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Everything We Pay
By Eugena

Rated: T

Featuring: Eight/Charley, Eight/Grace, Eight/Rose, Nine/Rose

A song gives The Doctor hope. Before "Rose"

He heard the cries of his people, and then the silence. He had wandered alone, his body dying, and his cells reforming. All this time, he heard a song, her song.

Since his seventh regeneration, he tried to find her. He loved Grace briefly, believing she was the woman. She had been the first he saw after his regeneration. The woman sang life into him and hope, but as he kissed Grace, it was not Grace's voice that sang.

Many other people entered his life. He loved again with Charley, but that came to dust. He saved a corner of the universe for her, in a universe where she should have existed and braved Zagreus.

Every moment he hoped to repay the woman that sung to him. In his dreams, he saw her smile, but never her face.

As he formed into his Ninth incarnation, she sang again. Only her voice soothed him now. He could not hear the screams in his head, but worse now was the silence.

He would save one more world, and then join his brothers in oblivion. He pledged himself to his maiden, and pursued the Nestine Consciousness to Earth.

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When he landed on Earth, her song became on order. He became so entranced with her, most of his thoughts of suicide left him.

He vowed that if he could find her, this Last of the Time Lords would have a purpose.

Torn between honor—suicide—and his love for his maiden, he formulated his attack plan on the Nestine Consciousness.