rose tyler (ex_rosetyler358) wrote in aternaville, |
The shock and motion individually would have been enough to wholly and fully shock the sense right from her at any other time, even with her entire balance mentally stable and intact. But nothing ever happened in parts or halves when it came to time and space, there was only entirety and the full, unrelenting force that drove one thought to the next, unapologetic and fierce and complete. Rose had learned to never take anything lightly or for granted (the latter being a worse sin than the former) and so she had been ready for a fierce reaction...yet perhaps not entirely for this one specifically.
When he moved to push her back, the heels of her boots slid again and Rose was forced to grasp onto his sleeved forearms in a desperate desire of support. She would have slammed adamantly downward, back first, into the waiting, slippery bath of mud that wanted to cover her in filth and that was the last thing she wanted to have happen, now or at any other time.
The wonder in his eyes was coupled with the stubborn streak of disbelief (he was so stubborn, so wonderfully and unsympathetically stubborn!) and Rose lifted her hands to his face in a quick and unrestricted gesture of closeness. The pressure of her hands wasn't harsh, rather it was firm and insistent and the tips of her nails tangled into tiny, nearly ginger strands which felt just as she remembered.
"Rose Tyler," she said, "is a stubborn girl with a stubborn mind who finds a way to do anything that she thinks is necessary to do." Her voice was bubbling on and upwards with barely restricted excitement, but she was keeping it in check. The last thing she wanted him to do was reprimand her - she'd had enough of that with Jack already, good intentioned as it was - and she had to make him understand.
"After Darlig Ulv Stranden, a little while passed, there was more rift activity. Something no one knew what to do with, another breach. After everything that happened no one wanted to leave it unattended but there was no one who was willing to come through and seal it up. So I did. I came through, again. Like I did before."
Right, and I suppose now he yells.