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Author's Note: This is unbetaed, barely revised, and written on my cell phone in half an hour. Also the first thing I've written in, oh, three years. Do read and review.
It could've ended when his image faded on beach.
It didn't.
Not to say Rose Tyler didn't sob to her mother; she most certainly did, but there was nothing to do but kick the sand off her shoes and glue the pieces of her heart back together. After all, an Earth needed defending, with no Time Lords for the defending.
She spent her days chasing aliens and her nights dreaming of a blue box spinning through the stars a universe if when her own stars started to go out, she smiled, it was only because the beginning had come.