The Beach || Doctor x Rose

The Beach

Once again she had to go there. One more time before she couldn't. She was old and she had a bit problems in walking. Sometimes her feet just couldn't move. The pain in her back was annoying, but she didn't care. Of course Rose Marion Tyler didn't care about that small thing when she had bigger problems in her life, too.

About 60 years ago she had to leave the biggest love of her life, the biggest gift and curse she could get. Her Doctor. He gave her this copy of him, John Smith he was called, and he looked just like her Doctor. They were actually the same, but John was half human. He could grow old with her. And he did, he lived old, but left her when his one heart gave up.

Rose raised from her car and looked at the Bad Wolf Bay. Here she said goodbye to the Doctor twice. Twice! It was a miracle that she was still alive after all of that. She slowly walked by the beach and looked at the bright blue waves. She remembered the first time when they were separated.

She would always remember his words: "And I suppose... If it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler..."

The way he said her name before he vanished broke her heart. She could have a future with him. A wonderful future with the last Time Lord. But he didn't even have a chance to say what he thought of her.

The second time was a bit confusing.

"Does it need saying", he had said.

She, a stupid ape as her first Doctor would have said, didn't realize what he meant and asked from the other Doctor what he thought. And even though he wasn't the Doctor, she kissed him when he said that he loved her. So, her Doctor left her with John. And he never came back. Sometimes she thought that maybe he fell in love with someone else. For some reason his companions were almost always girls.

But she wasn't any better. She loved John. Maybe because he was the Doctor, but without extra heart. But something was always missing in their relationship. Because she loved the Doctor, her Doctor, and when she loved someone else she couldn't love him as much as he deserved. Of course her life was good and she had many great moments with John, but she missed her life in the TARDIS. But, nothing lasts forever.

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She woke up from her thoughts when she saw a figure on the beach. She never had seen anyone there. She walked quickly closer to the person. It was a man. He sat on the beach and watched far to the sea. He had a brown suit, a white shirt and a red bow tie. And his hair - oh God, his hair - it was brown and wonderful. Not as great as her Doctor's hair (he had a really great hair), but brilliant still. She realised that she was staring at this man and blushed. He was about 30, and she was 80!
Rose, you could be his grandmother, so keep yourself calm and normal, she told to herself.
She smoothed her grey hair that she had put into a bun and looked at her baby blue dress that reached the top of her black sandals. The man didn't see her when she slowly sat next to him.

"Hello", she said.

He finally realised that he wasn't alone anymore and looked at her.

"Hello, ma'am", he said politely.

Rose looked at the sea. The man shifted his gaze to the sea, too. They quietly watched the waves and listened to the voices they made when they wiped the sand. She looked at the man from the corner of her eye. He looked very sad. She was sure the man was very broken inside, like she was. He hid the pain well, but something in her could see inside him, like she had known him for a long time.

"I have been on this beach many times, and this is the first time someone else is here", she said without looking at him.

He forced a small smile to his face and said: "Yeah, I know this isn't a very popular beach. I have been here twice."