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Chapter 22 - Back To You

A/N: I know there's a 13 & 10 collaboration in a comic, but this ones NOT with the Weeping Angels. Give me that at least.

25th July 2020 - Cardiff, Wales

After SDCC, it was straight back into filming the two-part finale. It was packed with action scenes and emotional scenes, and it got better. As a Broadchurch fan, I was also excited to be working with David Tennant, playing the Tenth Doctor!

There was a surprise which we didn't know until we did a first practice of the last scene with the Thirteenth Doctor and the Tenth Doctor in 10s TARDIS.

I looked at the video, with its flashing 'live feed' indicator. The Doctor in front of me with scars across her cheeks and a cut on her lip had her eyes down, looking as if she was about to tear up, whilst the Doctor next to me put a hand on my shoulder. I didn't look at him, instead still looking at the Doctor. My Doctor.

"Rhys." she swallowed and we locked eyes, staring for what seemed like an hour until she broke it. I swallowed too, already feeling the tears welling up in my eyes.

"I have to leave you now. There's a chance you won't remember me, and in a way that's the best way forward from now.

"I should've never let you come with me. All I did was put you in mortal danger time after time after time. You almost died twice because of me."

I stepped forward, grabbing the screen, letting the Doctors hand brush off me. He didn't resist.

"But I'm alive, aren't I? I'm still here, and I always will be!"

"I won't."

"On Earth, when Yaz was caring for me, she told me your story that you told her. How you're immortal, how you can never die. What about that?"

"It's not like that, Rhys."

"Then what is it like?!"

The Doctor sighed, her head still down. "Just before I die, all the cells in my body renew themselves, changing every tissue, every blood vein, every muscle. Everything. I'll get a brand new body, new face as I used to call it. He's my past version, three faces back."

I heard the Doctor chuckle a little behind me, which I was furious about. There his future version was, dying, and he was having a chuckle? I bet he'd had a good few slaps in his time.

"Indeed I have." he suddenly spoke, the smile still on his face. Telepathy, of course. The Doctor had told me about that before.

"That guy, him, behind you," the Doctor continued. "He's gonna taking you back to Earth."

"No! I...he can take me to you can't he? You once said it's possible for a TARDIS to materialise inside another and still be accessible!" Tears ran down my cheeks.

"Rhys the TARDIS could explode when I regenerate. I'd be fine for at least three minutes, in which Ten behind you can pick me up, but you? You wouldn't survive thirty seconds in the time vortex."

The Doctor behind me started to run around his console, pulling levers and pressing buttons. I focused on the screen still.

Suddenly, there was a noise from the Doctors side of the video, like a mix between the whistle when the kettle boils and my 'Fairy Sparkles' ringtone, and the Doctor lifted up her hand. It had orange wisps coming off it, and she sighed.

"It's started." She turned to me, her eyes soft. "Aw, Rhys, you were brilliant. You really were. So brilliant. I always loved you, from the moment I rescued you from that Zygon, till right this moment. And I'm sorry I put you in so much danger. I'll tell the works to try not forget you. Goodbye Rhys."

"Doctor, I..."

The screen fizzed and crackled and the Doctors still smile hovered around the screen before going black. I gripped the screen harder, shaking it hard, the flood of years increasing.

"No no no no! No! Doctor, I love you! I love you so much! I'll never forget you! I promise! Doctor!"

I felt the Doctors hand return to me, this time on my hand. "I'm sorry." he said solemnly. "I can't change the future. That's a fixed point in time; it's against the time lord rules to alter them."

"Yeah, well, I'm not a time lord. I can." I said fiercely, pressing random buttons, hoping something would work to take me back in time.

"What are you doing?!" he shouted, running towards where I was. I pushed him away, trying to concentrate.

"If I can go back in time to the moment where the Doctor gets shot, I could get her out the way, and so neither of us get shot. Easy peasy."

"It'll mess up the ball of timey wimey stuff! That's a really bad idea! You can't just do that!"

I grabbed the throttle and grinned at him. "Watch me."

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A/N: Yeah, this chapters pretty Doctor Who-based, hope you enjoyed it. More Jodie next chapter, promise!