Rose turned back to him before she stepped onto the faux teleportation pad, realizing that he hadn't followed her.

"You're not coming with us?" She stepped down towards him.

"Rose, you have to go now, it's your only chance."

"I'm not leaving you, are you mad?" She screamed over the din of commotion as the building gave another particularly violent shudder.

"You'll have the chance to grow old Rose, to find someone else. To have a family. Please, you have to go now." His hand was hovering over the button that would engage the dimension canon, saving those there.

She pressed down quickly on his hand and captured his protests with a kiss, "They wouldn't be you." She murmured pulling away as the others vanished.

"Now what?" She asked, typing in a command for the computer to bring up a view of one of the outside cameras. The sky was still a sickly black red though the screen gave a dull view of it. She couldn't see anything in the smoke.

"Now we wait." He settled onto the floor, tipping his head back against the wall.

"What do you think happened to them. Where do you think we sent them?"
"I don't know." He sounded so drained, so old.

"You mean I could have died anyways?" She spun away from the screen to look at him.

"You could have lived." He corrected. "Here either way you die."

"Yeah, but…" She shook her head, "A bit pointless now isn't it?" He smiled wearily back at her, and she dropped to the floor and crawled into his arms, looking up at the stars that were projected on the walls and ceiling around them from the nightlight they had recieved from Mickey at their baby shower. "What about Aurora?"

"She's safe, I promise," He pressed a kiss to the side of her head.

"It's getting quieter." She whispered unnecessarily.

He cocked his head, sure enough it was, "Well we ripped a hole in space time and the universe is collapsing into the void, yeah I'd say it's going to get a bit quiet." She smacked his arm for his cheek. "Rose." He began seriously.

"Hush, just tell me you love me, and that we'll be okay."

"I do, I love you so much." And it became a mantra that eventually faded as their breathing evened out.

It was eerily quiet, even the screaming had completely stopped, and the building had ceased in its shaking when he opened his eyes. Rose, his Rose, was curled in his arms, her head pillowed on his suit. He carefully disentangled himself and moved to investigate what had become of the world. The screen showed only static, white noise, nothing of the outside world. He crawled back to her, shaking her shoulder, "Rose, it's over. We're all that's left." She sat up slowly, taking it all in.

"So this is it then." He looked askance at her. "Rose, I don't know what will happen to us past those doors, but-"

"We'll face it together, whatever it is…" She broke across him. "We'll be together, yeah?" She promised stepping up to his side. His lips quirked into a smile.

"Rose Tyler, it would be my honor." He reached out his hand and their fingers entangled one last time. The door swung open and they stepped out into the bright white oblivion.