She stood there on the beach, sobbing uncontrollably. There was nothing in her power that could bring him back; and that fact alone crushed her. Rose Tyler, the Bad Wolf, had just lost everything she had ever loved yet again. She loved him and hated him all at the same time. She was so grateful to get to talk to him again, to see him again, but now she had to say her goodbyes for the second time, and this time was definitely worse than the first.

She crouched down in the sand, stabilizing herself by placing a hand on the wet surface of the beach. "Doctor." she whimpered, unable to say anything else before another round of sobs racked her body. Her mind kept going back to those last few seconds, he was about to tell her what she had been waiting to hear for years since they had been together. She kept thinking that if she hadn't stalled as long when answering him, or if she had asked better questions, hell if she had just come out and said it sooner, then she would have gotten to hear the words she had been longing for.

But there was nothing she could do now.