All We Need

[preserved_ginger]

Title: All We Need
Character(s): Ten. Rose mentioned throughout.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Beta(s): None. All errors, therefore, are my own.
Spoilers: Doomsday
Setting: The lever room.
A/N: The title for this drabble comes from an Emily Dickinson poem (My life closed twice before its close), and the quote at the beginning of the fic is the Doctor, from World War Three.
Posted: dwfiction, oh_she_knows, and time_and_chips
Summary: All you can do is scream her name.

"I could save the world but lose you."

You hadn't thought you'd need to say it, this time. You hadn't expected anything to go wrong. You had gone blundering in, like you usually do, and look where that has brought you.

Why didn't you leave the bloody lever alone? Yes, it would have been tidier, and far safer, to finish the job at the first attempt; but I'd have taken just about any other outcome than this. Oh, Rose. What have you done?

And all you can do is scream her name as she disappears from your universe for ever.

Comments

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

Je ne regrette rien, eh? Works better for Piaf than for the Doctor, especially here.

Both of those sentences blew right over my head.

[rjrog77.livejournal.com]

Stolen from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non,_je_ne_regrette_rien):

"Non, je ne regrette rien" is a French song written in 1956 which is best known through the recording made by French singer, Édith Piaf, on 10 November 1960. Its title translates as "No, I regret nothing" but has often been rendered simply as "No regrets".

(I was just trying to be clever, really ;) )