𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 ✧ 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 Ⅰ [✓]

The Parting Ways Pt. 3

Rose sits next to {Y/N}, Jackie and Mickey sit across from them eating.

"And it's gone up market, this place. They're doing little tubs of coleslaw, now. It's not very nice. It tastes a bit sort of clinical" Jackie says.

"Have you tried that new pizza place down Minto Road?" Mickey asks.

"What's it selling?"

"Pizza."

"That's nice. Do they deliver?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, girls, have something to eat," Jackie says noticing that Rose and {Y/N} hadn't eaten their food.

"Two hundred thousand years in the future, he's dying, and there's nothing we can do" Rose whispers.

"Well, like you said two hundred thousand years. Its way off" Jackie says, {Y/N}'s nose twitches, Rose notices.

"But it's not. It's now. That fight is happening right now, and he's fighting for us, for the whole planet, and we're just sitting here eating chips."

"Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, but right now, I love him and her, do you know why? Because he did the right thing. He sent you back to me."

"But what do I do every day, mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed? Is that it?"

"It's what the rest of us do."

"But I can't!"

"Why, because you're better than us?"

"No, I didn't mean that. But it was. It was a better life. And I don't mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor and {Y/N} showed me a better way of living your life. You know they showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't" Rose stands pulling {Y/N} up with her and runs off.

"You can't spend the rest of your life thinking about the Doctor" {Y/N} says quietly.

"But how do I forget him?" Rose asks.

"You've got to start living your own life. You know, a proper life, like the kind we've never had. The sort of life that you could have with Mickey" {Y/N} replies, that's when Mickey runs up to them.

"Over here. It's over here as well!"

"That's been there for years. It's just a phrase. It's just words" Mickey says.

"I thought it was a warning. Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's a message. The same words written down now and two hundred thousand years in the future. It's a link between me, the Doctor and {Y/N}. Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there."

"But if it's a message, what's it saying?"

"It's telling me I can get back. The least I can do is help him escape" Rose drags {Y/N} towards the TARDIS, soon enough they find it and run into it.

"All the TARDIS needs to do is make a return trip. Just reverse."

"Yeah, but we still can't do it," Mickey says.

"The Doctor always said the TARDIS was telepathic. This thing is alive. It can listen."

"It's not listening now, she's gone into shut down mode" {Y/N} says.

"We need to get inside it. Last time I saw you" Rose says pointing towards Mickey "with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened, and there was this light, {Y/N} and the Doctor said it was the heart of the TARDIS. If we can open it, I can make contact. I can tell it what to do" Rose says.

"Rose" {Y/N} says.

"Mmm?"

"If you go back, you're going to die."

"That's a risk I've got to take because there's nothing left for me here."

"Nothing?"

"No."

"Okay, if that's what you think, let's get this thing open," Mickey says, butting in.

*Time skip*

Mickey has fastened a heavy chain to the tow hitch on his Mini. The other end is fastened to the TARDIS console. He drives forward slowly, trying to pull it open.

"Faster!" Rose shouts.

"Come on!" Mickey shouts.

"It's not moving!" the chain breaks, Rose kicks the console in frustration.

"It was never going to work, sweetheart. And the Doctor, even {Y/N} knew that. They just wanted just wanted you to be safe" Jackie says as {Y/N} watches on.

"I can't give up," Rose says.

"Lock the door. Walk away" {Y/N} says from her spot on the ground.

"Dad wouldn't give up."

"Well, he's not here, is he? And even if he was, he'd say the same" Jackie says.

"No, he wouldn't. He'd tell me to try anything. If I could save the Doctor's life, I'll try anything."

"Well, we're never going to know."

"Well, I know because I met him. I met Dad."

"Don't be ridiculous."

"The Doctor and {Y/N} took me back in time, and I met Dad."

"Don't say that."

"Remember when Dad died? There was someone with him. A girl, a blonde girl. She held his hand. You saw her from a distance, Mum. You saw her! Think about it. That was me. You saw me."

"Stop it."

"That's how good they are."

"Stop it! Just stop it!" with that Jackie runs off.

"There's got to be something else we can do," Mickey says after a few minutes of silence.

"Mum was right. Maybe we should just lock the door and walk away" Rose says.

"I'm not having that. I'm not having you just, just give up now. No way. We just need something stronger than my car. Something bigger. Something like that, a big yellow tow truck stops in front of the TARDIS, Jackie sits in the driver's seat.

"Right, you've only got this until six o'clock, so get on with it."

"Mum, where the hell did you get that from?"

"Rodrigo. He owes me a favour. Never mind why, but you were right about your dad, sweetheart. He was full of mad ideas, and it's exactly what he would've done. Now, get on with it before I change my mind" Jackie throws the keys to Mickey, {Y/N} looks down at her hands and bites her lip.

"Keep going!" Rose shouts "faster! Keep going! Keep going!" {Y/N} stands as the console bursts open sending a shock wave throughout the TARDIS sending {Y/N} flying backwards, she groans and see that Rose has looked inside and golden energy streams into her eyes.

"Rose!" Mickey shouts, {Y/N} stretches her hand out trying to move, the TARDIS doors slam shut and the TARDIS starts up {Y/N} finally grabs onto the railing and lifts herself up, the TARDIS stops and {Y/N} quickly runs over to the doors opening them, suddenly the Dalek that was close by shoots her in the arm making her fall against the side of the TARDIS.

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