Scrambling back inside the TARDIS, the Doctor quickly pulled the screen around.
"What year is it?" He muttered angrily.
"2009? What? How did that happen? Wait…Reality chamber…" The Doctor paused as he began searching his brain for some hint, some clue to explain how on earth he could have got here…
"Of course! Ohh, why did I think of that?" The Doctor cried.
The humans want a new source of power, by the time the year 7000, fusion technology was beginning to get popular, but there were flaws…New source of power…They would try anything…Even using energy that didn't even belong to their universe…
Then it hit him. The Doctor rushed back over to the monitor, and began frantically pressing buttons on the console, so fast that his hands began to blur.
"Come on, come on…"
Frustrated, the Doctor looked back at the screen. The readings were strikingly familiar to some he had seen before…
Running his hands through his hair, he fell backwards onto the seat behind him, his brain running faster than it had ever run before.
I'm really here…
The Doctor stood abruptly up, the recent events of his life playing before his eyes…
The Master's eyes glinted with insane evil.
"You used to have companions that would consume the Time Vortex…
Companion. Straightening himself up, he picked up his coat and headed for the door, his usual sense of determination and adventure slowly returning.
Opening the doors of the TARDIS, he looked around. There was no way that he could be here. And yet, he was. There was no denying it. The TARDIS knew it too. That's why it tried to warn him with the explosions. He should have realised immediately what it was trying to do.
The Doctor looked around, feeling the cool breeze against his cheek, before closing the TARDIS doors and sitting down, despite knowing what he should do. The Doctor looked at his hands. He had never felt like this before. Was it some sort of omen, or sign? Shaking himself roughly, he quickly remeinded himself that he did not believe in that sort of stuff.
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"Move!" Screamed a desperate Rose as she swerved into oncoming traffic at full speed and quickly darted back onto the right side of the road.
"Oi!" Shouted an annoyed driver from behind her, but Rose ignored it. There was only one thing on her mind.
Doctor.
Pushing the pedal to the floor, Rose wiped her eyes free from tears and focused on getting off the freeway before she gets herself killed.
"Sorry!" She called out to another poor driver, whom she had just cut off. The frustrated man behind her beeped his horn and gave her the finger. Yet again, Rose ignored it.
Well, there goes my 'safe driver' discount.
OO
The Doctor looked around for an explanation. Any explanation.
This-this is impossible…I sealed the cracks…
Looking up at the TARDIS console, he felt an instinct to turn around, go away, it's impossible; she can't ever go back…
The Doctor stopped.
She. The only person that it took a war to make him realise just how much he cared…
OO
Tearing around the corner, Rose drove harder than she'd ever done in her entire life. Spotting the park on her right, she pushed the pedal down hard while spinning the steering wheel around.
SCREECH
Rose slammed on the brakes so hard, the smell of burning rubber began to filter inside the car. Launching herself from the door, she ran to the park entrance.
It's him, it's really him…
Darting inside the tall iron gates, she started to run faster than ever before.
OO
The Doctor looked back up at the screen. It still had the exact same readings.
It's real, there's no denying it…
OO
Rose raced down the garden path. In the distance, she saw the TARDIS. Oh how she had missed that mysterious blue box. The closer she got the more she realised that she was finally going to see him, after these two seemingly endless years.
OO
The Doctor stood up. It was time to do something. No more sitting in here wondering about it. He was going to find Rose.
Grabbing his coat from the rail, he made his way down and out of the TARDIS. Looking around, he decided to go check where Pete Tyler lived. Surely, Rose would still live with them. Running down the path, he was so intent on finding her, that he didn't even look around the corner, and almost knocked another runner down.
"Sorry!" He called back.
"Doctor?"
The Doctor skidded to a halt, frozen to the spot. He spun around. There stood a young girl, no more than 21, with long blonde hair…
"Rose?" The Doctor breathed.
Rose felt like her heart was about to jump right out of her chest. She stood there, looking at the man she had lost, the man she dreams about every night, the man she loves. Tears formed in her eyes. Instinctively, her hand reached to her face and wiped it away. When she looked back up, the man's eyes were teary too.
The Doctor's hearts were beating at a million miles an hour.
"It is really you?" Rose moved ever so slightly towards the Doctor, and he felt his heart skip a beat.
The Doctor's memories came flooding back into his head of their last encounter…
"Am I ever going to see you again?"
"You can't."
"But what are you gonna do?"
"Ahh, I've got the TARDIS, same old life, last of the Timelords."
"On your own?"
The Doctor nodded.
"I love-I love you…"
"Quite right. And I suppose if it is my last chance to say it. Rose Tyler-"
"It's me." The Doctor replied, his voice barely audible, it trembled so much.
Rose didn't need telling twice. She raced towards him, arms outstretched, tears rolling down her face, completely destroying her makeup. The Doctor caught her roughly, pulling her into the tightest embrace he had ever had in his entire 900 years of life. He felt the happiest he had ever been, since losing her all those years ago…
Rose wrapped her arms around his chest, never wanting to let him go. She knew in her heart that would never happen, never again.