Rose Tyler (by_any_other) wrote in reality_crisis, @ 2013-11-13 21:07:00 |
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Entry tags: | !status: complete, rose tyler, the doctor, the metacrisis |
Old Friends (11, The Metacrisis)
Their exploring had been cut short by the evacuation of the settlement - die Festung, it was called, or so those who lived in it said... The stories of what'd happened the world were nothing short of harrowing, and nothing out of the ordinary for Rose and the Doctor.
The Doctor... Even now, Rose had reservations about the one she'd been left with. Her Doctor wanted her to make him better, so he'd said. Rose didn't know if it could be done. At the very most, she imagined her influence could only make him different. And yet, as she spent more time with the Metacrisis, she found herself noticing parts of him that were very much like the one she'd first fallen for... and she wondered...
Was different better?
He was compelling... The best and worst parts of each of her Doctors, all in one, with a dash of something else nothing like the ones she'd known before... He was entirely different, and so very familiar.
These thoughts rolled around in her head as they milled out with the rest of the settlers onto the hardly-could-even-be-called-a road. Unlike others, who moved with urgency and dread, she wandered... hands in pockets, eyes and ears open, taking all of it in. There were some that weren't, apparently, from this world. There were ones that believed the others were some sort of blessing (or curse), so the whispers said. And somewhere along the line, during her wandering, she lost sight of the Metacrisis.
That was when she found it: A blue box, inert and quiet, no lights to be seen, being towed in the caravan.
Bright hope fizzled and burst through her, fireworks set off by desperation and love and too many other emotions to capture. She almost immediately looked around for him, not him, but him, her Doctor. It was all that was in her mind -- that name, over and over. She found herself shouting it at last, discomfiting those around her. Didn't care. She needed him now.