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No, no, no, no this could not be happening. Not after everything they’d been through.
She’d already fought her way back to him once, torn open the TARDIS to accomplish such a feat, and crossed the void to do so again. So why did the universe keep trying to separate them?
She pounded on the wall that was an exact replica of the one she’d almost fallen through with fervour. She could feel her bond with the Doctor frail and pulled taunt in her mind by the impossible distance, growing frailer with the seconds as the breach sealed further.
“Take me back! Take me back! Take me back.” She sobbed as she pounded at the wall that was only a physical representation of the obstruction between them.
The thread that connected her and the Doctor’s minds grew thinner and thinner until she could barely feel him there at all. It was absolute agony that only further fueled her desperation to get back to him. She could barely feel him , she realised. Her heart pounded fearfully in her chest at the thought.
In a panic, she pulled on the second thread in her mind, the golden thread that tethered her to the TARDIS ever since they became one as Bad Wolf. She pulled harder and harder on the thread between them, gritting her teeth through the pain, unwilling to let the TARDIS slip away from her either. She could feel her blood heating as the remaining huon particles in her blood re-activated.
With a jolt, she suddenly found the wall before her, giving way. She let out a gasp, the sobs silenced for the moment as she staggered. She blinked open wide panicked eyes as she looked around her at the now much brighter room when she finally registered the Doctor standing ahead of her agape.
Mascara tear tracks still streaking down her cheeks, she let out a little hiccup as she ran towards him. The Doctor seemed to come back to himself at the same moment she did and darted across the room to meet her halfway. He scooped her up in a hug that had her feet swinging in the air as they desperately clung to each other.
“I felt our bond stretch into almost nothing and then it just snapped back into place. What did you do?” The Doctor breathed into her shoulder, still shaken from their separation and subsequent bond trauma.
He settled her back onto the ground then. Gaze roving over her face as he checked for injuries, hands still clutched at her shoulders. Her hands were likewise clutching his forearms, bunching his suit under her fingertips as she stared back at him.
“I don’t know. I just couldn’t leave you and I pulled on my bond with the TARDIS and then the wall gave way and I was here.” She babbled as she tried to make sense of the moment’s earlier panic.
“Oh you brilliant girl.” One hand left her shoulder to cup her cheek, before he was pulling her to him again to cradle her to his chest as he murmured into her hair. “My brilliant precious girl. You never fail to surprise me.”
“Told you I wasn’t going to leave you. I promised you forever when we got married and I intend to keep that promise.” She told him resolutely.
“If anyone could keep that promise I believe it would be you.” He smiled fondly down at her.
She returned his smile. The both of them just stood there for a moment smiling at each other relieved to be back together again, having come too close to separation for them to go immediately running back to the stars. Oh, they’d be back up there soon enough. But for now, this moment was theirs.