rose tyler (ex_rosetyler358) wrote in aternaville, |
There had been nowhere to find comfort or solace before, but now, with that ability in front of her, Rose was finding less cause to hide away what she had been locking up in herself. Jack was holding onto her, and it was as if the invisible dam she had been using to bar back her emotions was cracking, giving way in spite of her own forceful retaliation otherwise.
"An alien creature was found by Torchwood," she said quietly, "on the other side, in the universe I was in. We kept it in quarantine for its protection, because we didn't want anyone to start a panic, didn't want to cause an uproar. Poor thing didn't need to have harm come to it just because it was different. But I saw the surveillance tapes and he.." Now her voice wavered and fluctuated, the thin layer of ice threatening to break. Now or never, really. Completely now or never, no going back now.
"..he killed it, Jack. Just..went in and killed it. Slaughtered it, and the way he did it, there was so much...violence. I didn't think he would do something like that, but he did, and..." Now the tears dissolved and began to spill down her face, the sobs catching in her throat. "I was supposed to make him better," she whispered, "I was supposed to help him get past...all of that. Past the genocide and the anger and the rage, and make him better, but..I didn't. Not if he did something like that."