WHO: Rose Tyler & Liam Smith. WHAT: The Parting of the Ways. WHERE: Their apartment. WHEN: Early Sunday morning. WARNINGS: TBD
She was dying.
She was brilliant and magnificent and had just saved humanity yet again, but Rose Tyler was dying, and the Doctor couldn't let that happen. He couldn't lose her, not like this.
Not when he could save her.
They only kissed once, and the Heart of the Tardis passed into him. It was burning so bright by now, out of its containment matrix it would have killed her in seconds. Just like it was killing him.
His hands were glowing, and it was almost time.
"Rose, before I go I just wanna tell you - you were fantastic... absolutely fantastic... and d'you know what?" He smiled at her. So brightly.
"So was I."
In a shot of gold light, he was gone, making way for the new body. The new Doctor. Rose Tyler was safe. For the first time in so many regenerations, it was all right.
He'd done well.
And Liam Smith opened his eyes, lying in a bed that he could feel the rotation of the earth, the timelines of history, the breathing of Rose Tyler next to him and the beating of his two hearts.