History Fanfic / BeingToTimelessness

* AgeLift: Rose, just slightly. She's established to be 22 by the time of the season 2 stories, with the author headcanoning that she'd been traveling for about 16 months with the Ninth Doctor when he regenerated, making her 21 at the time. Since the tie-in novels are established to be canon, it also means several months have passed in between "New Earth" and "Tooth and Claw", and this puts Rose closer to 22.[[note]]This actually would lessen the DawsonCasting since Billie Piper was 23 at the time that series 2 was filmed and aired[[/note]]

* Part 6 - [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27486625/ Forever Timeless]]: Two months after the Dalek Crucible, the Doctor and Rose are getting used to having the biggest family on Earth. As they visit Leadworth in 1996, Victorian England, a mysterious desert planet, and Elizabethan England, those family and friends often help in unexpected ways. But no matter where they go or who they're with, it's always the Doctor in the TARDIS with Rose Tyler--just as it should be. This story is an AU retelling of the 2009 specials era. Due to now being outside the Tenth Doctor's canon seasons, there is major divergence from show canon. Covered in this are "The Eleventh Hour" with the Tenth Doctor, Rose, Donna and Jenny and young Amy and Rory, before diving into the 2009 specials: "The Next Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead" will stay the same, but "The Waters of Mars"is now replaced by an original story detailing what Ten and Rose did to upset UsefulNotes/QueenElizabethI. Involves time travel anarchists who will show up again in the AU to "The End of Time," which will be an original story with the Eighth Doctor and Rose rescuing a kidnapped Tenth Doctor.

* Part 6 - Forever Timeless: This story will have an AU of "The Eleventh Hour" with the Tenth Doctor, Rose, Donna and Jenny and young Amy and Rory, before covering the 2009 specials: "The Next Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead" will stay the same, but "The Waters of Mars" will be replaced by an original story detailing what Ten and Rose did to upset Queen Elizabeth 1. Involves time travel anarchists who will show up again in the AU to "The End of Time," which will be an original story with the Eighth Doctor and Rose rescuing a kidnapped Tenth Doctor. This story is scheduled for release beginning in fall 2020.

** "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 in ''Forever and Never Apart''), but those are postponed.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Mickey is instantly smitten with Martha from the moment he sees her face on the Subwave network group chat.
* ManChild: Jenny is basically a child in an adult's body given she was born from a progenation machine as a grown 23 year old.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Besides all the existing instances from "Partners in Crime", the Doctor and Rose have another instance when they give up their attempt to chase down the Adipose from the unscheduled parthenogenesis caused by Donna accidentally killing Stacey Campbell[[note]]Technically, Donna just nonchalantly twisted her stolen pendant, and then Miss Foster went to emergency parthenogenesis after Stacey witnessed the first Adipose baby to come out of her[[/note]]. They stop to hail a cab back to the TARDIS...which happens to be the one that had been intending to pick up Stacey, and who just had been cancelled by Donna.
** Mickey during "Partners in Crime," when he is using the dimension hopper. He runs into Donna, and is tempted to follow her to go find the TARDIS, but he can't because A) the stars haven't begun going out here in the Doctor's universe, and B) the dimension cannon begins calling him back at that moment in time.
* MoralityChain: Rose functions as one to the Doctor. This is very apparent in "The Sontaran Strategem" where she restrains the Doctor's hostility towards UNIT and encourages him to cooperate with Colonel Mace for the best productive outcome.
* MythologyGag: During "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the story manages to re-insert an Agatha Christie novel {{shoutout}} that was cut from the original episode. In this AU, the resolution to the Doctor's cyanide poisoning is that Rose uses her sonic screwdriver as a "shock" (rather than a kiss from Donna). Agatha asks the Doctor, "Doctor you are impossible. Who ''are'' you?" and Rose replies, "He's ''The Man in the Brown Suit''."[[note]]Originally, "The Unicorn and the Wasp" had a framing device of an elderly Agatha Christie having flashbacks and dreams relating to her adventure of some 50 years earlier, and wondering who "the man in the brown suit" (the Doctor) was. The ending of the episode featured the Doctor and Donna visiting Agatha, upon which she begins to remember what happened and is shown the copy of the facsimile edition of ''Death in the Clouds'' from the year 5 billion. When it was decided to abandon the framing sequence, this second scene was remounted in the TARDIS. Both deleted scenes were included in the 2008 DVD box set of Series 4.[[/note]]
* NoodleIncident: 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.

** Also from "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Doctor and Rose introduce Jenny as their daughter to Lady Eddison. Seeing as Jenny was created by the clone machine as a grown 25 year old woman, Rose has the appearance of a 23 year old,[[note]]and Creator/BilliePiper is only two years older than Creator/GeorgiaMoffett; in fact, Moffett for a time had been considered to play ''Rose'' but at the time was passed over for being too young[[/note]] Lady Eddison inevitably has a hard time believing that Rose is Jenny's mother. Rose makes up a lie about consuming an anti-aging tonic and the Doctor has to ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject to keep Lady Eddison from asking more awkward questions. Lady Eddison doesn't ask any further questions, seeing as she had a romance with a Vespiform in India and had an illegitimate son as a result.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Played with in this case, as being born from a progenation machine means Jenny is only technically an infant despite having the body of a 23 year old. Trying to pass her off as the Doctor and Rose's daughter does cause some odd looks from Lady Eddison during "The Unicorn and the Wasp", who points out that Rose is too young to possibly be Jenny's mother,[[note]][[HypocriticalHumor This coming from someone who had an illegitimate child from an extramarital affair with a Vespiform]][[/note]] while Jackie points out that her son Tony (with Pete's World!Pete) is technically older than Jenny despite still being an infant:

*** 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.[[note]]The author felt that Luke's death was Helen Raynor's cheap way of avoiding the repercussions of his actions and that redeeming him via sacrifice wasn't the right answer.[[/note]]
** In "The Unicorn and the Wasp", Roger Curbishley survives the Vespiform's attempt on him due to Rose pulling him out of the way in time. The author's notes establish that this change was done partially because it lessens the amount of trauma inflicted on Lady Eddison by having her just lose her bastard half-human/half-alien son and her confidant Miss Chandrakala, instead of losing both of her kids.

* WeDoNotKnowEachOther: For "Partners in Crime," the Doctor and Rose use different alias names when they infiltrate Adipose Industries. The Doctor goes to his old "John Smith" alias and a "Health and Safety" cover story; while Rose infiltrates the call center claiming to be a temp named "Rose Lewis".

[[folder:"Forever Timeless"]]

* DemotedToExtra: In "Planet of the Dead," Lady Christina's role is significantly reduced due to the fact that in the original story, she filled a void that is not there in this AU, where the Doctor has Rose and two companions (Donna and Lee) with him, who are more versed in this kind of adventure.

The author has plans for additional stories which will cover Seasons 5 through 7, essentially being the Matt Smith era but with the Tenth Doctor and Rose. These are on hiatus, although the author has partially written part 6:

* Part 6 - Forever Timeless: This story will have an AU of "The Eleventh Hour" with the Tenth Doctor, Rose, Donna and Jenny and young Amy and Rory, before covering the 2009 specials: "The Next Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead" will stay the same, but "The Waters of Mars" will be replaced by an original story detailing what Ten and Rose did to upset Queen Elizabeth 1. Involves time travel anarchists who will show up again in the AU to "The End of Time," which will be an original story with the Eighth Doctor and Rose rescuing Ten, in which [[spoiler:Rose]] will regenerate.

* Part 10: A rewrite of "Day of the Doctor", featuring Eight, Nine and Rose, and Ten and Rose. Lots of confusion on young Rose’s part, since both she and the Doctor have regenerated.

*** It turns out that 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.

* ModestyBedsheet: Chapter 33 begins at the end of the Doctor and Rose's trip to Barcelona. Rose wakes up in bed, naked, and as she slides out of bed, the Doctor spends a moment looking up and down her body.

** The scene 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 & 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; instead of happening on Malcassairo during "Utopia". 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. Here, the Doctor is annoyed to find his severed hand in Jack's possession, and takes it back so he can destroy it.

** In Chapter 38, upon the Doctor reuniting with Rose post-Canary Wharf, the narration notes that the Doctor briefly wonders "how long it would be before he could look at a blonde and not see Rose," subtly alluding to a moment during Donna's wedding reception in "The Runaway Bride" where the sight of the blonde-haired Nerys in a blue dress causes the Doctor to have a flashback of catching Rose on New Earth after Lady Cassandra left her body for the last time.

* BaitAndSwitch: In "The Fires of Pompeii," Lucius Petrus Dextrus's prophetic warnings about how "he is coming back" put the Doctor on edge as he thinks Lucius is referring to the Master. In the end, Lucius's words have a double meaning, as to Rose, Lucius is referring to Mickey; and for the Doctor, he's referring to Davros.

** 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 with the Warp Star, 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.

*** Solana'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 or clothes on a shop window dummy, reminds Rose too much of Danny Bartock's 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:

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: During "The Fires of Pompeii," Metella offers stolas for Rose and Donna to change into (gold for Rose, purple for Donna) with pallas to drape over their hair so they will be "properly attired". It takes a moment for Donna to remember from what she's seen on period dramas that Metella is really saying to them that they look like prostitutes (the only women not expected in Roman society to wear stolas).
-->'''Donna Noble:''' That… that git. ''[Rose burst into a fit of giggles]'' "Like Soho," he said! Not one word about how people would think we were prossies.
-->'''Rose Tyler:''' So, like [[RedLightDistrict Soho]] twenty years ago.

** For "Partners in Crime," Donna isn't reintroduced until the climax of the story, since she's investigating separately from the Doctor and Rose. The Doctor and Rose don't realize she's there until they happen to eavesdrop on Miss Foster's office at the same time. That said, there are still allusions to her investigation going on, such as the Doctor and Rose running into the cabbie who was supposed to pick up Stacy Campbell's fare shortly after Donna interacted with him, and them passing Donna's car as they infiltrate the Adipose Industries building on the second night.

** The fact that River Song is just Melody Pond foreshadows future changes that will happen once Amy and Rory come into the story (since Melody is their daughter). It implies that the additions of Jenny and Rose to Team TARDIS meant that Melody never gets separated from her parents, not the way she was originally anyway, gets raised by her parents in a more normal life, and thus stays Melody Pond.

* 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. That snafu is lampshaded:

* PragmaticAdaptation: Part of the reason why the Metacrisis was cut, and all the story elements that led up to its creation were changed or omitted, was because the author was against the idea of Rose having to choose between two versions of her husband.

--->'''The Doctor:''' You don’t have to. ''[psychic paper flash]'' Chief Inspector Tyler from Scotland Yard, known as the Doctor. My family and I are on holiday, but it appears [[Film/DeathTakesAHoliday death DOESN'T take a holiday]].

** "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. 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 the 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).
** Mickey takes Rose's place 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. In the show canon, Mickey also dimension hopped, but he did so with Jackie, rather than by himself. In this story, Pete takes Mickey's original role as Jackie's backup.
** 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 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.
** 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.

** One great example is 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 the Central Park. Rose, on the other hand, quickly understands the citizens' plight, having seen too many of her neighbors on the Powell Estate get evicted just for missing rent one month. Later, when they first run into Tallulah, Rose sees how oblivious Martha is to why exactly Tallulah couldn't go to the police about Laszlo's disappearance:

** 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 while they're cleaning it out, 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.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/252067 Being To Timelessness]] is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Shipping}} FanFic written by Nancy Kelley. It can basically be described as an AU of the Tenth Doctor's tenure. Before the Ninth Doctor regenerates, the Doctor kisses Rose to absorb the power of the Vortex inside her. Seeing several timelines where he loses Rose abruptly, and another where she's with him forever, he decides to plant a seed during a future encounter between [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Rose and a werewolf]], which will change the course of her destiny with him completely.

-->'''Elton Pope:''' You know, when I met you a few weeks ago, I thought, "Oh, this it what it’s like to have an adventure with the Doctor. Big aliens and two buckets and not blue." I didn’t think…
-->'''The Doctor:''' Hang on, we’ve met before?
-->'''Elton Pope:''' You remember. In Woolwich? The warehouse? Nasty roaring alien, and the two of you running around nonstop?
-->'''The Doctor:''' That… that certainly sounds like something we might do. It hasn’t happened for us though. ''[Elton stared at him, clearly not registering what he was saying. The Doctor sighed]'' We’re time travellers; sometimes we meet people out of order. It can be a bit confusing, but that’s the fun of it.

* AbortedArc: In chapter 5, Jack turns up with his "Doctor detector" as the Doctor and Rose are cleaning out the Tyler flat. 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. 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, while this also renders the Metacrisis incapable of happening in "Forever and Never Apart," the series 4 rewrite.

*** Keeping the Doctor the same age rather than a shrivelled old man means some scenes play out differently. For instance, the Master's monologue about taking Lucy to Utopia is to a Doctor who's shackled to a wall instead of confined to a cage.
*** Midway through 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.

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Master turns out to have been 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.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The Doctor has to surrender his longcoat to the Master's aide-de-camp when he's brought to his cell. He has enough contents in his pockets to fill up an entire plastic tub like the ones seen at airport security checkpoint.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Rose's presence in series 3 highlights moments where the Doctor and Martha are unintentionally insensitive to those around them. The Doctor's a given, since he's from Gallifrey and never settles down in any one time period. But Martha also counts as she comes from a middle to upper class background, meaning she often speaks from a place of privilege without even realizing it. This is very apparent in the period-piece episodes.
** One great example is 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 the city, whereas Rose quickly understands the citizens' plight, having seen too many of her neighbors on the Powell Estate get evicted just for missing rent one month. Later, when they first run into Tallulah, Rose sees how oblivious Martha is to why exactly Tallulah couldn't go to the police about Laszlo's disappearance:

** 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 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.

** 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 guards find her and capture her.

* 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]]It should be noted that when "The Lazarus Experiment" aired in 2007, Creator/GuguMbathaRaw, who played Tish, was 24 years old. She's also four years younger than Creator/FreemaAgyeman, who plays Martha; although other narration notes that Tish is meant to be older than Martha[[/note]] would be Lazarus's head publicist:

* SexyDiscretionShot: Across this fic and all following fics, we do get several instances of the Doctor and Rose having sex. However, the narration skips over the explicit act, instead showing either the foreplay and a fade to black, or doing a "morning after" scene.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Rose in "Fear Her" 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 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.

* 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. The reason Martha isn't making passes at the Doctor is because she's seen how her family fell apart when her father left her mother for Annelise. So she instead seeks to become best friends with Rose.

-->'''The Master:''' [[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. 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?]]

** In "The Lazarus Experiment," the Doctor and Rose have one when trying to get into Lazarus's gala using the psychic paper to fake an invitation, only to be told by the greeter that they're already on the guest list as "personal guests of Mr. Saxon". Rose and the Doctor chalk it up to something they'll figure out in the future, not knowing that Mr. Saxon is the Master or that he has arranged for them to be here so he can try to turn Martha's mother against the Doctor.

-->'''Toclafane:''' "We come backwards in time, all to build a brand new empire lasting one hundred trillion years.”
-->'''The Master:''' With me as their Master. ''[The Master was trying to keep a straight face, but a smirk kept peeking out]'' Time Lord and humans combined. Haven’t you always dreamt of that, Doctor? ''[He chuckled]'' Oh, but of course you have—you don’t need to look any farther than your precious wife to see how much you loved the idea of Time Lords and humans mixing together. ''[The Doctor’s fingers twitched, but with his arms chained above his head like this, he couldn’t clench them into fists. He had to settle for pressing his lips into a thin line and glaring at the Master. The Master pushed his chair back and walked towards the Doctor]'' I think I prefer my way of blending with humanity.

* TraumaCongaLine: Francine Jones doesn't catch a break. The Master's aides try to make her suspicious of the Doctor, only for Rose to step in and 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's aides imprison them alongside Tish, and then they're left serving a year as the Master's slaves.

* ContinuityNod: Rose mentions the photographs Clive showed her in "Rose" of the Ninth Doctor on the original ''Titanic''.

* RealityEnsues: 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, it's clear over the course of the story that 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 says, "Information. That question is outside my programming.”

* 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. In the Timelessness canon, he 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 bizarre 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 [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay a code word]] to prove she knows them: [[spoiler:"Bad Wolf"]].

*** Solana'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 or clothes on a shop window dummy, reminds Rose too much of Danny Bartock's 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, the overseer, whipping an Ood who stumbles out of marching formation, and decides to ask Rose about how the Ood on Krop Tor were treated:

*** 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, much of it a product of the social rules and etiquette she was brought up with. John and Rose treat Martha better than Joan did in the show, as even with their memories suppressed, the Doctor and Rose aren't of that 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 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.

-->'''The Master:''' 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. 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?]]

** Hurting Rose is an easy way to piss off the Doctor. The Master revels in this as a means of tormenting his foe, whether that be to have him watch his guards beat her, or install a telepathic cloaking device on Rose to cut off her telepathic bond with the Doctor and leave him thinking the Master killed her. After "killing" her, the Master regularly mocks the Doctor's bond with Rose trying to get him to crack, and it takes the Doctor a lot of willpower to resist the urge to attack the Master. He doesn't let the gloves off again until after he's defeated the Master.

** Post-"Evolution of the Daleks," Rose asks the Doctor to teach her a bit on how to do maintenance on the TARDIS, with dialogue that comes across like foreplay. The Doctor sees through it, and Rose comments that “Oh, console room sex is definitely on my to-do list, but I’m pretty sure she’ll only allow it in cases of life-or-death reunions.” To which the Doctor replies, “It’s a bit disturbing that we have enough of those for the condition to not actually eliminate the possibility.” After the Master is defeated in "Last of the Time Lords" and the Doctor disables the booby-trapped choker the Master used to silence Rose's telepathy, the Doctor and Rose promptly have, you guess it, console room sex. Basking in the afterglow, Rose even says, "We can finally check console room sex off the list."

** The Doctor's and Rose's ability to sense timelines means that they occasionally see echoes or glimpses of events from the show timeline. The echoes are the result of the Master having been behind events at Canary Wharf and having tried to invoke a paradox to mess with the Doctor. In "The Shakespeare Code," for instance, when the Doctor and Rose are getting ready for bed in the Elephant, they have a flash of the show's version of that scene where it's the Doctor having this conversation with Martha. This is established later to have been a ripple effect from the Master's failed attempt to change history at Canary Wharf.

* DemotedToExtra: During "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood", Joan Redfern, rather than be John's love interest, is just another teacher at the school. Most of Joan's role in the story is taken over by Rose.

* DemotedToExtra: Donna's arc is the same, but the whole part about her becoming the [=DoctorDonna=] during the stolen planets arc is cut completely, due to the absence of the events that led to the Metacrisis happening, replaced with Rose becoming the Bad Wolf again to defeat the Daleks.

* HistoricalInJoke: The Doctor is said to have ghost-helped William Goldman on writing the script to ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.

** 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 when they were in the eerie green lighting of the Racnoss lair.

** In "The Fires of Pompeii", when they get new stollas from Caecilius's wife, Rose wears a yellow stolla, complementing Donna's purple one.

* CompositeCharacter: Mickey takes over the role that Rose originally held in the canon series 4 when it came to dimension hopping. This is first established in "Partners in Crime" where we see the scene where Donna originally tapped Rose on the shoulder telling her which bin she threw the keys to her mother's car in, only here, it's with Mickey.

** Mickey, Jackie and Pete take Rose's place as the ones dimension hopping between worlds. Their motivations are much different from Rose's in that Mickey, Jackie and Pete just want 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.

* NoodleIncident: From the way the dialogue goes when Harriet Jones is raising Torchwood, Sarah Jane, Martha, and Mickey on the Subwave network, 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.

* 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 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 takes over heading Torchwood in Pete's World).

** "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 the Twelfth Doctor (as evidenced in ''Forever and Never Apart'') will still take on the form of Peter Capaldi, but those are postponed.

** In "The Impossible Planet" / "The Satan Pit", Rose wasn't impressed with how the Krop Tor crew treated their Ood. In "Planet of the Ood", she's angered to see just how corporatized the enslavement of the Ood goes.

*** Solana'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 clothes on a shop window dummy, reminds Rose too much of Danny Bartock's 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 was busy investigating the black hole and working with Ida to locate the Beast. The Doctor is disgusted when they see Kess, the overseer, whipping an Ood who stumbles out of marching formation, and decides to ask Rose about how the Ood on Krop Tor were treated:

** In "The Sontaran Stratagem," Martha suggests Donna be truthful with her family about traveling with the Doctor, seeing as her keeping her family out of the loop allowed the Master to turn them into leverage. Donna then asks the same thing to Rose, who cites her own experience with accidentally missing a year (in "Aliens of London").

** In "The Doctor's Daughter," while Martha and her Hath escort Peck are making their way across the surface of Messaline, the planet's environment reminds Martha heavily of Malcassairo. This causes her to develop bad memories as she then remembers meeting the Master, and the Master imprisoning her family. Her failed attempt to save Peck when he drowns rescuing her from a quicksand trap causes her to realize how weak the foundation for her relationship with Tom Milligan is, as she's suddenly forgotten about him completely whilst helping out the Hath.

* FixFic: This one serves as a fix-it on both a small and a large scale. On a large scale, the metacrisis doesn't happen, so Donna ends up retaining her memories; whilst the Doctor and Rose bring Jenny along with them for their travels after "The Doctor's Daughter". On a smaller scale, we have things like Lady Eddison's son Roger not being killed in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Doctor being able to prevent the passengers on the bus from mutinying against him in "Midnight", and Donna getting a better understanding in "The Fires of Pompeii" behind the importance of fixed points.

** 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 and co. are convinced to stay around a bit longer, enough to see Jenny wake up, and thus take her along in the TARDIS.

** Mickey takes Rose's place as the one dimension hopping between worlds. His motivations are much different from Rose's in that he, Jackie and Pete just want to save the universe, compared to Rose (who had been trying to find a way back to the main universe even before the stars began going out).

** "John Tyler" is still the Doctor's go-to human alias name. Except during "Partners in Crime," where he has to use "John Smith" becaues he and Rose have to pretend not to know each other.
** Gets discussed when it comes to giving Jenny a last name, and they settle on Jenny getting the "Tyler" last name since the Doctor is using that:

* HiddenDepths: Martha's reasons for wanting to end her relationship with Tom Milligan and ultimately ending up with Mickey are a bit more fleshed out; it's not just that she has to keep big secrets from Milligan about how she saw the Master kill him during the Year That Never Was, but also that she wants to have an open relationship like the one the Doctor and Rose have.

* NoodleIncident: From the way the dialogue goes when Harriet Jones is raising Torchwood, Sarah Jane, Martha, and Mickey on the Subwave network, 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 Sontarans and the human-Hath war on Messaline.

* OnTheRebound: Martha's relationship with Tom Milligan. Her failed attempt to save a drowning Peck from the quicksand trap on Messaline in "The Doctor's Daughter" makes her start to second-guess her relationship with him. She confides to Rose once reunited with them that she finds it impossible to break the news to Tom that she met him during the Master's year controlling Earth, a year Tom doesn't remember (and during which she saw the Master kill him), and because she wants to have a boyfriend with whom she can have a secrets-free life just like Rose has with the Doctor.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Doctor figures out right away the Sontarans' clone of Martha in "The Sontaran Strategem," and along the way, he makes note of several instance through which the clone doesn't act like Martha that would be a dead giveaway, like her lack of her concern for her family, or her not being amused when the Doctor and Rose joke "Are you my mummy" while putting on their gas masks.

** Also from "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Doctor and Rose introduce Jenny as their daughter to Lady Eddison. Seeing as Jenny was created by the clone machine as a grown 25 year old woman, Rose has the appearance of a 23 year old,[[note]]and Creator/BilliePiper is only two years older than Creator/GeorgiaMoffett; in fact, Moffett for a time had been considered to play ''Rose'' but was passed over for being too young[[/note]] Lady Eddison inevitably has a hard time believing that Rose is Jenny's mother. Rose makes up a lie about consuming an anti-aging tonic and the Doctor has to ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject to keep Lady Eddison from asking more awkward questions. Lady Eddison doesn't ask any further questions, seeing as she had a romance with a Vespiform in India and had an illegitimate son as a result.
** In chapter 34, prior to "The Stolen Earth," Mickey, Pete and Jackie discuss the idea of relocating back from the parallel universe to the main universe. Jackie realizes right away that it'll be difficult for her to bring this Pete over to the main universe, seeing as the main universe Pete Tyler has been dead for twenty two years, while Jackie herself just up and vanished after Canary Wharf. Mickey mentions that it's possible Jack can use his Torchwood connections to set them up with new identities. The discussion also includes how they'll handle having the money to find a place to live, since [[YouCantGoHomeAgain Jackie has become too acquainted to parallel Pete's more glamorous lifestyle to go back to living on a council estate]].

* SequelEscalation: Thanks to Rose's presence, the TARDIS team has greatly expanded compared to the original canon. The first story, ''To Make Much of Time'', is essentially series 2 but with some minor tweaks to the stories of the individual episodes. ''Time is Still a Flying'' is series 3 but again, the big alterations are with the Master arc. For ''Forever and Never Apart'', there are lots more extra characters (with Rose and Jenny being added to the TARDIS crew) and roles that are completely swapped and people who are just in very different places emotionally and mentally. Even if the underlying story is the same--because the TARDIS is still taking them where they need to go--the way they handle the details is very, very different.

** An Agatha Christie shout-out that had been omitted from "The Unicorn and the Wasp" is restored with Rose calling the Doctor ''The Man in the Brown Suit''.

*** Rose then drops a reference to ''Three Act Tragedy'' when lashing out at Lady Eddison and Colonel Hugh for being uncooperative.

** As the show handled it, much of Colonel Mace's trenchant personality in "The Sontaran Strategem" / "The Poison Sky" is a response to the Doctor's outright antagonistic attitude, and this is what causes him to ignore the Doctor's warnings about the Sontarans' cheating, leading to Ross Jenkins and the other UNIT troops being massacred by Commander Skorr's battalion in a one-sided battle. In the ''Timelessness''-verse, the battle with the Sontarans goes differently, as the Doctor has been reminded by Rose to play nice with Colonel Mace. So Colonel Mace agrees to hear out the Doctor and Rose (Donna's presence on the Sontaran ship, and the Sontarans' tactics and means of disabling the soldiers' guns). The Doctor and Colonel Mace hence come up with an alternate strategy that minimizes bloodshed to the UNIT troops: plant mines around the factory to contain the Sontarans inside. Once UNIT has the proper ammunition that can't be disabled by the Sontarans' technology, they are able to swiftly retake the factory and mow down any who are unable to escape via their teleporter, while the Doctor and Rose seek out the cloning room where the real Martha is being held.

*** 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.[[note]]The author felt that Luke's death was episode writer Helen Raynor's cheap way of avoiding the repercussions of his actions and that redeeming him via sacrifice wasn't the right answer.[[/note]]

** Sky Silvestry survives being controlled by the entity in "Midnight", rather than being killed.

** One great example is 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 the city, whereas Rose quickly understands the citizens' plight, having seen too many of her neighbors on the Powell Estate get evicted just for missing rent one month. Later, when they first run into Tallulah, Martha asks Tallulah why she hasn't raised a fuss, and Tallulah explains that she can't because she'll get fired, something Rose is quicker to understand as she'd had to put up with some rather unpleasant customers in Henrik's.

* PoorCommunicationKills: For the most part averted, as a new telepathic link between the Doctor and Rose allows them to better read each other.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: As originally done in "The Satan Pit," once the Doctor breaks the gravity field that keeps Krop Tor in orbit around the black hole K37 Gem 5, he's only able to make a single trip in the TARDIS to rescue Ida Scott from suffocation. He's unable to save any of the Ood on the base, who had just been freed of the Beast's control. All of them perish, though the survivors of the expedition give them all posthumous honors. The Doctor's guilt over not saving them factors into his decision to liberate the enslaved Ood in "Planet of the Ood", telling Donna "I reckon I owe them one". In this story, the Doctor gets to the TARDIS 30 seconds earlier, rescues Ida, then rescues the 15 Ood that are being held in Ood Habitation. The rest of the Ood still perish, so this doesn't change his guilt in "Planet of the Ood" about not being able to save more.

** In the actual canon, the show just skips over the entire Year That Never Was. We get a few hints of what happened in Tom Milligan's litany of Martha's exploits at the beginning of "Last of the Time Lords", but that's pretty much it, unless you read the accompanying TieInNovel ''The Story of Martha''. This fic makes the Year That Never Was take place over ten whole chapters, four covering "The Sound of Drums," three covering the Year That Never Was proper, highlighting the Doctor and Rose being imprisoned on the ''Valiant'' and the Master's various means of torturing them, while also using ''The Story of Martha'' to show what Martha is doing during her year walking the Earth; and then three more to cover "Last of the Time Lords". We also get to see Lucy's progression from the willing accomplice who dances with the Master as he directs the Toclafane to decimate the population, to the betrayed wife who shoots him, making her action not as much of a surprise.

** Most obviously seen with Francine Jones.

* ForcedToWatch: To elicit a reaction out of the Doctor, the Master at one point forces him to watch as his guards beat Rose up. Later, after cutting off the Doctor's telepathic bond to Rose, the Master also takes delight in forcing Rose to watch him wallow in misery, with him being unaware she's still alive.

* MindRape: The Master at one point tries to break Rose's telepathic barriers to get into her mind, but the strength of Rose's bond to the Doctor stops him dead in his tracks. The Master is frustrated by this little detail.[[note]]It also ensures that he can't invade the Doctor's mind and find out about the Doctor's plans to integrate himself into the Archangel matrices[[/note]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Doctor has a moment of this when he realizes he paved the way for the Master to claim power by deposing Harriet Jones.

* YearOutsideHourInside: 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.

* TheMissusAndTheEx: Averted between Rose and Sarah Jane Smith during "School Reunion". Mickey still teases the Doctor about this being the situation he's in, but Rose and Sarah Jane get along much more quickly than in the show and it isn't framed as jealousy.
** Admittedly, Sarah Jane is a little jealous that the Doctor found a younger woman to travel with... but the real issue, for both her and Rose here, is about the Doctor leaving them behind. Rose has already been sent home once against her will, and looking at Sarah Jane, she realises this is a pattern of the Doctor's. She's convinced herself that he only did it because the situation was dire, but Sarah Jane's story was different and yet she was still left behind. While the show framed this as a jealous spat, the reality is that both women were upset with the Doctor and taking it out on each other because that's safer and easier.

* AbortedArc: In chapter 5, Jack turns up with his "Doctor detector" as the Doctor and Rose are cleaning out the Tyler flat. 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. 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, while this also renders the Metacrisis incapable of happening in the series 4 rewrite.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Martha's relationship with the Doctor is changed. 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. Though during "Daleks in Manhattan" she does confide to Tallulah that she'd have made passes at the Doctor if he was single.
** The fact that the Doctor is married to Rose means everything, since Martha won't make passes at a married man, given how her father left her mother for another woman. Knowing that the Doctor is taken, Martha instead seeks to become best friends with Rose.

** Hurting Rose is an easy way to piss off the Doctor. The Master revels in this as a means of tormenting his foe, whether that be to have him watch his guards beat her, or install a telepathic cloaking device on Rose to cut off her telepathic bond with the Doctor and leave him thinking the Master killed her. After "killing" her, the Master regularly mocks the Doctor's bond with Rose trying to get him to crack, and it takes the Doctor a lot of willpower to resist the urge to attack the Master again. He doesn't let the gloves off again until after he's defeated the Master.
** 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. 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 things with Jimmy Stone happened, Rose planned on sitting for her A-levels in art[[/note]]

** The Doctor's and Rose's ability to sense timelines means that they occasionally see echoes or glimpses of events from the show timeline. The echoes are the result of the Master having been behind events at Canary Wharf and having tried to invoke a paradox to mess with the Doctor. In "The Shakespeare Code," for instance, when the Doctor and Rose are getting ready for bed in the Elephant, they have a flash of the show's version of that scene where it's the Doctor having this conversation with Martha. This all comes to a head and is how Rose realizes Professor Yana is a Time Lord just a little before Yana produces his fob watch.

** At the end of "The Shakespeare Code," while the Doctor and Rose are musing about Martha's value as a companion, the Doctor notes that Martha's willingness to call out customs she finds morally wrong, like the orderlies' horrible treatment of their patients at Bethlem Asylum, reminds him of Rose going off at Sneed for drugging and kidnapping her in "The Unquiet Dead".

*** 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, much of it a product of the social rules and etiquette she was brought up with. John and Rose treat Martha better than Joan did in the show, as even with their memories suppressed, the Doctor and Rose aren't of that 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 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 do things like take a morning off without any reprisal.

** The Master shows disdain towards Rose for being a half-human/half Time Lord hybrid and also for not being native Gallifreyan, even using the diminuitive "little" on a few occasions. The Doctor is dismayed to see how despite being the one who ran from the Time War, the Master is NotSoDifferent from Rassilon and others on the High Council.