Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Solaris - Stanisław Lem
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: The Doctor (Doctor Who)/Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Eleventh Doctor/Rose Tyler, Twelfth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler | Bad Wolf, Jack Harkness, Richard Lazarus, Harold Saxon
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Non-Linear Narrative, Not Beta Read, Alternate Universe, Solaris!AU, Minor Character Death, ambiguous Doctor incarnation, vague science, world building, Implied/Referenced Suicide Attempts
Summary:
“stop— stop calling me that!” she screams, her hands pounding against his chest, and it reminds him too much of that one evening twelve years ago. how her face, red and teary, had betrayed the bravery that she had mustered in hopes of an honest answer. how his stomach had felt like it had housed creeping bugs at the intensity of her expression and at the crawling realisation that regardless of what he says or does, everything would change.
he’d lied then; ran away. and, for what? to end up living through a lifetime full of regrets and dreams where he’d made a different choice from the reality he’d set upon himself.
how could he ever think of doing the same thing now?
or: doctor john smith finds an impossibility in the face of a rose that had long since withered and died (or, or: solaris au + insert 9/10/11/12? doctor incarnation of reader choice here)