A/N: A Drabble about how the Doctor felt before he meets Rose.

My thanks to Dr D for the (eventual!) Beta

FB is always welcome

Rose

I have been a father, a grandfather, a husband and a lover.

All those versions of me I choose not to talk about, they were who I was, they are not who I am now.

I showed those closest to me the stars, the planets, places they could never have imagined.

I showed them all my heart, opened my soul to them, told them my deepest secrets and desires…….and yet they all still left me.

Now my heart is empty, walled up behind too many years of hurt and I won't let anyone in again.

And then I met Rose.