Chapter 1:

Doctor's pov

The ancient man stood in his box feeling the emptiness and sorrow of his lonely life. Everyone was gone. Martha was right I was so busy and caught up in my own loss I was blind to what was going on around me. Had I been more observant….. Ughhhh! I can't stand it anymore. The loneliness and sorrow consumes me day in and day out. Only the piercing pain throughout my body assures me that I am not dead. My life is an endless road and around every corner there is death, and the worst part is that it is never me. I forever walk this path of darkness and despair to live while every one around me dies protecting me. I always tell myself that I should never have a companion they get in the way, but what I really mean is I don't know if I will be able to keep them safe. If or when something happens to them the burden on my shoulders grows in size pushing me farther and farther out of sanity and over the cliff. There was once someone who could lift my burden, a light that showed me the way. But like everyone else she is gone. Gone! I had the chance to see her one last time on that beach, and I couldn't even utter the words that had been surrounding my every thought. God you bloody coward! Why couldn't you just have said it? She deserved to hear it. Rose Tyler….. Ohh never mind its too late now.

Rose's pov

" Rose, what are you doing back here", Mickey asked even though he already knew the answer.

" I can't get him out of my head", she replied without hesitation

" Rose you come down here every week just sittin here hoping that you are going to see him again, but we both know…" Rose cut him off

" I know that he can't come back, I do, but every thought I have is consumed with him. I tell myself that I won't come back, but I always find myself here week after week waiting for him, my Doctor."

" Look I know you and the Doctor had something, but we did too. He isn't here and I am , Rose…"

" Mickey, we can never go back to way things were. Nothing will ever be the same for me. Once you travel with the doctor and see all the beautiful things out there you can never truly go back. It is like your mind is opened to something bigger something so dangerous that you could never control, but you long for it just the same."

"I know that we will never be that way again, but look at you! It's blimey unhealthy, Rose, he is NEVER coming back, and sooner or later you are going to have to face that."

How could I ever accept that. I hear what he says to me, but it is like my mind shuts him out. He wastes his breath on me. Being with the Doctor was the best thing that ever happened to me. I will wait today and tomorrow and how ever long I have to, to see him again.