Anything

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Title: Anything
Rating: PG
Character(s): Ten. Mentions of Rose, Astrid, and various others.
Pairing: Implied Ten/Rose
Spoiler(s): Voyage of the Damned, general Season Two/Three
Disclaimer: Borrowing, sans permission, what's not mine.
Summary: He's the Doctor. If he can't do it ...

I’m the Doctor. (I can do anything.)

I can save the universe from Daleks. Win the Time War. (And lose everything, everyone, I’ve ever known: Romana. Susan. Leela ... So very many.)

Couldn’t save Rose.

I can save the Earth, my home now Gallifrey’s gone, beyond the reckoning of it. From the Racnoss, Carrionites and the Master.

From Daleks, over and over, and Cybermen. (And lose the woman I adore.)

I can’t save the woman (so like Rose) turned to stardust. I couldn’t stop them, either of them, from falling.

But I can bring them back.

I can do anything.

Comments

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

This captures the Doctor's internal monologue perfectly during Voyage of the Damned.

He was so determined that he was going to get them all out, wasn't he? And then he loses almost all of them.

Well done :-)

Thanks!