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Rose Tyler Will Defend the Earth (plusone) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-04-21 00:51:00

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complete, day seven, jack harkness, rose tyler

Who: Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness
What: Gossiping like girlfriends do
When: Day 7
Where: Smack in the middle of the amusement park, why not
Rating: Jack's mouth=PG-13
Status: Complete

Rose liked to consider herself a relatively strong woman. She'd been raised by a single mum, fallen on hard times and gotten herself out of them, and then there was her time with the Doctor. Traveling the universe through time and space, and stepping in wherever and however she could. Then there was the traveling through the multiverse. She could've gone all weak and soft after being left on the other side of that wall in Torchwood Towers, but she'd picked up the pieces and began to pull herself together. And before long, she was working to save the world all over again, this time on her own.

But the one thing she couldn't be strong and protect was her heart. And the one man who had it and refused to do anything about that was the Doctor. She'd cared about Mickey. She'd fancied herself in love with Jimmy. There'd been schoolgirl flings and a couple of wild rides along the way. But none of them was met with the intensity her feelings for the Doctor had reached. And, as they'd had their only chance at goodbye on a windy beach in Norway, she'd cried her heart out and told him she loved him. And she would've sworn he was about to say the same when the image faded, the gap between the dimensions closed, and he was gone to her for good. And reliving that via journal was not how she wanted to spend her time in this place. If he wouldn't fess up, he could at least let her live in that merry world where she could pretend she'd never said it. Hell, she'd found four different dimensions in which she hadn't said it, so maybe she could picture them, instead. Right?

Ordinarily, this would be the point where she used to lean on Shareen, or she chatted with her mum over a cup of tea. But neither of them were there and she was pretty sure she couldn't get her mobile to pick up her Mum's phone signal. What she needed instead was a friend. One who understood her. And the one tinkering around in the TARDIS was clearly not the one to help her just then.

When she exited to find an adventure park all around her, her eyes lit up for a brief moment. Should she run back in and tell him? No, she decided. Let him figure it out on his own. Clearly, she'd spelled too much out for him lately. She wound her way through the crowd, picking up a huge bag of popcorn and a draft. It was nothing like the ales back home, but it would do. It and the man in the navy coat sitting off to the side at one of the tables, looking alone. That was a first. Instead of asking to join him, Rose merely plopped down at the bench opposite him and put the popcorn in the middle of the table. "You!" she declared, trying not to smile. "Explain why your gender fails. Is it the future thing? Or hormone related?"

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ex_notethest397
2009-04-28 01:01 am UTC (link)

There was a lot that had happened that day and there was a large, vindictive part of Jack that wasn't sorry Canary Wharf had happened. For him, it had wiped out the largest branch of Torchwood -- the ones who were dead set on capturing the Doctor. There had been no love lost between Torchwood London and Torchwood Three once Jack had taken over in 2000. He would never subscribe to what they stood for, not when he cared so deeply for the Doctor.

Jack looked at the hand laced with his own and lightly squeezed their hands together. The comfort meant more to him than he could possibly say. "Oh, I know that. Like with any war and any battle, there are the survivors and the ones taken. It's those left behind that have the hardest time." And Jack knew all too well the scars the Battle of Canary Wharf had left on Ianto.

"It's the fact that, as far as I'm concerned, we've gone through this. That and he does these damned infuriating things like kissing and then walking away." Like he h ad a few days ago. And, outside of coffee in the morning, Jack hadn't seen him since.

Narrowing his eyes ever so slightly, Jack drummed the fingers of his free hand on the table. "Well? Your turn. Why does my gender suck so much?"

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plusone
2009-04-28 01:10 am UTC (link)

Rose had to giggle. He really was impossible, wasn't he? "Yes, well, that happens sometimes, Jack," she reminded him, grinning widely. "When you're not in an...intimate relationship with someone, you kiss and sometimes you kiss more and then...that's it. Not everyone just jumps into bed, I don't care what they were doing on... What was that planet? Rosalfellas? Rosen... Aw, hell, you know, the one with the randy people." Yes, Jack had fit right in. She loved that about him, though she occasionally had wondered why, despite their joking, she'd never been on the receiving end.

Which brought her around to his question. "I... Okay, so, there's this bloke, right? And let's just assume I've fancied him for...a long time. Yeah. And let's say I finally got it together to tell him that but it was at an..." Oh, how to phrase that one? "An inopportune time, we'll say. And let's just say that later, it all kinda came back to slap me upside my idiot head."

She was rambling again. Damn. Pulling her hand away from his, she picked up a piece of popcorn and played with it, batting it between her hands on the table. "Anyway. He's just a confusing sort, is all." Rose sighed, twirling the popcorn piece, then glanced back up at Jack. Of course he'd figure out who she was talking about. He already knew the Doctor was around, and her affections for the man had never been very well hidden.

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ex_notethest397
2009-04-30 01:44 am UTC (link)

Didn't Rose remember that 'Impossible' was Jack's middle name? Well, that and 'sexy' but he figured that one went without saying. "But that's the point, Miss Tyler," Jack said, interrupting her with a wave of his hand. "We are in an intimate relationship. Though he seems convinced that we aren't. And therein lay the problem." Two different times and a man who kissed him like he was wanting to strip all of Jack's clothing off and yet wanted to be wooed. In other words, Ianto wanted to have his cake and eat it too. "I know exactly where. Damn I've always wanted to go back and spend a good month there."

Jack sighed and it was clear his mind was no longer at the amusement park and with Rose. He'd had almost as much fun there as with those executioners of his, but that could have been the hypervodka talking.

"Rose? First of all, I'm far from thick. Unlike a man we both have travelled with." In other words, Jack knew exactly who she was speaking of. "That's the hard part about my gender, we are idiots half the time. You'd think I'd understand my own gender but I don't. Not even after all of these years." Jack stood and moved to the bench Rose was sitting on, slipping an arm around her shoulders and gathered her in close. "Sometimes you just have to act. Go for it. Worst case is you'll get a punch to the jaw." Jack paused and grinned. "Well, you wouldn't. Men tend to treat women a bit better and being kissed by a woman isn't as disconcerting for a bloke."

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