I think you guys probably know that if you recognize it, I don't own it.
Previously
"You both know I hate endings. They're complete rubbish. There's always a loose end, someone is always lost, and someone is always, always left disappointed. But do you know what's absolutely brilliant?" The Doctor asks.
Amy and Rory simply stare at him, waiting for the answer.
"Beginnings."
Now, one may think that after such a seemingly apparent start to an amazingly heart-wrenching story, the teller would simply continue outlining said story plot point by pain-staking plot point with plenty of humor thrown in to balance out the inevitable heart-break that comes with the infamous ending. However, seeing as how Amy and Rory are dealing with the Doctor, who is not quite yet accustomed to telling tales of the past, they quickly realize that an explanation is not made readily available.
Instead, the alien in question is gazing at the tea mug in his hand with a self-satisfied smile on his face, as if he believes that everything needed of him has been given. Which, in some respects is certainly true. No one deserves to hear the Doctor's story of a certain pink and yellow human, the very human who saved him from the most cliche of all things, himself. Then again, this memory harbored so closely to his hearts won't be shared for the sake of others, or even for his own sake, so that he might begin to start healing from the gaping, jagged hole in his life. No, if this story is told for anybody, it is told for her, for that miraculous human girl who showed the Doctor a better way of living his life. Though no one deserves to experience the story of her, she deserves for her story to be told.
"Her name was Rose." The Doctor begins, startling the other two occupants in the room out of a silent conversation most certainly about him.
"Well, her name still is Rose, I suppose. It's strange, I normally don't have to worry about tenses when I speak. Something new everyday though, eh?" The Doctor elaborates, looking up at the Pond's with a smile a little too big, and eyes a little too sad.
"That's a lovely name." Amy responds, moving over to sit next to her raggedy man, and wrapping a comforting arm around his shoulders. Of course, this move leaves Rory with no place to sit but on the other side of the Doctor, effectively sandwiching the Time Lord, and making escape a billion times harder. Of course, the Doctor wouldn't possibly attempt escaping a conversation that he's been avoiding years now.
"It is, isn't it? Her full name was, is, Rose Marion Tyler. Such a simple name, don't you think? More princessy than fairly tale."
"Oi!" Any retorts, shoving the Doctor playfully.
He smiles before continuing on with, "I met her in my ninth regeneration when I traced the signal of the Nestene Consciousness to a shop in London where it was controlling all the mannequins. And I don't know why, but she helped me stop the big NC. I mean, back then I was all big ears, and sarcasm with rage and depression to boot. Simply put, I wasn't the best company. Even still, she chose to come with me in my Tardis. We saw the end of the world together, fought ghosts alongside Charles Dickens, and even witnessed the first meeting between humans and alien life, and let me just say that it was much gassier than I expected."
"Sounds like an adventure." Amy comments.
"The very best," the Doctor continues, sadness lacing his voice and coloring his smile. "But it wasn't the aliens, or the ghosts, or even all the running that mad it an adventure. It was her. Throughout all the time we traveled together she just made everything seem like so much... more. Rose taught me that there is always something out there bigger than anything imaginable. She taught me that, despite having seen the wonders of the universe, even I still had things left to discover."
"She made you the man you are today." Rory speaks up in understanding.
"No, she taught me how to be the man I am today. Traveling with her seemed like the closest version of a happy ending I could achieve. But then, of course, the universe reminded me that the ending was still to come."
"What happened?" Amy questions.
"We ran into some trouble on a space shuttle named Satellite 5. It wasn't the first time we'd run into trouble there, but it was the first time that our chances of survival were at zero. Daleks had taken over, and there was no way out. So, I sent her home. I put her in the Tardis on a one way trip."
"But that's not how you lost her. You're still here, and you still have the Tardis." Amy interrupts, eyebrows furrowing in confusion before understanding lights her face. "Oh my God, she saved you. Talk about turning tables."
The Doctor grins at her, and continues on, saying, "Yes, she did save me; though how she did it is completely beyond anyone's capabilities. Somehow, she managed to pull the Time Vortex into her head. Using that, she controlled the Tardis, and came back to me before using the vortex to obliterate the Daleks. She named herself Bad Wolf, and through out all the time we had been traveling together, she had been sending herself those two words over and over again across all of time and space, making it look as though the words were following us."
Confused, Amy asks. "Isn't that good though? She saved you."
"Amy, the time vortex isn't meant to be held within the confines any consciousness because the vortex in itself is a consciousness. I'm not even strong enough to contain it." He explains.
"Then how did Rose do it?" The ginger questions.
"She didn't. The vortex was burning her up from the inside out, how she held on to it for as ling as she did is beyond me. So, I took it form her, pulled it into my own mind."
"Um, but you just said that even you weren't strong enough to contain it, or whatever." Rory points out.
"I'm not strong enough to contain the vortex, no one is, it would kill them, and it killed me. However, I do have one advantage over most people. I can regenerate, rewrite every cell in my body, and that's exactly what I did. I regenerated."
I'm honestly not sure how well this chapter turned out, I hate rehashing things- especially when most of you know the story anyways.
Anyhow, review if you want!