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• The Tether Between Us by BarelyAWriter

  Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms  

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  04 Feb 2026

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  • Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
  • Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler
  • Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • Rose Tyler
  • Wilfred Mott
  • The Master (Simm)
  • Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • episode rewrite: s04e14 The Next Doctor
  • episode rewrite: s04e15 Planet of the Dead
  • episode rewrite: s04e16 The Waters of Mars
  • The Doctor is the Time Lord Victorious (Doctor Who)
  • Book: The Knight the Fool and the Dead (Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious)
  • Book: All Flesh is Grass (Doctor Who: The Time Lord Victorious)
  • episode rewrite: s04e17 The End of Time - Part One
  • episode rewrite: s04e18 The End of Time - Part Two
  • episode rewrite: s05e01 The Eleventh Hour
  • Immortal Rose Tyler
  • Bad Wolf Rose Tyler
  • The Doctor Loves Rose Tyler
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Dark Doctor (Doctor Who)

  Summary

  Rose Tyler refuses to say goodbye at Bad Wolf Bay, choosing the real Doctor over a safer life with his metacrisis counterpart. But back aboard the TARDIS, she discovers the man she returned for is unravelling - haunted by prophecy, drowning in loss, and spiralling toward becoming the Time Lord Victorious. As darkness takes hold, Rose must decide if her love can save him... or if it will break her too.

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