A/N I know this has been done sooo many times, but I couldn't help myself. I was watching the episode, and at the part at the end when Amy asked the Doctor what he believes in, I immediately thought of The Satan Pit and I couldn't not write this.
P.S. I fixed the weird code! It's strange, most of the stories I've been posting lately have been afflicted with the same case of turning-into-code-iosis. Is it just me, or have other people been having this problem too?
In the corner of his eye, there is a door. Not just any old door. He can tell from the way it seems to be pulling him closer, like it is a magnet and he is a helpless little paperclip. Turning fully towards it, he can see what number it is: 11. How fitting, he thinks, This is, after all, my eleventh body. Slowly, slowly, he nudges the door open and sees a sight that makes his blood run cold. Rose lay there, on the bed. Her eyes were closed and she looked like she was in pain.
"Rose!" He rushes towards her, even though he knows that this wasn't real, even though he knows what was coming next, and is helpless to stop it.
She gazes up at him, a look of confusion upon her face. "Who're you?" She asks, right before screaming and moving her hand from her stomach. A dark patch of blood sits there. The Doctor thinks of a thousand things in precisely 2.74 seconds that he can do to try to help, but immediately discards all of them in the 1.49 seconds that follow as hopeless. It sickens him to see this. The only woman he would - could - truly love, injured and dying, and him completely unable to help her. The only thing he can do is sit here and hold her hand. With a final exhale, she closes her eyes for the last time. He releases her hand, and it falls, limp, to the mattress. Slowly, the Doctor walks out of the room, leaving the (fake) corpse of Rose Tyler behind him. (Oh, but it felt so real, but he wishes it wasn't. it wasn't realitwasn'trealitwasn'trealitWASN'T)
"Of course. Who else?" He whispers. Gently, he shuts the door and puts a Do Not Disturb sign on the doorknob. He doesn't want anyone else to see.