Since i started writing this story, i got couple requests of a Rose/Doctor related chapter, so i decided to write a few chapters dedicated to Rose.

This one is an 11 centered chapter but there will be a Ten/Rose one very soon.

This is a very short chapter of random things that remind him of Rose. I am sorry for writing such a short chapter, i am currently recovering from the flu and i couldn't concentrate enough to write a longer one.

Ten/Rose will be longer than this. I promise.

There are things that reminded him of her.

- Simple things like a beautiful pink rose among a valley of flowers. (One he plucks and keeps inside his pocket.)

- * A Christmas tree looking suspiciously alien twirling it's way towards him.

-A smile and a kind word from an unknown woman that resembles her.

-Those moments when he is reading an interesting book, and there comes this line that always makes him laugh, and he turns his head around, hearing a laughter. He foolishly expects to see her there, throwing her head back, her laughter erupting all around.

- There's this time when he runs into the same place she used to work, all remodeled and changed now. Exactly like him. He stays for hours there, looking at every shop girl passing by, reading their tag names.

- He's in Cardiff, Tardis parked safely in the corner of a street. Two words written on the pavement. BAD WOLF.

And there are those times that the universe is mocking him.

** He is chasing a monster, a ghost across time and space. He pulls the levers down, wears his spacesuit and goes out, looking at the scorching earth beneath his feet. All he needs to do is snap couple pictures and run inside. Still there's a nagging thought that keeps his feet routed there, his mind wondering through his past, page by page like a book, trying to find what is that keeps him there.

*** He searches desperately, and he finds it. A memory tacked inside his brain. A version of him with another girl by his side, watching the earth from a spaceship, scorching and melting away. The planet's very last moments.

Somewhere out there, up in the sky, in some place he can't see, there's a story starting.

He wants to jump backwards in time then, he wants to go back to his past, hold her hand one last time. Hear her laughter fill his ears and his hearts. Tell her that nothing really ends. But he keeps running away, like he always does. Another day, another adventure, another human holding his hand when he is in front of an enemy.

At the end of the day he knows though...

You can never run away from the past, you may try so but it always catches up with you.

Episodes referenced here:

* The Christmas Invasion (Season 2)

** Hide (Season 7)- *** The end of the world (Season 1). For the ones that haven't seen these episodes or don't really remember them, in both episodes the Doctor watches the Earth die alongside a companion (Clara&Rose). I simply took those individual moments and intertwined them.