This is so beautifully and sensitively written that it doesn't seem as sad as it is, until I stop and think about it. Being given the coral and then having it broken... I've never read that before. What a churning of emotions - theirs and ours.
Oh... Carol... that was so quietly sad... yet so obviously needed. Poor all of them, no fantastic life? Very well done... poignant and... oh... everything.
Author's Response: Thanks. I\'m sure that he\'ll be fine on his own, but, yeah, no happy ending.
Poor man, I can imagine him being very lost in the beginning. I would like to see how he gets on finding himself and what will Rose do? Nice one, Nine X
Author's Response: Hmmm....Well, it was just a one shot, but you never know!
Finding himself will be a good thing. Then he can always go back to Rose as himself and not the Doctor's shadow.
Author's Response: Right, and that is what he will do!