AN: Hi! Guess you all thought I was just going to leave you there, uh?
I'm really sorry for the long wait, and I can't promise I'll be better, school is hell lately.. BUT, I promise I'll do my best to be faster.
Here's another chapter. I know it's a bit short.. Hopefully the next will be longer.
I really hope you'll like it and I look forward hearing what you all think.

PS: lots of thanks to Houses and Humans, that is really awesome :D

PPS: «...» parts are words said just with the telepathic connection.


"Two and a half years...and for you?"

Rose could hear the reluctance of the Doctor but she couldn't figure out its reason.

"I wandered, so I don't know for sure, but it was more than a year."

Rose suddenly felt a strong sadness wash over her, but it wasn't her own emotions.

"We're connected telepathically, aren't we?"

"Yes, the telepathic connection we established never broke. But the walls between the universes were blocking it.." explained patiently the Doctor, not understanding where Rose was heading with this question.

"Then tell me, what's the sadness you're feeling?"

The alien's breath hitched and Rose immediately reinforced her point to make him talk. "Doctor, it's so hard hearing and feeling your sadness and doing nothing.."

The Doctor sighed.

"Lots of things have happened since you fell away.." his voice was tired and lacking of his cheerfulness. It was the voice that told Rose that he was taking some of his interior walls down, hesitating, but letting her in, bit by bit.

"Can I see them?" asked the human girl, aching for her Doctor and wanting desperately to do something, almost angry that she couldn't.

The Doctor took a deep, melancholy breath. "They're not all nice experiences, Rose."

"I don't care, and you know it." she said firmly.

The Doctor was silent for a few moments, pondering.

"Okay. But only if you tell me how you convinced Jackie to let you go."

"Then we have a deal!" exclaimed the girl, almost giddy for being let in. From the tone of her voice the alien could picture her smile.

Oh, how much I miss your smile. I want to see it... thought the Doctor, forgetting the telepathic connection.

"I want to see you smile too..."murmured Rose.

They were silent for a while, both remembering the smiles of the other and the joy and the other warm, fuzzy feelings connected to those memories.

It was Rose that broke the silence.

"Well, can you guide me towards my destination?"

"Open the door in front of you." said the Doctor.

Rose opened the door and was immediately overwhelmed by memories: Donna, Martha, Shakespeare, the Doctor humanization, Utopia, Jack, the Master,...

The peculiarity of the telepathic connection was that Rose could feel all and every sensation that her Doctor had felt. Sadness, fear, loneliness, happiness, melancholiness, eagerness, rush, dejection, but most of all aching.

What surpriseed her was her own constant presence in the Doctor's thoughts, in his feelings. It was so strong it made Rose's eyes water.

He missed me this much? Thought Rose, without giving a thought to the connection between them.

"Yes Rose, this..this much" said the Doctor, his voice breaking, having heard Rose's thought.

"I'm sorry, I just thought I was the only one having felt this much your absence... Since I had nothing to do apart from thinking about you, missing you.."

"You mean a lot to me Rose. And you know it.."

«You know exactly what I feel for you, and I'll say it to you, just...I want to say it in person.» he says with the telepathic connection. Saying it aloud seems too hard for him, too impersonal.

Another wave of happiness and commotion wash on Rose. When she can speak again she nods, even though he can't see her and go on talking.

"But Doctor, you promised me you would have been fine."

"I am fine. I'm always fine."

Only now Rose comprehend the emptiness of this sentence. She says the only thing she can think for making him feel a bit better.

"I'll hug you soon Doctor."

"I certainly hope so, Rose..."


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