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Ok, even I have admit, even I can't stand any more angst. Fluff is so what I prefer to write!

This is my final Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead chapter.

Enjoy.

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The Doctor conversed with the group, flashing his sonic into the shadows.

"So it's a signal from the moon?" asked River , placing a gently hand upon his shoulder.

At this the Doctor stiffened.

He still didn't know who this woman was, but what she had told him...

What she had whispered into his ear...

His hearts still pounded.

This woman must be important to him in the future...if he were to tell her something like that.

To divulge a secret that he hadn't even told Rose...

Yet, he thought. I haven't told her yet. But I will.

The Doctor suddenly pressed his ear to the sonic, searching for the signal, pressing its buttons furiously, as suddenly a bright blue blast of light issued from the end of it.

"Doctor!" cried River Song as the Doctor swung around.

There standing before him was Donna Noble in a hologram of blue light.

She looked at him wide eyed before the picture suddenly flickered, to show a different figure.

"Rose," breathed the Doctor, watching as his companion sobbed.

As pools of tears poured down her face.

Suddenly the image flickered and disappeared before their eyes.

"What was that?" asked River. "Why was she crying?"

The Doctor shook his head and gulped before tapping the sonic once again, urging it to bring the image of her back.

His Rose...

Suddenly a light on the side of the sonic flashed.

"She's in the TARDIS!" cried the Doctor. "But Donna...I'm not getting a signal from her...Do any of you have a phone?"

The group looked at him strangely.

"A mobile phone?" he yelled, his eyes searching pleadingly.

"Uh, yeah," said Lux a little sheepishly. "I have a global communicating device..."

"Good give it to me, I need to talk to Rose..."

Luz looked at the Doctor wide eyed, reaching for the phone in his pocket. "Do you have any idea what the rates would be up here? I'll lose all my monthly minutes..."

But the Doctor suddenly snatched the communicator from his hand and dialled.

...

Rose sat on the edge of her bed, tears dripping off the end of her nose.

Life with the Doctor...it had always been complicated...

But now...this was just breaking her heart.

The last time she felt like this was after Reinette...

But back then...oh back then, she had made her choice.

She had decided to stay with him.

Her Doctor.

Suddenly the phone in her back pocket began to ring.

She slipped it out and lifted it to her ear.

"Rose?" came the Doctor's voice.

Rose couldn't speak. After what she had seen...and heard...

"Rose are you there?"

"Yeah, I'm here," she said, her voice breaking slightly.

"Rose, are you okay. Where are you?" she heard him shout.

"I-I'm in the TARDIS," she said quietly. "B-But Donna's not...she was here, t-then she disappeared."

The Doctor was silent for a moment.

"Okay, Rose I need to you to stay there-"

"I-I can't go anywhere..." she muttered. "Emergency protocol 397..."

"That must mean that the TARDIS is surrounded. That the Vashta Nerada are out there..." he said quietly.

"Rose just listen to me...I want you safe okay...just don't do anything, stay there and I'll be back soon...I lo-"

But before the Doctor could finish his sentence the line went dead.

Rose lowered the phone from her ear and gazed down at her feet, to where a large rucksack filled with her belongings lay.

...

The Doctor typed furiously at the computer. "We need to re-boot to data core!" he shouted. "If we do, the computer will re-set and stop the count-down..."

He suddenly stopped and ran his fingers through his already ruffled hair.

"But Charlotte doesn't have enough memory space left to make the transfer!" he said running suddenly to a panel on the wall knowing what he had to do.

He tugged out several lengths of wiring.

"Easy, Ill hook myself up and let the computer borrow my memory space!" he said as River Song ran suddenly to him.

"But it'll kill you stone dead!" she cried, clutching his arm. "You'll burn up both your hearts and don't think you'll regenerate!"

"I'll be fine," said the Doctor, not listening to her pleas.

Suddenly she squeezed his arm tight and grasped his face with her other hand.

"Doctor!" she said firmly as he turned to face her. "What about Rose?"

The Doctor breathed and stared into River's eyes.

"What about her Doctor? You love her, I know you do..." she said softly. "What's she going to do without you?"

The Doctor hesitated before pulling away from River's grasp.

"She doesn't need me..." he muttered running off. "She's brilliant."

He moved back over to the computer against the wall.

"I'm sorry," heard River Song mutter behind him. "but I'll can't let her lose you!"

And before the Doctor could turn around, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head.

And then there was only blackness.

...

The Doctor opened his bleary eyes.

His head ached with a dull, throbbing pain.

He glanced up to see River Song attached to the mainframe.

"No, no, no what are you doing? That's my job!" he cried attempting to move over to her, but he found that his hands were bound.

"You wouldn't have a chance and neither do I!" she yelled, tears in her eyes.

"River please no!" said the Doctor through gritted teeth. "Just let me do this!"

But she shook her head. "If you die here Doctor, It'll mean I've never..." but she couldn't finish her sentence.

The Doctor merely watched as tears fell from her cheeks.

"Rose needs you Doctor, now more than ever...so don't you dare let her slip away!" said River commandingly.

"I won't," he said sadly.

"Promise me Doctor!" she cried.

The Doctor looked up and gazed into River's eyes. Such familiar eyes he didn't even know yet.

"I promise," he whispered, as the timer hit zero and a blast of light poured from the machine and from River herself.

The Doctor shielded his eyes, and when he looked back again, River Song was gone.

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Rose was sat in the console room, when the TARDIS doors finally creaked open and the Doctor ran inside.

"Rose!" he said running over to her, ready to sweep the woman he loved off her feet and into a hug.

But Rose remained still.

He stopped a few feet away from her, his eyes coming to rest on the large bag at her feet.

He lifted his eyes to search hers and saw only sadness there. Just blank, empty sadness.

He knew what she was about to say.

And it broke his hearts.

"I'm sorry," said Rose shaking her head, tears falling from her eyes. "But I need you to take me home, Doctor...for good."

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