Authors Note: Hello my lovelys! I give you my third Doctor Who fiction, so please be kind. Let me know what you think good, bad, not worth the effort. All reviews are most welcome. I'm totally a Nine girl. he's my Doctor! But Ten isn't to shabby either. This story will have a few twists and turns, and is set for about 15 chapters. As always good reading!!
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who, if I did then Nine would never have regenerated, and I would still be mesmerized by those blue eyes of his.
Times Eternal Promise
Chapter 1: Silence
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread - Blaise Pascal
Silence, that is all he hears anymore in his beloved ship, silence. Theres no gentle humming of the telepathic link, no soft reverbrations thru the organic supports in the vaulted control room. Just silence, surrounding, engulfing, overwhelming him.
The Doctors head turns, and desolate brown eyes search down the hallway that leads to her room. Silence echos off the empty walls, no blaring of music comes from that direction, no roaring hair dryer, nor insestant ringing of a phone. Silence, everywhere silence, nothing but silence.
No footsteps running toward him in panic, no shuffling steps luring him away from repairs. Silence. No rustling of clothes brushing against each other. No more hair whispering as it slides over her shoulders. Silence. No more laughter bouncing off the walls and surrounding him in contenment. No more soft gasps of pleasure in the dark of night to warm his battered hearts, and calm his troubled soul. Silence. No more peace, no more happiness, no more love, no more anything, nothing but silence.
Sighing in pain the Doctor stumbles back, and falls into the Captains chair. Running his hands thru his unruly brown hair, he closes his somber eyes, he remembers... he remembers... Bad Wolf Bay. How could he ever forget that day, the day that both of his hearts broke. The day the Time Lord ran out of time, and lost his Rose.
(Flashback)
Save two worlds.
No other choice.
Cybermen and Daleks being pulled into the void.
Wind rushing past, ferouisly tugging at their bodies.
The lever slipping.
Rose pushing it back into place.
Her fingers slipping from their death grip.
Her body stretched out and being pulled backwards.
The fear, the grief, the anger, and above all else her love flashing in her amber eyes.
Her fingers finally being torn from their anchor.
The helplessness in those beautifull eyes as shes being sucked into the void.
That final moment when Pete Tyler jumped in, and grabed her, teleporting back to his world.
The last look of his love.
The rift forever closed.
A white wall silently staring back at him.
A sun destroyed just to say goodbye.
A bleak, gray, barren beach.
Her final words "I love you".
Not enough time to tell her his hearts desire.
Not enough time to say those three words he had thought a million times.
(End Flashback)
The Doctor jerks awake from the terror of his dreams. His hearts are filled with dread, as eternity alone streches before him. In silence his head drops into the palms of his hands. Silent sobs rack his body, his grief still to much to bear after all this time. Theres no one to comfort him, after all his only companion now is silence.