isn't stuck in Pete's World. Instead, the TARDIS is able to reach across the Void during the nanoseconds before it closes, and uses the fragments of her still left inside Rose from when they were Bad Wolf to pull her back and deposit her on a beach in Norway.
** For the most part, this process has very little impact on the plots of the intermediate episodes, with most of the changes happening below the surface level. Canon events are only really altered if there's an obvious cause and effect that results from a prior change. Though at the same time, the author also works around some things that she doesn't like from the canon by reverse-engineering a reason for the change. For instance, the Doctor doesn't kiss Reinette in "Girl in the Fireplace" like he does in the actual episode because instead of going back through the fireplace, he decides to follow his lead of the clockwork droids.

** Rose doesn't take nicely to being called a "chav". When Lance insults her by using that word in "The Runaway Bride", the Doctor has to restrain her from punching him and basically making him prefer to be Racnoss food. This is right after an earlier instance where Lance's betrayal and deriding Donna for not being able to find Germany on a map gets ''Rose'' pissed off because for her, it's too similar to all the times she's been talked down to because of her lack of education.[[note]]Before she got involved in her disastrous relationship with Jimmy Stone, Rose planned on sitting for her A-levels in art[[/note]]

*** Martha is still their maid, but as a 21st century black woman living in pre-suffrage England, she has a bit of an easier time than she has in canon. Joan Redfern gave Martha a rather hard time in the show (a lot of it a byproduct of the social rules and etiquette she was raised on). John and Rose treat Martha better than Joan did in the show, because even with their suppressed memories, the Doctor and Rose are from a different era. Jenny, the maid who later gets possessed by Mother of Mine, thinks it unusual that John and Rose don't look down on Martha, and also how unusual an arrangement Martha has in working both as their personal maid as well as for school. Martha explains that she's Rose's [[BlackBestFriend best friend]], but John and Rose don’t have a bedroom for her at the cottage, so she does housekeeping at the school for a few hours every day in exchange for room and board. This cover story also allows her to keep a 24 hour watch on John, and be able to take mornings off to keep an eye on John and on the TARDIS without any reprisal. This is discussed between the Doctor and Rose after they un-fob themselves.
---->"John was more tolerant than most men were back then, I think. Certainly more domestic, helping with the cooking."\\

* ForWantOfANail: ''To Make Much of Time'' was a rewrite of series 2 (which already had Rose) to incorporate a romantic and telepathic relationship between the Doctor and Rose. Most of the changes were internal to the Doctor, Rose, and their relationship, with the plots of the individual episodes remaining mostly intact. ''Time is Still a Flying'' is where things really begin to diverge from canon, because large chunks of the series 3 plot arc stemmed from how broken the Doctor is over losing Rose, and dealing with Martha's unrequited feelings for him.
** The original lead in from "Doomsday" to "The Runaway Bride" is that the Doctor is giving a final goodbye transmission to Rose, harnessing the power of a supernova to reach through the Void crack. The conversation ends, and almost immediately after that, Donna appears in the TARDIS. As it goes in ''Time is Still a Flying'', this conversation instead involves the Doctor and Rose saying goodbye to Jackie. Then the Doctor and Rose go to sleep, and then the next morning, Donna appears in the TARDIS while the Doctor is silently praying for some sort of distraction for Rose.
*** For the first few scenes, the episode is relatively unchanged. The changes don't kick in until the motorway chase when the Doctor needs to chase after the pilot fish cab that's carrying Donna. In the show, he had to pilot the TARDIS ''and'' also open the doors and yell for Donna to break herself out and jump into the TARDIS. Here, Rose does all the piloting while the Doctor doesn't have to multitask.
*** When they're going back in time to the beginning of the Earth, Rose hears Donna out, and comforts her over Lance's betrayal, and concludes with the suggestion that they don't start any more sentences with "Lance was right?"
*** In the climax, Rose is the one to free herself and Donna from the Racnoss web, using her expert gymnast skills that she used in the Nestene Consciousness's lair to save the Doctor and Mickey.
** In "Smith and Jones," Rose takes the role of the patient while the Doctor is the concerned husband.
*** Because the Doctor and Rose are clearly married, Martha doesn't develop a crush on the Doctor, and the Doctor also kisses Rose as a distraction for the Judoon (further ensuring Martha doesn't get mixed signals).
*** The Doctor also had made Rose her own sonic screwdriver as a Christmas present, and he's able to borrow that as a temporary backup after he fries his own to kill the first Slab.
** In "The Shakespeare Code," Rose is able to ask the exact questions to set the Doctor on the right course regarding the identity of the witches. That said, they still make the visit to Peter Streete at the asylum because he's the only one who knows the address of the witches (Shakespeare doesn't know that--the only way they can learn where to go is by talking to Peter). But thanks to Rose's information, the Doctor has already figured out they are Carrionites before they see Peter.
** In "Gridlock", Rose is taken captive by Milo and Cheen, instead of Martha. Martha spends the episode with the Doctor working to rescue those trapped in the freeway as well as get Rose back.
** In "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks", things go down differently, since in the show, the story is entirely about him being suicidal due to being face to face with the Daleks who took Rose from him. The core plot of the story (Daleks in 1930s New York) is maintained, but the dialogue based on where the characters actually are emotionally is altered. So for instance, when the Daleks invade Central Park, rather than the Doctor begging the Daleks to kill him after they blast Solomon, he tries to negotiate: "could we maybe discuss other options? Because frankly, I’d rather not die. Besides, do you want to live in a world without me? I mean, what would the Daleks be without an arch enemy?”
** In "The Lazarus Experiment," Rose improves Francine's opinion of the Doctor, but on the flip-side, worsens the situation for Martha's family.
*** The Master is trying to get Francine to be suspicious of the Doctor and think he's a threat to Martha's life, something further benefited from Martha's faux pas when introducing Francine to the Doctor in the show. Rose ends up smoothing things over by introducing herself and the Doctor as investigators from UNIT. So as a result, Francine's only concern is Martha being distracted from her studies by choosing to become friends with a couple who are involved in very dangerous work. At the gala proper, this means Francine doesn't slap the Doctor after Lazarus's initial defeat and instead just tells him she doesn't like the idea of Martha jeopardizing herself hanging out with him and Rose.
*** Down the line, this means Francine doubts the stories the Master's aides are trying to whisper in her ear. She balks at the idea of betraying Martha's friends to the Master, and the Master has to kidnap Tish to force Francine and Clive to cooperate.
*** In "The Sound of Drums", this culminates in a slight deviation of events after the Master blows up Martha's apartment, and Martha is trying to contact her family. When trying to call her parents here, Martha overhears her father shouting "Yes! Just run! I’m not sacrificing one daughter to save the other! Run, Martha!” as Miss Dexter has them arrested. And as she, the Doctor, Rose and Jack are racing over, she tries to call Tish only to be put through to voicemail (in the show, Tish did pick up, but was grabbed the Master's aides mid-conversation).
** In "42," Rose stays on the TARDIS and helps the Doctor and Martha figure things out remotely. Martha also is able to contact Rose to get the answers to the trivia questions the ship crew made as passwords, instead of her parents (with the conversation to her parents instead being an "IfWeGetThroughThis" conversation).
** In the "Human Nature" story, Rose and the Doctor are both fobbed, and married in their human lives. Not only that, but they share the same memories, and Rose figures out that their dreams are memories before John does, without having to open the fob watch. Mother and Son of Mine's murder of Mr. Phillips is instead committed by Father and Daughter of Mine due to Son of Mine being busy at that moment seeking out Rose.
** Played with for "Blink" since, as a Doctor-lite episode, rewrites of this episode usually focus on the Doctor's half of the story, which is all-original since the only bits known are what is said by the Doctor and Martha on the Easter Egg video message, as well as their interaction with Billy Shipton when he's sent back to 1969. So Sally Sparrow's part of the story arc is unchanged and instead we get the entirely new section covering the Doctor, Rose and Martha's time in 1969. The Doctor and Rose go on a getaway to the Isle of Wight for their first anniversary,[[note]]A necessity given that their next one happens while they're imprisoned by the Master[[/note]] while Martha holds down a shop job at a clothing store so they can pay rent. The video message is almost entirely unchanged, except for the part where Martha comes into frame to gripe about having to pay expenses (which is replaced with Rose instead popping in to correct a choice of words said by the Doctor on the transcript, then a new scripted line of Martha complaining about the paradox that would happen if she didn't comply with the transcript).
** Major changes happen during the Master arc.
*** As it turns out, the Master tried to create a paradox at Canary Wharf with the intention of trapping Rose in Pete's World. Her managing to stay in the prime world thanks to the Doctor waking up her telepathic connection to the TARDIS forces him to improvise a few hasty alternatives. The Doctor is shocked to find that if not for him waking up Rose's telepathy, the Master would've succeeded at this, and worse, time would've compensated for Rose's loss.
*** The Master arc also marks the first changes caused by the removal of the Doctor's severed arm that he lost during his duel with the Sycorax leader in "The Christmas Invasion". In the long-run, this story change has been done to eliminate the creation of the Metacrisis during "Journey's End" in the series 4 rewrite, but in the short-run, it does change things for the Master arc.
*** To elaborate, the Doctor finds out about the severed hand well before the trip to Malcassairo in "Utopia" (as opposed to in "Utopia") due to Jack coming by the Powell Estate post-Canary Wharf to check in on Rose. The Doctor takes the hand back from Jack and burns it, scolding him for carrying it around on him saying, [[ContinuityNod “Honestly, do you know what kind of damage could be done if my biological code fell into the wrong hands?”]] This doesn't have any apparent effect on the story until the Doctor's confrontation with the Master when they meet on board the ''Valiant'' in "The Sound of Drums". Without access to the Doctor's biological code to make his laser screwdriver age him, the Master instead subdues the Doctor by [[IHaveYourWife taking Rose hostage]] (having overheard the Doctor and Jack's conversation where the former expressed doubt that Rose is capable of regenerating).[[note]]It's established the Master arrived on Earth a week before the Sycorax invasion, so he's had a year and a half to cannibalize the TARDIS to make the Paradox machine. And while he could have found something with the Doctor's DNA on it during that time, he has a flair for dramatics and emotional pain. So between that and his anger over Rose being a wrench in his initial plans to turn Martha's mother against the Doctor, the Master settles for taking her hostage.[[/note]]
*** As a result, the Doctor thus spends the entire Year that Never Was looking like a 35 year old, forced to wear plain black suits and ties that he complains make him look like a detective inspector. Rose is also imprisoned on the ''Valiant'', with the two being kept in separate rooms. The whole time, the Master uses psychological manipulation to torture the Doctor and Rose, with a particular flair for taunting each with what he's doing to the other. There's no scenes with the Master parading the aged Doctor around on the bridge of the ''Valiant'' for the cameras.
*** Keeping the Doctor the same age rather than a shriveled old man means some scenes have their dialogue unchanged, but are staged differently. For instance, after the Doctor's feigned attempt at a revolt on day 365, the Master's response is to chain him up by his arms and legs to a wall on the bridge before monologuing him about the Toclafane and taking Lucy to Utopia.
*** Three months before the Year that Never Was ends, the Master decides to suppress the Doctor and Rose's bond by placing a dampener on Rose, and forces the Doctor to spend several months thinking that the Master killed her (until Lucy decides to pass a message to him). Being cut off from Rose, the Doctor is way less merciful on the Master and gives him a piece of his mind once his gambit with manipulating the Archangel network to get the people of Earth to chant his name takes effect. He also finds himself siding with Martha's family when Francine picks up a gun with the intention of shooting the Master, so Rose has to take his place as the one to talk her down.
*** When the Master's body is being burned on the funeral pyre, Rose takes note of the Master's last words and realizes he probably has a way to cheat death. She finds the Master's resurrection ring, and she and the Doctor toss it into the supernova they orbited to say goodbye to Jackie in, [[BookEnds as a poetic note to remember that Jackie would still be with them in this universe if not for the Master's actions.]]

** Post "Gridlock", Rose and the Doctor discuss what the Face of Boe's message "You are not alone" could mean. The Doctor takes the Face of Boe calling him "Time Lord" instead of by "Doctor" to mean that there’s another Time Lord still alive, another one who survived the Time War. This of course pays off when the Doctor and the Master have their phone conversation after the bombing at Martha's apartment.

** The Doctor plans for the possibility of Rose getting captured alongside him when they confront the Master[[note]]he knows there’s almost no chance the Master will let Rose get away if he captures the Doctor; he'll be fascinated by Jack's immortality. But Martha is just an ordinary human, so she's the only one the Doctor thinks has a good chance of getting away[[/note]]. But despite Rose's reassurance, he wants her to escape with Martha. Unfortunately, the Master has anticipated this.

*** Unfortunately, when said call does happen, it's after the Master has blown up Martha's apartment, and Martha is able to tell they're lying about getting back together[[note]]especially when the night after the Judoon incident, just a week ago from her parents' perspective, they were having a fight at Leo's birthday party over Clive leaving Francine for Annelise[[/note]]. When Martha presses for a truthful answer, Clive, rather than see Martha meet the same fate as Tish, cracks, "Yes! Just run! I'm not sacrificing one daughter to save the other! Run, Martha!” as Miss Dexter has them arrested. Martha races over in her car with the Doctor, Rose, and Jack, only for them to be forced to flee as Miss Dexter orders the police to open fire on them. When the Master has Martha's family paraded onto the ''Valiant'' flight deck, Francine tearfully apologizes, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know what to do—he had Tish.”
* ImprobableAge: After "The Lazarus Experiment", Rose is able to notice enough details to make her more suspicious about someone pulling strings, even without her or the Doctor knowing about the Master yet, among them being that a 24 year old girl like Tish[[note]]For reference, when "The Lazarus Experiment" aired in 2007, Creator/GuguMbathaRaw (Tish) was 24 years old. She's also four years younger than Creator/FreemaAgyeman (Martha); although other narration notes that Tish is meant to be older than Martha[[/note]] would be in charge of Lazarus's public relations team:

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: The Master has such a moment with Tish in the makeshift prison he's made for her under the Thames Barrier as he awaits the day he intends to bring the Toclafane in. Once he has the Doctor and Rose imprisoned on the ''Valiant'', he enjoys making one-on-one visits to each of them to torment them.

* NotHisSled: In chapter 5, Jack turns up at the Tyler with his "Doctor detector" as the Doctor and Rose are cleaning out Jackie's possessions. The Doctor is offended that Jack is carrying around his severed arm in a jar, and also concerned about the possibility of it falling into the wrong hands, so he takes it back from Jack and burns it in the TARDIS. The consequences of this are not seen until the Doctor confronts the Master on the ''Valiant''. Without the severed arm, the Master has no means of accessing the Doctor's DNA to age him into an old man in a wheelchair, and instead has to take Rose hostage to stop the Doctor in his tracks. This also renders the Metacrisis incapable of happening in "Forever and Never Apart," the series 4 rewrite.

* AdaptationNameChange: Because of the Doctor and Rose being married, the entire plot element of River Song becoming the Doctor's eventual wife is cut. And because she's never abducted at birth from Amy and Rory, she never takes up the name River Song, instead just going by her birth name Melody Pond.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Melody Pond. She never becomes the Doctor's wife since the Doctor is married to Rose. And while she's still Amy and Rory's daughter, and she still decides to be an archaeologist, that's pretty much all that's retained from the original character. Even Melody's reasons for being interested in archaeology are different.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Melody Pond in "Silence in the Library". Justified, since Melody is also not as old as River Song was in this two-parter, and she's not meeting the Doctor out of order. Hence, she's just got a doctorate in archaeology and is thus just "Dr. Melody Pond," and not yet a Professor.

* AdaptationalWimp: The Doctor to a degree. And for justified reasons. In the original series 4, where it's just the Doctor and Donna, the Doctor is bit more reckless, a bit less concerned with his own safety, so he is willing to take more risks. Here, he also has a wife (Rose), and a daughter (as Jenny joins the team after "The Doctor's Daughter"), so at times he can get more stressed out and be less inclined to take risks.

** River Song's romance with the Doctor is cut since the Doctor is married to Rose. In addition, Melody isn't meeting the Doctor and Rose out of order, so in "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead," she has no journal, and she has to use a TrustPassword to prove she knows them: [[spoiler:"Bad Wolf"]].

* AscendedExtra: Rather than jet off at the end of "The Doctor's Daughter," Jenny joins the TARDIS crew, alongside the Doctor, Rose, and Donna. Donna also stays with the TARDIS team after series 4 to become an honorary aunt to both Jenny and to Melody.

** In "Partners in Crime," as the Doctor, Rose and Donna enter the secret closet in Adipose Industries with access to the inducer controls, Donna notices the green lighting and remembers something Rose said in "The Runaway Bride" when they were in the eerie green lighting of the Racnoss lair.

'''Rose Tyler:''' ''[grins]'' I think it’s part of the Secret Lair DIY kit.

** For "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the women don three different colors. Rose sports a lilac colored dress (later swapped for a crimson flapper evening gown with matching hairband for dinner), Donna wears the copper flapper dress she wears in the actual episode, and Jenny a robin's-egg-blue dress.

** Leading into "The Fires of Pompeii," when Donna declares she wants to go to Ancient Rome, Rose makes a remark about how she and the Doctor once went there before, in reference to ''The Stone Rose''.

** Also during "The Fires of Pompeii," Rose is able to back up the Doctor's arguments about why Pompeii is a fixed point by using the events of "Father's Day", and what happened as a consequence of deciding to intervene in the hit-and-run that was supposed to kill her father.

* ForWantOfANail:
** It's more apparent here than ever that having extra mates on the TARDIS means that each episode rewrite has some deviations. Some are just fix-its like in "Unicorn and the Wasp", and some are larger changes that exist because the people and the situation are so totally different that the original story no longer fits, such as "Journey's End".
** Rose's presence has now firmly changed the Doctor significantly compared to how the season goes in canon, because instead of over two years of grief and loss, he's had three years of happiness and with that, has developed healthier coping strategies. So there are many things that the Doctor won't do, no matter how intrinsic they are to the canon stories.\\
With Rose being his partner of six years now, there are two people on the TARDIS who are experienced at this travelling in time and space stuff. Having a second person who knows what they're doing also makes a big difference in several places.
** In "The Fires of Pompeii," the changes are subtle, but Donna is brought on-board much sooner with the concept of fixed points once Rose explains what happened when she tried to prevent her father's death.
** In "Planet of the Ood," Rose gets to explain to Donna what she got to see of how the Ood were treated on Krop Tor. She also gets to be the one to shut down the barriers preventing the Ood Brain from telepathically linking every Ood together.
** In "The Sontaran Strategem," Rose reminds the Doctor to not antagonize the UNIT brass or Martha at any point during the mission. As a result, Colonel Mace heeds the Doctor's warnings about it being suicidal to take on the Sontarans, and they come up with an alternate strategy to prevent the Sontarans from being able to use the ATMOS factory to start their invasion, by setting mines around the perimeter. As a result, Ross Jenkins and the other UNIT privates are spared. Later, at the end of the two-parter, the Doctor sets his converter bomb on a timer rather than have it be something where there needs to be someone there to personally press the button, meaning Luke Rattigan lives as well.
** During "The Doctor's Daughter," Rose encourages the Doctor to ease off on Jenny and actually come to look at her as his daughter despite the unusual birth. As a result, when Jenny is shot by General Cobb and "dies" upon them finding the Source, the Doctor is convinced to stay around a bit longer, enough to see Jenny wake up, and thus take her along in the TARDIS.
** The Doctor, Rose and Donna bringing Jenny along after "The Doctor's Daughter" forces even more changes for the second half of the season, because there are so many things she's never done or seen before. She's both a young adult but also very very young in some ways. And having a child makes the Doctor much less reckless.
** In "The Unicorn and the Wasp," the addition of Jenny and Rose to the mix means that Roger Curbishley's death is averted.
** For "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead", Melody Pond is still Amy and Rory's daughter, but she's never abducted by Madame Kovarian and thus grows up with her birth name.
** In "Midnight," the telepathic bond between Rose and the Doctor ensures that the entity has a harder time taking control of the Doctor, and also enables him to control himself to prevent the passengers mutinying against him.
** "Turn Left" is altered very drastically. The premise of the original story (where Rose was trapped in Pete's World) was that if Donna hadn't met the Doctor, he would have died along with the Racnoss. But "The Runaway Bride" went so differently in the ''Timelessness'' canon because Rose was there. So the Doctor wasn't crazed with grief and a need to kill something--such that even if they hadn't met Donna, he would have been just fine. As a result, Rose has to take Donna's place, and the seeds for this have been laid way back in ''To Make Much of Time'', where the Doctor admitted he hadn't planned to survive blowing up Henrik's, until he met her. The Time Beetle itself doesn't work on Rose either, since unlike Donna, Rose is part-Time Lady. So instead, the events of the alternate timeline are depicted through a bad dream Rose has afterwards about Jackie being killed by the Autons, which is also how Mickey gets in touch with her to warn her about the stars going out.
** "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End" ends up being fundamentally different because there is no Metacrisis, simply because the plot elements that combined to create it are gone.
*** The inciting incident for the Metacrisis was that the Doctor was shot by a Dalek while running to reunite with Rose. That obviously doesn't happen here since the Doctor wasn't separated from Rose.
*** Furthermore, when Jack bumped into the Doctor and Rose early in ''Time is Still a Flying'', he handed over his Doctor Detector (the Doctor's severed arm)… and the Doctor did the smart thing and burned it, instead of just keeping a part of his body floating around in a jar for months on end.[[note]]Which, in the interim, had ramifications for the storyline with the Master, as without access to the Doctor's biological code, the Master had to rely on alternative means to torment him[[/note]] As a result, "Journey’s End" is entirely a Bad Wolf!Rose story. The Metacrisis Doctor's part is taken over primarily by Jenny and Bad Wolf!Rose.
*** This also means the [=DoctorDonna=] doesn't exist either, whilst "Turn Left" is no longer about Donna because Donna didn't save a suicidal Doctor in "The Runaway Bride".[[note]]Even if she'd made the right turn to go to Jival Chowdry's photocopy business instead of HC Clements, the Doctor and Rose, plus whoever would've taken Donna's place as Lance's bride, would've been able to handle the Racnoss all on their own[[/note]] Every reference to there being something on Donna's back and the Ood calling them the [=DoctorDonna=] gets replaced with similar moments hinting at Bad Wolf. All of this means that Donna gets to keep her memories and her newfound confidence in herself, and after "Journey's End" becomes a recurring TARDIS traveler.
*** A number of other characters have their roles moved around. Since Rose is with the Doctor in the TARDIS in this story, her original role as the dimension hopping traveler is taken over by Mickey. Mickey's motivations are much different from Rose's in that he just wants to save the universe, whereas she had been trying to find a way back to the main universe to reunite with the Doctor even before the stars began going out. Meanwhile, Pete takes over Mickey's role in the original story as the person who accompanies Jackie when she crosses back to the main universe.
*** The running reunion scene where the Metacrisis originally was created still exists, but it's Rose reuniting with Mickey. Jack also manages to shoot the Dalek long before it can hurt anyone. Because there's no distraction of the Metacrisis, Mickey and Jack are able to catch up with the Doctor and Rose, get introduced to their new mates, and be stunned to learn about Jenny being the Doctor's daughter.

* AbsenceOfEvidence: In "The Next Doctor," Rose figures out quickly that Jackson Lake can't be a future regeneration of the Doctor both because he doesn't recognize her, and because she isn't feeling any telepathic echo like she has when the Doctor crosses paths with another regeneration (the telepathic bond is temporal, meaning it backdates and bonds her to all regenerations of the Doctor including his faces from before he met Rose).

** The moment the Doctor and Rose learn Amy's last name and hear her speak with a Scottish brogue, they instantly realize that she's going to be Melody's mother because Melody mentioned her mother was Scottish.

** During "The Next Doctor," the sight of the orphaned children being escorted by the Cybermen-controlled owners of the workhouses reminds the Doctor of when these same Cybermen were shepharding Londoners into Lumic's factories in Pete's World.

* ForWantOfANail:
** Rose's presence, and the telepathic bond between her and the Doctor, means that "The Next Doctor" goes differently when they figure out early on that Jackson Lake is a fraud. (Part of that has to do with the fact that the Cybermen were using infostamps stolen from the Daleks that contained outdated information)
** This story covers the 2009 specials, but the Doctor is a much different person on account of different life experiences. In the show, the overarching story is that the Doctor is slowly going mad from grief after he's lost everyone, to the point that he is dangerously unhinged as happens in "The Waters of Mars". That five episode arc of "The Next Doctor," "Planet of the Dead," "The Waters of Mars" and the "The End of Time" two-parter is about him needing the fresh start a regeneration will give him. In the ''Timelessness'' verse, the Doctor is not in that same place. He hasn't lost Rose, and because of the way this changed series 4 in ''Forever and Never Apart'', he didn't lose lose Donna, either. He's in the opposite place that the canon Doctor was in at the end of series 4, where instead of losing everyone he loves, he realises he has a family, made up of people who've travelled with him and some of their family. So obviously, the Doctor isn't going through the same emotional tailspin that the canon Doctor took.
** "The End of Time" doesn't happen since Rose found the Master's ring after he died and destroyed it at the end of ''Time is Still a-Flying'' by throwing it into a supernova, meaning the Master can't come back at all. In its place is a new story, which also confirms that Rose can now regenerate. Since the Doctor has regenerated once since they met, it's Rose's turn. And without "The End of Time", the Tenth Doctor does not regenerate into the Eleventh Doctor...yet. He still will regenerate into Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor and Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor (as evidenced by Rose meeting the Twelfth Doctor in ''Forever and Never Apart''), but those are postponed.
** The crack in the wall in Amy's bedroom in "The Eleventh Hour" is not being caused by the Silence, but by residual effects from the Reality Bomb.

*** In canon, her initial suspicion and dislike for the Doctor when they first meet in "The Lazarus Experiment" stems from the way their introduction goes. The Doctor's "I've heard so much about you!" makes her raise an eyebrow, especially since she's already fiercely determined that Martha do well in her studies. She sees the Doctor as a threat to Martha's career, and then The Master's men begin manipulating her into being suspicious of the Doctor by telling her that the Doctor is also a threat to Martha's life. Which makes her very willing to do the Master's bidding and help lure the Doctor to him.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: For the Doctor and Martha, since in this fic, the Doctor is married to Rose as opposed to being single and mourning being separated from her. Martha thus doesn't develop any romantic attraction to the Doctor, instead viewing him as an intriguing (and still very good looking) man who is obviously head over heels for his wife. That said, she does confide to Tallulah and Rose during "Daleks in Manhattan" [[AllohistoricalAllusion that she'd have made passes at the Doctor if he was single]], and she's restraining herself because her family fell apart when her father left her mother for Annelise.

** The Doctor is normally a big pacifist. When the Master decides to torment him by "killing" Rose (as in, cutting off their telepathic bond), he is ''pissed'' enough that he attacks the Master and tries to strangle him with his bare hands, requiring a guard to come out and subdue him. And after the Master is defeated, when Francine draws a gun on the Master, and decides along with Clive and Tish that the Master should be executed, the Doctor can't help but partially agree with them. Martha's family may have had it easier, just having to be the Master's slaves, but the Doctor had to deal with the Master cutting off his telepathic bond with Rose and convincing him that he'd killed her just to elicit a reaction out of him; whilst Rose was unfortunate enough to be a prisoner the Master could subject to various horrors just for that very purpose.

''[His eyes narrowed to slits. ''[[DidntSeeThatComing Of course]].'' He hadn’t written a contingency for Rose Tyler into his plan. ''Your interfering is causing me more problems than I expected,'' he thought darkly at the TARDIS, even though the ship couldn’t hear him from this distance.]''\\

'''The Master:''' I believe I will give young Letitia the day off tomorrow. After all, she went through quite the ordeal tonight at the gala. Assign an agent to her flat. If Mrs. Jones balks, bring Tish in and tell her mother that it would be in her family’s best interests to do as we say.

''[Martha sat back on her heels. She tried to forget the year, tried not to think about what was coming for these boys, but sometimes she couldn’t]''\\

* TraumaCongaLine: Francine Jones doesn't catch a break. Her younger daughter's workplace is abducted to the Moon by the Judoon, and then goes schlepping off with the Doctor and Rose. Then the next day, at Lazarus's gala, the Master's aides try to make her suspicious of the Doctor and Rose, only for Rose to put her at ease with a handy cover story. So the Master has Tish abducted to force her to betray Martha's friends, something she reluctantly pretends to agree to. When she and Clive refuse to go along with that, the Master has them arrested and forced into serving as his slaves alongside Tish for a year on the ''Valiant''.

* LampshadeHanging: The Doctor and Rose can't help but make a few of these insofar as searching for the mysterious culprit, from Max Capricorn's TwinkleSmile signaling he's a bad guy, to the Doctor considering his tuxedo to be a sign of doom.

* ShellShockedVeteran: With "The Voyage of the Damned" happening almost immediately after the Doctor and Rose were just reunited from spending a year as the Master's prisoners, they both are still dealing with the trauma of what happened. After the adventure, they come to the conclusion that they've developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the Master's actions and they should take some time off before they go on any more adventures. [[spoiler:This was all by design of Dalek Caan after what he saw during his emergency temporal shift]].
* ShoutOut: When asking the Hosts questions to get them to take her and the Doctor to their leader, Rose trolls the Host by asking as her third question, "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?]]" The Host answers, "Information. That question is outside my programming.”

* TemptingFate: "Rose. It’s a ship named ''Titanic''. The chances that some kind of disaster will befall it are frankly astronomical."

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: With the Doctor being married to Rose, Martha views him differently. The Doctor isn't the fit bloke who kissed her to distract the Judoon and who claims he is absolutely not interested in her. Instead, he's an intriguing (and still very good looking) man who is obviously head over heels for his wife. To the point that during "Daleks in Manhattan" she does confide to Tallulah that she'd have made passes at the Doctor if he was single, and she's restraining herself because her family fell apart when her father left her mother for Annelise. So she instead seeks to become best friends with Rose.

-->"Their names are the Doctor and Rose Tyler. No, not Doctor Tyler. His ''wife'' is Rose Tyler, but he is just 'the Doctor'.”

In this case, they first do the last scene of "Blink" where Sally Sparrow gives the Doctor, Martha and Rose the envelope with all the necessary information they'll need to make the DVD Easter Egg video. Then Team TARDIS goes through the events of the "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood" arc, the book ''The Pirate Loop'', and then goes to Wester Drumlins, kicking off the main events of the Doctor's half of the StableTimeLoop in "Blink".

** Twice, we see Rose indirectly reference that she had with Jimmy Stone, something readers of the expanded universe material will recognize.[[note]]Jimmy Stone was a musician who Rose ran off with when she was 16, dropping out of school prior to sitting her A levels. She lived with him in a bedsit for five months, before he dumped her and left her £800 in debt, while Jimmy was in a camper van to Amsterdam with a woman called Noosh. He was later hacked to death in the Auton massacre while robbing a later girlfriend. Most of what's known about Stone's background is gleaned from an article written by Russell T. Davies in the 2006 edition of the ''Doctor Who Annual''. The details of his death were brought up in the 2018 novelization of "Rose"[[/note]] The first time is in "The Runaway Bride" when Rose is consoling Donna about Lance's betrayal, and the second time is in "Blink" when she's trying to convince Martha why it won't be bad to have some temporary shop work on her employment record.

** The descriptions of the Time War are borrowed from "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]". Chapter 14 shows the Doctor describing to Rose the actions he took as the War Doctor, up to and including using the Moment (as well as he falsely thinking Gallifrey was destroyed due to a TemporalParadox causing him to forget that he helped his future selves save Gallifrey by freezing it in a pocket universe, which tricked the Daleks into taking each other out). At one point during the Doctor and Rose's involuntary stay aboard the ''Valiant'', the Master compels the Doctor into regaling him with the events of the Time War. The Master finds his descriptions of stealing the Moment hilarious.

** When Martha begins flirting with Shakespeare, the Doctor and Rose have a moment in "The Shakespeare Code" where they recall the adventure they went on with Jack in Kyoto prior to being taken to the Game Station.

'''Rose Tyler:''' How come you’re not warning her of the paradox she could cause if she stayed with him? ''[She remembered the stern lecture her first Doctor had given her in Kyoto, when the emperor’s son had tried to court her]''\\
'''The Doctor:''' One, the emperor’s son was serious. Will is just playing. B—no, two—thirteenth century Japan had almost no contact with the western world. It would have caused a paradox for the next Empress to be English. And three…''[He looked up at her]'' You know what the third reason is.

** The Master kidnaps Tish in between "The Lazarus Experiment" and "42" and uses that to pressure Francine into betraying the Doctor.

---->'''Rose Tyler:''' John was more tolerant than most men were back then, I think. Certainly more domestic, helping with the cooking.\\
'''The Doctor:''' John was me. He might not have known that women deserved the vote, or that a black woman would one day be allowed to study medicine, but he knew you, and he knew Martha, so his mind sort of… made allowances for your personalities.

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Master claims to view hospitality as a lost art. Hence why [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine he treats the Doctor and Rose to a hearty brunch]] on the ''Valiant'' after forcing them to watch the Toclafane conquer Earth, before sending them to their separate cells. He can also flip back and forth between affable and malicious like a switch being flipped.

*** To elaborate, The Doctor finds out about the severed hand well before the trip to Malcassairo in "Utopia" (as opposed to in "Utopia") due to Jack coming by the Powell Estate post-Canary Wharf to check in on Rose. The Doctor takes the hand back from Jack and burns it, scolding him for carrying it around on him saying, [[ContinuityNod “Honestly, do you know what kind of damage could be done if my biological code fell into the wrong hands?”]] This doesn't have any apparent effect on the story until the Doctor's confrontation with the Master when they meet on board the ''Valiant'' in "The Sound of Drums". Without access to the Doctor's biological code to make his laser screwdriver age him, the Master instead subdues the Doctor by [[IHaveYourWife taking Rose hostage]] (having overheard the Doctor and Jack's conversation where the former expressed doubt that Rose is capable of regenerating).[[note]]It's established the Master arrived on Earth a week before the Sycorax invasion, so he's had a year and a half to cannibalize the TARDIS to make the Paradox machine. And while he could have found something with the Doctor's DNA on it during that time, he has a flair for dramatics and emotional pain. So between that and being frustrated at Rose being a wrench in his initial plans to get Martha's mother to betray the Doctor, the Master settles for using Rose as leverage.[[/note]]

*** Three months before the Year that Never Was, the Master decides to suppress the Doctor and Rose's bond by placing a dampener on Rose, and forces the Doctor to spend several months thinking that the Master killed her (until Lucy decides to pass a message to him). Being cut off from Rose, the Doctor is way less merciful on the Master and gives him a piece of his mind once his gambit with manipulating the Archangel network to get the people of Earth to chant his name takes effect. He also finds himself siding with Martha's family when Francine picks up a gun with the intention of shooting the Master, so Rose has to take his place as the one to talk her down.

'''Tallulah:''' Oh, honey, I got one song in a back street revue and that’s only because Heidi Chicane broke her ankle. ''[She turned away from the mirror and glared up at Martha]'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Which had nothing to do with me, whatever anybody says.]] ''[She sighed, and some of the fight went out of her.]'' I can’t afford to make a fuss. If I don’t make this month’s rent, then before you know it, I’m in Hooverville.\\
'''Martha Jones:''' Okay, I get it. ''[Rose knew she didn’t, not really. She didn’t know what it was like to live hand-to-mouth, to wonder if there would be enough money for rent and bills and food]''

** Back in ''To Make Much of Time'', Rose was horrified to learn that as Bad Wolf, not only did she bring Jack back to life, but she also made him immortal. So when Jack turns up at the Tyler flat, and recaps what happened to him, he unknowingly offends Rose when he lets his anger over the Doctor abandoning him get the better of him, [[note]]"Don’t worry, Rosie, at least if I can’t die, you don’t have to worry about ever saying goodbye—not that your designated driver ever takes the time to say goodbye anyway.”[[/note]] sending Rose running off to her bedroom in tears. The Doctor is ''not'' happy at Jack's attempt to guilt-trip him and forces him to apologize to Rose.

'''Donna Noble:''' Yeah, because you’d let go of Blondie there if you didn’t need to be practically sitting in each other’s laps? ''[The Doctor and Rose exchanged a mutually embarrassed glance, and Donna snorted]'' That’s what I thought.

* InventedIndividual: The resistance movement during The Year That Never Was has such a geographical variant. The Master gets word at one point that Martha is on her way to meet with members of the Eastern Underground at place called Cursus Hill in Turkey. However, as Brigadier Erik Calvin explains to Martha:
-->'''Erik Calvin:''' There is no Cursus Hill, actually. It’s disinformation. Cursus Hill isn’t a geographical location; it’s just the code name we give to a meet point. We decide where Cursus Hill is going to be, depending on the nature of the operation.\\
'''Martha Jones:''' I see. ''[A faint smile crossed her face when she thought about how angry the scarred UCF agent must have been when he got to what he thought was Cursus Hill and she wasn’t there]''\\

'''Martha Jones:''' ''[grins]'' Oh, I’m sure they are. Their Master won’t be too pleased with them, either.

** The Doctor plans for the possibility of Rose getting captured alongside him when they confront the Master[[note]]he knows there’s almost no chance the Master will let Rose get away if he captures the Doctor; he’ll be fascinated by Jack's immortality. But Martha is just an ordinary human, so she's the only one the Doctor thinks has a good chance of getting away[[/note]]. But despite Rose's reassurance, he wants her to escape with Martha when Martha teleports off the ''Valiant'' with Jack's Vortex manipulator. Unfortunately, the Master has anticipated this. He has Rose captured and brought before the Doctor, and threatens to shoot her to force the Doctor to back down.

"[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Did you really think I would let Rose Tyler go free?]]" The Master shook his head and tsked. "It's been too long since we've seen each other, if you could misjudge me so badly. I've got your bond mate, Doctor. [[FantasticRacism Your little human-Time Lord hybrid.]]" He twirled his laser screwdriver between his fingers. “[[ShameIfSomethingHappened If I remember correctly, you aren't positive she'll be able to regenerate. And—again, if memory serves—you aren't too keen to find out.]]" His smile disappeared and he pointed the screwdriver at Rose. “[[ImpliedDeathThreat Have you changed your mind?]]"\\

--->'''Martha Jones:''' What is it? What’s happened?\\
'''Martha's contact:''' We didn’t think you’d heard. ''[Martha noticed with a sinking stomach that the woman hadn’t actually answered her question]''\\

* LuxuryPrisonSuite: The Master's accommodations for the Doctor and Rose aboard the ''Valiant'' are what are normally meant to be the officers’ quarters. They are furnished much like normal dorm rooms, with a bed, a table, a wardrobe, a dresser, and a private lavatory. He even has some reading material stocked in each cell. The Doctor finds hismelf being forced to trade his normal coat for boring dark grey suits with plain black ties, while Rose is supplied with the wardrobe of a chav. At all times, there is a camera monitoring them 24/7, and they must ring a button if they need to get something from one of the Master's guards.

-->''Of course, what most of his aides didn’t know and thus couldn’t tell Mrs. Jones was that all of those disasters took place over the course of 900 years of space travel. It seemed like a horribly long list if you thought the Doctor was only 35 or 40 at the oldest.''

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Doctor when he realizes he paved the way for the Master to claim power when he planted the seeds to ruin Harriet Jones' tenure as Prime Minister.
-->'''The Doctor:''' I never asked you when exactly you arrived, after you pushed my TARDIS to give you extra time.\\
'''The Master:''' It was the week before Christmas, 2006. I watched the news coverage on the Sycorax ship, of course, and the downfall of Harriet Jones. That was what gave me the idea to go into politics, [[FromNobodyToNightmare and look at me now.]] ''[He spread his hands out in front of him]''\\
''[The Doctor clenched his jaw. It had already occurred to him that the Master had stepped into the power vacuum he’d created when he’d removed Harriet Jones from office. Though he stood by his belief that the former Prime Minister had made the wrong choice in killing the fleeing Sycorax, there was no doubt that she would be preferable to her successor. ''At least Harriet Jones never showed signs of megalomania''.]''

** During one of their talks, the Doctor brings up the Master's time pretending to be a malicious eyesurgeon named "Dr. Harcourt De’ath", from the audio story "Time's Horizon" / "Times of the Master".

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: After starting the Toclafane invasion, the Master subjects the Doctor and Rose to a brunch that functions as this before sending them to their cells. During the following year, he often personally takes meals to either of their cells that more or less are also excuses for him to taunt them.

*** Martha is still their maid, but as a 21st century black woman living in pre-suffrage England, she has a bit of an easier time than she has in canon. Joan Redfern gave Martha a rather hard time in the show (a lot of it a byproduct of the social rules and etiquette she was raised on). John and Rose treat Martha better than Joan did in the show, because even with their suppressed memories, the Doctor and Rose are from a different era. Jenny, the maid who later gets possessed by Mother of Mine, picks up on how unusual it is that John and Rose don't look down on Martha, and also how unusual her arrangement is that she works as both their personal maid as well as works at the school. Martha explains that she's Rose's [[BlackBestFriend best friend]], but John and Rose don’t have a bedroom for her at the cottage, so she does housekeeping at the school for a few hours every day in exchange for room and board. This cover story also allows her to keep a 24 hour watch on John, and be able to take mornings off to keep an eye on John and on the TARDIS without any reprisal. This is discussed between the Doctor and Rose after they un-fob themselves.

* DoesntLikeGuns: The Doctor's aversion to guns does manage to stay into his temporary time as a human in Farringham.
-->''Of all John’s duties at the school, shooting practice was his least favourite. He abhorred guns, though he was careful not to let the headmaster see his distaste. There were very few situations he could think of that warranted the use of weapons, and he hated the thought that he was moulding young boys into men who would reach for a gun to protect themselves, instead of their wits.''

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Master claims to view hospitality as a lost art. Hence why he treats the Doctor and Rose to a hearty brunch on the ''Valiant'' after forcing them to watch the Toclafane conquer Earth, before sending them to their separate cells. He can also flip back and forth between affable and malicious like a switch being flipped.

** Rose and Lucy Saxon. Both are blonde-haired wives to their Time Lords, and both insist on staying with said Time Lord "for better, or for worse" (Lucy saying that to Vivian Rook, and Rose saying that telepathically when she insists on staying with the Doctor on the ''Valiant''). The biggest differences between them are that Rose is a hybrid, being infused with Time Lord DNA, while Lucy is just a normal human. Lucy comes from an aristocratic family (as Vivian Rook's scene with her implied) while Rose comes from a working class background. Rose also has more spine to stand up to the Doctor, whereas Lucy is initially too afraid of the Master to challenge him directly.

*** Down the line, this means Francine doubts the stories the Master's aides are trying to whisper in her ear. She balks at the idea of betraying Martha's friends to the Master, and the Master has to take Tish hostage to force Francine and Clive to cooperate.

*** To elaborate, The Doctor finds out about the severed hand well before the trip to Malcassairo in "Utopia" (as opposed to in "Utopia") due to Jack coming by the Powell Estate post-Canary Wharf to check in on Rose. The Doctor takes the hand back from Jack and burns it, scolding him for carrying it around on him saying, [[ContinuityNod “Honestly, do you know what kind of damage could be done if my biological code fell into the wrong hands?”]] This doesn't have any apparent effect on the story until the Doctor's confrontation with the Master when they meet on board the ''Valiant'' in "The Sound of Drums". Without access to the Doctor's biological code to make his laser screwdriver age him, the Master instead subdues the Doctor by threatening to kill Rose (having overheard the Doctor and Jack's conversation where the former expressed doubt that Rose is capable of regenerating).[[note]]It's established the Master arrived on Earth a week before the Sycorax invasion, so he's had a year and a half to cannibalize the TARDIS to make the Paradox machine. And while he could have found something with the Doctor's DNA on it during that time, he has a flair for dramatics and emotional pain. So between that and being frustrated at Rose being a wrench in his initial plans to get Martha's mother to betray the Doctor, the Master settles for using Rose as leverage.[[/note]]

*** Keeping the Doctor the same age rather than a shriveled old man means some scenes play out differently even with unchanged dialogue. For instance, after the Doctor's feigned attempt at a revolt on day 365, the Master's response is to chain him up by his arms and legs to a wall on the bridge. The Doctor remains this way while the Master monologues to the him about the Toclafane and taking Lucy to Utopia.

* GambitPileup: "The Lazarus Experiment" is being used by the Master for several purposes: 1) he funds the experiment, knowing that a machine that would “change what it means to be human” would get the Doctor’s attention; 2) he's made sure Martha’s sister works for Lazarus and that Tish is in a position of influence to invite her siblings and her mother; 3) he weaponises the whole incident to convince Francine to hate the Doctor (or at least, tries to) and 4) he gets a lot of enjoyment out of putting the Doctor and Rose’s names on the guest list, knowing that the rules of paradoxes will prevent them from investigating his name until it's too late.

* GoingNative: Lampshaded when the Master has Rose beaten to spite the Doctor.

'''The Doctor:''' Torture, Master? I thought physical abuse was beneath you. You’ve spent too much time with humans lately.\\
'''The Master:''' You’re one to talk. Where’s the control a Time Lord should have over his emotions? I’ve managed to completely wreck your composure, simply by allowing a guard to strike your bond mate a few times. ''[The Doctor’s lips pulled back in a silent snarl. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown It was more than a few times]], and they both knew it]'' So you tell me—who’s acting more human? Me, or you?

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Master was one for the Battle of Canary Wharf. As he explains, the slight bump he was able to give to the TARDIS after the Doctor locked its coordinates on Malcassairo allowed him to arrive back in London a week before the Sycorax invasion. Harriet Jones's downfall gave him the idea to become Minister of Defence (under which he was able to launch his Archangel network). As Minister of Defence, the Master discovered that the weapon Torchwood used to shoot down the Sycorax was something that humans wouldn't be able to create on their own for at least another hundred years. He was delighted to find that Torchwood was created just for protecting Great Britain from the Doctor. [[NotMeThisTime Whilst he wasn't responsible for the Void ship's arrival]], he knew that Torchwood had built One Canada Square just to reach the rift into the Void. Unable to tell Torchwood what the Void ship really was without outing himself as a Time Lord, he became an unofficial advisor to Yvonne Hartman and convinced her to fire particle beams at the breach, knowing that eventually would widen the breach enough to cause the Cybermen and Daleks to come through. All of this was with the intention of trying to trap Rose in the parallel world. Except the Doctor had woken up Rose's telepathy, enabling the TARDIS to reach through the Void and bring her back. Not that that deterred the Master, for he just had to make some slight alterations to his plans to allow for Rose's presence.

** Very prominent in the Dalek two-parter of "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks". When the Doctor, Rose and Martha are entering Hooverville, Martha is incredulous about the concept of shantytowns popping up in the middle of Central Park. Rose, on the other hand, instantly understands the citizens' plight. She's seen too many of her neighbors on the Powell Estate get evicted for falling way behind on their rent. Later, when they first run into Tallulah, Rose understands (unlike Martha) that Tallulah couldn't report her boyfriend Laszlo's disappearance because she didn't want to lose her job:

** The Doctor plans for the possibility of Rose getting captured alongside him when they confront the Master[[note]]he knows there’s almost no chance the Master will let Rose get away if he captures the Doctor; he’ll be fascinated by Jack's immortality. But Martha is just an ordinary human, so she's the only one the Doctor thinks has a good chance of getting away[[/note]]. Despite Rose's reassurance, he wants her to escape with Martha when Martha teleports off the ''Valiant'' with Jack's Vortex manipulator. Once onboard the ''Valiant'', Rose attempts to sneak around the ship while the Doctor directly confronts the Master, but the Master's men find her and capture her.
-->“Master, just calm down. Just look at what you’re doing. Just stop. If you could see yourself—”\\
“Oh, do excuse me,” the Master said to the television cameramen who were still filming. “Little bit of personal business. Back in a minute.” He looked at the guards holding the Doctor down. “Let him go.”\\
They shoved the Doctor down onto the floor. He pushed himself up and looked at the Master. “It’s that sound. The sound in your head. What if I could help?”\\
“Oh, how to shut him up?” The Master rolled his eyes and mimed talking with his hand. “I know!” He grinned widely and gestured to someone in the back of the room.\\

“[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Did you really think I would let Rose Tyler go free?]]” The Master shook his head and tsked. “It’s been too long since we’ve seen each other, if you could misjudge me so badly. I’ve got your bond mate, Doctor. [[FantasticRacism Your little human-Time Lord hybrid.]]” He twirled his laser screwdriver between his fingers. “[[ShameIfSomethingHappened If I remember correctly, you aren’t positive she’ll be able to regenerate. And—again, if memory serves—you aren’t too keen to find out.]]” His smile disappeared and he pointed the screwdriver at Rose. “[[ImpliedDeathThreat Have you changed your mind?]]”\\
The Doctor seethed with rage, but he couldn’t do anything but shake his head. He wouldn’t risk Rose’s life.\\
The Master laughed. “Look at what Earth’s defender has been reduced to. Cowering on the floor, paralysed out of fear for his bond mate’s life.”
** The Master's original plan with getting to Martha's family is to have his aides approach her mother and persuade her that the Doctor is a dangerous influence on Martha. Unfortunately for the Master, Rose is able to soften up Francine enough at Lazarus's demonstration[[note]]by convincing Francine that she and the Doctor are UNIT investigators asking inquiries of Martha's movements during the Judoon incident[[/note]] that Francine merely sees the Doctor and Rose as a couple who do dangerous work that Martha's chosen to assist in. As a result, the Master settles for kidnapping Tish and uses that to force Martha's parents to cooperate with him.
*** Unfortunately, when said call does happen, it's after the Master has blown up Martha's apartment, and Martha is able to tell they're lying about getting back together[[note]]especially when after the Judoon incident, just a week earlier in the parents' timeline, they were having a fight at Leo's birthday party about Clive leaving Francine for Annelise[[/note]]. When Martha presses for a truthful answer, Clive, rather than see Martha meet the same fate as Tish, cracks, "Yes! Just run! I’m not sacrificing one daughter to save the other! Run, Martha!” as Miss Dexter has them arrested. Martha races over in her car with the Doctor, Rose, and Jack, only for them to be forced to flee as Miss Dexter orders the police to open fire on them. When the Master has Martha's family paraded onto the ''Valiant'' flight deck, Francine tearfully apologizes, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know what to do—he had Tish.”

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Jackie and Pete make the decision to relocate and stay in the Doctor and Rose's universe rather than return to Pete's World at the end of "Journey's End". However, Jackie also realizes that living in London isn't an option, since she's been considered dead for the two years that have happened since Canary Wharf, and the Pete who fathered Rose has been dead since 1987. So Mickey and Jack make arrangements for Jackie and Pete to live in Cardiff (though Jackie would've preferred Birmingham or Manchester) where Torchwood is based (allowing Pete to seamlessly continue his work in this universe, while Jake Simmonds takes over heading Torchwood in Pete's World).

* ItsAlwaysSpring: "The Unicorn and the Wasp" had the notorious snafu of having it look unseasonably warm and people having a garden party in the middle of December 1926, due to the timing of when the episode was filmed. Rather than rewrite the party and move it indoors, such an inconsistency becomes a major plot point:

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Jackie and Pete make the decision to relocate and stay in the Doctor and Rose's universe rather than return to Pete's World at the end of "Journey's End". However, Jackie also realizes that living in London isn't an option, since she's been considered dead for the two years that have happened since Canary Wharf, and the Pete who fathered Rose has been dead since 1987. So Mickey and Jack make arrangements for Jackie and Pete to set up in Cardiff (though Jackie would've preferred Birmingham or Manchester) where Torchwood is based (allowing Pete to seamlessly continue his work in this universe, while Jake Simmonds takes over heading Torchwood in Pete's World).

** In fact, earlier, when the Doctor is making his entrance into Adipose Industries throuh the fire exit, the utility corridor reminds him very much of those that he, Rose and Donna traveled through underneath H.C. Clements.
** Upon being introduced to Jenny in "Journey's End", Mickey asks Rose and the Doctor to promise that [[PassThePopcorn they'll let him watch Jackie's reaction to learning she's a grandmother]]. When Jack's party (comprised of himself, Jackie, Pete and Sarah Jane) is bluffing Davros, Jenny notices Jackie, the Doctor explains who she is...and Jackie lets out a little shriek on the open mic. To the side, Mickey chortles to himself.

** When infiltrating Adipose Industries, Rose uses the name "Rose Lewis," borrowing the name the Doctor gave her when they were using the psychic paper to claim they were police officers in "Fear Her".

*** Solana Mercurio's PR speech at the demonstration about the Ood being "trusted friends", and the investors eying the Ood on display the way one might admire a new car in a showroom or clothes on a shop window dummy, reminds Rose too much of Danny Bartock's callous remarks about the Ood being willing servants (“But the Ood offer themselves. If you don’t give them orders, they just pine away and die"). The Doctor didn't get to see much of the Ood while he was on Krop Tor to know about how they were being treated, as he and Ida were busy investigating the black hole and locating the Beast. The Doctor is disgusted when they see Kess whipping an Ood who stumbles out of marching formation, and decides to ask Rose about how the Ood on Krop Tor were treated:

* EarlyBirdCameo: Chapter 32, "The Doctor of Christmas Yet to Come," features an appearance from the Twelfth Doctor. Much like in the original canon, he's still depicted as being Peter Capaldi, and there's a more overt reference to how the Doctor used Caecilius (Peter Capaldi's character from "The Fires of Pompeii") as the basis for his twelfth incarnation.

* EurekaMoment:
** In "The Fires of Pompeii", the Doctor is shown to have realized Lucius Petrus Dextrus's right arm was made of stone right away upon realizing the soothsayers are breathing in the vapors of Vesuvius. He also seems to insinuate that Lucius's name is meant to be more of a title that's both metaphoric and literal.

** Donna doesn't show up until midway through "Partners in Crime," since the story is told from the Doctor and Rose's perspective, and like with Martha in ''Time is Still A-Flying'', the companion doesn't get any POV segments until they're welcomed aboard the TARDIS. Still, hints of Donna's presence are dropped before she actually appears, such as the Doctor and Rose running into the cabbie who Donna had waved off at Stacy Campbell's place during the foot chase on the first night, then walking past Donna's car as they reenter Adipose Industries on the second day.

** In Chapter 27, after the "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead" arc, Melody goes back to Andromeda University where she has a reunion with a future Doctor and Rose and talks about what happened. Midway through the paragraph, it's mentioned that [[spoiler:Rose has red hair and slightly taller figure]], foreshadowing that [[spoiler:she will regenerate in the future]].[[note]]In the author's notes, it's established that [[spoiler:regenerated Rose will look like Creator/IslaFisher]][[/note]] An earlier conversation that the Doctor and Rose overhear Melody having with her archaeologist team is what tells them that [[spoiler:Jackie and Pete's World!Pete will be crossing back to the prime universe after "Journey's End"]].

** In "Partners in Crime," the Doctor still does his "John Smith, Health & Safety" cover story, but has Rose go undercover as a temp at Adipose Industries.

** In "The Unicorn and the Wasp," the addition of Jenny and Rose to the mix means that someone is there to prevent the Vespiform from killing Roger.

*** For one, the inciting incident for the Metacrisis was the Doctor's running reunion with Rose, with him being shot by a Dalek while running into Rose's arms. Obviously, with a Doctor and Rose who aren’t separated, the need for that is eliminated.
*** Not only that, but when Jack bumped into the Doctor and Rose early in ''Time is Still a Flying'', he handed over his Doctor Detector (the Doctor's severed arm)… and the Doctor did the smart thing and burned it, instead of just keeping a part of his body floating around in a jar for months on end.[[note]]Which, in the interim, had also affected the Master arc as the Master, without access to the Doctor's biological code, couldn't age him into an old man[[/note]] As a result, "Journey’s End" is entirely a Bad Wolf!Rose story. The Metacrisis Doctor's part is taken over primarily by Jenny and Bad Wolf!Rose.
*** This also means the [=DoctorDonna=] doesn't exist either, whilst "Turn Left" is no longer about Donna because Donna didn't save a suicidal Doctor in "The Runaway Bride".[[note]]Even if she'd made the right turn to go to Jival Chowdry's photocopy business instead of HC Clements, the Doctor and Rose, plus whoever Lance settled on instead for dousing with the Huon particles, would've been able to handle the Racnoss all on their own[[/note]] Every reference to there being something on Donna's back and the Ood calling them the [=DoctorDonna=] gets replaced with similar moments hinting at Bad Wolf. All of this means that Donna gets to keep her memories and her newfound confidence in herself. After the story, Donna becomes a recurring TARDIS traveller for a long, long time to come, and a part of the Doctor and Rose’s family circle until the day she dies (far in the future).
*** Because Rose is with the Doctor in the TARDIS, Mickey takes over her original role as the one dimension hopping between worlds. His motivations are much different from Rose's in that Mickey just wants to save the universe, compared to Rose, who had been trying to find a way back to the main universe to reunite with the Doctor even before the stars began going out. While Mickey did dimension hop in the actual episode, he didn't do so until later, and he was with Jackie, rather than by himself. As a result, Pete ends up being involved in "Journey's End", filling Mickey's original role, with Jackie following Pete because she refuses to sit out the battle.

* ItsAlwaysSpring: "The Unicorn and the Wasp" had the notorious snafu of having it look unseasonably warm and people having a garden party in the middle of December 1926, due to the timing of when the episode was filmed. Rather than rewrite the party and move it indoors, the gaffe is retooled as a moment of foreshadowing:

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: From the way the dialogue goes when Harriet Jones is raising Torchwood, Sarah Jane, Martha, and Mickey on the Subwave network in "The Stolen Earth", it's clear that the Doctor and Rose never told Martha about getting Harriet kicked out of office over her handling of the Sycorax invasion. Only once Harriet likens the Subwave group to being "the Doctor's secret army" does Martha get a general idea of what went wrong, recalling the Doctor's handling of the Master, the Sontarans, and the human-Hath war on Messaline.

*** In the show, he rigs the converter so it requires a button press in-person to detonate, with Martha protesting that he could set the converter on a timer, and then teleports up to the Sontaran ship, [[TakingYouWithMe intending to give his own life to stop the Sontarans.]] Then with a few seconds left until the Sontarans launch their landing pods, Rattigan simultaneously teleports himself to the Sontaran ship and the Doctor back to Earth, and presses the button to detonate the converter.
*** In the ''Timelessness''-verse, the Doctor sets the converter on a timer and tricks the Sontarans into merely ''thinking'' that the converter is on a trigger that someone has to be physically present to detonate. He then sets the timers, and teleports off just as [[MassOhCrap General Staal and his troops realize]] [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb they've been set up]]. Luke thus survives, and is allowed a proper shot at redemption, saying the Doctor's example [[HeelRealization has given him new perspective on what a mistake it was to ally with the Sontarans]]. The Doctor is moved enough by Luke's defense that he lets him go, suddenly remembering that Luke is only 18 years old, so he's still got plenty of time to really turn himself around and atone for his actions.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Jackie has been considered dead for the two years that have happened in the Doctor and Rose's universe since Canary Wharf, while the Pete Tyler with whom she gave birth to Rose has been dead for 22 years. So Jackie and the Pete's World version of Pete can't exactly just settle down in London under their normal names, not without being accused of fraud, and Mickey and Jack make arrangements for them to settle in Cardiff (not that Jackie is happy with that, preferring Birmingham or Manchester) where Torchwood is based (allowing Pete to seamlessly continue his work in this universe, while Jake Simmonds takes over heading Torchwood in Pete's World).

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In "Fear Her," Rose is written as being more sympathetic towards Chloe's situation. As originally done, Rose is compassionate, but the dialogue she's given isn't. Her "little terrors" remark contradicts how much she empathizes with the Isolus when they're talking to it moments earlier. She goes from "poor things" to "little terrors" with no real connection, because the episode's writer wanted to lead into the Doctor's revelation about him having once been a dad. That's done here by having Rose backtrack and noticing parallels between her relationship with the Doctor and Chloe's relationship with the Isolusd.

** Post-Battle of Canary Wharf, it's noted that whilst Rose comes back to the Doctor right away in their timeline, the rest of the world believes she disappeared for a week.

*** In the ''Timelessness''-verse, Rose's people skills make a huge difference, as does the simple fact of the Doctor being married instead of being a good looking single bloke. Here, Rose effortlessly steps in and handles Martha's overly enthusiastic greeting; and Rose (who has better social skills than the Doctor) has answers to all of Francine's questions about who they are (the psychic paper leads Francine to believe that she and the Doctor are from UNIT), which greatly softens Francine's hostility. Consequently, when the Master's aides start talking to Francine, trying to make her think the Doctor is dangerous, she interprets this in the context of "The Doctor doing dangerous work for a good cause". And because the Doctor is married to Rose, Francine doesn't think the Doctor is Martha's secret boyfriend, seducing her away from her schoolwork. [[MamaBear She still isn't happy about Martha being in the line of fire by helping the Doctor and Rose stop Lazarus]], but she also understands the Doctor is just doing his job. So she's less inclined to believe whatever lies the Master spun. And after Lazarus's initial defeat, her scolding the Doctor isn't to slap him and say "Stay away from my daughter", but rather a more subdued reaction of disapproval:

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In "Fear Her," Rose is more sympathetic towards Chloe's situation. As originally done, Rose is compassionate, but the dialogue she's given isn't. Her "little terrors" remark contradicts how much she empathizes with the Isolus when they're talking to it moments earlier. She goes from "poor things" to "little terrors" with no real connection, because the episode's writer wanted to lead into the Doctor's revelation about him having once been a dad. That's done here by expanding the conversation to add more dialogue.

*** Elton's two encounters with the Doctor and Rose happened in the opposite order for them to how it did for him. For him, he first encounters them at an abandoned warehouse in Woolwich, and sees the Doctor and Rose encounter a Hoix. The next time he sees them is when they show up as he's about to be killed by the Abzorbaloff so that Rose can ream him out for harassing her mother, and for forcing them to cut short a snogging session. As he finds out, chatting with the Doctor and Rose afterwards, the Woolwich encounter hasn't happened yet for them.

** For the most part, this process has very little impact on the plots of the intermediate episodes, with most of the changes happening below the surface level. Canon events are only really altered if there's an obvious cause and effect that results from a prior change. Though at the same time, the author also works around some things that she doesn't like from the canon by reverse-engineering a reason for the change. For instance, the Doctor snogging Reinette in "Girl in the Fireplace" doesn't happen because instead of going back through the fireplace, he decides to follow his lead of the clockwork droids.

* InterruptedIntimacy: The Doctor and Rose are in the midst of snogging while watching ''The Princess Bride'' in the TARDIS's media room, when they get interrupted by a phone call from Jackie about Elton. Understandably, this gives Rose another reason to be livid when she and the Doctor land to confront Elton.

** When Martha is watching the instructional video from the Doctor during "Human Nature", the video is longer, and the Doctor explains that he and Rose will have their normal memories repressed. He also gives information about what to look for when the Family of Blood's ship arrives, and how the Family possess people as vessels.

'''The Master:''' ''[displaying a malicious smirk]'' The answer to that is simple, Miss Tyler. ''Because I can.''

* DoubleAgent: There's a small resistance group amongst the guards aboard the ''Valiant'', allowing Jack to slip messages to the Doctor and to Rose. Lucy also secretly passes messages after a few months.
* EasilyForgiven: Martha doesn't blame her mother in the slightest for betraying her, the Doctor, and Rose to the Master, seeing as she had no way to defy him when he was holding Tish prisoner.

* ForWantOfANail: ''To Make Much of Time'' was a rewrite of series 2 (which already had Rose) to incorporate a romantic and telepathic relationship between the Doctor and Rose. Most of the changes were internal to the Doctor, Rose, and their relationship, with the plots of the individual episodes remaining mostly intact. ''Time is Still a Flying'' is where things really begin to diverge from canon, because large chunks of the Series 3 plot arc stemmed from how broken the Doctor is over losing Rose, and dealing with Martha's unrequited feelings for him.
** The original lead in from "Doomsday" to "The Runaway Bride" is that the Doctor is giving a final goodbye transmission to Rose, harnessing the power of a supernova to reach through the Void crack. The conversation ends, and almost immediately after that, Donna appears in the TARDIS. As it goes in ''Time is Still a Flying'', the goodbye conversation is now one where the Doctor and Rose are reaching out to Jackie. Then the Doctor and Rose go to sleep, and then the next morning, Donna appears in the TARDIS while the Doctor is silently praying for some sort of distraction for Rose.
*** For the first few scenes, the episode is relatively unchanged, as is the Doctor's dialogue with Donna. The changes don't kick in until the motorway chase when the Doctor needs to chase after the pilot fish cab that's carrying Donna. In the show, he had to pilot the TARDIS ''and'' also open the doors and yell for Donna to break herself out and jump into the TARDIS. Here, Rose does all the piloting while the Doctor doesn't have to multitask.

** In "The Lazarus Experiment," Rose ends up improving Francine's opinion of the Doctor and worsening the situation for Martha's family.
*** The Master is trying to make Francine be suspicious of the Doctor and think he's a threat to Martha's life, something further benefited from Martha's faux pas when introducing Francine to the Doctor in the show. Rose ends up smoothing things over by introducing herself and the Doctor as investigators from UNIT. So as a result, Francine's only concern is Martha being distracted from her studies by choosing to hang out with a couple who are involved in dangerous work. At the gala proper, this means Francine doesn't slap the Doctor after Lazarus's initial defeat and instead just tells him she doesn't like that Martha hangs out with him and Rose.
*** Down the line, this means Francine doubts the stories the Master's aides are trying to whisper in her ear. She balks at the idea of betraying Martha's friends to the Master, only agreeing to do so when the Master kidnaps Tish.

** Played with for "Blink" since, as a Doctor-lite episode, rewrites of this episode usually focus on the Doctor's half of the story, which is all-original since the only bits known are what is said by the Doctor and Martha on the Easter Egg video message, as well as the conversation Billy Shipton has when they greet him on his return to 1969. So Sally Sparrow's part of the story arc is unchanged and instead we get the entirely new section covering the Doctor, Rose and Martha's time in 1969. The Doctor and Rose go on a getaway to the Isle of Wight for their first anniversary,[[note]]A necessity given that their next one happens while they're imprisoned by the Master[[/note]] while Martha holds down a shop job at a clothing store so they can pay rent. The video message is almost entirely unchanged, except for the part where Martha comes into frame to gripe about having to pay expenses (which is replaced with Rose instead popping in to correct a choice of words said by the Doctor on the transcript, then a new scripted line of Martha complaining about the paradox that would happen if she didn't comply with the transcript).

*** To elaborate, The Doctor finds out about the severed hand well before the trip to Malcassairo in "Utopia" (as opposed to in "Utopia") due to Jack coming by the Powell Estate post-Canary Wharf to check in on Rose. The Doctor takes the hand back from Jack and burns it, scolding him for carrying it around on him saying, [[ContinuityNod “Honestly, do you know what kind of damage could be done if my biological code fell into the wrong hands?”]] This doesn't have any apparent effect on the story until the Doctor's confrontation with the Master when they meet on board the ''Valiant'' in "The Sound of Drums". Without access to the Doctor's biological code to make his laser screwdriver age him, the Master instead subdues the Doctor by threatening to kill Rose with his laser screwdriver (having overheard the Doctor and Jack's conversation about them not being skeptical that Rose is capable of regenerating).[[note]]It's established the Master arrived on Earth a week before the Sycorax invasion, so he's had a year and a half to cannibalize the TARDIS to make the Paradox machine. Yes, he could have found something with the Doctor's DNA on it during that time. But the Master has a flair for dramatics and emotional pain, and when it came to this moment on the ''Valiant'' right when the Paradox machine activates, he felt there'd be more impact if he threatened Rose, rather than explain to the Doctor, "I plucked a hair from your hairbrush..."[[/note]]

** During chapter 44, it's Lucy who goes to Rose to get the message to pass on to the Doctor. Knowing that she's the one who will shoot the Master after the paradox machine is undone, it seems that she knows by this point that the Master is going to lose, and she's doing this to get on Rose and the Doctor's good side, in hopes that they'll be lenient on her when they turn the tables on the Master.

* InSpiteOfANail:
** When Donna first appears in the TARDIS during "The Runaway Bride," her "How many other women have you abducted?" line from the original manages to stay in, only this time it's in response to seeing Rose herself instead of just finding her jacket.
** In "The Lazarus Experiment," Rose manages to cover for Martha's faux pas and convinces Martha's mother that she and the Doctor are investigators from UNIT. This makes Francine more suspicious of the stories the Master's aides are telling her to try persuading her the Doctor is dangerous. Ultimately, the Master resorts to kidnapping Tish a few days earlier than he does in the show[[note]]In the show, Tish is taken into custody at the same time as her parents, with two aides grabbing her inside 10 Downing Street as Martha calls her[[/note]] and uses her as leverage to get Francine to betray the Doctor. Miss Dexter has them arrested when they defy her and warn Martha of the trap, and the scene of Martha driving the Doctor and Jack recklessly through the streets to her parents, only to retreat when Miss Dexter orders the police to open fire on them, still happens, only with the addition of Rose to Martha's car.

-->“Sometimes I think half the reason the Doctor travels is to meet all his heroes. Too bad you can’t get an autographed first edition like you did when we met Dickens. Considering the First Folio wasn’t published until after he died, no one would believe you...

** The Master's original plan with getting to Martha's family is to convince Francine that the Doctor is a dangerous influence on Martha. Unfortunately for the Master, Rose is able to soften up Francine enough at Lazarus's demonstration[[note]]by convincing Francine that she and the Doctor are UNIT investigators asking inquiries of Martha's movements during the Judoon incident[[/note]] that Francine merely sees the Doctor and Rose as a couple who do dangerous work that Martha's chosen to assist in, and becomes suspicious of the Master's lies about the Doctor. As a result, the Master has to resort to extortion to get her cooperation. He kidnaps Tish and has his aides pressure Martha's parents for them to somehow convince Martha to come home and bring the Doctor and Rose with her.
*** Unfortunately, when said call does happen, it's after the Master has blown up Martha's apartment, and Martha is able to tell they're lying about getting back together[[note]]especially when after the Judoon incident, just a week earlier in the parents' timeline, they were having a fight at Leo's birthday party about Clive leaving his wife for Annelise[[/note]]. When Martha presses for a truthful answer, Clive, rather than see Martha meet the same fate as Tish, cracks, "Yes! Just run! I’m not sacrificing one daughter to save the other! Run, Martha!” as Miss Dexter has them arrested. Martha races over in her car with the Doctor, Rose, and Jack, only to be forced to turnaround and flee as Miss Dexter orders the police to open fire on them. When the Master has Martha's family paraded onto the ''Valiant'' flight deck, Francine tearfully apologizes, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know what to do—he had Tish.”

** The Doctor doesn't tell Rose what his plans are for integrating himself into the Archangel matrices, figuring that if she doesn't know, the Master can't torture that information out of her. It doesn't stop Rose from figuring out his plans during one instance where the Master tries to taunt the Doctor, and the Doctor cryptically says "I have a way to get Rose back," which the Master (incorrectly) interprets as the Doctor planning to create another paradox.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: In his efforts to get Martha's mother to turn against the Doctor, the Master has his aides try to persuade her the Doctor is a dangerous influence. This involves them telling her the truth about some of the Doctor's wild adventures.

''[The Doctor clenched his jaw. It had already occurred to him that the Master had stepped into the power vacuum he’d created when he’d removed Harriet Jones from office. Though he stood by his belief that the former prime minister had made the wrong choice in killing the fleeing Sycorax, there was no doubt that she would be preferable to her successor. ''At least Harriet Jones never showed signs of megalomania''.]''

** In "The Runaway Bride," we have a scene of the Doctor, Rose, Donna and Lance driving to HC Clements in Lance's SMART car. This was a scene that was cut from the aired episode for timing reasons, and featured David Tennant's parents, his sister-in-law and his two nieces as background extra.

** The events of ''The Last Dodo'', where the Doctor and Martha liberate 3 million different species from a zoo planet, are what follow the scene in 2008 where Sally Sparrow gives them the information they'll need to get themselves out of 1969. The book ''The Pirate Loop'' is right before the Doctor, Rose and Martha go to Wester Drumlins.

* NotHisSled: In chapter 5, Jack turns up at the Tyler with his "Doctor detector" as the Doctor and Rose are cleaning out Jackie's possessions. The Doctor is offended that Jack is carrying around his severed arm in a jar, and also concerned about the possibility of it falling into the wrong hands, so he takes it back from Jack and burns it in the TARDIS. The consequences of this are not seen until the Doctor confronts the Master on the ''Valiant'', where without the severed arm, the Master has no means of accessing the Doctor's DNA to age him into an old man in a wheelchair, and instead has to threaten Rose's life to stop the Doctor in his tracks. This also renders the Metacrisis incapable of happening in "Forever and Never Apart," the series 4 rewrite.

** When Martha calls her parents after the Master sets off a bomb in her apartment, Francine tries to invite her, the Doctor and Rose over for tea since she and Clive are planning on reconciling. Martha's quick to figure out that the Master's people are there with them because just a week ago (for them), they were fighting rather heatedly outside a crowded restaurant.

'''Martha Jones:''' Dad? What’s going on? Dad? ''[Martha flipped her phone shut and jogged to her car]'' We’ve got to help them.\\

* RapidAging: Averted. Due to the Doctor burning his severed hand, the Master has no means of accessing his biological code and using that to age him into a shrivelled old man. As a result, the Master has to settle for capturing and threatening Rose to get the Doctor to surrender.

'''The Doctor:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Fair?” When have you ever cared about fairness? Specifically, what in the last two and a half years did you do because it was "fair"?]] ''[The energy around him carried him towards the Master, dropping him down gently on the other side of the flight deck, where the Master cowered against the bulkhead]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Was it fair to delete the flight plan from the rocket bound to Utopia and then use those poor people’s broken minds for your own twisted purpose? Or to brainwash the people of Great Britain into voting for you for Prime Minister, only to enslave them, along with the rest of humanity?]] ''[The Doctor’s voice was getting louder with every word. Rose stepped around Martha to stand beside him and put a hand on his shoulder, hoping to calm him. It was hard, without the bond, but finally, she felt him take a deep breath. [[TranquilFury His calm was an illusion, though.]] A moment later, he crouched down and spat the next sentence out in the Master’s face]'' Was it fair to make me think you’d ''killed my wife'', to make us both suffer the pain of a broken marriage bond?

* ShipperOnDeck: Since Rose is taken, Jack does his best to show his approval for her marriage to the Doctor, understanding their need for one last round of lovemaking beofre going to the ''Valiant'' and being equally heartbroken when the Master forces the Doctor to reveal Rose's "death" to him.

* TheyDo: The Doctor and Rose, once the Hoix encounter happens.