Disclaimer: Non. Docteur Qui n'est pas de moi.
A/N: A follow up to "The Magic Words" because Rose had so much to say there.
Back
He came back. And he said what he probably thought were the magic words.
What she never told him, what she'd never gotten the chance to say…was that the reason she'd changed her mind hadn't been because of the words.
She'd said yes the second time around because he'd come back. He'd come back and had given her a second chance.
He could have said anything. He could have opened that door and said "Jelly baby?" and she would have nodded without a second thought.
Over the time she got to spend with him, she thought back on that moment many times. She wondered what would have been if he'd never come back, how she would have lived with herself after that. And though she thought of it a lot, she never told him. By the time she realized she should, it was too late. There were so many things she would have told him given a second chance around. But maybe that second chance of a lifetime only ever came once, and she'd gotten hers already.
Maybe it was her turn to go back. And she'd do whatever it took to get there. She'd done it before, defeated the impossible, and she could do it again. So, with the thought of how he'd given her a second chance in her mind, she fought to give him a second chance. She fought to go back.