"So, I am going to save you?"

It was a few hours after the crash. She had already told him everything she could, but he was still asking the same questions, as if he could not believe her, or perhaps he knew she was going and he tried to keep her. She had stayed with him for a while, but now she was about to leave – she could not stay any longer. He still had her younger self and she still had the older him, and things got to come back at their right place.

"Yes Sweetie, you are." she answered him, again.

"I am going to find a way? I am going to find a solution?"

"Yes, of course."

"What? When? How?"

She sighed as he asked.

"You know I can't tell you. You got to find it by yourself. Spoilers."

"But, you are here." he pointed out suspiciously. "Isn't that a spoiler?"

She took a second to answer him, as she looked back in her memories and remembered every detail. The day she had met him for the last time, the day he had met her for the first time. The years that had gone away like a dream in CAL. The moment she had felt herself coming back to life and suddenly she had been alive again, physically. The second she had seen his face, front of her, the first thing she could have seen for years, and he was him, the one who knew her, the one who loved her, the one who took care of her, the one who saved her – who had just done, once again. The time he had finally told her everything and it was the first time in their life that they were sharing the same memories, all of them, and for the first time they had been able to travel together, in the right order – except for this once.

"No, it isn't." she answered him softly, still lost in her thoughts. "When you saved me, you told me that you were really sure that there was no hope, that you had lost me forever… until one day a girl dropped out of the sky and it was me, a future me, the one I am right now, and I showed you that you could. I brought you hope. So you got the strength to go on until finally you found a way."

"So…"

"This moment has already happened. It had to happen."

He seemed to be satisfied with this answer and this time she could enter coordinates and fly the Tardis where she had to find him – the other him. He let her do and she could feel his look on her, still collecting every details of their meeting, so he would not forget anything.

Finally, when she ship was still and her destination was reached, she stared at him and she did not need to tell him – she was leaving.

"Will I see you again?" he asked as she made her way to the exit door. "I mean, this you, before I got you out of the Library?"

"I'm afraid you won't."

"Does it mean…" he said, hesitantly, but he could not find the right words, he did not want to hurt her.

"It's the last time I see this you." she ended for him. "But the future you is not so bad." she added merrily, to comfort her more than him. And she smiled, to prove him that everything was right, and even if it was, she could not but feel sad. She was seeing him for the last time – and this time it really was the last time.

He did not answer anything but came to her and put his arms around her so he could hug her tightly. She buried her face in his neck and hold him strongly, smelling his fragrance for the last time, feeling his jacket stroking her nose for the last time, playing with his hair for the last time. She sighed deeply and fought the tears that reached her eyes. Then she pulled back and kissed his lips for the last time and she did not allow herself to deepen their embrace, because she knew that if she did, she would never be strong enough to go. She broke away and cupped his face in her hands, so she could bend his head and kiss his forehead.

She was smiling when she opened the door and went out, glancing at him for a last time.

"See you soon." she said before turning back, so he could not see the single tear that dropped out of her eyes.

~the end~