I walked away from her kissing him. I couldn't watch. It could have been me. I suppose it was me really, just I couldn't feel it. She could. He could, but I couldn't. Times like that are when the curse of the Time lords hurts the most, if I could have stayed on that beach, stayed with her and had the adventure of a lifetime I'm not allowed, of course I would. I would jump at the first opportunity. But she's happy, enough. Well she will be, if she treats him the same way she treated me, he'll turn into the same me that I am now, she'll love him in the same way she loves me. And then I hope she will be truly happy, forever. I can see it in her eyes, the love you only find once in a lifetime, and I returned that love, even though I could never show it. I hope we, I mean they, get married, have children, do everything we could never have done before, here, in this universe. I only wish I could visit them. See the beautiful young people that I know would-
"Oh" A tear splashed onto the page, smudging his smooth italic writing. Another followed soon after. The Doctor shut the Book of Impossible Things, and tried to look for some kind of hope in the loneliness that seemed to endlessly follow him.
a/n: poor Doctor was on his own at the end :( thankfully there was no what?! bit. I still haven't forgiven them for the end of series 2.
