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

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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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plusone
2011-05-24 01:21 am UTC (link)

Her father. Or, as the Christian people would say, her Father. The Father. God. Wow. If her life hadn't been insane before, it had definitely taken a turn towards it now. And yet, Rose felt like she could trust Anna. And she was a damn good judge of that by that point.

"Could you imagine?" she blurted, refusing to think before she spoke for once. Ever since one dimension cross gone horribly wrong, she'd been so careful with what she said to who. But hey, it was the end of the world, after all. Who cared? "Lucifer...he was a fallen angel, right? Because...no idea, something about humanity. I didn't really pay attention to all of that." Because, hello, it was supposed to be fiction! Sort of. "If he knew about the other planets and all the life there?"

A thought crossed her mind, one that had popped into her head not long after meeting the Doctor for the first time and hadn't really been back since. "But admit it. What are the odds? He creates this entire Universe and we all think he's only going to put life on one of them?" Cripes, she was talking like she was actually a believer. And maybe she was? It was so hard to believe in theology and the like when traveling with someone from a planet that was all but outside of time.

Rubbing her temples, she looked at the dress again. Anna had suggested she get it, and somehow, the idea simply stuck. She'd only been admiring it, she hadn't really planned on it. When was the last time she'd worn a dress like that? Years, really. Pete and her mum had tried to drag her to a few Vitek functions but she'd been so headfirst in the cannon that she'd blown them off. And formal dresses or costumes when off with the Doctor surely didn't count.

Giving a final nod, she grabbed the dress in a size that looked like it'd fit her. She knew Americans sized things differently, but then, so did Jypsoans. She'd gotten pretty good at guesstimating. "Chocolate cake?" she questioned, the corners of her lips turning up. "Oh, I do like the way you think."

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-02 01:32 pm UTC (link)

Anna had never considered the other planets or life there. Earth was her fathers creation. She knew the rest was too and maybe they had angels of their very own and a rogue with delusions of destruction. Maybe it was all the very same. But at the same time if her brother knew about other worlds with other life. If he stopped to consider, then maybe he’d destroy them too. It was all about payback for Lucifer. “My brother is insane. He’s decided that humanity has to die because then maybe father will notice him. Or maybe its payback. Or any one of a number of reasons he’d come up with. But if he discovered other life, yes he’d probably want to kill it too. Destroy Earth and then move on? I don’t know. I’ve never considered it personally and I doubt he had either.”

Rose was from a dfferent life to her, a whole other world where she’d travelled among the stars, met all sorts of strange people, including her Doctor. So to her the odds were different. To Rose it went without saying there were other worlds. She’d seen them. Stepped on alien soil. She knew. Anna did not know. “I don’t know how it works here Rose. In this dimension there may be just one, or like your dimension there may be a million, a billion other worlds with other peoples. And maybe they are all his creations.

Happy that Rose was going to buy the dress Anna turned to walk toward the check out point so that the items could be paid for. Once that was one she and Rose could go for the cake they’d talked about. That and coffee. It was a wonderful plan.

“I suppose we have to find little things. Little moments of normal among all the crazy. And frankly Rose if an angel can say that to a time travelling Londoner then maybe it proves a point. So maybe there are these other worlds my father has created and maybe Lucifer doesn’t know about them yet. Or maybe its just this one and this fight. But for now I’m more than willing to focus on what makes them great. Because its the things like this, talking and kindness and shopping and chocolate cake.” It was a strange outlook on life but Anna meant every word of it. Her attention was briefly diverted as she paid for the top she’d decided on in the end before stepping back to wait for Rose.

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plusone
2011-06-03 02:54 am UTC (link)

Despite their conversation and its rather morbid topic, everything about this felt so...normal. More normal than Rose had felt in a number of years. If she closed her eyes and breathed, Anna could easily be Shareen and they could easily be in Henrik's and they were trying to find something brilliant to wear to the party that would finally make her stand out to Jimmy Stone. But her eyes opened, knowing she had to face reality. She had to face a Doctor who had abandoned her, a dimension that probably shouldn't even exist, and a world that was in danger of collapsing.

No matter. Frankly, it had become commonplace.

She stepped up to pay for the dress and the every day essentials she'd grabbed when Anna had found her and found the new gift card in her bag. Had her new friend not revealed her actual identity, Rose might have thought someone in the apartment complex had slipped it in there. But she merely glanced over the cashier's head at the ginger girl and smiled knowingly.

"I spent the last year of my life focused on one thing. One very large, very confusing thing. I often lost track of the important things and I definitely forgot to focus on the little ones. It was only when I started going places where things were so different from home that I guess it occurred to me to stop and think." Rose flicked her tongue over her lower lip and looked away from the other girl, the angel, who she felt could read her far too well. The cannon had taken everything out of her, taken her away from her family, taken her health at times, and for what? To be left behind all over again? And now she'd been pulled away from it again and couldn't even pick back up where she'd left off.

A small smile crossed her face as she pulled her bag off the counter and nodded towards the exit. "The friend I traveled with, he was always good at that. Finding small things to smile about even when things were crazy. We found an alien species that presented itself like a werewolf. We were nearly attacked but all either of us could do was be ecstatic we'd found something so amazing as a werewolf. I think that's what you have to do. Take joy when you can, where you can."

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-05 09:52 pm UTC (link)

Well that was it, she thought as they headed toward the exit having paid for their items. Rose having shot her a smile as thank you for the gift card. It had just been a simple gesture for a potential new friend and she was in the end glad she had done it. Rose was a good person. And she was more than happy to have done it. It made a lot of sense to her, the things Rose was saying. Spending all that time focused on one thing. She knew what that felt like, and she supposed to her own mind Anna had been as young as Rose was. She hadn't known she was an angel then. She hadn't known how old she truly was. And yet she was sure she hadn't seen the things Rose had seen, the worlds, the alien creatures she'd spent so long convinced didn't even exist. It was somewhat humbling, even for an angel.

But some things remained familiar even if they really weren't the same at all.

"Werewolves huh? We have those, they're pretty much irredeemable. Not sure I'd be ecstatic I'd met one but I can appreciate that it'd be something suprising. You're right though, taking joy how and when you can, thats whats important. There probably aren't as many oppertunities here as there should be to find that joy. But it comes along now and again and I pretty much advocate grabbing it with both hands." It was a lonely existance for the angel a lot of the time. She surrounded herself with friends, but sometimes she wondered was that all there was, and did those friends really see her as such or was she just another angel. Another thing as alien as Rose's werewolves. To be feared.

It was possible Rose thought differently though, she mused as she led her potential friend toward the coffee shop. For all her experiances it was possible Rose didn't see Anna as something so different. Maybe Rose could just be an outright friend. Because Anna really rather thought she needed that.

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plusone
2011-06-06 08:53 pm UTC (link)

Oh, Rose saw Anna as different. But not a bad sort of different, not at all. Different in the same way she'd seen the Doctor, and Jack, and the others she'd met along the way who were so out of her league they shouldn't even glance twice at her and yet somehow, they did. Yes, she was slightly awestruck and she was a little fascinated they even existed. But at the end of the day, they were just people. Well, not her species of people, exactly, but people just the same. With feelings and emotions and things that mattered to them and likes and dislikes, just as her friends back in school did.

Rose simply giggled when Anna admitted she wouldn't exactly be ecstatic about meeting a werewolf. "So the ones you have here...the snarling, change with the full moon, look like actual wolves kind?" Because hey, the myth and the legend had to have base somewhere, right? That was something she was growing used to.

She was also getting used to being faced with an end-of-the-world scenario. She'd actually seen Earth's end, to be fair. And yet, all around them, outside the store, people continued on with their lives. Normal people, people like her who were a little different than normal, and people like Anna who were exceptional. Shopping, eating out, going to films. Making friends, fighting with lovers... That part, that she'd never grow used to. She always just wanted to run around screaming at people to fight or to take cover or something, and she'd never entirely gotten over the fact that she couldn't.

"Is everyone in this city related to this whole Apocalypse thing?" she asked, finally, turning to look at Anna more directly, rather than watching the people milling around them.

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-09 05:04 pm UTC (link)

"They're here yes. Full snarly wolf thing. I've never met one personally but I know the Winchesters have." she paused at that remembering the history there. "That said, probably not a topic to bring up idly" It was somewhat of a horrible story as she recalled. "They're not controlable. Pretty much they become monsters and there's not a damn thing to be done about it except to put them out of their misery"

As Rose asked about the apocolypse and how people came to be here, Anna thought about the question. Was everyone related to it, in truth she was pretty sure they weren't. Not the rank and file. But those affected were drawn here for something. How to explain that though. "Its complicated. Basicly the seal pulls you all in which means those people have a purpose. They have a reason for being here. Maybe its not to fight. Maybe its not to pick up weapons but everyone has a place in this fight. So maybe thats what it is. Because I truly believe none of you were pulled here by accident. The thing knows, if that makes any sense." How it had come to talking about a sentient seal over a cage in hell she didn't know. But there it was. She was actually talking about it for all the crazy that was.

She pushed open the door of the coffee place as she reached it to let Rose walk past her inside. "But the people out there, the everyday people of the city. No, I don't think so. This world has Hunters, people that fight the darkness and some of them are here with you, helping you, and it has angels like me. But not everyone is aware of the fight, no." They probably should be by now of course but the angels had made sure the populace forgot the worst of the war thusfar.

However long that would last, Anna didn't know.

"So, what are you drinking? This place does amazing Mocha's"

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plusone
2011-06-10 03:01 am UTC (link)

It made sense, she supposed. After all, how ordinary had she felt before the Doctor had plucked her out of Henrik's? (Well, plucked her out, blew it up, whichever you preferred) She'd never have thought herself capable of helping. And Donna had been the same way. 'If he was so special, what was he doing with me?' She wondered if everyone the man had traveled with had felt that way. He'd told Adam he only took the best and now, apparently, being the best had pulled her into the end of the world. And oddly, she was okay with it.

Even if it wasn't to fight the war itself. She was a good listener. She was a good thinker, too, when inspired. Maybe there were other reasons for her to be there. Torchwood had taught her plenty about firearms and sure, if called on, she could absolutely fight physically. But she could see how, even the most 'normal' of the place's residents could be useful. Even if just in their relationships with others.

Rose breathed in the scent of coffee, a bittersweet smile crossing her face as it reminded her of the front office at Torchwood. "So some of you were here to begin with...and we get dragged in. I can't help wonder if it's just your dimension or if this is happening all over. I'd think it'd have to be but then..." She shrugged, glancing over the menu. "I love lattes, it's just been forever since I could actually relax and have them. But I'll try most anything once."

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-11 03:48 am UTC (link)

Anna loved coffee bars. She'd met other displaced here before. Sat and had coffee and talked about the trials they'd face. But sometimes she just sat by herself and watched the world go by. Different people, different stories. Lives that just went ahead regardless of the war raging around them. They didn't always know. Sure every once in a great while she'd spot a Hunter, or a demon in disguise. Those were always quickly pointed a convenient way or dispatched of appropriatly. Poor demons always looked so suprised. She supposed they weren't expecting to smell celestial or find one acting so very ordinary and human.

"You find lives shift and change so quickly here, love and loss. People meeting that couldn't have for all the world. A world where a teenage Jedi can love a superhero clone from a comic book or an irritating Irish Immortal can actually find someone to put up with him. There are countless examples Rose, and maybe that's part of why you're all here. Just to live. Because that's humanity. That's what my brother is trying to destroy and maybe thats what pushes him back. People living lives to the point where they will fight to protect it."

She smiled as she too breathed in the scent of the coffee. "Also spiced Mocha. Some kind of cinnamon involved. I refuse to allow Lucifer to destroy Cinnamon." she said with a grin. As to the dimensional question... "I think a lot of them face it. Apocolyptic destruction, I've heard of others that have fought and won. Other struggles on countless other worlds. Maybe once this is over we'll all get to decide our next move, or maybe it'll never be truly over. I wish I knew."

Anna beckoned the barrista over. Just a woman, doing her job, unaware of the topics discussed between the redhead and the blonde. "Spiced Mocha, extra cinnamon and a latte with..." she waired for Rose to figure out if she wanted anything more. All the madness of the world and it seemed the angel had made a friend. It felt good.

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plusone
2011-06-11 11:05 pm UTC (link)

"So happens, I'm a big fan of humanity. Or, at least, what it means. What we consider humanity, well...it's more than humans. Oh, sure, I've run into some less than kind members of other species, but some of them are just...wonderful. As kind and loving and helpful as the best of humans." It had been half the fun of the traveling, after all. Meeting the people, occasionally loving them and caring for them enough to put herself at risk for their planets. "If that's what Lucifer's got a problem with, he'd definitely have to stretch out to other places to be rid of it forever. That'd be interesting to see."

It was ridiculous, really. If Rose let herself think about it, it got complicated. In her dimension, the stars had begun disappearing long before they had in the Doctor's world, and in many of the others. But it still happened. It was possible, then, that multiple dimensions were also receiving their share of people to fight against a seal breaking. Different people at different times and maybe it was Lucifer or maybe something different had happened thousands or millions of years prior which made it some other Apocalyptic cause entirely. She'd spent so much time in other dimensions that she knew how even the most minor change could change the entire world.

Frankly, it made her head hurt. And maybe caffeine would clear it and maybe it wouldn't. But if she could sit down and have coffee and less than normal conversation with someone who was willing to put up with her? Who was she to argue? Anna, for all her angelicness, seemed friendly and kind and conversational. And she probably had loads of useful information about the situation they were in, too. Flashing her new friend a grin, Rose shook her head at the barrista. "No, know what? I'll have what she's having."

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-14 04:55 am UTC (link)

Anna officially approved of Rose. She seemed to actually care about the fates of people she didn't know, seemed to care that this world not her own was in danger and more than that wanted to help. The angel had a good idea of what the seal had in mind for Rose in bringing her here. The girl cared. And it was possible this fight needed humanity like that. Remind people who might have become jaded why they were fighting. And who knew, maybe if her brother did try to strech out to other worlds, maybe Rose was right and he'd be met by resistance there too. Anna truly hoped that was the case. These people, this world, and its inhabitants. There was so much capacity for love, for friendship, for caring. It gave Anna hope.

"Well I hope so. Frankly I hope we lock my brother away again but doing that will be harder than I believe any of us know yet. It will be dangerous and bloody and there will be loss of life but it'll be the last hope we have." And at the core of it for Anna, really just was what she'd spoken of. Going to war against her brother, her family. One she'd once looked up to as she had Gabriel. More fool her so it would seem.

At the grin from Rose Anna was pleased to see her coffee choice had gone down so well. "Its really very nice." she told Rose settling down into the chair and once again content with watching people go by and life going on. "I love looking out at the street." she confided. "I can look in their eyes and see their stories, their hopes and dreams and fears and worries and I can see how it all connects together to form humanity, and its beautiful to see it. It means so much to just...watch. I worry sometimes that I'll get caught up in how dark it all is and I'll forget the beauty of your race. Of people I once believed were my race too. I truly hope it doesn't change, no matter how far it goes Rose, how many millenia you've travelled, no matter the technology they have or planets they land on. Tell me, does humanity stay ... like this."

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plusone
2011-06-15 01:15 am UTC (link)

"When I was growing up, we didn't have a lot of money," Rose found herself confessing. "Mum and I used to make a game, though, where we'd window shop and when we'd see people along the way, we'd come up with stories about them. Try to figure out who they were and where they were from. Big families were sometimes Partridge Family tribute bands and a single man could be an international spy, waiting to meet up for a diamond trade or something." Then she turned pink, but she couldn't help but giggle. "And I basically can't believe I just told you that. But yeah, I get it. Watching people go by can be fascinating."

As for how humanity lasted throughout generations? Millenia even? Oh, sure, Rose could close her eyes and remember times when another race had attempted to dominate this one. She could remember technology from other worlds turning her own against itself. There'd been Adam, so misguided that he turned himself over to a new technology which likely ruined his life back on Earth. And the Sycorax, so determined to overtake Earth that they were willing to sacrifice one third of the people.

But that hadn't been all. Nancy and little Jamie, healed by the nanogenes and then those nanogenes had spread, causing every single person in the immediate vicinity to become like new. In the fifties, during the coronation, despite the tragedies the town had witnessed, Tommy Connelly still fought to defend the people of Earth and still took in his less than perfect father. Technology, alien life...they weren't going to change humanity. Not for those who truly needed it.

"My first trip with the Doctor, that friend of mine? He took me to the Earth's end. Literally, the day the Earth explodes and gets burnt up by the sun. And I thought it was morbid and tragic, but then... More than a dozen different species were invited. And each brought a gift, something special of themselves, of their people, to share with others." Rose wore a slightly nostalgic smile at the memory of those gifts, so strange and new to her. Only nineteen, brand new to anything outside of her own tiny part of London, and finding things such as air or saplings as gifts. It was...miraculous, really. "There was no such thing as a pure human anymore. We'd moved out among the stars, mixing with other races, and yet I really do think a part of us carried over."

Her voice dropped as someone walked too close to their table, but she smiled again, a bit wistfully. "I do think we'll win this, Anna. I don't deny it's going to be hard. I've put myself on the line for this planet more than once, and I'll happily do it again. But we will win it. Because that's who we are."

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-18 09:58 pm UTC (link)

Anna liked the idea, her people watching had never actually turned into making up stuff for the people. Mostly cause she could look at them and know. It was a power she didn’t use much but sometimes she couldn’t help it, their fears and worries were right there for her to see. “I like it.” she confided when Rose admitted embarrassment. There was no sense in being embarassed over something that made perfect sense. And suddenly the angel grinned impishly. "Like that woman in the blue could be an actress in disguise, the sunglasses and the hat, she might not even be really blonde.” she said by way of reassuring Rose. Reassuring by joining in. It was the same! Or something.

Her stories about the Doctor were fascinating. This man that knew other worlds, was from those other worlds. And she was talking to someone who’d actually seen things like that, aliens, good and bad. She’d fought things even an angel couldn’t fathom. She’d seen an end to the world. A natural end when humanity had changed, had assimilated into so many different cultures. And if her brother didn’t get his way then that's what Anna wanted to happen. Humanity, her fathers chosen. They’d survive. They’d go on. But maybe the earth really did have an expiry date. It would make sense to her probably to anyone who thought about it really. Humans would spread out amongst the stars. They were still infants really.

“This is a very beautiful world. But humanity, to me its all of you. The things you do, the struggles you continually endure but you keep going through. And maybe you will mix, maybe that’ll happen here. You’ll mix out among the stars and change and grow and if it does then I can’t help thinking that’s just what my father would want. You’re lucky to have seen it Rose but I expect you know that don’t you.” And Rose was right, they really would win. “People like you are why we’ll win. Its not that you have any great power but you’re willing to do all you can. You’re willing to put your very life on the line for a world not your own because that’s the right thing to do. “ And of course because of who they were.

Anna had never been prouder to stand with humanity, she thought as she happily sipped at her drink

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plusone
2011-06-18 10:32 pm UTC (link)

Rose grinned as she looked over the blonde woman. She did have a bit of a glamorous air to her. "They're filming a movie around here, you know. But if she doesn't go out in disguise, she'll get mobbed by people looking for autographs or wanting to talk to her." Which was, obviously, a crock. But it sounded fun, at least. And would make for a great story.

As for Anna's other point... It was so strange. She'd never put the science and the theology together, but why not? Because the Doctor had said it wasn't so? And? Mickey had said once that the Doctor had been wrong before, and it was true. So what was the problem with believing that God had created everything? Perhaps Earth was just one of his creations, humans, too. For all anyone knew, He'd created the Time Lords, as well. It could happen.

So she nodded, sipping at the coffee and letting it soothe her. "Oh, I know I'm lucky. He could choose anyone to travel with, and he chose me." Just not enough to keep her along after she tore through time and space and dimensions, too, just to return to him. But that was a sob story for another time, and one she didn't want to dwell on. Not ever again. Yes, she was angry, but it wasn't going to be the end of her life. "I think it's completely possible that your father created all life. And He would know that eventually, we're going to abuse the Earth and its resources. But there's an entire galaxy out there, a whole universe even, where we've barely made a dent now. Mixing and mingling? It would continue his creation in entirely new ways, and maybe He's the one making it possible."

Ha. Sometimes she could sound so smart. For the girl who hadn't even sat her A-levels, she figured she wasn't doing too badly for herself. "And of course it's the right thing to do," she added with a little laugh. "What's the point of living if you're not going to fight to keep doing so?"

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cadoexvenia
2011-06-21 03:54 pm UTC (link)

"But Rose!" the Angel started with a laugh. "What if they'd run out of blue M&M's and her PA was sick that day?! So in a mad dash of star quality she's gone rushing to find them ignoring the risk of mobbing and fans!" It wasn't the most angelic of statements but it didn't come from the most angelic of angels so it made sense. It made things all the more normal and Anna would never tire of normal. She didn't get it much, so just getting to be in a place like this, sitting, people watching and drinking coffee with a recently made friend. It was exactly what she needed.

And here was a human. Just a normal human and she was talking about science and religion and understanding how they could work together so completely. This young blonde girl who had seen so much and helped so many and her brother wanted to destroy them? Her brother thought they were flawed? He was wrong He was so wrong and here was Rose, her proof. Rose and the others like her who in spite of all the reasons to run and hide, were fighting. Even the not-actress had fate in store for her, had a life to live

All this had done was strengthen her resolve more. Lucifer wasn’t going to be allowed to win. He wasn’t going to ruin the lives of these people, take their world away. Anna saw such beauty in it all. "Its people like you, you know that, thats why angels like me and Cas fight, we see what the others don't and its a reason to keep going. So keep being you, because that's the very best thing you can do for us. I mean yes, when the fight comes we'll all have to help because my brother is who he is and he won't stop, he won't see reason and he'll always hate humanity. But maybe we can change a few more minds along the way"

What was the point of living if not to fight for life? Rose was smarter than her young age would have given her credit for. And Anna decided then she was proud to know her.

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plusone
2011-06-22 02:17 am UTC (link)

Anna was right about one thing. At times, she acted entirely less than angelic. And that was okay with Rose because frankly, that might get a little intimidating. Oh, she was grateful to Anna for how incredibly kind she'd been when Rose was a stranger in an entirely new world. But being friends with someone who was the projectory of goodness and light all the time would wear her out in no time.

People like her, though... It was funny. Maybe the Doctor was more angel than he thought. Hell, who knew, maybe the Time Lords were considered a form of angel, if she was considering that the entire Universe was something God created. He protected humanity. He fought for them, each and every one, celebrated their lives and mourned their deaths. And she had the feeling Anna would do the same things he would if presented with other races on other planets. Because, despite their differences, they were still living beings, just trying to get by.

And really, why couldn't Rose ever escape people like this? It was sort of funny, really, and she laughed softly. "You sound more like the Doctor than you'll ever know. He loves humans. Everything about us. He's saved this planet more than I think either of us cares to remember." There. See? She could speak fondly of him. She didn't have to be angry and bitter all the time.

Leaning back in her seat, she stared down at her coffee cup before sighing. "I think there's hope. There has to be. We wouldn't all be here if there wasn't. Are demons... Well, no. I guess what I mean is, are there people on his side who aren't demons? Humans that go to Lucifer's side?"

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