A/N: Another quick one shot of the Doctor's thoughts after the Master's 'Death'. Please R/R
Not So Alone
I stand there watching the pyre burn of my friend and my greatest enemy. All that he had done, I understood, it was the vortex. It had driven him mad. Something about this thought makes me think of the time Rose looked into the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed the energies of the vortex as well. I remember telling her that such power would drive her mad, and she was a human. It was madness that drove her to such extremes but it was madness that saved my life. I hear Rose's voice speaking to me from beyond: The Dalek survived; maybe one of your people did too? Rose, oh Rose you were right. You were right. Yes, my mind once again feels empty and I feel no one, but the shock of being alone and not being alone and now once again alone is a lot to handle. I now wonder as you once did about the Dalek and my people. If the Master was able to survive, maybe just maybe someone else has survived as well. I doubt it, but there is that small glimmer of something, maybe its hope, that makes me question everything I once believed. True, I can't get my hopes up but in the recesses of my mind I wonder, how alone am I?