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HELLO!!! Another one that took a while. Sorry guys, I've been writing like crazy and all...just not this story. I'm going to post some new stuff soon, I promise!!! Thanks SO much to The Alternate Source and The Chibi's Are Stalking Me for giving me ideas in their stories. Another thanks to The Alternate Source for taking a look at this before hand. ON WITH THE STORY!!! *grin*
Burning isn't a literal term. you don't spontaneously combust. It's more that you slowly lose your mind. Like Alzheimer's, but with a slow blue fire curling around your brain, eating away at all you love, in a rather painful way. That's what it feels like anyways. Four days to burn, and then you die. Four years to live, then four years to die. Oh great, a number following my death. Hope there's no sign of Bad Wolf anywhere around. Back to the actual act of burning. Basically, when a Time Lord is at the end of his last regeneration, his mind has gone through too many changes to hold in all of the knowledge of...well, I would say the universe, but it's more Reality. Your most important areas go last. Memories, thoughts, feelings, they all stay until the end. Moter function first, ect. And though it doesn't seem like it at the time, it's a blessing.
My last months of life were filled with more love, more happiness, than any of my other lives were. All because of Rose. She made each day a shining star in the millions of stars that were my past lives. I will never stop loving her, not even when I'm gone. My Rose, who will bloom forever. That came as a nasty shock really...
"C'mon Rose, it's only a bit of fun, yeah? Come on." I'd been trying to get her to go under the scanner for over an hour.
"No way!" she cried for the umpteenth time. "It's NOT going to happen, so quit asking!" I rolled my eyes and smiled. I put on a sad, defeated look,
and glanced up at her with teary eyes.
"P-please?" I whispered. She groaned.
"John Smith, you are evil. EVIL! I mean, I love you and all, but seriously?" Sighing, she finally conceded. "Fine, I'll do your stupid scanner." She made her way over to the table, glowering as I beamed away like Father Christmas. There wasn't a hint of sorrow left on my face. She laid down, and I set the scanner up above her.
"See? That wasn't so hard, now was it?" I smirked.
"Just do it!" she snapped, clearly annoyed with me. I sighed, and entered her information in.
"Now, hold very, VERY still, have you got that Rose?" I asked. "Otherwise I'll have to do it again, and you don't want that, now do you?"
"Yeah, that'd be just brilliant!" she said, rolling her eyes. I kissed her softly, before hitting the on button and letting the scanner do it's work. When it beeped, I pulled it away, and we both looked at the screen.
Pulse: 70 beats per minute Earth Time.
Blood Pressure: 110/70
IQ: 150+ on the Earth Scale.
Last Thing Eaten: An apple.
Date of Birth: 5/16/1986
Date of Mid-Life Crisis: None.
Date of Death: ERROR - Date of Death does not exist. For more information, enter the code 4279H
I finished before my wife, so I waited for her to finish.
"What does that mean, one-fifty plus?" she asked, pointing to the IQ score. I smiled. Of course that would be her question.
"It means your IQ is going up," I stated.
"Oh...but why?" she asked.
"There's a bit more of a pressing issue at hand, sweetheart," is said, pointing to the Date of Death. I pulled out the keyboard and typed in the code it provided. A new page of text popped up, and we both leaned forward to read it.
ERROR MESSAGE - Date of Death cannot be determined.
REASON #1: The being that was scanned will never die.
REASON #2: The being that was scanned will live until the end/longer than time.
REASON #3: The being that was scanned will die at the end of the universe.
Rose and I looked at each other, horrified. Then I spoke.
"This...this is BAD." She game me a look.
"You think?"
END FLASHBACK
And now I have to leave her. but not before I give her a few things. Memory Crystals, thank Roselin, last for a long, long time. And they're not easy to use, in case Jackie gets a hold of them. (:-P) I don't want her knowing what goes on in my head. With any luck, if things go as planned, he'll get them. My twin, my true Time Lord counterpart, will get to see our life together while she was gone. The second, my sonic screwdriver. She knows how to use it, and I know she gets just as much of a kick out of it as I do, though I hope she was kidding about turning it lavender. The third, and most important, my own version of Project Indigo. The difference being it will take her across the universes, back to my twin. As long as she thinks about him, she'll get to him.
I can feel it coming. The end. Rose is here beside me, holding my hand. The love of my life. I have to tell her. I refuse to run out of time, not again.
"Rose," I croak softly. She slips her hand in mine, and looks me in the eye.
"What is it John? What's wrong?" Concern, worry, fear. It's all in her eyes. She doesn't want to go. I think she may love me now more than she ever did. But I have to get her to go. I refuse to let her spend her life alone.
"I love you," I say, putting as much emotion as I can into the words. She gives me a watery smile.
"I love you too." I pull on her hand, and she lays down next to me. Kissing her softly, I look her in the eyes.
"Be happy, my love." I whisper, and then I close my eyes for the last time, knowing that she'll always be safe where she's going. 'Rose' is my last thought. Now, I am no more.
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