Author's Note: Lyrics are from "I Will Remember You" by Amy Grant. Idea inspired by a video on YouTube entitled "Eleven Remembers Rose" by Whereismerlin ?. Check it out!
I will be walking one day
Down a street far away
And see your face in a crowd
And smile
Knowing how you made me laugh
Hearing sweet echoes of you from the past
I will remember you
Rose sat at her desk, head in hands. It was quite a nice desk, in an even nicer room, in a fancy house, but none of that mattered to Rose. This wasn't what she had wanted. Not now, not ever.
She'd wanted him.
The one who had changed her life.
Another tear squeezed through one of her closed eyelids, splashing on the journal in front of her. His name fell from her lips, and she savored the feeling it left.
"Doctor..."
It seemed to hang in the heavy silence blanketing her room, before fading, mournfully, away.
Look in my eyes while you're near
Tell me what's happening here
See that I don't want to say
Goodbye
Her fingers found their way into the pocket of her blue jacket, grasping the already-worn object she had stowed there. A photograph. She drew it out, clutched it to her chest, unable to look at it.
After a moment of warring with her conflicting emotions, she gave in and opened her wet eyes to stare at the picture, drinking in every detail. It was all she had.
Herself, laughing. The Doctor, frowning thoughtfully and examining something, sonic screwdriver in hand. He had his glasses on, she noticed, and his already messy hair was even more disheveled than usual, as it always was when he'd been thinking.
"You used to muss it up so much when you thought," she told the Doctor's picture fondly. "Running your fingers through it all the time."
She squeezed her eyes shut as more tears formed.
His final words rang in her ears, cut off so cruelly as the universe laughed at her.
"Quite right too. And I suppose, if it's my last chance to say it...Rose Tyler - "
If I'm the Bad Wolf,
Rose thought to the universe, and I create myself - more tears slid down her face - then why couldn't I stay? Why couldn't I stay with him?
Our love is frozen in time
I'll be your champion and you will be mine
I will remember
I will remember you
Dashing away tears with a savageness that surprised herself, Rose carefully placed the photo back in her pocket. Fingers trembling slightly, she grasped the pen that lay across her journal's pages.
"I may not be with you anymore," she whispered, "but that won't last forever, Doctor. Even if it takes a lifetime, I will find my way back to you."
Rose looked down at the blank pages of the journal.
"And I won't forget anything. I will remember you."
Setting the pen to the expanse of white, she began to write.
When I first met the Doctor, he told me to run. 'Run for your life!' he said. So I did. And I've been running ever since...
I will remember you
So please remember...
I will remember you...
Finis
