Hello everyone! So, this is a story about, well, read on! This was supposed to be a one-shot, but I realized it might be too long, so I divided it into 2 halves. I hope you enjoy! :-)
The Doctor stared into space, thinking about his pink-and-yellow human. Rose. Rose Tyler. Rose Marion Tyler of Earth. The Bad Wolf. The love of his lives. Gone.
All he could think about was that he never got to say it. He lost the connection. The last thing she heard was her name. She never heard what he was going to say. And she will never hear him say, "I love you." All those times he was going to say it, he never did. And he was given one last chance. And then he would waste it. And now, it really was his last chance, but he still wasn't able to say it.
He would never hear Rose call his name, he would never hear her laugh. He would never be able to smell her shampoo again, or see her tongue-touched smile.
The Doctor closed his eyes, remembering every moment with her. The first time they had met, when the plastic dummy was about to hurt the helpless human, he had grabbed her hand and told her to run. And then at the end of the adventure, she proved herself to not be that helpless after all when she saved him with her gymnastics skills.
And she had pleaded to him not to kill Cassandra, but he did not listen. And even then, she did not look at him in horror, instead she comforted him.
When he had just showed her the end of Earth, and unlike most humans, she did not cry, or fret, or scream it out to everyone. Instead, she accepted it, and asked if he wanted to get chips.
And when she first met a Dalek, she took pity on it. And though she found out that he was a bloodthirsty beast, she still saw good in it.
When they were in the Game Station, she never lost hope in him. Even though he admitted he had lost, Rose still persisted and saved them all.
He regenerated, and Rose trusted him. Even though he was a new man:shining brown eyes in the place of icy blue ones, long, messy, brown hair in the place of cropped, and a skinny body with long legs instead of the strong build.
When they went to New New York, she didn't care that they almost died because of a disease; she assured him it as fun. When they went to a spaceship with time windows, when he met Reinette, he abandoned Rose and Mickey, betrayed Rose Tyler. However, as always, she forgave him.
The Doctor felt guilty for putting Rose in that position. She always forgave him, always. But The Doctor wished he could take back every moment he belittled her. But he couldn't. Not know. Not anymore.
Years later...
The Doctor was rubbing his forehead in frustration. Amy and Rory were gone,and now River was insisting that she needed to attend to other things.
He had just lost his best friends, for goodness sakes! And now his wife abandoned him, left him when he needed her the most. Sure, he had experienced the departure of his companions before, but this was the Ponds. They were almost as close to him as...
He didn't want to think about her. He would absolutely not think about the blonde human.
Oh, shoot.
He had just thought of her, didn't he? Well, he shouldn't blame himself. Of course he would think of her once in a while. After all, he missed her.
Suddenly, the TARDIS rocked violently, and alarms started to sound. The TARDIS rocked violently. Well, more violently than it usually did, anyway. And then, with a final lurch, everything was still.
The Doctor straightened his bowtie and slowly opened the doors, cautious of whatever was outside. Something felt...off, but he couldn't place it.
His jaw practically fell to the Silurians' underground base when he saw what was outside the doors.