*I could have done so much more to the story, but I decided to leave it as something simple. The italics are the Doctor's thoughts, and the bold italics are his memories of conversations that have happened before Doomsday. I hope you all enjoy.*

Standing in a cemetery, looking down at a grave, the Doctor read the name on the headstone for the hundredth time

Rose Marian Tyler

27 April 1987- 22 December 2006

Beloved daughter, friend, and hero

The grave was empty. He knew it was. But the headstone was all he had left of her.

Placing one pink and one yellow rose on the gravestone, the Doctor thought back on the day he had lost his Rose.

"But it's... like you said, we've all got Void stuff. Me too, 'cos we went to that parallel world. We're all contaminated. We'll get pulled in."

"That's why you've got to go."

Why did I tell her to leave?! Why did I decide to send her away?

"Back to Pete's world."

"I'm supposed to go."

That wasn't a question. It was a statement that Rose would never be okay with.

"Yeah."

"To another world, and then it gets sealed off."

"Yeah."

That's all I had to say. A million things I could've said in that moment and I chose 'yeah'

"Forever."

She laughed. Oh how he would miss that laugh.

"That's not gonna happen."

She fought for me. She told her mother to leave because she wanted to be with me and I put that stupid chain around her neck and watched as she disappeared. Oh but my Rose, she was always a fighter. She never gave up.

"Once the breach closes that's IT. You will never be able to see her again. Your own mother!"

"I made my choice a long time ago, and I'm never gonna leave you."

I sent her away. I betrayed her trust and she STILL wanted to stay with me.

"How long are you going to stay with me?"

"Forever."

They set everything up. The levers were online and locked. The void was open. The Daleks and Cybermen were being sucked in. Everything was going perfectly.

Until the Dalek hit the lever on Rose's side. And the lever was released and turned off. And Rose, oh Rose...

"Rose hold on!"

Her grip was failing. She couldn't hold on any longer.

"Hold on!"

She was falling. I was losing her and all I could do was scream her name. I couldn't do anything except watch her being sucked into the void while all I could do was scream her name.

In the end I remember my voice being hoarse, but I'm not sure if it was from screaming her name so long or from the fact that one of my hearts was being sucked into the void along with Rose.

I had begged the Universe to give me one last miracle. If I was going to lose her forever, let her be in Pete's World

Let her be safe.

"And the lost girl, so far away from home. The valiant child, who will die in battle, so very soon."

I should have known the Universe wasn't kind.

The Doctor stood up, how he had ended up on his knees, he didn't know. He wiped the tears from his eyes and took one last look at the grave.

Rose Marian Tyler

27 April 1987- 22 December 2006

Beloved daughter, friend, and hero

The grave was empty. He knew it was. But the headstone was all he had left of her.

*I didn't intend to make this a sob story. My intention was not to make anyone cry. So, If I didn't, good. If I did, I apologize. This was just something that I had bottled inside me for quite some time and I decided to finally let it out. As I said, I could have done so much more... But this seemed to satisfy me. As you can tell, the beginning and the end are the same. I did this for the purpose of different feelings. Everyone knows how Doomsday ends.. But not everyone knows how I was to end it.*

*The beginning of a story should have the same ending*