1. Stuck in the Sand.
She could count on one hand the number of times she had watched the TARDIS dematerialize without her. "Dematerialize" was the word she had chosen from her new vocabulary via Torchwood to describe the event of watching the Time- and Space-traveling ship disappear into thin air (though he would have corrected her with some overly-scientific explanation that left her newfound expertise seeming like a neat trick an infant had managed by accident).
In the end, it was just easier to say they stood on the beach in Norway, watching the TARDIS dematerialize, than to say the alternative: that he had left them.
He had only left Rose Tyler once, but he'd returned a moment later and had never left her again (not really) until this moment, when he'd chosen to strand her back in the alternate universe with what he considered a better life for her.
She wondered vaguely how long it would take for that god-complex to catch up with him. Some day, he would make a decision to override the rules of the universe in order to do what he thought was best, and the universe would have to snap him back into place.
What he never seemed to consider was that the tiny human apes he was so fond of understood more about the universe than he gave them credit for.
Especially once they'd come into contact with him.
The biological metacrisis tightened his grip on her hand as the TARDIS became transparent and then, with a final echo, that beloved sound of the universe faded away all together.
Thought stopped. The world was empty. There was only that screaming, heavy hurt weighing her down, sinking her feet into the sand.
What good was it, being the stuff of legend, when she couldn't seem to move?
How many things have become silent?
(Robert Penn Warren)