The Trouble with Doctors

Chapter 1

"Rose- Rose! You have to listen to me! We don't have much time. Right well what I need you to do is stand right there...no not there! Okay now listen to me. Something is going wrong I can feel it. And something is going to happen and I need you to be strong cause it'll all turn out alright."

No, no it wouldn't and he knew that in the back of his head. Just like how he could feel all of existence just about to blink out. At least all of his existence. Something had gone terribly wrong and he didn't have the Tardis to find out what. He didnt even have the sonic screwdriver any more...

"Doctor you're scarin' me you know that yeah?"

There was a grim smile on his face that exploded into a full out grin. Just like old times, something she hadn't seen on his face for far too long. She could almost hear his heart, his singular heart, thumping away with the adrenaline that pumped his breathing in rapid succession.

But just as she made a move to leave the look on his face held her still. It was so broken...oh god she didn't understand what was happening. And this version, the human side, of the Doctor wasn't exactly letting her know either.

She reached out for him as she felt the lights flicker on and off.

"And Rose, you can't tell him anything got it?"

She could faintly see him putting together wires in his haste. He looked so weak but by this point Rose literally couldn't move. The machine had a hold of her now and there was no turning back.

"Doctor, what am I supposed to do?"

He smiled for her again and she could feel the tears running down her cheek. And she still just didn't understand what was happening...but that was the way with the doctor and she wouldn't have him any other way. She wouldn't even change that about him even if he was mostly human now. It's just how it always was, just another part to keep life interesting. And it was so completely him. And to change that would be to make him into someone else. But why did she feel like she was about to loose him forever?

"Be happy...just...Rose?"

She looked at the faint view she had of him with tears clouding her eyes. And her body was shaking, there was really something in the air this time that made this feel permanent. Like back on Satellite 5 only this time there was no Tardis to turn to.

"Yeah?"

"Don't forget me."

And then suddenly he was gone. Just gone. Like he had never been there to begin with. As though it had all been just a dream. One that she was loosing focus on. Rose heard the whirl of the machine, she could even hear the sparks of a system starting to short out. The dream of him was slipping away and she couldn't seem to stop it.

No...

No.

NO!

And as her body lit up brighter than all of London in all of the years combined, the name of the man who had done this surged back into her mind.

"Doctor..."

She was no longer there but at the same time she was.

"DOCTOR!" the scream echoed all throughout everything in existence as her body pulsed out of the reality she'd made a life in.

The Doctor was gone, her doctor was gone. And for a brief moment ... Rose could feel herself blink out of existence. And when she felt herself again, all she knew was that something inside her hurt, that she was on her hands and knees on a dock, and that she could taste her own tears. Oh and she was still crying. Why was she crying like her heart had just been ripped out?