Title: Time Heals No Wounds

Summary: Without the Doctor, Rose has become bitter.

Disclaimer: Don't own Doctor Who or anything related to it.

Rating: G

A/N: Wrote this months ago after watching Doomsday but only just found it. Short one shot. 10th/Rose

"Time heals all wounds." That's what they say, her mother and father, Micky and all the other people who have neither loved nor lost like she had. Time does not heal all wounds, it picks at them and makes them itch with infection as the seconds pass by and life and all hope of happiness slips away. They, the ones who believe in such nonsense of time being a healer, say Rose has become bitter and cynical. She merely tells them she's grown worldly.

He would never say such foolish things in a vain attempt to comfort her. He wouldn't need words; his presence alone would stem her tears and bring a sense of calmness over the young blonde. But now he brings no comfort, he's gone. Just a memory of a life once lived. A life in which Rose Tyler was more than just an ordinary girl. She was his.