A/N: Okay it's Princess Satan here! I just found out my friend wrote a short oneshot type thing for his creative writing class and after I read it I asked if I could post it and her agreed. So here we go!
The Doctor gazed around himself in quiet reflection of the desolation around
him. He stood atop an abandoned building in the middle of the city, looking over the
tall half destroyed buildings all around him, all the rubble piled up on the ground
below. In his experience, he had seen worse havoc, but The Doctor couldn't have
imagined the destruction that that would come about from this decision. He had one
choice now, he could keep running but they would keep destroying. The Doctor had
to face the Daleks head-on.
He turned from the scene of carnage before him to enter the TARDIS
(basically a machine that can travel through time and space), but standing before
the entrance was his traveling companion. She was a slender teenager around 16
years old with red hair and freckles specked all over her face. Adalyn Johnson had
been traveling with The Doctor for a long enough time to know what he was about
to do.
"Don't do it, Doctor," Adalyn said, staring hard in his direction. "So many
people have their hopes invested in you! What do you think will happen when they
find out their Doctor has been defeated?"
"I know what will happen," The Doctor replied, gazing wearily back at her.
"I have no choice. The fate of the universe depends on it. It is time to finally rid this
world, and all other worlds, of the Daleks! After all the times they have survived, this
is their last chance. Their time has run out, and so has mine." The Doctor slowly, but
steadily walks toward Adalyn and the TARDIS.
She stops him before he enters the blue Police Box that is his precious
TARDIS. "There has to be another way, Doctor," she pleads, tears in her eyes. "Some
way to defeat them and keep you alive!"
"I'm sorry." The Doctor looks away with pain in his face that only comes with
the hundreds of years of loss that he has experienced. "Sometimes necessary things
need to be sacrificed in order to obtain peace."
He silently walks past her and into the Phone Box. She follows him inside
and shuts the door behind her. Inside the small box is a ginormous room, much
bigger than the outside. In the center of the room is a cylinder of glass the size of a
drainpipe, and surrounding it is a panel with hundreds of controls of all colors and
types.
The Doctor approaches the panel and circles around it in thought. He stops,
turns some knobs on the console and throws a switch. The TARDIS begins to shake
as it lifts off to its destination, making its grating groaning cadence as it always did.
The two travelers stood in the tremulous ship in silence, with the sound of
the TARDIS being the only thing audible. It landed with a thump and The Doctor
faced the door, his companion staring after him.
"I suppose this might be the last time we meet," The Doctor sorrowfully says,
"Goodbye, Adalyn Johnson. It was an honor to have known you for this short portion
of my life." With that, The Doctor walks out of the room and into the space outside.
The TARDIS doors shut as it automatically starts up. "NO!" she screamed.
Terrified that The Doctor has left, Adalyn frantically sprints to the door and rattles it
to no avail.
Suddenly, it stops. She swings the door open and runs outside. "No..." she
whispers. She was back home in London where she first discovered The Doctor. The
TARDIS powered up again. She spun around and tried to get back inside, but it was
too late.
The TARDIS was gone. The Doctor wasn't coming back.