Title: Alone
Character: The 10th Doctor, Mentions of Rose Tyler
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 219
Genre: Angst
Summary: The Doctor thinks about how he'll forever be alone until the end of time itself.
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own the Doctor. He belong to Steven Moffat & BBC. I just enjoy playing around with him. Thanks to DoctorW_Quotes on Twitter for giving me this idea when he/she/they posted the quote at the beginning of my story.
"You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone." Those unfortunately telling words were the first words I told her when she asked if we could spend forever together, traveling through space and time. I knew that she would grow old and die, while I can not. I'll be here long after she's gone, just as I was here long before she arrived. No matter what, I always have to live on, constantly alone. Sure there have been companions. I used to have many different ones before. Before her. Before my Rose Tyler. Companions came and went over the years. None of their arrivals or departures have effected me as much as hers though. She wanted to spend forever with me... and I had done the unthinkable, I had fallen irreversibly in love with her. Now she's trapped in another dimension and I'm forever alone... once again.
There's that word again - alone. How can a mere word have so much heartache, pain, longing, and desperation behind it? No matter what time period or planet I travel to, that word is the only constant with me. It's undeniably inescapable. It's a companion I can not seem to be able to permanently leave behind.