A/N: Quite possibly the worst prologue you will ever read. I will probably re-write it.
"Rose! Hold on!" The Doctor shouted desperately. He had never felt more useless, as he was watched Rose loose her grip on the lever. It seemed inevitable that she was going to fall into the void with the Daleks and Cybermen. A fate worse than death.
He stretched his arm out uselessly trying to reach her. He could see her finger tips uncurling from the lever. The Doctor looked back into the void, it was beginning to ripple which showed it was closing.
"Yes! Please, come on close!" He muttered frantically under his breath. With wide eyes he realised that Rose had lost her grip completely and was now hurtling through the air towards the unwelcoming void. The Doctor screamed her name, expecting her at any moment to be consumed. Instead he heard a loud thump.
It took him a short while to realise what the thump was. It was the sound of Rose's body colliding with the wall where the gap to the void was moments before.
He felt suddenly light headed as he realised Rose was still there with him. She had narrowly escaped.
He Rushed to her side, where she lay half-concious. He could feel hot tears streaming down his cheeks. he made no attempt to wipe them. Instead he just cradled Rose's upper body in his arms.
She smiled weakly up at him, wiping a tear from under his eye. Then she want limp in the Doctor's arms as she slipped out of consciousness.
-~DW~-
Six weeks had past and Rose was finally beginning to get over loosing Mickey, Jackie and her-could-have-been parallel Dad. The Doctor was there to support her through her hard time, he understood what she was going through more than he liked to admit to.
He held her close through her nightmares about her parents getting 'upgraded' or the Doctor falling into the void. He understood more than he cared to admit about loosing people.
He was her rock who stayed with her in the night so she could be reminded that she had not lost everything, she still had her best friend and her home, the TARDIS.
-~DW~-
Saying goodbye was the hardest part. The Doctor managed to send an image of him and Rose through a gap in the void. They had found out that Jackie was pregnant. This saddened Rose to think she would never know her sibling but also lifted her because she hoped that he or she would make a better child and would not leave them to go gallivanting with a timelord. She did not at all regret her decision, she loved the Doctor with all her heart even though she had still not told him.
She vowed to herself that one day she would tell him. When the time felt right.
The Doctor smiled down at Rose who was curled into his side on the pilots chair. He stroked her hair absently as they sat in companionable silence, thinking their own thoughts.
She looked up at him and smiled which he softly returned he brought a kiss to her forehead and they both knew that they still had more adventures waiting for them and they would be fantastic.