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Rose Tyler (blaidd_drwg_) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-06-18 23:50:00

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rose tyler, the doctor (10)

WHO: The (Tenth) Doctor and Rose Tyler
WHAT: A Reunion
WHEN: Afternoon of the 18th
WHERE: Her House
RATING: Low probably
STATUS: In Progress

Meeting up with the Doctor last night had helped calm her slightly. It wasn't that she didn't want to see the Doctor, the one that had just arrived, she just needed to see him when she was feeling less like an emotional wreck. He had helped her feel better about it all and now she just really wanted to see him. It had been so long since she last looked at his face and although she would never, ever forget him she worried that it could actually happen. That he'd forget her too. He had so many faces lodged in his mind that one or two were bound to slip away.

She could be one of them.

She was curled up on the couch with Jason slowly wandering across the little mat she had left bowls of food on. The tortoise wasn't exactly an Earth one but it wasn't too alien. It still ate the same things it was just better suited to staing indoors and walking along the carpets rather than having grass so close by. She was just waiting for him to arrive and then she would see how things were. She just hoped he was happy to see her.

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	not_your_tardis 2012-07-03 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	"We? What do you mean we? You and me - you and I - we?" The Doctor naturally assumed that was what she meant, but was in no rush to believe it. With a bit of luck she was talking about the older him, the one who'd regenerated. He could, at the very least, take comfort in that. Still, with all the pictures of him around, that really didn't seem very likely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blaidd_drwg_
2012-07-03 01:18 pm UTC (link)

"Yes you and me," she said quietly. "But that doesn't matter. You don't remember it and things are different."

She wasn't going to make him do anything. She loved him, god did she love him, but she knew what he was like. She was incredibly lucky to get through to him last time. He wasn't a big fan of settling and things like that and she would be stupid to assume it could happen twice. That she could be that lucky.

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not_your_tardis
2012-07-03 01:29 pm UTC (link)

"Me, me?" He asked again, even though he honestly knew the answer. Of course it was him. Who else would it have been? Where else would he have stayed, regardless of when he'd been taken from, if Rose had been here? It was, really, the only sensible outcome. Still, that meant that none of his earlier versions, which he already understood had been this him, had a TARDIS either. The Doctor found that rather troubling - even more since he knew they existed.

"Yeah.." His voice trailed off softly as he looked to her with eyes filled with lifetimes of apologies. "'Course it was me. Living together. In a flat. Like we talked about." Even if he'd been staunchly against the idea at the time.

"Rose.." He said quietly. "I can't stay here. I can't. Not here, with you here, but here, in this place, at all. It's wrong and there's a very, very good man who is depending on me to get back. His name is Wilfred. Wilfred Mott." He wasn't even sure if this Rose had met Donna yet, so he didn't elaborate on that at all. "Even if everything I could ever want is right here.." Which was almost exactly how he was starting to see it. "I can't stay. I will find a way to leave, to get everyone back to where they're supposed to be...and you know what that means.." He was going to be honest with her and saw no other choice about it.

"I'll spend as much time with you as I can while I'm here, but I need you to understand. It can't last forever."

The look on his face told the truth. Telling her that nearly crushed his hearts.

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blaidd_drwg_
2012-07-03 01:51 pm UTC (link)

"Yes you you." His next regeneration was a bit too wrapped up in the likes of River to see her often never mind be in a relationship with her. And that didn't bother her too much, the relationship part, since she felt far more connected to the one before her. Though not seeing him didn't help her worries about him forgetting her one day.

"And if you go back you'll not be you soon," she said softly. She wouldn't let him get her upset, she refused. And yet she already felt her heart sink. It ached so much and she wanted to be alone and just pretend it all wasn't happening.

God she wished she wasn't so weak anymore.

"Of course. It never could."

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not_your_tardis
2012-07-03 02:12 pm UTC (link)

"I know." He replied softly.

The Doctor had already accepted everything. If he went back, if he saved Wilf, he'd die. Maybe not die, die, like he'd thought at first, but he'd still regenerate and that was close enough. That felt almost exactly like dying, or so he imagined, and it was nothing he was in a rush to go through. The Doctor knew, no matter what, it would happen though. It had to happen. He couldn't change it.

He looked up at her with his eyes rife with sadness, before moving up from the couch and over to her and reaching out to gently lay a hand on her cheek. "It'll always be forever." He explained, as best he could. "You've written yourself through all of time. I'll never forget who you are, or what you've done. Ever. The whole universe owes you a silent debt for who you are.." Which was entirely true. "I just can't stay. I can't. No matter how bad I want to, I have to go back.."

He wouldn't finish the sentence as he doubted either of them wanted to hear it.

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blaidd_drwg_
2012-07-03 02:46 pm UTC (link)

She hadn't expected him to move to her and when he did her eyes automatically lifted to his. But his touch to her cheek made her eyes close as she took in the feeling to her memory just in case he was taken away from her again soon. She wouldn't put it past the bastard in charge of this place to let her be happy for a short while and then take him away once again.

"I know. You could never stay in one place."

But it still really hurt that he wanted to go despite them having a chance to spend even a little time together. He just seemed so eager, like she once was. She'd been here long enough that she had no choice but to accept that she was stuck. See what awaited her.

It didn't look good.

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not_your_tardis
2012-07-03 03:30 pm UTC (link)

"Least of all right now. You know I can't let a good man die, not if I can help it - and I know you wouldn't want me too either." He replied, about his inability to stay in one place. it was the long and short of it too. He was The Doctor and she was Rose Tyler. They did what was right together, no matter what, and that was always the hard part. The Doctor just looked down at her with a sad expression, his hand still lingering on her cheek.

"Even Time Lord's don't get forever." He said softly. "We just have to make the most of what we have." It was the only thing he could think to say that would provide either of them with comfort.

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blaidd_drwg_
2012-07-03 04:03 pm UTC (link)

"I might argue if it means losing you," she admitted. Part of her wouldn't want an innocent man dead but if the Doctor took Wilf's place then she would rather he didn't save him. It was selfish but she couldn't help but think that way. She loved him too much to be willing to accept his sacrifice. He may go on to survive but that didn't matter right now. He may be able to regenerate and technically be the same man but she would still have to lose the one she loved with everything she had and when she did he would become a man who barely saw her.

"But your time here will be a blip to you." His time with her. One day he'd look back and wonder just what was so special about her.

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