The Doctor was wrong.
The one who was never wrong, was wrong.
I would never age. I couldn't. It was physically impossible for me to age. Ever since Satellite 5.
The Doctor had sent me away to save me. He was so sure he was going to die. But I wasn't going to sit around and let it happen. So me, mum, and Mickey got the TARDIS doors to open and I did something incredibly reckless. I looked into the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me. I turned into the Bad Wolf.
"I create myself. I take the words…I scatter them, in time and space. A message, to lead myself here."
That's what I told the Emperor of the Daleks.
"I want you safe, my Doctor. Protected from the false God."
And that's what I told my Doctor.
"Rose, you've done it, now stop. Just let go."
I didn't want to let go.
"How can I let go of this? I bring life."
I brought Jack back to life. And now he can never die.
"But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!"
I knew it was wrong.
"But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and night...but why do they hurt?"
I, the Bad Wolf, was crying.
"The power's gonna kill you and it's my fault!"
It wasn't his fault. It was my fault.
"I can see everything... all that is... all that was... all that ever could be."
Is that how he saw everything?
"But that's whatI see. All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?"
How did he deal with this?
"My head…"
I felt like I was burning.
"Come here."
Doctor.
"...is killing me."
Help me.
"I think you need a Doctor."
My Doctor.
He had kissed me. That's not how I planned our first kiss. I never thought it'd be because the Time Vortex was killing me. He had to get it out of me. And he thought he had. And he regenerated because of it.
Because of me.
But he didn't get it all out.
In order for the TARDIS to still be herself, she had to leave a little piece of herself in me. Not enough to harm me, or kill me. Just enough to let me be like the Doctor.
I was the Bad Wolf.
The Bad Wolf needed her Doctor.
The Doctor needed his Bad Wolf.
And the TARDIS needed her Bad Wolf and her Doctor.