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Title: Fragment from Canary Wharf
Character(s): Ten. Mentions throughout of Rose.
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: 12 (UK) / PG (US)
Disclaimer: Not mine
A/N: A Doomsday piece this time, for a change of pace; still a tad on the angsty side though.
Spoilers: If Doomsday’s still a spoiler!
Summary: Why did he do it? Why?

He’d sent her away. He hadn’t wanted to, had very much hated even the idea of it, but there had been no choice. It wasn’t because he didn’t love her, either. If anything, he loved her too much. Loved her to distraction, in fact, and had done for a very long time.

That the two of them were physically involved was proof enough of that, in his opinion – and in all his long life he’d never been physically intimate with someone he was not in love with, that just wasn’t him.

No.

Lack of love for her had had no bearing on his decision to send Rose with her mother into that parallel world. He knew she’d find it difficult to understand, but it had been all about love. He loved her enough to keep her safe, it was as simple as that.

He supposed that some might think his actions were a kind of test – sending her away from him to see if she’d come back did smack of that, he admitted, but he hadn’t thought of it that way. He hadn’t thought about it at all, really; panic had overtook him and all he could think of was to find a way to keep her safe.

He couldn’t let anything happen to her.

He couldn’t.