Title: Breath of Life
Rating: T
Summary: Did you know you can drown but not die? Rose is drowning, and dying, but the water isn't to blame for both. Ten/Rose.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who is owned by the rich and all-powerful BBC, and I am poor and own nothing except an annoying imagination.
Erm, it's with the Tenth Doctor (kinda obviously) and is sometime after The Idiot's Lantern (I think…).
Breath of Life
Prologue: Drowning
She couldn't breathe.
The cold water enveloped her flailing limbs with caressing arms of ice, and the breath was driven from her lungs in a stream of bubbles that spiralled towards the morning sky. Her eyes widened in pain as her muscles began to cramp from the freezing temperature, and she began to struggle against the ropes that bound her hapless body.
She couldn't breathe.
Panicked screams escaped her lips as he realised that the cords were too tight; that she couldn't escape. Her mouth opened and the water surged in, violating her body. Soon, as her body stilled in the water her gurgles ceased, and a look of abject despair settled on her face.
She couldn't breathe.
But then she looked up with rapidly-darkening eyes as she sank down in the water. He would come, he would save her, like he always did. Her blurring gaze searched the sky, straining for his silhouette. But all she could see was rippling blue, and all she could feel were her flaming lungs, burning without oxygen.
She couldn't breathe.
He wasn't there. She couldn't see him. Her heart sank, even faster than her body. He was always there. Always.
She couldn't breathe.
With her last fragment of strength she screamed out inside her head, hoping that somehow he could hear her, that he would save her.
She couldn't breathe, but she cried out, calling a word; a title; a name.
Doctor! DOCTOR! DOCTOR!
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