The Lord and His Lady
The Void Awakens
Millions of Daleks, thousands of Cybermen, and one human girl poured into the void. This wasn't the first time things had been dumped into the void (and it wouldn't be the last) and, like all the other times, something would have to be done. But the void can't do anything on its own; it's just a place. Not even that really. Nothing lives in the void, nothing exists in the void, not even the void. For something to be done, something would have to change. But for change to occur, time must pass, and nothing exists in the void. Not even time.
But then one day, a blue box and its passengers passed through the void and back again.
This alone didn't mean anything, similar events occurred all the time.
But when that box, and its passengers, went back to the world they came from they traveled all through time and space within that world. They went back and forth a hundred hundred times, scattering void-stuff all the while. Now, don't be mistaken, that void-stuff didn't attach itself to other things. It didn't even detach itself from them. It just drifted a bit further from them, and stayed where they did not.
This alone didn't mean much, it had happened before.
But this time, one of those passengers later fell into the void. The Daleks and Cybermen came with her, but the void-stuff, that came with them, that carried them, was only a few hours old. A few weeks at most, in the case of some of the Cybermen. Hours, days, weeks, months; it wasn't nearly long enough to produce a sentient being. Let alone a timeless entity, capable of not only surviving in but running the void. But the void stuff attached to Rose Tyler, companion of the Doctor, the one human girl, that had been strewn all across time. And when Rose Tyler fell into the void, it fell with her. It had had eons to grow, learn, live.
And now, rejoined with itself, the Void has awakened. And it has things to do.
Many things have crossed through the Void.
Some of these did so on purpose, and most of these soon returned from whence they came. These the Void ignores. They weren't hurting anything, and often had good reason for what they did.
Some things crossed the Void by accident. A twist of fate, a warp in reality's fabric, a malfunction in some machine, and they ended up in another world. Trapped. Desiring only a way home. These the Void reached out to, and, tracing their paths, returns to their homes.
Many things have ended up in the Void. These are more difficult to deal with. To find out what to do with them, the Void needs to know why they came. So the Void traces their paths, watches their worlds until they come about, and watches them to see why they came to it.
And it sees that some of these things are there by accident. A rip, a tear, they tripped and fell, and that's all there is to it. These things the Void easily returns, and it is as if they never left. For time does not pass within the Void.
Some things, the Void learns by watching, should not exist. And yet they do. If a world is fortunate, there is a way to destroy them. If a world is not so fortunate, but there is someone able, these things can be sent to the Void. And since nothing exists within the Void, these things which should not exist no longer exist. The Void now recognizes these things, and while it could return them to existence, it chooses to pay them no mind.
Now there are only a few things left. These few are still more than can be told of here, but that matters not; for this is the story of only one.
To the Void, Rose Tyler is an odd case. For sure, she came to the Void by accident. In fact, she tried her hardest to avoid that fate. But because she came, the Void has awakened. In a way, the Void owes her its existence. Even so, if it could simply return her it would. But there are not one, but two worlds in which she might belong. In one, the world of her birth, the man for whom she abandoned all she'd ever known mourns her death. In the other, the only family she'd ever known, and the father she'd never known, mourn the loss of her.
The Void would place her in the world of her birth, for that was the world she herself had chosen, but it is not entirely sure she would choose that world again. And if that would be her choice, to return to the man and his blue box, then there was another choice she might wish to make. And as the Void owed her its existence, even though she was unaware, it saw no reason not to grant her that choice.
So the Void moved itself out of a tiny space. In this way the Void made a tiny world; for if a space does not contain nothing, then it must contain something. It was not large, or beautiful, or complex in any way. The Void is not a god, cannot create. This tiny world was merely a point of existence, a place, unlike the Void, where something could exist. Into this tiny world, the void poured all that had once been Rose Tyler. And with all that had once been Rose Tyler, a part of the Void stepped into existence.
A/N: Did a little editing here. Hope you like it if you read this before!