Rose covered her face with her hands and took long, deep breaths, trying to calm down enough to help him. Because despite the agonizing emotional pain she was, all she really wanted was to make everything okay for him again. It was what she had always done, cared more about him than herself. It was the only way she knew how to live.

"Four years is a long time for humans," she told him quietly as her hands fell and she wrapped her arms around her stomach. "'s even longer when you have a TARDIS."