An Eternal Rose
Prolouge: Doomsday
The Doctor is being pulled horizontally towards the Void. Rose cannot reach him as his fingers finally slip from the lever handle. Then Pete pops in, catches him and vanishes with the Doctor in his arms. The wind dies down and the Void closes itself like paper down a plughole. The Doctor hammers on the wall.
"Take me back! Take me back! Take me back." The Doctor shouts as he thumps on the wall.
'It's stopped working. She did it. She closed the breach.' Pete says.
"No." The Doctor tells him
The Doctor and Rose lean against the walls for a few moments, and then she walks away slowly.
Rose went back to the Tardis. In one of the Doctor's coats that he left behind, a Sonic Screwdriver can be seen. It has the writing of 'Use it, Rose'. She presses the button on the screwdriver as a hologram similar to the one in The Parting Of The Ways appears in front of her.
"This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape and that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing and I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The Tardis can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. There is a tube, it's Time Lord essence, and it will give you the memories of a Time Lord and how to fly the Tardis. Now if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a brilliant life." The hologram speaks for her. She opens the tube and the essence pours into her mind and soul, she can feel another heart growing in her chest.
An image of Rose appears near the Doctor.
"Where are you?" The Doctor says.
"Inside the Tardis." She starts to say.
"There's one tiny little gap in the Universe left, just about to close, and it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a super nova. I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye." She then says.
"You look like a ghost." He replies
"Hold on" She says to him.
He uses his sonic screwdriver to solidify the image.
"Can't you come through properly?" The Doctor wonders.
"The whole thing would fracture. Two universes would collapse. Rose tells him.
"I, I love you." The Doctor tells her.
"Quite right, too. And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler" Rose asks him.
Rose vanishes. She stands in the Tardis, crying.
Rose slowly walks around the console, setting controls, then looks up and sees a figure in white, complete with veil.
"What?" Rose says.
She turns around.
"Oh!" The bride exclaims.
"What?" Rose says again.
"Who are you?" The bride asks her.
"But" Rose says.
"Where am I, eh? The bride asks her something else.
"What?" Rose says for the third time.
"What the hell is this place?" The bride shouts. "What?" Rose asks.