Five and a Half Hours
Summary - Directly post-fade during Doomsday. Rose's transition. Written for a challenge that asked to show Rose coping positively.
When the Doctor faded away, Rose Tyler cried. She buried her face within her mother's arms, and for a fragile few minutes, let grief sweep her away.
When there were no more tears to cry, Rose Tyler waited. Five and a half hours. Mickey knew. He brought her a blanket, and a thermos of hot cocoa, and together they sat on the rocks. The wind in her hair, the sea spray on her face, drying her tears and clearing her head.
When the sun began to set, Rose Tyler grew up. She was not the shopgirl she once was. She was not the Doctor's companion either. She was more then that. And his words still rang in her ears from so long ago. Have a Fantastic life.
She pulled in a deep breath of the frigid sea air, wiped her hand across the salty trails her tears had left behind, and rose from the rocks.
"You gonna be alright?" Mickey asked, gathering thermos and blanket from the rocks. She gazed out into the horison, watching the earth catch fire as the light of the sun illuminated the waves. She smiled. It would be a long time yet before the end of the Earth. Rose Tyler would make the most of it.
"Yeah," she said, nodding her head, and casting him a shadow of a grin. "Yeah, I think I will be."