Never Meeting Rose Tyler

Rating: K

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor, the characters, canon story lines, etc.

Spoilers: Major spoilers post Doomsday, although it would take place between Voyage of the Damned and series four.

Summary: "Doctor, I need you to never meet Rose Tyler."

Notes: I actually wrote this last spring prior to series four starting up again and I just never got around to typing it up. So finally, here I took the time to type up this little short story. This is just the little capture device, it will continue into two more chapters- yes, short! I hope you enjoy, it's my first Doctor Who story so I hope it people like it and I kept it Doctor Who-ish! Read and review!

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The Doctor twiddled around with the Tardis controlled. Yet another adventure he'd be going on alone. No more Martha, no Astrid to join him in the stars.

He was all alone in his musings until suddenly, he wasn't.

"What?"

A young woman stood in front of him. A young woman with light brown hair and dark brown eyes and a face that looked so familiar to him yet he just couldn't pin it.

"What?"

And suddenly, in a London accent, she asked, "Are you the Doctor?'

He didn't seem to hear her. "WHAT?"

"I'll take that as a yes."

His trance was broken. "Who are you?"

"I'm Ella."

"No, no, no!" The Doctor's face turned to complete recognition. He walked around the consol to look at her. "I know you!

You came onto my ship. It was a few faces ago, of course, but I remember you. You came on here and you asked if I had yet to travel with a companion called…" The Doctor trailed off. His face fell. "Rose," he finished softly.

Without a second's pause, Ella brightly jumped to ask, "Have you, yeah?"

Silently, he nodded.

"She with you then?"

He looked at the young woman seeing her in a different way, a weary way. "No. I lost her."

"Parallel world?" She nodded knowingly. "Good, it will be easier without her here."

Suspicion and anger boiled in the Doctor. "Who are you? Why are you here?" The Doctor ordered.

The sweet smile that had resided on her face finally dropped and her eyes turned serious. "Doctor, I need you to do something for me."

"Sorry! You barging in here took away your right to request." After a moment, however, curiosity got the better of him. "What?"

Brown eyes met brown. "Doctor, I need you to never meet Rose Tyler."

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