Hardest Words to Say
His hand swept through hers, trying so hard to reach for substance that wasn't there.
"Doctor…" her eyes traced his face.
He gazed into her deep brown eyes, reflecting the sadness inside of him into her. It seemed eternity that they stared at each other, but the world didn't stop. Lives were still being lived, people still being loved, but him, love never seemed to touch him, until now. They only thing he had wanted more than anything else, he could not have. They would never love another as they loved each other. The air in between them held emotion that words could never speak. Emotion that could never be spoken, not even the man, the man who could do anything, save anyone, save everyone. He could not save himself. His form started to fade, disappearing into that world that would be so lonely without her.
"Doctor…I love you."
Those words stopped the world. That cruel heartless world that he had survived in for longer than anyone before him, it all finally stopped, and for a moment it seemed he could stop being him, stop running, stop saving, stop dying.
"Rose Tyler…"
He was gone. The weight of the world descended upon him once again. That world that could be stopped by three words, it would not stop for him. The lord of time could not stop the world. It continued unchanged, ignorant of the lives it split, the people it hurt, the hearts it tore. He could never save himself but the world would never stop.
