WARNING: This ending does not paint the Doctor in a good light. Just saying...
There's one more chapter after this then I'll upload the alternate ending. :)
"We have to go back!" Rose yelled over the TARDIS engines as she grabbed his arm and forced him to turn to her.
The Doctor took in her angry, concerned expression. Much like Amy's. No, that wasn't right. Amy's was like Rose's. He brought Amy with him to figure out the mystery that surrounded her, but they grew close and he knew it was in part because she reminded him of Rose. Sweet and painful at the same time.
"We can't leave them!" she insisted, snapping him out of his thoughts.
She didn't understand.
He smiled, which for some reason drew her eyebrows together in a worried look.
"But we can. We have to," he replied.
"We can't and we won't! I'll turn this bloody ship around myself if I have to!"
She tried to step back, but he held her still.
"I can fix this."
Rose stared into his eyes. Eyes familiar and yet unfamiliar at the same time. Her Doctors were in there. The one clad in leather who first showed her the stars and the one with the hair and warm brown eyes who gave her the only forever he could. They were under a current of pain and desperation. It was the desperation that stilled her heart.
"What are you going to fix, Doctor?" she asked.
"Everything, Rose. I can fix everything," he replied with a grin. "All that stuff with Moriarty. Everything you went through. I can fix it."
"Fix it…how?" she asked, hesitantly.
"I can go back. I can save you." He released her and began flipping levers again. "I can get through that window while I'm," he glanced at her, "the other me, is dealing with Donna. Then-"
"No," she whispered, realizing what he meant to do. "You can't."
"I know it's dangerous to cross my own time stream, but I know what I'm doing Rose. It'll be fine."
"You can't!" she yelled, lunging for the console. He grabbed her before she reached it. "Everything will change! Don't you understand what you'll do?"
"Of course I understand. You'll be safe. You won't have met Moriarty or-"
"Sherlock," she exclaimed. "My family, Doctor. My husband! My daughter!"
"It'll be fine Rose. You'll be fine."
"No, I won't! I'll be alone!"
She felt like someone kicked her and for a moment she couldn't breathe. Sherlock would never meet her. They wouldn't fall in love. They wouldn't get married. They wouldn't have children. Her daughter…oh, god…she'd never be born.
"You won't be alone. You'll have me."
"I want to be with them!"
He placed his hands on her temples.
"You'll be fine, Rose. You won't even remember them."
She struggled, hitting his chest as hard as she could, but he held her firm. Why would he take her family away? She couldn't let him! She had to stop him!
"Please," she begged as he forced her to look into his eyes.
"Listen," he said.
"Don't do this."
"I need you to sleep now and when you wake up everything will be all right."
Her eyelids grew heavy. She tried to keep them open, but she knew she already lost.
"Please…don't…"
Rose collapsed into his arms. She was afraid, but she didn't understand. She was the most human, human he ever met and they were prone to overreaction. It was his fault she'd been stuck in that alternate universe. The cracks were his fault. She only jumped through to save her family. Jumping through was what led to her being captured by the Master, calling himself Moriarty.
This was all his doing and so it was up to him to fix things. If Rose wasn't there then the Master wouldn't have been drawn there. Sherlock Holmes wasn't met to marry Rose Tyler, a girl from an alternate universe. As the last time lord it was his job to keep things as they should be.
Somewhere in the back of his mind a voice whispered that he wasn't met to be with Rose either, but he ignored that.
Amy and Rory would revert to wherever they ought to be so there was nothing to worry about. He laid her down in the jump seat then grabbed the keyboard. After typing in the coordinates he flipped the last lever.
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