A/N: As I'm editing this, there is immensely thick fog covering London...literally you can't see ten feet ahead, it's horrible. I can only assume that the weather is trying to set the scene for Harry Potter 7 (part 1) coming out today! :D

Anyhoo...

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A fair amount of AU coming up in this chapter and those to follow...you have been warned!

Disclaimer: Guess what? I own Doctor Who! :D...
...wait, I don't? Oh... sad times :(

Chapter 6

I left the console room just as Rose was really getting into her rant. I decided to take refuge in my bedroom down the corridor. Sitting on my bed, I reflected upon the recent turn of events.

The Doctor had said that the prophecy had been fulfilled-what did that mean? I tried to break it down logically.

The foe will follow you, and will be destroyed thrice by you before dying for good... I racked my brains, trying to think of an enemy that the Doctor had defeated three times. But I had not known him for that long considering how long he had been around, how could I have possibly known all of the foes the Doctor had faced? It was an impossible task. Perhaps the Doctor could shed light on that one later, though it was a wonder that even he could remember every monster he'd ever faced.

The friend will stick by you, never let you down. A bond closer than brothers will join you. But you will be forced to part as a result of too much trust...soon be forced to part...well that sounded like it hadn't happened yet, so the friend had to be someone who was still close to the Doctor, who hadn't left him yet. So that left Rose and me. But Rose had left him once; that time she told me about when she ended up trapped in a parallel universe, but had somehow managed to get back and stayed with him after Donna's memory had to be wiped. She kept him whole during that time; she'd told me how upset he had been to lose Donna; their friendship was anything but romantic, apparently more like a brother-sister relationship.

Wait. A brother and sister relationship. A bond closer than brothers...could what happened to Donna be that part of the prophecy fulfilled? How else did she fit in? Too much trust...? Donna, like myself and pretty much anyone who knew the Doctor, trusted him with her life.

I mentally ticked a box on my "prophecy list".

And finally...the lover. The Doctor had already confirmed that he thought I was the lover, instead of Rose. I tried to get my head around that. I had fallen in love with the Doctor a long time ago, every time he so much as smiled at me I all but melted. But he had never hinted he felt anything but friendship towards me, but if I was the lover in the prophecy, every time the Doctor touched me, desire tore him apart... a shiver ran down my spine at that. I supposed, after he had made love to me so thoroughly only a few hours ago, could I really doubt that he was in love with me too?

But the revelation that the Doctor probably loved me back was rather overshadowed by the words of the prophecy.

The pursuit of this lover will destroy both you and her...well, in taking me to that secret room, and kissing me, even knowing what the consequences were, that probably counted as pursuit.

So what was our punishment going to be? I didn't really want to think about it.

Luckily I was saved from having to think about it by a light tap on my door. I knew who it was already; Rose would have just barged right in, screaming as she did so.

"Come in," I called. The Doctor eased the door open and entered the room.

"Hey," was all he said.

"Hey yourself," I smiled weakly back. Taking one look at my face, the Doctor crossed the room to my bed in two strides, before sitting next to me on the bed and scooping me into his arms. I lifted my arms around his neck, and despite trying my hardest, the tears began to fall. All of the overwhelming feelings I had had today just poured out of me; the shock, the passion, and the fear. All of it was just desperate to escape. I didn't want to feel anything right now, everything I felt led to something bad. Just as I had found the Doctor, I was going to lose him.

The Doctor held me as I cried, not saying anything, just holding me close, so close I could feel his twin hearts pounding against my cheek. It was further proof of the bond we shared that he knew I didn't want to hear how everything would be all right, when we both knew it wouldn't.

I don't remember how long we sat there, wrapped in each other's arms, each thinking our own separate thoughts. But eventually I had run out of tears, and I unburied my face from the Doctor's chest.

"Doctor..." my voice was hoarse.

The Doctor hugged me closer. "Shhhh..." he whispered. "It doesn't matter...we're gonna work it out. I've had a long chat with Rose-"

"She didn't take it well, did she?"

"Well...I don't think she could have taken it much worse..." the Doctor was clearly upset at his confrontation with Rose. "But I think she was slightly mollified by the fact that she is the friend, despite not being the lover..."

"But she's not, is she?"

"She isn't?"

"Doctor...I've been thinking about it...what about Donna?"

At her name, the Doctor's face became a mask of pure shock. "Shit. Donna fits it better than Rose...the prophecy is almost fulfilled...we're running out of time...and Rose...she's not in the prophecy, but why? After all we've been through, why isn't she a part of my destiny?"

"I don't know, but we'll sort it out, won't we?"

He nodded vigorously. "Of course we will. I'm not losing you, Lucie."

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A/N: I hope you enjoyed that, it turned out a little bit more angsty than I had originally anticipated, but I promise it will lighten up soon :)

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