Beaches
Summary: The beach. That same beach. It was always there wasn't it. Where everything came full circle. Where every single bad thing between two universes happens. It had to be here. She knelt by him, fists clenched and holding tight onto his suit jacket.
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The beach. That same beach. It was always there wasn't it. Where everything came full circle. Where every single bad thing between two universes happens. It had to be here. She knelt by him, fists clenched and holding tight onto his suit jacket.
"Doctor," she whispered, her heart breaking in her chest and not for the first time. Tears stung in her eyes, shoulders shaking with sobs. "Doctor, no," she begged but she knew there was no turning back, no saving him. "The Doctor has been exterminated," a robotic voice said from behind her. She laughed bitterly and released one of her hands from his jacket to wipe at her face.
"Oh, that's what you think you stupid STUPID daleks," she growled, brown eyes burning with hatred as she turned to the dalek who shot her Doctor.
"He has died, he has not regenerated. It has been too long." She screamed in frustration, releasing her Doctor altogether and grabbing fistfulls of her hair.
"You really are thick!" She screams, standing up from the beach. The wet sand is still clinging to her jeans and there's salt on her face, in her hair and the taste of blood and sweat and his death on her tongue.
"The Doctor is dead," the dalek repeated, focusing on Rose. She laughed again, tilting her head back this time. Her hair clinging to her face and neck as her bitter laugh filled the air around them.
"You don't get it," she hissed, turning back to the dalek, "you've accomplished nothing. Absolutely nothing. You don't even know what you've done."
"We have killed The Doctor," the dalek responded, "now we will kill the woman he loves." That robotic voice was grating on her nerves.
"For all your talk of being superior," she spat, "for all your intelligence, your hatred, your design…" she laughed again, "you've accomplished only one thing here. One. And do you know what that is?"
"Explain," the dalek commanded.
"You've killed the man I love. The half human doctor that came here to this universe to be with me. To give The Doctor or at least part of himself a chance to take the slow path. To be with someone he loved and all you've done is kill him."
She sank down onto her knees again and looked up at the Dalek with resignation and peace falling across her features. Her lips parted and her eyes darkened slightly as she ran her fingers through her hair to remove the pieces stuck to her face.
"Explain," the Dalek commended again, its focus on The Doctor now. Rose screamed, covering her face with her hands.
"When you came to this world, I knew we had to stop you. We knew. He and I knew what you were. My family knew what you were. We weren't afraid of you. I've faced you plenty of times before," she began as she glanced over at where her Doctor lay on the beach, lifeless and pale as the ocean licked at his legs. She let loose an angry sob.
"But here we are you n' me. The last two left out of everything we've both done to gain the upper hand. You're it. And I'm it. And you think you've won," she laughed again, harsh and barking, "You haven't," she growled, raising from her knees again to approach the dalek and gaze right at it. So close she was almost touching it's metal body, "You'll never win. Not ever. Because all you did was kill HIM!" she was shrieking now, pointing at her Doctor's lifeless body wildly.
"The Doctor has been exterminated," the Dalek responded.
"Oh but it's not that simple is it?" She laughed, "It's never that simple when it comes to The Doctor! Trust me, I married him! IT. IS. NEVER. THAT. SIMPLE." Rose was in hysterics, chest heaving as her hands went back to her hair in frustration. She turned her back on the Dalek and took two shaky steps back towards her Doctor before whirling back around, spreading her arms open and smiling.
"You want to "exterminate" me, do it," she said, eyes dark, "I'm ready to die. You stupid dalek." She let her eyes slip closed arms still outstretched as she uttered her last words: "but know this dalek," she spat with malice, "he will find you."