Tested, and Not Found Wanting

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Title: Tested, and Not Found Wanting
Character(s): Rose. Ten mentioned passim
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Rating: PG
A/N: Rose's thoughts on why the Doctor has sent her into the parallel universe. A companion piece to The Proof's in the Testing. The summary is an amended line from The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot.
Setting: Doomsday
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, without permission, what will never be mine.
Summary: She's his perpetual star.

He’s testing me.

He’s given me a choice: one or the other, but not both.

The complete family - mother, father, oldest friend - I’d always wanted. Or him, the man with haunted eyes and impossible hair?

The catch? Whoever - Mum, who’d sacrificed so much for me; the man who loved me enough to willingly die for me - I choose, I lose the other for ever.

The ties that bind can choke you in the end.

I’ll always choose him; I honour my promises.

“I made my choice a long time ago, and I’m never gonna leave you.”