*gasp* An update! I know, it's been ages! And I'm so sorry about that, but school took over my life, and now that I've partially stolen it back for the summer, I wanted to share this tiny tidbit with all of you that I've had for awhile. Written with "All You Wanted" by Michelle Branch as an inspiration. Lyrics in italics. I don't own either Doctor Who or the song. Thanks for reading and reviewing if you'd like! =)

I wanted to be like you. I wanted everything. So I tried to be like you. And I got swept away.

The first time she'd met him, he'd blown her away. There were no better words for the effect he'd had on her. The more he told her, the more she learned, the more she needed to know more. She'd known he was dangerous, but that had been part of the thrill. She'd walked away the first time because he'd told her to, but when she got a second chance, when he found her again, she wanted to prove she could be brilliant. So she tried to be like him. Because that's what he was: brilliant. The second time, she let him walk away, but then he came back. He gave her a second chance to be brilliant. She took it.

I didn't know that it was so cold. And you needed someone to show you the way. So I took your hand, and we figure out how that when the tide comes I'd take you away.

After that, she knew she could never let him out of her sight again. At first, she was fascinated by him. He'd shown her things she'd never even known existed. Slowly, fascination gave way to awe. She realized he was more than brilliant. He was impossible and that much the better for it. Awe evolved into admiration, into friendship, into care and worry, into something deeper she couldn't name. Now, when she took his hand, she meant it.

If you want to, I can save you. I can take you away from here. So lonely inside. So busy out there. And all you wanted was somebody who cares.

As time wore on, she began to get to really know him. It came to the point where she could tell what he was thinking by the way he smiled. The more she learned of him, the sadder his life made her feel. She felt sad too knowing he'd given her more than she could every repay him for. When she told him, he smiled. "You don't have to do anything, Rose. Just go on being you…with me. That's payment enough." So, for his sake, she continue being human, and she saved him in the process.

I'm sinking slowly. So hurry hold me. Your hand is all I have to keep me hanging on. Please can you tell me. So I can finally see. Where you go when you're gone.

But he saved her too. She needed a hand just as much as he did. And he was there to give it. Slowly, he became her home. The closer to each other they were, the happier they stayed. There were times when she felt like the other half of him. Those times scared him. Because there were times he needed to get away from the madness that was his life. So he went away then, and sometimes she seemed to come with him. Before her, no one had ever gone with him to the place where he escaped. Soon, she went so often that she became his escape.

If you want to, I can save you. I can take you away from here. So lonely inside. So busy out there. And all you wanted was somebody who cares.

She'd needed him as much as he'd needed her. By saving each other, they'd saved themselves. They'd never be the same again, and somehow that counted for everything.