Memories surrounded the room like millions of clouds. He couldn't help himself and ended up touching everything, curtains to pillows.

A knot grew in his throat as he picked up a photo of her, remembering her smile and what he used to be like.

"Gabriel."

Her voice was there haunting his mind, whispers of a life so long ago.

What was and what would never be again. It began to hurt; the pain of the memories pulling on his mind, flashes of her. Her soft lips, it felt like he was kissing them, her eyes, they burned into him, finding out all his secrets.

Gabriel Gray, 10 months ago:

It was a normal day, dry sandwiches and the tick tock of timepieces. The shuffle of feet didn't come, no one, until her.

"Excuse me, Mr. Gray?"

All he could think of was that he really needed to fix that bell, and how strange it was to be called Mr, that was his father, not him. One moment his brain was full to the brim with troubling things, and then it was only full of the lovely creature before him.

"Um...ah...yes?"

His cheeks were a deep crimson color; it looked like someone smeared tomato juice all over them.

She looked at him with her eyes, the bluest of all blues, kindness shining in them, something rare these days.

The one thing that made him totally and truly smitten was her smile, it looked too warm like she would never turn anyone away, never leave.

"I'm sorry to bug you, I was just wondering if you would like any cookies. I work at the bakery down the street and we had some extra."

He didn't even notice the plate of steaming cookies she had, all he could hear was her voice, soft like honey, inviting him in from the cold.

"I would love one, and you need not call me Mr. Gray, that's my father's name. I'm just Gabriel, and you are?"

"I'm Rose Tyler; it's a pleasure to meet you Gabriel."

He stroked her picture, the memories filling him up, toes to head. He could almost smell her, peaches and cream. It had been too long, too long since he had kissed her soft lips and heard her giggle, he needed her.

"Rose, this time I'm going to find you, one way or another."