Rose stumbled and tried to balance herself but it didn’t work. As soon as she felt the shift, tears started falling on her face. Her chest was heaving, half from exhaustion and half from the uncontrollable sobs. Her fists pounded on the hardwood floor beneath her. “No!” She yelled through a clenched jaw. This couldn’t happen! Not then!
“Rose?” she heard the surprised voice of her mother from behind her. She couldn’t bring herself to stand up yet; the uncontrollable sobs still shook her, like an internal earthquake. Her mother knelt down and put an arm around her shoulders.
“I’m sorry, sweetheart.” said her Mother. Rose acknowledged her Mother’s consoling with a nod. She appreciated it, but nothing her Mother could say would make anything any better.
Rose’s sobs eventually subsided to sniffs. She stood up, still upset, but filled with determination to get back to The Doctor no matter what. She had to.
Rose was beginning to feel hopeless.
She had been trying to jump back to the alternate universe since she had landed there, but every time she tried, she failed miserably. She kicked the wall of the room she was in out of pure frustration. Why did this have to be so difficult?
She took a deep breath, and closed her eyes, concentrating on the TARDIS. She would get it right this time. She felt a shift in the air, and a small breeze. Opening her eyes, she saw that she was in an alleyway.
She looked over and saw The Doctor, walking towards the TARDIS. But something was terribly wrong.
“Doctor!” she exclaimed.
He looked over at her. “R-rose!” he said weakly, smiling. He looked like he was in excruciating pain; she saw straight past his facade. She ran over to him.
“Doctor? Are you okay? What happened!?” she asked in a panic. Dread filled her stomach.
“I-I’m fine. Listen. Listen. I'm going to fly the TARDIS up into the sky. Don't ask questions,” he said, with tears in his eyes. “But before I go, there's one last thing I'd like to say to you.”
“You don't.. You don't look fine,” she looked at him, swallowing the lump in her throat. “O-okay. Don’t leave me, please, just don’t leave me.” She hugged him tightly. “What is it?” she pulled back, looking into his eyes for what felt like the last time.
The Doctor hugged her close, a tear streaming down his face. “I love you.”
He kissed her head, and then walked into the TARDIS, flying it up into the sky a safe distance away from the earth. He walked around the console room, remembering all of that he had done in this life.
He put his face in his hands for a moment, and then, right before it happened, he murmured,
“I don’t want to go.”
Rose watched the TARDIS disappear, and buried her face in her hands, crying. She sat on the ground, with her knees tucked close to her chest.
“C-come back..” she sobbed.
{A/N] We hope you guys enjoyed the last chapter! It’s been awesome while it lasted. Don’t think that this is the end! There will be another book, called ‘Into The Future”, and it will have much worse cliffhangers than this one did. c: We hope you enjoyed the story!
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