Afraid: Doctor Who

Done as a drabble fic challenge! The prompt: Put a number and two characters from the same fandom in a comment, and get a drabble. This drabble was asked for on my Live Journal account by Phoenix-Dragon to write: The prompt: Afraid with the Doctor. If you would like to participate, check my profile page here for the link to my Archive account and go comment!

Fear was a natural reaction meant primarily for self-preservation the Doctor knew this, yet he didn't consider the loss of his own life when fear truly took hold of him.

What woke him in the middle of the night covered in sweat to squelch a dying scream?

Sometimes the thought that just once, what if he couldn't save them?

Other times, what if all his efforts ended in defeat?

His most dreaded terror though was the thought that he would be the trigger that collapsed the tenuous foundation of the intricate web known as the birth of all creation to send it crumbling into oblivion.

The thought of being the 'only' life left. Bequeathed with an empty universe and a lonely box drifting along a sea of stardust and nothing in between.