PROLOGUE: BREAKING

Have you ever had everything you ever loved ripped right out of your arms?

Have you ever had it happen more than once?

Have you ever wanted to do anything to be with that one person?

Even if it meant breaking a lot of rules and crossing your own time-line just to see that smile again?

The first time I went back, I was there to change what happened. Because I couldn't live like that. I couldn't bear to go on without that one person there. I wanted so much to change what happened. To erase it from time. I wanted to change everything about that day. But when I got there, I knew there was nothing that I could do. There are things in flux and things that are fixed. And as much as I hated it, this was fixed. So instead of changing cruel destiny, I had to relive my own nightmare. My light was gone. I was swimming in a sea of blackness. There was no way out, I was meant to be miserable for the rest of my sad existence. There's a reason why Time Lords have two hearts. If a mere human were to experience what I went through over and over, their single heart would break, and they would die. I suppose this is another curse of the Time Lords. Not being able to die when you so desperately want to.

I'm getting ahead of myself. Like I always do. So let's go back. Join me in this blue police box that's much bigger on the inside and I'll explain everything. Because someone needs to know. Someone needs to understand why I did what I did. So take my hand, and I'll show you everything that's breaking me in two. Let's go back to the beginning. I'll tell you everything. For once in my life, I won't hold anything back.

You have been warned.