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Chapter Thirty-Three (Ditzy`s Point of View)
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I ran towards him, falling onto my stomach, sliding across the pavement. I felt the heat of his fingers brush mine but they were soon ripped away before I could react.
He fell.
For a second I wasn`t breathing... for a second I was staring out into the oblivion, just waiting for him to come up behind me and in his bouncy, intelligent, adorable British voice tell me it was time to go somewhere new.
But I never heard his voice.
"DOCTOR, NO!" I screamed.
Dinky broke down behind me, the man running from the lifeless robots dropping his gun and going over to her to calm her down.
"Stop, you`re not my Doctor!" She yells in protest. "Get off, get off!" But her yells turned into sobs. She began to cry harder.
I turned my attention back to the cliff. My hand was still there, stretching out into thin air as if he was going to jump up like a super hero and grab it. I watched the last piece of his long brown coat disappear from view.
He was gone.
My eyes shut tightly and tears slipped out so quickly it hurt. I dropped my head onto the ground, my entire body shaking.
"Doctor..." I whispered, as if I would wake up and it was all a dream, "please... I wanna wake up! Just let me wake up..."
I curled into a ball because I felt the need to be smaller. The sunset burned my face but I didn`t care. In my other hand, the thing he had told me to get, my sonic screwdriver so he could defeat the Daleks.
I had seen him going off the edge. I had watched him. And I didn`t even react until it was too late.
It was silent. The man got up, leaving Dinky to cope by herself, and then walking next to me. "Miss..."
"Please... just go away," I whispered.
"No, I am going to help you."
I looked up at him. He was a fair-skinned man, dark brown hair swept to his left. He had brown dress shoes on that were scuffed and dirtied, a long dark blue coat like the Doctor`s, and a simple blue dress shirt and black pants. "How...? It`s too late for anything now..." I asked, still trying to catch my breath.
"It`s never too late, Miss...?"
"Ditzy Doo," I frowned.
"Well, Ditzy, I`m Captain Jack Harkness," his voice was worn out and tired, and his eyes were watering. "I was a friend of the Doctor`s."
"What can we do?" I asked him, tears still running a marathon down my face. He pulled me up so I was standing, and I buried my face into his jacket. He let me cry, and when I was done, he frowned at me. He had been crying too.
"The Doctor was so, so strong-willed. The TARDIS is around, yes?"
"Yeah, j-j-just over there," I whimpered.
"Let`s go over there and we can settle it when we get inside, alright?"
I nodded, my shaking hand grabbing Dinky`s. We walked together, staggering as a broken family with the exception of Jack.
"I think I like you, Ditzy," he whispered into my ear.
"It`s alright to have emotions."
"I won`t let anything happen to you."
"I love you, Ditzy Doo."
He had tried to warn me something would happen. And we disregarded it.