Emergency Program One means I’m facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner and over the years the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me then you can do one thing. That’s all. One thing. Have a good life. Do that for me Rose. Have a fantastic life
#As golden light streams into her eyes #Rose Tyler can see everything #and the timeline that stands out most #is what might have been. #A blue box on a street corner #with railing built around it #unmoved over time even though the city has morphed and remade itself many times over. #But even before that are the days a young blonde comes to the doors #unmarred by age at first and then chipped and peeled #whispering ‘Please’. #The blonde grows older #and comes less frequently for a while #and when she does it’s with bags in tow #groceries or toys #trappings of a life she never really wanted to have #and then she’s older still #blonde no longer #her hair silvered and her walk a slower gait #and she puts her hands on the doors and whispers ‘I’m sorry’ #and then there’s the last visit #now stooped with age #hair pure white #she leans her head against the doors and says ‘Please let him have lived’ #but the box doesn’t open or answer #so she stands there in the cold and makes wishes about a future she might have had #but then the timeline is gone #and Rose can see everything #and she has somewhere to be #somewhere beyond the future that might have been (via lotsofthinkythoughts)