Fic: The Final Journey (Rating T, Spoils for S6 ep 7)
Story: In the End
Series: Forever
Title: The Final Journey (3/3)
Rating: T
Characters: 10, 10.5, 13, Rose, Jackie, + other companions
Pairings: Doctor/Rose
Warnings: Spoils for up to current Who
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.
Fanfiction.net link
Part I The Final Stop
Part II The Final Run
The Final Journey
The Doctor felt strange, like he wasn't dying. He felt like he was regenerating, but it couldn't be right. He had run out of regenerations. It felt strange but right. He opened his eyes and saw that he was in the TARDIS, but in the old control room with the coral desktop. And there was Donna Noble, his best friend.
'It couldn't be…' he thought.
"It's you!" she looked at him.
"Oh yes!"
"And you're naked!" Donna looked away.
"Oh yes!" he said more enthusiastically. And he ran once again, but not away. No. He ran because he was running to Rose Tyler. Because she and him needed him.
The events passed as he could remember. He had destroyed the Daleks but he knew that they would be back. 'They're like cockroaches,' he thought, sounding a bit like Donna.
They were now on the journey home. He looked at each of his companions, Mickey, Jack, Sarah Jane, and Martha, one last time because he knew his final destination. He had lived through it once already, from another set of eyes. He looked at his past self and longed to tell himself that everything would be okay in the end. But he couldn't. He must stick to the established chain of events or the all universes might explode into nothing. And let's face it, they just saved it…again for the nth time.
He looked around the TARDIS one last time. And she knew it too. He could hear her humming. He placed his hand on her walls. "Thank you Sexy." He took one final look and headed towards the control room. They were a few seconds away from landing in Pete's world at Dårlig Ulv-Stranden.
His past self had given him a piece of TARDIS coral and Donna had told them how to accelerate the growth, which was surprising because he didn't remember. (It was probably because when he was regenerating into his 11th self, he had packed most of his 10th self memories into an opened box. It was an opened box because you don't really want to look into an opened box because it's open, meaning that the inside of the box wasn’t a mystery.) But the scene that got him was when Donna told him to explain.
His carefully chosen words came out naturally. He was after all experiencing this twice. "I look like him. I think like him. Same memories, same thoughts, same everything. Except that I've only got one heart.”
“Which means…”
“I'm part human, specifically the aging part. I'll grow old and never regenerate. I've only got one life. Rose Tyler…I could spend it with you. If you want…"
And then she had asked both of him to repeat when he had said the last time they were there.
"I said Rose Tyler," the Doctor in brown said.
"And how does it end?" she asked.
"Does it need saying?" the brown Doctor looked like he was in pain.
"And you Doctor?" she looked at him, the blue Doctor. “What was the end of that sentence?”
He leaned in, a bit of him felt sorry for his past self, and whispered in her ear, "Rose Tyler, I love you. Forever."
Rose looked at him before pulling him into a passionate kiss. To which the Doctor happily returned.
In the corner of his mind, he felt his past self and Donna returning to the TARDIS and disappearing. 'He/I will find myself here again in due time.'
Rose had noticed this too late and released him. She ran a few meters before stopping and staring at the empty spot where the TARDIS had been. The Doctor walked up to her side and crossed his fingers with hers. They stood like that for a few more moments before the Doctor knew that it was time to explain to her that he really was the Doctor.
"Rose?"
"Please, I know that you're him but..."
"Rose, I am him."
"I know but-"
"I am him and he is me. He will be me in a much later time."
"I know you're him...but wah? He'll be you at a later time?"
"Wimbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. The point is I am the Doctor...from the future. I died. I ran out of regenerations. And somehow, I'm back here. In this time, in this place. I am your Doctor, but from the future. I never forgot you Rose. You're literally always my final stop."
"Hold on," she said, taking a moment to think, "You're saying that you're him, who just left me like it was nothing?"
He was trending on swallow waters now. "Yyyes, that was past me."
SLAP!
"You knew!" she accused.
"NO! I didn't know it. I didn't want to leave you; I had to. But bollocks, I do even know how this is happening right now!" He started to babble how the impossible things happen to them.
Rose was hesitant. Here was her Doctor. The Doctor that just left her here with himself without giving her any choice. But this Doctor was her Doctor...from the future. A future that he was forced to go on without her. But he came back somehow because his final stop was always her. A sharp pain went throughout her head.
The Doctor saw this, stopped his gob, and looked concerned. "Rose?"
Rose placed a hand on the side of her head, "I remember something. It's faint but I remember that on New Year’s day, some bloke that I thought had too much to drink told me that I was gonna have a great year."
"2005 January the first," the Doctor whispered.
A sudden realization hit her, "It was you! You were dying again! Oh, I wished I had known!"
The Doctor pulled her into an embrace, "You can't have. But it's alright. I'm here with you, Rose Tyler, now. If you'll have me. Forever."
She wrapped her arms around him and looked up, "Forever. Stuff of legend, you 'n me. But ‘m still mad."
"OI! You two!" Jackie Tyler's voice rang. "Come on! I just called your father and he's picking us up at the inn in a few hours. It's a 2 mile walk from here. Decide what to do later! Come on now! Get going!"
The two took each other's hand, smiled, and ran like they always did.
And the universes weren’t so cruel...maybe because the Doctor had a feeling that when they explain to Jackie, she was going to slap him. But it won't be so bad, because his final journey was with his beloved Rose Tyler. And so they ran. Rose Tyler and the Doctor, hand in hand, ran towards their final journey.
The universes had given its greatest saviors their hearts desire. The Doctor and Rose Tyler, as it should be.
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So I was reading But the Story Never Ends by WhoMe-2 on FF.net and it was about 10 when regenerating to 11, that all of 9/10’s feelings and thoughts became 10.5! Brilliant story that is. So it got me thinking. What if, in the end, the Doctor was granted a second chance with Rose Tyler! That 13th regenerates into the Metacrisis/Ten2
Of course I got into the series late (like a few months ago), so as I was wandering around livejournal, I came upon this one community, One More Run, where 10.5 is the 14th Doctor (assuming that BBC doesn’t do anything about the Doctor only have 13 regeneration.) So my theory isn’t so original. But I think that if I had watched it as it was airing, I would have come up with it.
So yeah, this is my stab at the Doctor becoming the Metacrisis.
This story was inspired by WhoMe-2 and fueled by the One More Run LJ community.
Credit due where credit’s due. To WhoMe-2 and the people over at One More Run! You writers are brilliant!
Really though, I’d recommend reading them.
Oh and forgive me if I made a mistake somewhere along the line, since I'm not British. But I think I got it right...I think....
Series: Forever
Title: The Final Journey (3/3)
Rating: T
Characters: 10, 10.5, 13, Rose, Jackie, + other companions
Pairings: Doctor/Rose
Warnings: Spoils for up to current Who
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.
Fanfiction.net link
Part I The Final Stop
Part II The Final Run
The Final Journey
The Doctor felt strange, like he wasn't dying. He felt like he was regenerating, but it couldn't be right. He had run out of regenerations. It felt strange but right. He opened his eyes and saw that he was in the TARDIS, but in the old control room with the coral desktop. And there was Donna Noble, his best friend.
'It couldn't be…' he thought.
"It's you!" she looked at him.
"Oh yes!"
"And you're naked!" Donna looked away.
"Oh yes!" he said more enthusiastically. And he ran once again, but not away. No. He ran because he was running to Rose Tyler. Because she and him needed him.
The events passed as he could remember. He had destroyed the Daleks but he knew that they would be back. 'They're like cockroaches,' he thought, sounding a bit like Donna.
They were now on the journey home. He looked at each of his companions, Mickey, Jack, Sarah Jane, and Martha, one last time because he knew his final destination. He had lived through it once already, from another set of eyes. He looked at his past self and longed to tell himself that everything would be okay in the end. But he couldn't. He must stick to the established chain of events or the all universes might explode into nothing. And let's face it, they just saved it…again for the nth time.
He looked around the TARDIS one last time. And she knew it too. He could hear her humming. He placed his hand on her walls. "Thank you Sexy." He took one final look and headed towards the control room. They were a few seconds away from landing in Pete's world at Dårlig Ulv-Stranden.
His past self had given him a piece of TARDIS coral and Donna had told them how to accelerate the growth, which was surprising because he didn't remember. (It was probably because when he was regenerating into his 11th self, he had packed most of his 10th self memories into an opened box. It was an opened box because you don't really want to look into an opened box because it's open, meaning that the inside of the box wasn’t a mystery.) But the scene that got him was when Donna told him to explain.
His carefully chosen words came out naturally. He was after all experiencing this twice. "I look like him. I think like him. Same memories, same thoughts, same everything. Except that I've only got one heart.”
“Which means…”
“I'm part human, specifically the aging part. I'll grow old and never regenerate. I've only got one life. Rose Tyler…I could spend it with you. If you want…"
And then she had asked both of him to repeat when he had said the last time they were there.
"I said Rose Tyler," the Doctor in brown said.
"And how does it end?" she asked.
"Does it need saying?" the brown Doctor looked like he was in pain.
"And you Doctor?" she looked at him, the blue Doctor. “What was the end of that sentence?”
He leaned in, a bit of him felt sorry for his past self, and whispered in her ear, "Rose Tyler, I love you. Forever."
Rose looked at him before pulling him into a passionate kiss. To which the Doctor happily returned.
In the corner of his mind, he felt his past self and Donna returning to the TARDIS and disappearing. 'He/I will find myself here again in due time.'
Rose had noticed this too late and released him. She ran a few meters before stopping and staring at the empty spot where the TARDIS had been. The Doctor walked up to her side and crossed his fingers with hers. They stood like that for a few more moments before the Doctor knew that it was time to explain to her that he really was the Doctor.
"Rose?"
"Please, I know that you're him but..."
"Rose, I am him."
"I know but-"
"I am him and he is me. He will be me in a much later time."
"I know you're him...but wah? He'll be you at a later time?"
"Wimbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. The point is I am the Doctor...from the future. I died. I ran out of regenerations. And somehow, I'm back here. In this time, in this place. I am your Doctor, but from the future. I never forgot you Rose. You're literally always my final stop."
"Hold on," she said, taking a moment to think, "You're saying that you're him, who just left me like it was nothing?"
He was trending on swallow waters now. "Yyyes, that was past me."
SLAP!
"You knew!" she accused.
"NO! I didn't know it. I didn't want to leave you; I had to. But bollocks, I do even know how this is happening right now!" He started to babble how the impossible things happen to them.
Rose was hesitant. Here was her Doctor. The Doctor that just left her here with himself without giving her any choice. But this Doctor was her Doctor...from the future. A future that he was forced to go on without her. But he came back somehow because his final stop was always her. A sharp pain went throughout her head.
The Doctor saw this, stopped his gob, and looked concerned. "Rose?"
Rose placed a hand on the side of her head, "I remember something. It's faint but I remember that on New Year’s day, some bloke that I thought had too much to drink told me that I was gonna have a great year."
"2005 January the first," the Doctor whispered.
A sudden realization hit her, "It was you! You were dying again! Oh, I wished I had known!"
The Doctor pulled her into an embrace, "You can't have. But it's alright. I'm here with you, Rose Tyler, now. If you'll have me. Forever."
She wrapped her arms around him and looked up, "Forever. Stuff of legend, you 'n me. But ‘m still mad."
"OI! You two!" Jackie Tyler's voice rang. "Come on! I just called your father and he's picking us up at the inn in a few hours. It's a 2 mile walk from here. Decide what to do later! Come on now! Get going!"
The two took each other's hand, smiled, and ran like they always did.
And the universes weren’t so cruel...maybe because the Doctor had a feeling that when they explain to Jackie, she was going to slap him. But it won't be so bad, because his final journey was with his beloved Rose Tyler. And so they ran. Rose Tyler and the Doctor, hand in hand, ran towards their final journey.
The universes had given its greatest saviors their hearts desire. The Doctor and Rose Tyler, as it should be.
-------
So I was reading But the Story Never Ends by WhoMe-2 on FF.net and it was about 10 when regenerating to 11, that all of 9/10’s feelings and thoughts became 10.5! Brilliant story that is. So it got me thinking. What if, in the end, the Doctor was granted a second chance with Rose Tyler! That 13th regenerates into the Metacrisis/Ten2
Of course I got into the series late (like a few months ago), so as I was wandering around livejournal, I came upon this one community, One More Run, where 10.5 is the 14th Doctor (assuming that BBC doesn’t do anything about the Doctor only have 13 regeneration.) So my theory isn’t so original. But I think that if I had watched it as it was airing, I would have come up with it.
So yeah, this is my stab at the Doctor becoming the Metacrisis.
This story was inspired by WhoMe-2 and fueled by the One More Run LJ community.
Credit due where credit’s due. To WhoMe-2 and the people over at One More Run! You writers are brilliant!
Really though, I’d recommend reading them.
Oh and forgive me if I made a mistake somewhere along the line, since I'm not British. But I think I got it right...I think....