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A/N: This is post Doomsday in case you couldn't tell. I know it's short but I wrote it right before my favorite TV show came on...


Rose Tyler slowly felt her world tearing apart. It was like watching someone you loved slowly dying, knowing you couldn't do anything about it. And in a way he was dying, dying to her, she would never see him again, and that made it not only painful but hopeless. If the Doctor couldn't fix it no one could, that she knew was true, but she didn't want to believe it. She couldn't believe it. If she did she wasn't sure she'd make it through.

She could vaguely hear someone crying, she realized it must be her, but it was in a different reality to her. She could almost see him. She knew he must be crying as she was. There was no family or friends supporting him like her's were, he was utterly and irreversibly alone. And that broke her heart just a little bit more. She'd promised she'd stay with him forever. She hadn't known forever would come so soon.

All those months of traveling with him and she'd never told him how she felt. She knew that he loved her, he just hadn't wanted to acknowledge it, knowing that he would eventually lose her. Maybe he had been right all along. Maybe he was suffering less than she was. But deep down in her heart she knew he was hurting just as much. Neither one of them could've imagined this would happen. This permanent separation she knew could never be undone.

All those little moments between them suddenly came flooding back. The way he would hold her hand and try to make himself believe it was just friendship, all those hugs and late night conversations. She would never undo that, not even with immeasurable pain she felt. She'd learned so much more, loved so much more, than she could ever have dreamed to without him. She would never have anything close to that ever again, and didn't want to. Nothing would ever compare.

And then the final wave hit her. The other memories were fading into something bigger. She couldn't see anything clearly, everything was blurred. Everything except his face. She could see that clearer than she ever had before. She could almost feel his pain. It was mingling with her own, and in a moment she couldn't tell them apart. In that alone they were together. And in a sense they had their forever.


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