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Title: A Caged Dream of Tears
Character(s): The Tenth Doctor
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Rating: PG
Timeline: Family of Blood
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to the BBC.
A/N: It's my theory that The Doctor was hiding at least as much from his pain at losing Rose as he ever did from The Family, and this examines that a little.
The title comes from the poem Free by Marie Collins.
Summary: "Falling in love? That didn't even occur to him?" "No."

He'd spoken (mostly) truthfully to Joan - that he, too, was capable of all that John Smith had been. He remembered well how Smith had cried, railing against the fate that had taken the "normal" life, and love, that he so craved. Smith was part of him, after all.

Yet he hadn't been completely truthful, either, he knew; there was more. Far more. He didn't like remembering; wanted no remembrance of that Torchwood nightmare.

Where he'd lost Rose.

He'd cried then, too; railed, too, against the fate that had stolen his love. But what chameleon arch could ever bring her back?