A/N: This is my first time writing a Doctor Who fanfiction so be gentle. No flaming. I'll just roast marshmallows in the flames. The story takes place during what would be the 5th season with the Tenth Doctor's 4th companion.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Doctor Who or any of its creatures, unless stated so. I do own his companion though.
Prologue
"DOCTOR, NO!"
Fingers slipped, and at last lost their grip. His body began to fall to what, more than likely, would be his death. Suddenly cold, clammy fingers wrapped about his wrist with a painfully tight grip. Green eyes peered from the dark depths to his savior to see only that of his companion, dangling herself, from the overpass. One hand clutched the grated bridge while the other upon his wrist in a death grip.
"You're not going to be able to get both of us back up," the Doctor said sadly, smiling weakly at her.
"No, I'm not going to let you go!" She exclaimed, with all the determination and stubbornness in her voice that he loved in humans.
"It's okay," he replied sympathetically, "to let me go."
"No," she said quietly, and he saw her eyes begin to water. Whether it was from the cold night air or something else he didn't know…at least he wasn't about to admit to himself that he had truly known why. "I'm not going to let you go. D'you hear me? I'm never going to let you die…ever. You're the infamous Doctor, the rescuer of us stupid little humans…my knight in shining armor…my Doctor."
He opened his mouth to reply, but her grip began to slip and farther together they fell a bit.
"Doctor!" She shouted, in fear she might lose her hold upon him.
"I'm not going to bring you down with me," he responded. "I'm not going to lose you too." His free hand reached up and his fingers began to pry at her hand about his wrist.
"Stop it!" Screamed the girl while tears cascaded down upon her cheeks. "What about me! What about how I feel you git! You're being so selfish!" Stopping in his attempt to release her fingers from about him and his eyes played across her face. "You reckon I stayed with you only for the adventures? For the constant danger? I…I…I love you…and I know you'll never love me back. I'm okay with it. I realized that ages ago, but just being by you, near you; to know that you're alive and still being as noisy as ever is all I'll ever need! So…so if you die…I'll die too because a universe…any universe without the Doctor...without you is no home at all."
Silence fell between them as the cold air blew about their face, whipping their hair about in its willowy, wispy hands while tears still fell fresh upon dry, sharply cold, traces.
"Ale--," the doctor began to say when abruptly they started to slip. Blood slid down the girls arm from open cuts from her bare hand gripping the grated bridge; now began to lose its hold. "Why didn't you say so? So, you say you can pull me up?" he asked daringly.
"Still cheeky as ever," the girl replied with a grin and her hold upon the man tightened still as she attempted to lift him. "If you can get an arm about my waist…," she grunted as her muscles strained under the extra weight.
"Oh, c'mon now! Where's all that strength?" The man teased even under the possibility they'd both loose their grasp and plummet into the never ending darkness
Sweat dripped into hazel eyes even in the cold night air under the muscles exertion. Higher he became; higher up toward the bridge he neared until finally his own fingers wrapped about the edge of the overpass and he threw one leg up onto the bridge and with exhaustion laid upon the grated metal rather close to the edge; silent, his breath coming in rigid pulls.
"Yeah…anytime now. You know if you feel like helping me up or you could just leave me here…" The girl said very sarcastically. Suddenly he jumped up with what appeared to be all his energy back tenfold, and a wide grin stuck upon his face as he wrapped his slender, long fingers about her arms at the elbows in an attempt to haul her up.
"Sorry about that," he smirked audaciously.
"Sure, no problem, but quicker would be nice. Preferably before that thing comes back," replied the girl as she looked back down towards the ever growing black abyss. The Doctor chuckled pulling, bracing his white trainers on the bridge.
"Could you be any heavier?" he teased and the two smiled at one another.
"I'm not hea--" Words brought to a halt as her body abruptly jerked in the air and the Doctor lost his grip on her entirely.
"NO!" He cried out, only able to get a hold of her hands out of pure luck and agility.
"Doctor," she whimpered. Black smoke, thick as molasses had wrapped itself about her legs and was crawling up her thighs to wrap about her waist and she screamed out, "No, get off me!"
"Look at me!" The man yelled and the girl's head snapped around to catch sight of him. "I'm not going to leave you. I won't abandon you. You didn't and I won't! D'you hear me?"
Quickly she nodded her head and in soft sobs answered. Releasing one of her hands to the girl's fright he dug into his pocket, yanking out the odd looking, and metallic, thin, blue tipped sonic screwdriver.
"Hold on!" He shouted, directing the sonic screwdriver to the thick, black mist and with a click it began to glow, humming ever so loudly. His companion screamed out as though in pain and her body jolted into the air rougher than before.
'CLANG'
The sonic screwdriver fell to the grated bridge, jutting off into the empty nothingness below at the same time as the Doctor lost his grip upon the girl before him; being thrown down onto the bridge, nearly sliding off the edge himself and her fingers ripped from his own. A heart retching scream pierced the night as she disappeared into the insidious darkness.
"NO!" the Doctor screamed as he lay thrown down upon the overpass. "NO, ALEX! ALEXANDRIA NO!
A/N: I'm terribly sorry it's rather short, but I didn't want to give awhile too much. One might think that I already have, but…
I have to admit that the 'I'll die too' part was rather melodramatic. -shakes head- Oh well, I rather like it.
Hope you like it so far. I'm working on the first chapter, but I imagine it might be a bit until I upload it.