like the light that kills

by Lvslie

“I’ve always felt … alive with you.” He’s drifting off, she can tell. His voice becomes slower and melodious, barely even English in the way he haphazardly sprinkles words with accents. “Mortal. Entitled to feel mortal. I felt like I’ve won something I don’t even deserve but since I already had it … I would keep it because, perhaps, I could deserve it still. Like I could still become human.“

The Doctor has nightmares.

Words: 3303, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

• Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
• Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
• Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
• Categories: F/M
• Characters: Tenth Doctor (duplicate), Rose Tyler
• Relationships: Tenth Doctor (duplicate)/Rose Tyler
• Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, Pete's World, Mortality, Kissing, Sleeping Together, Fluff and Angst, Dimension-Hopping Rose, Romance, Sharing a Bed