The Doctor held her against him while the change happened, almost in awe as the nanagenes went about their work in a swirl of gold around them. The traces of the Vortex in Rose seemed to glow too, and the Doctor could barely contain himself as he saw her eyes open again.
It was his Rose. It had worked. He knew as certainly as he knew his own name that Rose was now a Time Lady.
"Fantastic," he managed fervently, lifting her in a crushing hug straight off the ground with an undignified whoop of joy.