Spoilers: Spoilers for season 2 through Doomsday

Title: Phantom

Genre: Angst, Romance, Drama

Rating: PG-13

Couple: Ten/Rose

Summary: Hope. Simultaniously Humanity's greatest strength and greatest weakness. He might have said it was impossible, but he had also taught Rose not to believe in that word. Not even if it destroyed her. Post Doomsday.

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Disclaimer: If I owned DW, they'd be smart enough to think up ways around any predicaments between D/R

AN: And blast the fanfare! The Epilogue is finally here!

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Phantom

Epilogue


My name is Rose Tyler. For 19 years of my life, I barely even lived. For two years I lived more than I thought was possible, and then I died. One year later he found me again. And this time I'm never going to let go.

It had never felt so truly like coming home as it had when she'd stepped across the threshold of the TARDIS once again. She had never felt so alive as when she held his hand as the TARDIS set off into a brand new Vortex. She had never been so happy as when he had vowed to find a way to keep her with him for as long as they both were together, no matter what.

It seemed so long ago when she was just another face working in a small little office building, trying to dredge up a whit of life worth living, but it had only really been a few months. Perhaps it had just been all she had explored and discovered in the small amount of time.

Last time they had set out, he had been the master, showing her all there was to see, and grinning in fatherly pride as she made her stumbling steps through the universe, always catching her when she fell. This time they plunged into the unknown together, never letting go of the other's hand.

Just a few weeks back, the Doctor had shown her for just how extended a time he could do one thing. She grinned at that particular memory, and across the consol, the Doctor grinned back at her.

She sighed softly as he smiled at her. Her life began and ended with that smile, her love, her loss, her tears and her joy. Her very soul seemed to be wrapped up and drawn in by that smile. And judging by the wink he gave her before he looked back at the consol, he was quite aware of it.

"Doctor?"

He looked up. "Rose?"

"How long're ya gonna stay with me?"

He grinned then, and she knew he would keep his answer if it meant tearing apart the fabric of time and space and whatever else tried to stand in their way. "Forever."


The End

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AN: ^__^ And that's all she wrote. Although...I might consider a spinoff/sequel thing if people're interested enough :P