rose tyler (ex_rosetyler358) wrote in aternaville, |
"No!" Her voice broke in the middle of the single syllable composed of two letters, and her eyes widened up to wide, astonished circles. Rose would never have stood for someone hitting her and inflicting physical harm on her, there would have been no trace left of anyone in her life who would have been capable of those kinds of things. But she couldn't waltz around the topic any longer, she owed him more consideration and care than that. And aside from that, she was truly rubbish at lying. Jackie had always advised she do nothing but tell the truth, better that way to save herself the embarrassment of being caught.
"No," she said again, her voice more firm and steady than it had been before. "He didn't hurt me. Torchwood started receiving communication of alien activity in the skies. Bit of this, bit of that, nothing dangerous but just different. Kind I'd never seen before, so we quarantined it in the underground vaults of Torchwood, made for those kinds of things. Keep everyone, including the alien safe. And the entire area's under surveillance all day and night."
Now Rose's chest was tightening, her mouth going dry and the palms of her hands beginning to tingle. But she was in too far deep to go back now.
"He didn't know that I'd seen it. I didn't tell him."