Title: Long Time Coming
Author: Wereleopard
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Rating: PG
Genre: Angst
Summary: Ninth Doctor all epsiodes
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Pairing: Dr
Who/Rose Tyler
Spoilers: All episodes
She
walked the lonely streets as she had done many times over the years.
It all started when she was sent back by the Doctor, he saved her life
and risked his own and everyone else’s.
Her mum
and tried to cheer up, to tell her it was for the best, but she didn’t
understand, she couldn’t, it wasn’t seeing different worlds and different
times, it was the relationship she had with the Doctor, that friendship, that
love. She had pulled away from
everyone. Her mum kept trying to
pull her closer, wanting her to forget it all and move on with her life, living
in the here and now but how could she, her mum hadn’t been through the things
she had. It was just so hard
excepting things as they used to be before she met The Doctor how could she go
back to doing the same thing day in and day out.
Mickey
was another problem he thought that now she was back they could continue where
they had left off, but he didn’t know that her heart now belonged to another.
The Doctor stole her heart without knowing, no, he didn’t steal it she
gave it freely to him and she knew deep down how he felt.
She never had any doubts about that, about him.
Rose
went out on dates but no one could get past the barrier she erected, no one
could see deep within her to see who she really was.
She didn’t want anyone to get to close to her and because of that no
one could truly understand her. Men
had come through her life trying to make her theirs she was a challenge.
They had seen the way she kept people back, but at times when she
remembered the Doctor a spark could be seen in her eyes.
It made her face light up and those men that saw it wanted to be the ones
to bring it back to life permanently, but it only appeared briefly and then the
fire would disappear. The embers always remained waiting to be ignited once again.
Everyday
Rose would go to the Tardis and would sit inside and remember, wait and hope,
wishing that some how he would return to her, but she knew that it wasn’t
going to happen but that still didn’t mean that her heart didn’t jump
everytime someone knocked at her door or she turned the key to open the blue
box. She couldn’t leave the
Tardis it was alive and the Doctor was all it had, so she would go and visit and
talk to it not knowing if it understood but it was the only thing that knew what
had happened, what she had been through. Rose
washed the outside and kept it clean of graffiti and then she would go to the
Doctor’s room and curl up on his bed waiting for the day he would awaken her
from this dream and then together they could go back to her real life with him
travelling, seeing the stars.
The
years rolled by and Rose got older and older, but you could still see the
stunning woman she once used to be and now and again the fire in her eyes
managed to get lit and years vanished off her face for those few minutes.
She was different from the other elderly people; she stayed by herself
and never told stories of when she was younger and what happened to her, Rose
would be called senile. Her bones
began to ache but everyday she still went to the Tardis without fail and if it
needed cleaning she would do that. Her
body sometimes cried out for her to give it up, to move on and live her last
years in peace but her heart and soul would never let her do that, she
couldn’t. She was still that girl who had the never-ending strength,
who would not give up with a fight, but she was alone and she still hoped and
dreamed for him to come back for her.
Rose
slowly made her way to her true home, The Tardis, kids called her names,
laughing and joking about the woman was went into a small box and stayed there
for hours. People had tried to get
in over the years, trying to figure out what she did, but it was locked up tight
and no one ever did find out, but then no one ever asked her.
She
looked around the familiar place as soon as she walked in hoping against hope
that he would be there but he wasn’t. “Hello
old friend.” She whispered to the
police box.
Rose
felt tired today, more than she had in a long time, the pain was getting worse,
she had stopped taking her medication it had made her too tired and she had
stopped coming to visit and she couldn’t allow that.
The Tardis was all she had. Rose
made her way to the Doctors bed and laid down.
“I’ll
close my eyes just for a moment.” She
whispered. Her breaths became
shallow, her heart slowed down. The room around her darkened as she took her
last breath and descended into that lasting sleep.
“Rose,
Rose.” A voice called out from
the darkness, she recognised it. It
was the one from her dreams, from he heart.
Her
eyes felt heavy but she managed to open them and then she was staring into the
bright blue eyes of her love. “Doctor.”
She whispered not knowing whether to believe it afraid if she spoke too
loud he would leave her again.
“Yes
it’s me Rose. It’s been a long
time but we’re together again.” He held out his hand and pulled her to her
feet.
Her
body moved easily and quickly. She
looked down and stared at her hands, she was back in the nineteen year old body,
the last time she had seen the Doctor.
He
pulled her with him to the control centre.
“Where do you want to go Rose?”
He asked the smile still gracing his face.
“Anywhere
as long as it is with you.” She
said as she reached out and touched his face stroking it softly making sure he
was real.
A
nurse wandered the street looking for Miss Tyler she was hours overdue and
people were starting to get worried. But they knew where she would be, where she
always went, to that blue police box. The
woman shook her head, if only she knew why.
The nurse walked around the corner but she froze as it started to make a
sound, the wind picked up around her and the blue box seemed to flash in and out
of existence until it finally disappeared.
She paused, not knowing what to think, what to do.
How was she going to explain this one?
Meanwhile
in the Tardis, the Doctor pulled back from Rose. “It’s ok now we are never going to be apart?”
She
smiled at him. “Well it was a
long time coming.”