They found their balance eventually, the three of them: Rose, the Doctor, and Jack (or Team TARDIS, as Jack and Rose had taken to calling them, much to the Doctor's annoyance). And as they found it, they all discovered things: Rose discovered that the nightmares of Jimmy Stone hurt less when she left her bed and went and sat between Jack and the Doctor on the couch in the library instead of staying alone in her bed; Jack discovered that when he had flashbacks to things he couldn't remember he could go to find Rose or the Doctor and they could cook or work on repairs of play a game and he could talk and they would listen or he could not talk and they would fill the silence and slowly he'd feel human again; and the Doctor discovered that as he told his human companions more about his planet and his people, the remembering hurt less. And they learned other things too: that a laugh brought more joy when others were laughing too, that if you stopped hiding your joy and shared it with your friends, their joy would bring you only more joy, and most of all, that together they were stronger, happier, and hurt less than they ever had when they were alone.