I apparently haven't been telling anyone that I don't own Doctor Who; so let me just state, for the record, that I do not own Doctor Who. But wouldn't it be sweet if I did?!
He took a long pause, knowing what part he would have to tell next. The Doctor could feel the TARDIS pushing him forward with his story; she pushed out an encouraging touch to his mind.
"She came back yeah? That's good Doctor!" Rory said, ever the optimist when it comes to love. And how could he not be? He had the love of his life sitting next time him, no matte what the Ponds always came back to each other, and thank the Gods for that.
"Yes Rory, she came back. Rose always came back for me. I tried pushing her away, to make her let go, but she never did. But you know what they say, never say never." He ran his fingers through his hair and push on. "Rose came back, and I was furious. Yet, I wasn't. A part of me knew she'd come back. So I do what I always do, I put her to work. I told her to hold onto the weight that was secured to the wall opposite of me, I warned her, don't let go because if she did, she would fall into the void and be lost there with the Dalecks and Cybermen and I would have no way of saving her. She needed to know the danger she had jumped back into. That didn't matter to her, what mattered to her was that she was with me. So she held on, and I opened the void. All the Dalecks and Cybermen came rushing through and were falling, being sucked out of our world. For good. Then, the lever on her side of the wall started being pulled back, we were losing the force now and the void was going to close. She looked and me, and I knew what she was going to do. But I had no way of stopping her."
"Rose reached her hand out to try and pull the lever back, and she let go of the weight. She was holding onto a tree branch in the middle of a tornado. I could see it all happening before it happened and I couldn't do anything. Nothing. Her fingers slipped, she held on for as long as she could- with all her strength but it just wasn't enough. She screamed for me, and I just watched as she started being sucked into the void. For a moment, I thought 'this is it' but then, Pete, her dad, appeared and caught her just before she fell into the void. She looked back at me, just for a moment, and they disappeared. The void closed. She was gone-"
"I don't understand. Couldn't you just find a way into that world and get her? I mean, the TARDIS can go anywhere," Amy said, her voice full of emotion.
"No Amy, it can't. Hopping through different dimensions can be catastrophic. It can cause realities to collapse. Both worlds would be destroyed. And the things is, Rose Tyler was the one person I would risk it all for. She was gone, lost to me, forever. I didn't even get to say goodbye. So I made I made it my mission to find a way to tell her. I circled around the universes trying to find her, just to glimpse her. And I found one, circling a supernova. I got through to her; somehow, fate was on my side just this once. She could hear me calling to her, and I guess I lead her to this beach in Norway, not our Norway mind you- her Norway.
I was just standing on this beach, not feeling the breeze, not smelling the salt. Just standing there, but not really standing there. I was casting myself as a hologram, just to see her one last time. She came to me, just like I knew she would. I saw her and I could feel my hearts beat faster just as they began to break yet again. She reached out her hand to touch- to touch me and I had to stop her. 'I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye' and she told me, what I always knew, 'I love you'. For a split second that felt like a million years, she waited to hear the words she dreamt I would say back, I failed her. I couldn't say it. But then, it didn't matter that she was human, only living one life, while I would never have the luxury of spending my life with her. It didn't matter that was too old, a madman seeing the stars in an old box, she was Rose, and I wasn't going to see her again, and I decided then and there I was going to say it, and just as I found the courage to tell her- the connection was lost. She was gone, I was gone. It was over."
The Doctor couldn't look up at the Ponds. He could hear Amy silently sobbing into her husbands shoulder. He didn't want to see the sadness that was etched onto their faces. He didn't want to feel pity or sorrow. There was more to their story. But he couldn't think of that. All he could picture was Rose Tyler's face when she told him those three magic words.
"Rose Marion Tyler is one of the bravest, most stubborn people I've ever met in my long, long life. She saved me from myself. She reminded me what it was like to have someone to save the world for. She fought for me, for her friends and family, for everything she believed in. She brought hope and laughter and love back into my life, and then she was gone." The Doctor ran his fingers over his cheeks to find them wet with tears he didn't know he had let free. Wiping them away and smiling, he looked up at his two companions.
"Why are you smiling at us? That was heartbreaking. You're telling us the story of a lost love and you look at us with a smile? You are a strange creature Doctor," Rory said, trying and failing to fill his voice with sarcasm.
"Oh Ponds, so emotional. Have no fear, there's more to our story. After Rose left, I traveled with this woman, Martha Jones, she was brilliant but unfortunately, she had a smidgen of a crush on a certain Doctor who didn't feel the same way. See, I just wanted a friend, a mate if you will. She left and, and then I found Donna." He said with a smile," well, Donna found me. She became my best friend. That is, until I met you two of course, silence Pond! Just let me finish. Donna was amazing. Amy, she had an attitude that rivaled yours! Never want to be on her bad side, let me tell you. Anyhow, we were on Shan Shen and Donna got pulled into this fortuneteller's tent and ended up having another dimension created around her, one where I didn't exist. Apparently, it was a pretty awful world. Don't scoff Rory! You know you'd be bored stiff without me…"
"Anyway, when things were put back right in that world, Donna was able to come back to our world, she was telling me that there was this girl who helped her find her way back. To set the world right again. I thought 'could it be? Could it have been Rose?' but she didn't tell Donna her name, actually, she outright refused to tell Donna her name. But then, Donna said,' She said, the stars are going out. Not just in her world, but everywhere. She did say something. Two words. Bad Wolf.''
Amy gasped. Rory swore. "You mean, Bad Wolf. That message thing that Rose sent to herself? TO FIND HER WAY BACK?!" Amy shouted at The Doctor.