Chapter One; Sad Goodbyes
Note; Alright like I've said before I am a newcomer to this series but I am trying the best I can here. LOL! When I wrote the title to this fanfic I wasn't aware that it was a title to an actual episode!
Anyway I wrote a fanfic to them sooner than planned because the last episode of season two was just so freakin sad! Yeah I know it was quite a long stretch and this probably couldn't have happened but I don't care! These two belong together!
"ROSE!" the doctor hollered on the top of his lungs. He didn't even care if he was going to wake up tomorrow morning with laryngitis. He looked over at her and saw how scared she was as she dangled from the lever. "Rose hold on!" he shouted. "I can't! I'm slipping!" she cried. "You must! I lost all of the people in my family and I'm not about to lose the only woman that I ever loved." He told her. "What?" she asked with a gasp of astonishment as she looked up at him. "You heard me." He said. At last Rose finally knew the truth even though she suspected it all along.
The man that she had been madly in love with since she couldn't remember when had come right out and said that he loved her back. "Give me your hand and I'll pull you back up, just come on darling reach for me." He said as Rose tightened her grip with one hand and reached up with her other one. She stretched it with all her might, she only had a little bit further to go. All of a sudden she felt him grab it and pulled her back over to him with all his might. She had never known that he was truly that strong.
He protectively wrapped his arms around her as she buried her face inside his chest but peeked down at the void sealed itself up. Rose breathed a sigh of relief before she embraced her doctor tightly and started sobbing uncontrollably inside his chest. The doctor hugged her back and rested his chin on the top of her head as he rubbed her shoulders soothingly. "Shh,.. it's alright." He began as he kissed the top of her head. "It's alright,.. we made it. We're alive." He reassured her softly.
"I was so scared, I thought I lost you forever." She said with a sniff as the tears continued streaming down her cheeks. "I know, I thought I lost you too sweetheart." He told her as she finally broke out of the embrace and looked at him through her teary eyes. "You just said that you loved me." She said still quite in shock and disbelief. "I know." He began with a grin. "But truth be told did it really need saying?" he questioned when suddenly they locked lips and passionately kissed before breaking apart again. "What about Mum and Dad and Mickey?" she asked him as he looked at her solemnly.
"I'm sorry Rose but we're too late." He began. "They're gone." He finished with a shake of his head. "You mean, I'll never see them again?" she questioned even though she already thought that she knew the answer. "There is a way. One way that is, but we have to move quickly. Come on we have to go back to the Tardis!" he exclaimed as they quickly grabbed ahold of each other's hands and started to run as fast as they could. Sure enough there it was standing right there in front of them just where Rose had left it.
The doctor quickly unlocked it and they ran inside. Rose sat down and watched him start to work with it and then looked away with another sniff. "Are you alright?" he asked as he looked over at her and sat down next to her. "No." she answered with a shake of her head still avoiding eye contact with him. "It's all my fault, I should have gone with them. Before all of this happened Mum was badgering me about the fact that I rarely come to visit her anymore, and now_" she began as she broke off and found her voice starting to crack before she busted into tears again.
The doctor wrapped his arm around her and pulled her inside his chest holding her and rocking her inside his arms as she continued to sob. "Shh,.. it's okay." He whispered resting his chin back down on top of her head. "I don't want to see my Rose Tyler all upset now do I?" he asked her softly. "What's going to happen to you?" she asked him with another loud sniff. "I mean when all of this is over." She said. "Where will you go?" she asked him.
"I don't know actually up till now I haven't given it much thought." He began. "But I suppose that it wouldn't hurt me to stay back down on earth for a little bit." He said grinning down at her and kissing the top of her head. "But what about the thing you said about the curse of the time lords?" she asked him. "Yeah I've been thinking about that, and I figure what the hell might as well give it a chance." He said with a shrug as Rose's face suddenly lit up with excitement as she grinned and squealed with joy as she hugged him tightly.
"Now that's my Rose Tyler." He said with a grin planting a kiss on her cheek when suddenly he caught sight of something inside the ship. "What is it?" she asked him. "It's time." He answered regaining his serious expression. "Time for what, what do you mean?" she asked him as he stood up and took ahold of her hand walking her towards the machine. "This is the only way that you can say goodbye to Mickey and your parents properly." He explained as he removed his sonic screwdriver from his top pocket. "Will this hurt?" she asked him. "No. Just hold on." He told her and before she knew it they had vanished from the Tardis and reappeared on the beach, at least so she thought.
"Where are we?" she asked as she looked up at him still holding onto his hand. "Bad Wolf Bay." He answered. "Or so that's what it's translated to." He explained as she continued to gaze at him until she heard a familiar voice speak her name. "Rose?" Mickey questioned as she turned around and looked at him along with the doctor. "Doctor? Rose? Is that really you?" he asked as he walked closer towards them. "Sort of." The doctor began. "We're a projected image actually which means you can't touch us." He told him. "You went back for him." Mickey said as tears continued pouring out of Rose's eyes.
"I'm sorry Mickey I had to." She told him feeling her voice become hoarse. "No it's alright, I understand. I knew it all along. You've always had eyes for him as long as I can remember." He said. "Just promise me one thing Doctor," he began as the two of them looked at each other straight in the eyes. "Take care of her. She needs you. Especially now that she can't have us." He said. "Don't worry Mickey, I'm going back home with her and that's exactly what I tend to do." He told him as Mickey nodded at him. "Then my work here is done. Good luck. The both of you." He said as the doctor nodded back at him.
"Same with you Mickey." He said when suddenly Jackie ran straight towards them. "Rose?" she questioned her daughter as she nodded and gave another sniff. "It's me Mum. I'm sorry!" she exclaimed. "No, I'm the one who's sorry darling. The doctor loves you, and he can give you the life that your father and I never could." She said as her husband came right up beside her and put an arm around his wife. "Take care of yourself Rose." He said as she nodded again. "I will Dad. I love you, all of you." She told them. "We love you too. Goodbye Rose." That was the last thing she ever heard her father say before the two of them vanished and they were back inside the Tardis.