you could be a sweet dream or beautiful nightmare (either way i don't wanna wake up from you)

by nutriboom

"There are a lot of things I never said."

"Why didn't you say them?" she breathes, her voice barely audible. If this was her Time Lord Doctor, he would have exclaimed something loudly by now and pushed the conversation aside, announcing another exotic planet or time period he wanted to take her too.

This isn't the Time Lord Doctor.

"I was scared," he says, and his voice is just as soft as hers, and it almost panics her that replied. "So, so scared. That's why I always ran, you know. Devastated of what I had loved and lost, and scared of what I was to love and lose in the future."

Or, the Doctor's first night in Pete's World.

Words: 2493, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

• Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
• Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
• Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
• Categories: F/M
• Characters: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler
• Relationships: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
• Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s04e13 Journey's End, Angst, Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort