In Another Lifetime

by kshadow

When one's life is empty, what other option does one have but to end it all? That was what Rose Tyler attempted to do. But Fate had other plans for her, and so she finds herself reliving her life, but this time, she has no plans of letting the Doctor get away from her.

1. Prologue

Rose Tyler stood at the edge of the cliff, staring down into the crashing waves far below. She closed her eyes, sucking in a lungful of salty air.

John was gone. John Noble, the metacrisis Doctor and her beloved husband of fifty years, was dead. Died peacefully of old age in his sleep, getting the blessed peace Rose had sought for so long, the eternal rest Rose wasn't going to get, because Rose wasn't aging, and she hadn't been aging for a long time.

Bad Wolf had changed her, made her something more than human. Rose suspected that it was so she could stay with the Doctor, the Time Lord one, for forever, just as she had promised.

Would this kill her? Rose couldn't help but wonder. Would John be disappointed in her for being so weak as to actually do what she was about to do? Would her mother, the late Jackie Tyler, disapprove? Would she forgive Rose for what she was about to do?

Rose sucked in a deep breath, before exhaling and jumping into the waters far below. She disappeared beneath the crashing waves, and did not reemerge.