Blind writing challenge: A collection of random stories without an end

Saying goodbye. By Pen Brush

Its always the hardest for me to say, even more so then I love you and it gets harder as I get older, and I watch them get older in front of me. I think over my past and my future about them, and what I will do once they are gone.

Voices in my head tell me to leave them alone, to not even bother, protect yourself, don't get into trouble for them, but it is my duty, my name, my honor to continue, to always put myself on the line.

They deserve to be protected, my safety doesn't matter as long as their species survives.

I always have a friend by my side any time I travel, and they keep me from doing things I otherwise would regret, they keep me grounded, a crazy stallion in a big blue box.

Sometimes though...I make terrible mistakes, and I end up ending their lives with my stupidity at not being able to save them in time. The guilt will eat at me, and I will hide away in my big box, but always will come out again to save another.

Sometimes they get tired of the danger, of the travel, even of never being able to stay somewhere for so long, and they will leave on their own, after one last adventure, and I never see them again.

Sometimes I have to make them leave, because of an issue that could hurt them, or even kill them. I had to wipe one of my friends memories of our adventures to keep her from dying a painful death, and she never remembered me when she woke up with her parents, having been traveling with me for what seemed like weeks. She left me during Christmas.

Saying goodbye is the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life, and sometimes I can't say goodbye. I am never able to keep my friends with me, and I always end up getting new ones, whether they die, leave, forget me, or end up staying in another dimension, it is always my fault, and it hurts to say goodbye.

I am The Doctor, I have had many lives, and many companions along my long life, and fighting monsters and protecting my adopted planet, is much more easier for me to do, then saying goodbye to the people I love.