Short Stories

Please, Stay...

Doctor's P.O.V.

I ran around the console pushing buttons and levers. I smiled, as I congratulated myself on another one of my brilliant ideas. I could see her again. Even if it would only be for a short time. I could see my Rose again.

The TARDIS flew around the sun. It would implode in a few minutes, so I had time to run the next 2 and a half minutes of a conversation through my mind. I had to tell her. If I didn't, I knew I would regret it for the rest of my life. It was time. Time to tell her how I felt about her all these years. Time to confess about how hard it had been. Time to find out if she felt the same way.

The Sun grew brighter. It was about to implode. I hit a few buttons and the TARDIS started to use the energy, as the Sun grew even brighter and started to shrink. It shrunk to the size of a penny and then it exploded. It burst into red, yellow, and orange colors.

I pulled a lever and grinned as a hologram of my Rose appeared inside the TARDIS. She started walking towards me, but the image of her stayed in place.

When she stopped walking, she looked at me. She asked me where I was and I told her about the TARDIS going around the Supernova.

She told me that I looked like a ghost and I pointed my Sonic at the console, pushing the button and making the image clearer. She started crying when I told her that she couldn't touch me and that I was just an image.

I was surprised when she told me that Jackie was pregnant. I thought she was saying that she was pregnant. Although, I would have been super excited about that news.

I told her that she was, officially, dead in the other universe. She asked me if she was ever going to see me again and I told her that she couldn't. I said that it would rip a hole in the universe.

And then, the moment that I was waiting for. She told me that she loved me.

I smiled at that and said that she was quite right to. I started to say the words that I had been waiting forever to say. I said, "Rose Tyler, I-" Just before I could say the words, her image had faded.

Tears fell down my face. I never got a chance to tell her that I love her.

All those memories of her and I running, defeating aliens, and protecting the Earth ran through my mind. Out of all that running, all that and I never said the words. Not once.

I realized that I had been stupid. I could have told her the words when we were sitting on the grass on New Earth. I could have told her while we were flying in the TARDIS. ... Now, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

My Rose. She saved me. Oh, so many times that girl has saved me. I will forever miss her.

(A/N- while I wrote this, I was listening to Stay, by Florida-Georgia Line. It goes along with the short story and I tried to put it on at the top, but for some reason, It wouldn't play. So, if you read this til the end and cried as I have, please go and listen to that song. It touched my heart in many ways, and I hope that it touches yours too. Thank you.)