"hey so i kind of made this deal to save you and you just need to let me go and let me do this i promised you i wouldn't let you get hurt i intend to keep that promise now let me go" "where are you going" "i gave myself over to our enemy" au
"Let's go," said the Doctor tersely, grabbing her hand.
"Wha-what?" Rose spluttered, "I can go?"
"Yeah. Go to the TARDIS. I'll be right behind you. I just have to do a few things."
"O..kay. Doctor, you're acting oddly. What's going on?"
"Go to the TARDIS. Please." He sounded desperate.
"Not until you tell me what in the hell is going on!"
"I meant it when I told your mother I'd never let you get hurt. Never. You've got to go now. You don't have a choice."
"Doctor, what've you done?"
"I gave myself up."
"You… what? Why? I'm nothing! You have to be free. You save the world, the universe! I'm a shop girl, I could disappear and nobody would care. But you, you're important! You can't do this! I won't let you. You go, leave me. I'll be fine."
"Rose Tyler you are important. You saved the world. Defender of the World, that's my girl. Don't ever say you aren't important. You're important to me. If you got hurt… If I lost you, I don't know what I would do." Tears brimmed in his eyes.
"And what exactly am I supposed to do, Doctor? Just leave you here? No. Impossible. If you stay, I stay." She grasped her hand in his.
"Don't you get it? I'm already dead. They're going to kill me, whether or not you're here. And then what would you do. If you can, do anything, grant me the peace to know that you are happy and safe at home."
"Don't you get it? I won't be happy at home. I won't be happy without you. I l-" Her nails dug into her palm in the hand that wasn't clutching his. "I can't leave you!" A sob burst out of her chest. "Just come with me now! Nothing's stopping you! No one's here. Say you're escorting me home. We can stay together. Please!"
"I can take you to the TARDIS. She'll take you home."
"The TARDIS is home!"
"WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO, ROSE? LET YOU DIE?"
"YES!"
"I can't do this. Come on." He tugged her by her hand, forcefully, nearly dragging her back to the TARDIS. She struggled, but eventually, she gave in to the strong grip of his hand. Her feet made scuff marks on the dusty ground as she dragged them. The beautiful blue box that became her home in the last year and a half drew closer, and she found herself resenting that fact.
When they reached the doors, she begged, "At least come inside with me? Please? One last time?" He consented with a curt nod of his head and opened the doors, stepping inside the blue ship for the last time. "Wait here? I want to give something to you." Again, he nodded. She dashed off to her room.
The lanky man glanced around the console room, and his face crumbled. A sob escaped him He was to leave his home for the last time. Images of Rose laughing on the Captain's Chair came to mind, and he felt his hearts clench in agony. Rose came bounding back into the room in that moment, her boots echoing across the room. She stopped in front of the doors, and his heart stopped.