A/N: Okay, this was originally gonna be a songfic, but now it's just a short 'thoughts' fic. Please remember, if you read, you gotta review.
Bloody stupid ape.
But then, bloody stupid me.
I should have known she'd pull a stunt like that, saving someone who should be dead.
Hell, I'd thought of doing it enough times myself, going back and saving my family, even told her so, and I was too blind to realize that of course she'd do it, of course she'd save him, given half-a chance.
I messed up badly, and my people were probably turning in their graves, just knowing, just knowing stupid old Theta, of course he'd do something as moronic as that.
God I'm an idiot.
I nearly lost her again today.
Telling that parasite that I was the oldest thing there, practically forcing it to take me, I did it knowing that of course I'd be okay, of course I'd regenerate. But just in that moment, in that instant where it's jaws closed over me,
a little voice seemed to whisper:
But she won't know the new you. You'll be like a stranger to her.
And god, I was so scared, me, the last of the time lords, terrified because some girl, some human girl, more to the point, wouldn't accept a new face.
Then I was so relieved, so happy that I was standing next to her, that I was still in the body that she recognised, that at first I barely noticed her father lying in the street, with only seconds to live.
Oh god, Rose Tyler, I really do love you.