Okay so I know you guys aren't happy bout the last chapter. Sorry, I couldn't help it- made such a good twist but I am going to fix it don't worry but you guys might not be happy with how I end the story but hey. I'm just full of angst.
"We gotta go. Now!" Ian suddenly screamed grabbing a jacket and sprinting out the office.
Tyler looked up from his computer bewildered before launching himself off the chair and following suit after Ian.
"Ian? What's wrong? What's happening?" Tyler yelled down the stairs at Ian who was a few flights below him.
"I'll tell you in the car, just hurry up!" Ian bellowed back increasing his speed. When both men were strapped in Ian sped away out of the garage and skidded out into the street.
"Tell me," Tyler said firmly, holding onto his seatbelt for support as Ian speeded round the corners.
"I don't know, I couldn't, she just." He babbled before composing himself. "It's Rose, I felt her. She broke Tyler. I don't know how, I honest to God don't but I felt her. She suffered such pain, it was so overwhelming and then her emotions just stopped. As if she had given up."
Tyler stared at Ian worriedly, he had never seen Ian like this. He had always been so calm, so ready for anything but now he looked terrified.
"How do you know where she is?" Tyler asked.
"I'm listening for her heartbeat. It's faint but I can still hear it, if my guess is right then she is directly outside of her building." Ian answered her eyes focused on the road.
When Ian finally pulled over and raced to Rose's building with Tyler by his side, Tyler gasped in shock.
Rose lay crumpled on the ground, as if a great weight had pushed her to the ground and held her there. Ian didn't hesitate before gently pulling her away from the ground and holding her in his arms. Tyler had never seen Rose look so lifeless, so empty.
Her eyes stared at him unseeing, and he crouched down at her level to hear her mumbling. As he got closer he got hear her whispering.
"They're gone, they're gone, they're gone." She muttered over and over again.
"It's okay sweetie, it's fine. I've got you Rose. I got you."Ian comforted her over and over as he picked her from the ground and carried her bridal style into her building and into the lift.
When they finally reached the apartment, the door was left open as if someone had left in a hurry. Tyler pushed the door open and laid Rose gently down on her couch, stroking the hairs away from her face.
"John!" Tyler cried out "John we need you." When John still didn't appear Tyler said the one thing he knew would make John move faster than lightening
"It's Rose." Tyler cried but still John didn't come, Tyler frowned at Ian who was staring at Rose, confusion on his face.
"What honey? What are you saying?" Ian asked her.
"He's gone." Rose uttered simply. "They're both gone, oh my God they've gone." She whispered and that was when the tears came, they poured down her face at such a rate that Tyler wondered if it was natural.
She carried on crying for what seemed like forever and all Ian and Tyler could do was wait and comfort.
When Tyler's phone started ringing, he glanced apologetically at Rose and cursed when he saw the caller ID.
"It' my mum," He whispered to Ian. "I was meant to meet her. I have to go, I'm sorry."
"No, it's fine go," Ian answered smiling softly. When the door closed around Tyler Rose sat up on the sofa.
Her eyes were red and puffy, and she gazed into the middle distance. Her hair was messy and her clothes were crumpled and stained with her tears. She turned her gaze slowly to Ian and as a single tear slipped down her cheek Ian felt his heart break for her.
"Rose, what's happened?" Ian asked her simply, she glanced back up at him and her gaze was filled with such pain and sadness that Ian had to blink several times to recover.
She sniffed and pushed her hands through her hair.
"They left." She said plainly. Ian didn't make a sound knowing that she wasn't finished. "John used The Necklace of Arrai to wish for The Doctor to be bought over to this universe, so that he could see for himself that I didn't love him."
"The Doctor's changed. He regenerated but he was the same." Her voice got higher as the tears filled her eyes again
"He was still my Doctor, still full of pain and love and he still loved me I could feel it. As it turns out John gave me exactly what I wanted. Even when I hurt him he still loved me and wanted me to be happy." She sobbed after the last sentence and Ian silently willed her to continue.
"In his wish he asked for anyone to be touching The Doctor at the moment he gets beamed back to the parallel world, to be able to travel back with him. Giving me the chance to go back with The Doctor. To travel with him. Forever." She whispered and Ian shuddered at her tone.
"But just at the moment he was about to get beamed back down to his universe, he was walking across a road. The car was too fast and he just froze." Rose continued her tone flat and dull as if she was re-telling a sad story that happened to someone else.
"He got beamed back on his own, didn't he? Rose I am so sorry. So so sorry." Ian murmured feeling her pain though she was trying to block him from it.
"No not on his own." She whispered and Ian stared at her confused, trying to figure out how she was here if she had got beamed back.
"But I don't..." Ian began but Rose interrupted.
"Where is John Ian?" Rose asked him, the tears beginning to fall again. He stared at her for a moment more and Rose could almost see his thought process. He suddenly gasped at stared in Rose in horror. Ian stood up straight, his knees clicking from the change in posture.
"Oh." Ian said dumbly unsure of what comfort to offer. He knew Rose had loved John but not as much as she loved The Doctor. Now she had no-one, both of her loves had disappeared down a path that could never be followed.
"Rose, I"
"Don't Ian." She said staring at him.
He nodded at her before saying quickly. "You need sleep, I'll just get your bedroom ready." Ian swept out of the living room and left Rose in the silence that had swarmed around her.
She stared at the Television, watching the blank screen intently as though the most epic movie was playing in front of her eyes.
Her heart ached for the loss that had become so apparent. 3 times now, 3 times she had lost The Doctor. And 1 time she had lost the man who had loved her enough that he would sacrifice his happiness for her.
But it was then that she saw it. When you see something out of the corner of your eye, something that immediately catches your attention, you turn your head quickly to try and spot what it was. But Rose didn't do this, instead she turned her head slowly towards the object, knowing exactly what is was before she had even seen it.
The Necklace of Arrai was lying on the top of her ornament cabinet, lying there as if it had no idea of the damage it had caused. She grabbed The Necklace and closed her fist around the jewel as if intending to crush it before a better thought raced through her mind.
She could use this, she could bring them back to her. But that thought was replaced by an echoing of an old one.
"You need to stop trashing my apartment by looking for something we both swore we would never use!"
Both swore we would never use. Both swore.
Well John broke that rule, why can't I? Rose thought before bringing The Necklace of her head.
She got pulled into the Vortex and missed the deafening scream of "NO!" that passed Ian lips as he watched Rose make a deal with the Devil.