The Power of Love: It was something both of them had underestimated. A series of three songfics about the Tenth Doctor and Rose(Post-Doomsday) connected to make a story. The first two are quite angsty but it will be worth it in the third.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, not even the idea. That goes to the talented Xanthiae for her Primeval(Nick/Claudia) series: Broken Strings, Goodbye my Lover, and When you Say Nothing At All, which I highly recommend you Primeval fans read because they're brilliant!(And two of those songs are on my iPod now! :D) But while her stories are three separate stories, mine will all be in the same document.

First song is I Guess I Loved You by Lara Fabian. Summary: Rose contemplates her feelings for the Doctor and what she should've done differently.


I Guess I Loved You

By Lara Fabian

Rose Tyler sat alone on a bench overlooking an ocean beach. Not the same as Bad Wolf Bay, but close enough. She gazed into the fading rays of the sunset, thinking about the one person in the universe who had changed her life. The man who had appeared at her door one day asking if she was plastic.

She half-laughed, half-sobbed, wondering how things could have changed so much since that fateful day.

Now...
Tomorrow is all there is.
No need to look behind the door,
You won't be standing there no more.

Memories of The Doctor, Daleks, werewolves, dancing, laughing, holding hands all filled her mind, threatening to overwhelm her.

I had my chance
To dance another dance.
I didn't even realize
That this was all love and no lies.
Then I lost you...

Until that horrible day when she couldn't keep her grip and slipped from the Doctor's presence forever more. She regretted every single moment she didn't give him her full attention. If only she could feel him in her arms one last time.

I, I guess I loved you
Less, less than I should.
Now all there is
Is me and me,
I turn around and all I see
The past where I have left our destiny.
Mmm...

Life since then had been so miserable without him. How could she live each day like a normal person again when she had seen stars explode and other extraordinary things while traveling the universe with an alien? Images of the Doctor fading away with her name on his lips haunted her dreams every night. She could barely sleep, she could barely eat, much less think straight.

Now...
Tomorrow's a mystery.
I cannot live without a dream
Vanishing from reality.

She knew her mistake now! He was her whole life, her reason for being, and she had never told him so. She never realized how much he was a part of her until he was gone. But there was no chance that she would ever see the Doctor again, much less tell him how she needed him.

I wanna know
Would you come back to me?
Now that I finally realize
You are my home,
You are my life.
I need you!

In her hands sat two pictures. One was of her, Jack, and her first Doctor, her leather-clad one. Rose was in the middle, with Jack and the Doctor on either side of her with their arms around her back. Jack held two fingers above her head in a joking manner. It was taken on Earth -'in the other universe' she couldn't help but think- and Mickey had taken the picture, just before that whole mess with Margaret the Slitheen.

Things were so simple back then, all it was was them together, traveling the universe, without a care in the world. She longed for those days.

I guess I loved you
Oh, less, less than I should!
Now all there is
Is me and me.
I turn around and all I see
The past where I have left our destiny!

Oh...

The other picture was of her and her new new Doctor. Rose had taken the picture of them together in the TARDIS. It was off center because Rose could never take a picture of herself correctly. She remembered that day clearly.

She had grabbed her camera and taken it into the main room of the TARDIS, asking the Doctor for a picture. His smile shone like the daylight and his face was clear in her mind, even now. The only reason she had these two pictures was because she always carried them around with her, in case they were separated.

She never knew it would end up being forever so soon.

I guess I loved you
Ah, less, oh less, less, less than I could!
Another time,
Another run,
To mend both of our broken hearts...!
To tell you how much I can love you now!

Rose grasped the two pictures to her heart and sobbed for her lost love. Tears fell down her face and her stifled cries were unheard over the crashing waves of the ocean.

I guess, I guess I loved you.

I guess I loved you...


Like the song? Want more? Runners up for this chapter were: Address in the Stars by Caitlin and Will(already taken), What If by Kate Winslet(I already wrote a songfic with that one) and Bittersweet by Within Temptation. Stay tuned for the Doctor's chapter in: "Against All Odds".