I Can't Even

Chapter 14

"Torchwood will be here soon," said Jack. It had been over an hour, and I was starting to get worried. But I guess in hindsight I shouldn't have been, after all, they're busy, and a few minutes later they walked through the door.

As soon as I saw Ianto, Owen, and Tosh I started crying. It was so amazing to see them alive (and in real life, of course). I saw Gwen and my jaw dropped. She was so pretty in person! I knew who my #wcw was going to be. What day was it anyway? I had lost track...

"Um, are you okay?" Owen asked.

"Yeah," I said through tears. "I'm absolutely fine. Now-we haves job to do. Okay here's my plan."

I explained to them that the Master would capture the Doctor and Jack, but Martha would leave and travel the world, tricking the Master into thinking that she was finding the "secret weapon" against the Master's cyborgs. I would go with her. I was going to need one of Torchwood's time vortex manipulators.

"What are you going to do with it?" Jack said as he handed it over.

"Well..."

Jack pulled away with the manipulator quite quickly. "What?"

"I'm... Going to go forward in time."

"To where?" the Doctor chimed in, concerned.

"To your companion in your eleventh form. Not including... The one you don't talk about."

"Why?"

"Because... When she was a little girl there was a crack in her wall. Not just any crack. A crack in time. If you moved the wall it would still be there. It followed her. I'm going to see if I can find one of them." With that I grabbed the vortex manipulator.

"What do these cracks do?" Asked Gwen. She had only just met me, but her concern was real.

"They erase people from time. Like they never even existed." As I said those words my eyes were locked with the Doctor's.

A moment passed, then "No."

Again, the Doctor said, "No."

"Doctor, it's the only way. If I had never existed, granted this would have still happened, but it would play out how it's supposed to. It's a fixed point in time. It has to play out the same way every time."

"But... I'd lose you, too."

And I broke. I was so confident just moments before, but at that second I broke. He had already lost so much. Even though he wouldn't remember... But... He remembered Rory... I couldn't be strong any longer. I cried. I sobbed. I hugged everyone in an effort to stay up but eventually I drowned in a sea of unconsciousness.

Whale 🐳 look at that, I updated! Did you like that chapter? So... Now that you know what she's gonna do... What are your thoughts? Don't worry, like I said there WILL be a sequel. Just think... How did Rory come back to life? And no, she's not going to become a plastic Roman centurion, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve 😉

Love,

DWBN