Disclaimer: Doctor Who isn't mine. If it was things would be quite different. The BBC owns all and I bow before them.
Written for timepetalsprompts on tumblr and their weekly drabble prompt: eternity.
The Doctor swallowed as the TARDIS vanished, meeting Rose's gaze as she continued to stroke his thumb.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly.
"Sorry?" His brow furrowed.
"You've lost everything."
"No, Rose Tyler, I did not." He shook his head emphatically. "I've got you."
"Forever?"
"Yes. I've been without the TARDIS and I've been without you. I'd rather have one lifetime with you than an eternity on my own. This is the one adventure I thought I could never have and I get it with you."
Rose smiled, and holding hands they took the first steps of their new life together.