az: This should put a closure to this piece. Kept obsessing over it still.

Resonance

Written by Izzu alias honou-no-izumi

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He looked around to find himself standing at the edge of a cliff, at the Planet of Ood. How did he arrived here? Was this a dream?

He turned to find his other self standing still, smiling grimly. He shrugged.

"Did you feel it... John?"

John frowned at him as he felt the address a bit odd. "What are you talking about?" he asked, even though John knew he was referring to the regeneration. "And how do you know that I took that name for myself? Why didn't you not feel odd saying it? You're John as well!"

He shook his head.

"No... you deserved that name. I'm glad that you kept that name."

John frowned.

"Why are we here?"

He shrugged.

"Even if an echo left its source... at some point it will return back to the source, eh? As one signal moved to one point to another and back, it oscillated... resonated... some became strong... some... weaker..."

He looked up towards him.

"I stepped out... finally. Where else could I go but to you?"

John blinked as the Doctor stepped closer.

"Time for you to become complete. It's up to you now, you're the remaining trace left of me. Don't lose yourself!" he said as he gripped John's shoulders firmly.

"This... seals it. He may still be able to sense you—if by some odd rift in the universe both of you were placed in the same period and universe again—but you and him will completely be separate. You will be me and yourself but not him. You will no longer be just a shadow."

John stared at him, slightly sceptic. "And what's that make me?"

The Tenth Doctor shrugged. "You'll be you. Still human... mortal, but also a Time Lord. I don't know! These timey wimey wibbly wobbly Time Lordy matter are still so complicated," he said as John chuckled. The Tenth sighed.

"It's pretty strange. I didn't really want to go... yet when I did go, it doesn't feel so bad. Odd... but probably because you exist. So instead of my energy forms to just dissipated like it always do in past regenerations... it was drawn towards you."

John chuckled.

"I wonder if we will ever get what we wished for..."

The Tenth shrugged.

"I guess we'll just have to find out for ourselves..." he said as he lifted a hand towards John. John reached out with his own hand as the Tenth dissolved into a bright golden-ish energy...

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John gasped as his eyes snapped open to find himself surrounded by bright golden energy. It gathered around him, absorbing into him as he took a long intake of breath, taking all the residual energy that still scattered all over the room in. He tensed as he felt the new energy merging into himself, filling in the emptiness he never realized was present.

He turned his head to his side to see Rose asleep, still holding his hand in a protective gesture. He smiled weakly as the last remaining energy flickered from his eyes before fading.

John allowed himself to fall back into sleep as the Time Lord energy inside his body settled.

Tomorrow is a start of a new day...