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Tweak says, ""I laugh at your nose.""

Rose Tyler Will Defend the Earth (plusone) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2011-05-18 00:43:00

Entry tags:

anna milton, rose tyler

Who: Rose Tyler and Anna Milton
What: Getting her bearings and checking out the city
Where: Down at the Wal-Mart, picking up essentials
When: Early morning, May 18
Rating: Given her current mood, give it a PG-13 for language
Status: In Progress

This was seriously insane.

And Rose Tyler had seen quite a few insane things. People with gas mask faces. Living beings encased in metal. A physically impossible planet. And, of course, a man who looked human enough (and fetchingly so) but who had two hearts and a machine that traveled through space and time. Nothing anyone would consider normal by any means. But this? Being snatched through time and, apparently, dimensions to help with the apocalypse was bad enough as it was. But there she was, surrounded by people who she'd read about. Well...heard about, she wasn't much one for reading, but still. It shouldn't be possible. It was like the universe was playing one gigantic practical joke on her.

He'd told her it was impossible for her to ever even be in this dimension again and yet, there she was. And somehow, there were two of them, at the same time. Even worse. Like her dream come true and her worst nightmare all rolled into one. Yes, she'd missed him. She hadn't torn apart thirty dimensions just to let him know the stars were going out and leave, after all. But she was furious, too. And hurt. And confused. What she really needed was a friend just then, but the only one of those around was the person she wanted to shove off the diving board in the TARDIS pool. She wanted Mickey. Or even good old Shareen. But if she was being honest with herself, what she really wanted was her mum.

But since none of the above were available, Rose did what any self-respecting former shopgirl would do. She gathered up her jacket and the little gift card she'd been offered when she checked into the apartments, and she headed off shopping. Nothing made her feel better the way retail therapy did. Even when she'd had barely any money to her name at all, she and Shareen would comb the racks at different stores and try on clothes they knew they weren't going to buy, just because it was fun.

And that's how she found herself in the health and beauty aisle of this giant chain store, just being grateful they'd sent her to Kansas and not, say, Zimbabwe.

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cadoexvenia
2011-05-19 08:15 pm UTC (link)

"Free will." she said with a shrug. "It's the most important thing you have and this place, that seal. It takes it away from you and that is so incredibly unfair. If it asked I guess it wouldn't get everyone it wanted. If that makes any sense." The comment about packing for them made the angel smile more than anything had in a long while. "If I ever get face to face with whatever it is I'll tell it before I hit it. Presuming it has a face and all." It very well might not.

She decided very quickly that she liked Rose.

"Maybe it does?" Anna said, thinking of the card now in Rose's purse. "...Try it. Go nuts. Buy something you like, march up to the checkout with it. See what happens?" she told the girl. "No harm in it." The smile hadn't left the angel yet. It didn't need to. Maybe she should actually tell Rose who she was. Hopefully it wouldn't traumatize her.

"I'm a part of it. I'm native to this world as it happens. Not as vocal on those board things as some but I keep an eye on whats going on. I'm an angel, Rose." she said simply. She could prove it if she needed to but she figured showing her wings in a place like this was probably a bad plan and definitely against some kind of rule she'd once known and forgotten about following. "Thing that makes me different from the rest though is I fell, I spent time as a human and I remember it so well." she said.

"This, shopping and stuff. It reminds me of that."