Untitled - TARDIS Big Bang

ACT 1 – Ride Into
So let them all dissolve
And welcome a new resolve
Here's where the credits run
Riding off into the sun
And love is real
Reading your eyes in the glow
Play on, play on
Happy endings
--Better than Ezra, "Happy Endings"
Chapter 1
"I love you."
They were words she'd never thought she'd hear, lips she never thought she'd kiss, not like this; for a
moment Rose Tyler wrapped her arms around the Doctor--a Doctor, this Doctor—and lost herself in the
feel of hands and lips and a powerful need that she'd been struggling with for so long she'd almost
forgotten she could surrender to it. To this Doctor, apparently her Doctor, who clung so tight that she
imagined perhaps he needed her, too.
Maybe there was such a thing as destiny. Maybe, just maybe, there was such a thing as happily every
after.
The sound of the TARDIS taking off barely registered for a moment, and when it did her heart lurched
and she nearly shouted with frustration—it was hard enough following one Doctor, how was she
supposed to keep up with two of them? She pulled away and took a few lame strides down the beach,
until she realized it was already too late—except for the dome light, the TARDIS was already half-faded,
too far gone. Always running away, she thought, her frayed nerves caught somewhere between fury
and grief. He hadn't even said a proper goodbye! She hadn't had a chance to say...well, anything at all,
even though she didn't know what she would've said if given the chance. Goodbye. Thank you. Don't
forget about me. Don't go just yet. All the words she could've spoken seemed to jam up and stick in her
throat.
A warm hand caught hers and held it tightly. She looked up to see the Doctor...the other Doctor, that is,
looking down at her. "He knows," he told her quietly. "Just can't stand the mushy stuff. You know how
he is."
"And you?" Rose asked, studying the too-familiar face. "What about you?"
He swallowed slightly. "I'm...good enough. I hope."
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