Doctor Who/Torchwood Fan-fiction: Lady Who
Chapter One: Goodbye
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who or Torchwood
-A-
Everything had been going so well, the Doctor and Rose were saving earth again, but within seconds it all went wrong.
Those moments were still replaying in the Doctor's head as he stood against the wall crying and with his head against it; exactly where the void had been open just moments before.
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As the Doctor and Rose were sealing the Daleks and Cybermen away in the void Rose's lever slipped and began to power down. Rose knew that she had to get it operational again so she let go of the thing that was keeping her from being sucked in to the void and she pushed the lever back in place.
"Hold on Rose" He yelled at her above the noise of the void.
But as the last of the Daleks and Cybermen went through Rose couldn't hold on any longer.
"Doctor" she screamed as she slipped in to the darkness of the void and before he could even move, the door to the void closed and disappeared forever.
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He had been in shock at first, so much so that he couldn't move, could only stare at where Rose had disappeared in to the void, which was now just a wall.
Then he slowly walked over to the wall and as the realisation of what had just happened sunk in, a waterfall of seemingly never ending tears fell down his face as he chocked back a sob.
He pressed his body against the wall, in hope that he could sense Rose and that she was alright, just on the other side of the wall.
For a second he could sense her warm glowing presence but then his glimmer of hope died as he couldn't sense Rose anymore and he knew he had lost her forever.
He went very silent as this realisation sunk in and he slowly turned away from the wall,
He didn't want to be here on this planet that reminded him so much of Rose, he couldn't bare to stay for a moment longer.
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But before he started down the stairs - from the top floor to the basement where the TARDIS was - he walked over to the large wall made of glass on the other side of the room.
What he saw was a terrible sight, even though he had managed to seal the Daleks and Cybermen away - with the ultimate sacrifice of loosing Rose forever - there were bodies littering the ground and people still running and screaming.
So many people were dead at the battle of Canary Wharf, including his Rose. And even though he knew he should feel something for those innocent people on the ground who had died, he just couldn't, because the only thing he could think of right then was Rose, his wonderful, lovely, beautiful, caring Rose, lost forever, dead.
He hadn't even gotten the chance to tell her so many things yet, show her so many places that he knew she would love.
He wanted her to be by his side forever like she promised she would be, he wanted to tell her that he loved her, which he now realised after all the time he had spent convincing himself otherwise, trying to deny his own feelings for her. It was like fate had tricked him; let him be happy for a while then left him to be alone forever after it had taken him so long to find the person for him.
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As he made his way back to the TARDIS - slowly down the many flights of stairs - he was in deep thought about all the adventures he had had with Rose.
"Oh she was so great, we were a great team." He sighed to himself.
Then a memory resurfaced and he remembered when they had gotten trapped on that asteroid like planet with the Ood, with no TARDIS and something was constantly trying to kill them.
The usual.
But what he remembered the most was when he had found the source of ancient evil that was terrorising them, the devil at the heart of the planet.
It had told the doctor something he didn't believe at the time, he thought the creature had been desperate and just tried to scare him as the Doctor sent the evil being to its death.
But now he knew it had been right, it had told the Doctor just before he and Rose had left it on that planet to be sucked in to the black hole.
It had taunted the Doctor, telling him that Rose would die soon.
He hadn't believed it, he wasn't willing to believe it at the time, wanting Rose to be by his side forever.
But the terrible truth of what the creature had predicted had crashed down on him at the very moment when Rose had been sucked through the void.
He shook himself out of his thoughts, not wishing to dwell on it anymore.
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He had stopped crying now as he reached the TARDIS, but you could tell he had been crying a lot by the redness of his eyes and the tear streaks down his face.
The Doctor knew that Torchwood's backup team would be here soon and they would want an explanation.
Usually he would give them a brief description of what had happened, but right now he couldn't deal with them, not after he had just lost Rose.
And he knew they had cameras all over this base, so they would piece everything together and the events would eventually unfold as they watched the surveillance tapes.
So he walked in to the TARDIS, and he closed the door behind him, just as he heard people storming in to the room crying out his name and ordering him to come out.
He paid them no attention and he set the TARDIS to go to somewhere relaxing at random, it would take him anywhere, he didn't care where, just so long as he would have some time to rest and think.
He had never needed to sleep before, but right now that's all he wanted to do.
So he dragged himself to Rose's room and slumped on to her bed, feeling comfortable surrounded by her things, still fully clothed wit his coat covering him he fell asleep instantly.
-A-
Well that's it for the first chapter.
There won't be another chapter up for a while though because I have to finish my other fan fictions before I start any more.
I decided to do this because I am sure my readers are annoyed with me for never updating my current stories because I think of new ones.
But if I get quite a few people who want the next chapter to this story urgently, then I will try my best to write the second chapter quickly for y'all okay. :"]
Anyhoo, thanks for reading and please review.
… Anie