Trapped in Time (Doctor Who Fanfiction)

Chapter 8: Destiny

Here it is! Chapter 8! I'm not going to lie, I think each chapter just becomes that much easier to write and that much more fun! I absolutely loved writing this chapter and I hope all of you love it! There is a big cliffhanger at the end, so you all have that to look forward to. Besides from that, you all get a shot of some Rose and Doctor interaction, and one more flashback which reveals something that has been hidden for a very long time!

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Destiny

Life is such a fickle thing. I've often pondered about the philosophy, the choices that we make. In the grand scheme of things, do they really make a difference? One life, one choice, one person; can they really impact society? Can they really create change in the simplest of ways? Maybe up until this point I never thought about it much, or at all, it was trivial information, that was all it meant to me. I never knew until I met the Doctor, I never understood what the word destiny meant, and I certainly didn't understand how just one single person could change it all because he felt so desperately inclined to, it was not at all something I thought of on a daily basis. One day, just one day, it all changed.

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 "Hold on Jessie, hold on!"

The Doctor ran around the console flicking switches back and forth. Each control beeped and made some sort of sound in response to every action the Doctor made. The Doctor knew he had only a little time left, but his face was never more determined then it was at this exact moment.

Rose stood by Jessie watching her anxiously. The red-haired girl seemed to be in a lot of pain and it pained Rose to watch her suffer like this. She leaned down and brushed Jessie's hair to the side as she whispered something in her ear.

The Doctor did not notice as he rambled on and pulled out several cords plugging it up to the main frame of the Tardis.

"Doctor! How are we going to save her? We're losing her!" She said looking up from the poor girl who was shivering and turning quite pale.

The Doctor glanced at her lost for a moment. She looked almost exactly like she did as a child, so pale and lost. He promised her that he would save her, but he kept losing her. He wouldn't lose her again, he had lost her so much, and now she was no longer the little child that he remembered so fondly.

He quickly hid his emotions behind the happy easygoing personality that he always portrayed quite well.

"Rose, that's it! You're brilliant!" He jumped up pulling a pair of headphones that were lying on the console and connected them to the console as he typed several coordinates on a keyboard.

"What? I didn't say anything!" She exclaimed, standing up as she rushed over to the Doctor.

"You didn't need to." He smiled at her as his eyes danced in excitement.

Rose smiled slightly before glancing back at the Doctor with a half-smile. She had made a decision long before she had made her way back to the Tardis. She knew it was the only way to save Jessie, but she didn't dare speak of it to the Doctor, because she knew he would protest. This was the only way she could help the Doctor to save him, and that's what she had wanted from the very start.

The Doctor was a marvelous man who would sacrifice himself again and again for a cause, and she knew that deep inside, but this time she wouldn't let him. She knew he would hate her for what she was about to do, but she had made her choice a long time ago. Her only hope at protecting the Doctor was through the very message that she had whispered in Jessie's ear, hopefully the girl would remember.