preserved_ginger

Title: Everlasting Peace
Rating: 12A
Character(s): The Doctor
Disclaimer: Regrettably, I am not the BBC.
Thanks to:

glory_jean for the beta. Molto bene ;D
Spoilers and Warnings: Spoilers for Turn Left; implied character death
Summary: He couldn’t save Rose. So he doesn’t want to save himself.

Water gushes in, swirling down; drowning the Rachnoss and threatening to drown him, too.

He’s forgotten how to stop himself, and there’s no-one here to tell him – not that he’d listen, anyway.

There’s one person who’d made his cursed experience bearable, even if he’d never been capable of adequately verbalising exactly what she means to him. But she’s gone; he’ll never see her again ... and it hurts.

He loves her so much – and without her, what’s left?

The water rises fast; too fast. He can’t escape it. He closes his eyes, breathing slowly, until – at last – there’s no more pain.