Fic: The Final Stop (Rating T, Spoils for S6 ep 7)
Story: In the End
Series: Forever
Title: The Final Stop (1/3)
Rating: T
Characters: 13th Doctor, Jenny, Jack
Pairings: Doctor/Rose
Warnings: Character death, spoils for S6 ep 7
Disclaimer: No own Doctor Who.
Summary: It was the end. No more running. No more.
Author’s Note: I got into Doctor Who a few months ago when I told my friends I was bored and decided to give Doctor Who a try since they liked it. This is my first Doctor Who fanfic, so forgive me if anything is wrong. Inspired by a fanfic on FF.net that escaped my mind right now.
FF.net link
Part II The Final Run (2/3)
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He was dying. No more regenerations, no more running. They knew it. The Doctor had taken a hit from a Dalek's laser beam for his daughter Jenny.
Jenny, Jenny, Jenny. He had found her alive and well a regeneration and a half ago. And boy, was he surprised that she was alive. She didn’t know who he was because of his regeneration into his 11th form, but something inside clicked when he ran after her, calling out her name. It was so long ago, that time, that single adventure where Donna had convinced him to open his hearts to his daughter. That he was not the last of the Time Lords. Of course Medley Pond/River Song and him shared similar characteristics and he had loved her, but he knew that she was to die when he had first met her in the Library.
Jenny and Susan would have been great together, he knew it. If only Susan was still here. It stills gets to him that he had to destroy his own people to ensure the safety of the universe. No matter how many adventures and companions he had after those events, he still remembers every single details of the Time War. But it was thanks to one companion that made him better.
Rose Marion Tyler was her name, Defender of the Earth. He had loved her (and he still does) like he loved no other. She made him better. She had absorbed the Time Vortex for him. She had jumped dimensions for him. And he was forced to leave her on Pete’s World with another him because he couldn’t offer her his forever no matter how hard he wished. It was the right choice, but that didn’t mean the Doctor didn’t regret it.
The Doctor was dying. And it wasn’t fair. He had saved the universe so many times that he lost count (although there were a few times in which he himself had put the universe in danger.) And every time, no one besides a selected few people knew what he did. He never asked for recognitions or anything. Everyone was saved and happy but him. The Doctor deserved his happiness. He had made new friends and more to fill that empty spot in his heart, but it wasn’t enough. That lonely empty spot belonged to her, who had filled it once before her untimely departure.
The Doctor thought back to his 10th self, on how he had left her with him. That single day broke him in so many ways that he couldn’t imagine. He had lost her and his best friend, Donna Noble, in one day. Donna Noble couldn’t remember their adventures or she would die because her mind could not withstand the human-Time Lord metacrisis. It was then that he realized that he was the universe’s savior, yet he would remain the loneliest being in existence. The universe was cruel.
The Doctor was dying and he knew it. There was only one thing he wanted to do right now. He just wanted to see her face one last time. But he couldn’t because he was dying. The one thing in the universe that he wanted to do and he couldn’t.
Jenny and Jack had dragged the Doctor into the TARDIS when Jack had shot the Dalek. The Doctor was on the floor with Jenny cradling his head in her arms, while Jack was inputting the command that the Doctor had instructed him to if anything had happened to him. Jenny was yelling, crying, and begging her father not to die.
The Doctor, laying in his daughter's arms on the floor, place his hand on her cheek, wiped a tear away, and gave a smile, "You don't look pretty when you cry." He turned to Jack, "Look after her."
He looked at the ceiling of the TARDIS. 'Thank you...for stealing me all those years ago...for a grand adventure...Sexy."
His hand fell from Jenny's cheek, his body shook one final time, and he was gone.
"DAD!!" Jenny screamed.
Jack made his way over to the Time Lady and wrapped her into his arms.
"Executing Emergency Program 113," the TARDIS' computer announced.
Jack and Jenny looked to where the sound was coming from and saw a hologram in the image of the 11th Doctor.
"Hello Jenny and Jack." the hologram Doctor greeted. "If you're seeing this message, it means I'm dead. No more regenerations. Nothing. Nada. Zip, zap! Do you like the fez? I just got it from the market today, which is on Terrick 5."
That got a smile from Jack and Jenny. Only the Doctor can say something like that is a case like this. The hologram of the 11th Doctor shifted into the current version of him.
"Back to current business. You're getting this message because I'm dead. Dead dead. Now don’t give me that look. It was just my time. I’m an old man. Everyone dies. Know this. If I haven't said it yet, I love you, Jenny, my daughter. I am glad that you were created and that I found you alive. You've brought great happiness to this lonely old man. The TARDIS is now yours and even though I can't see it, I know that you're gonna do great things. Great brilliant things that the universe has never seen. Who knows, you might even visit parallel worlds as well."
"Dad..."
"Jack. You have your own great things to do, but do take care of her when you see her. When Rose brought you back, I thought it was wrong. But the truth? She was right to bring you back you have done and will do many more amazing and brilliant things. Thank you Jack.”
“Doc…”
“Now, here's a list of things I want you to do.” The hologram then listed the many things to do. “And remember Jenny. Never forget who you are. You are the Doctor’s Daughter. Make me prouder.”
The Doctor's body was cremated and the final item on the list was done. Jenny and Jack went to New New Earth to a specific location. There, they found Rose Tyler's memorial which read her birthday, death date (which was not really her death date but was the date that she was no longer of this universe,) her title "Dame Rose of the Powell Estates, Defender of the Earth, and in higher Gallifreyian, that the Doctor personally sonic into the memorial, "Beloved, forever." Now, next to Rose Tyler, was the Doctor, the man that saved the universe more times than anyone can count.
Jenny laid roses on both memorials with tears running down her cheeks. "I'll be brilliant Dad. Just like you."
Jack placed his hand on Jenny's shoulder. "I'll look after her, Doc. Because knowing that she's your daughter, she's bound to run into trouble. Just like her Dad."
The universe may have lost a great man, but it gained a great woman to carry on his legacy.
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There’s two more parts coming. And Jack found his way into this cause I needed someone who would shot a Dalek.
So...good, bad, never write again?