New New London Town

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Title: New New London Town
Characters: Rose Tyler
Pairings: Ten/Rose
Rating: U
Timeline: Post Doomsday; a Pete’s!World fic.
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to the BBC.
A/N: Inspired by Dublin in the Rare Aul’ Times by Pete St. John
Summary: She’ll not stop remembering him. Not ever.

"You could be happy and I won't know
But you weren't happy the day I watched you go"

- You Could Be Happy, Snow Patrol

Ring-a-ring o' roses
As the sunset glows
How much I long to be back home,
Back where The Doctor roams.

I'm learning songs and stories
As I learn to smile, not frown
At the sometime tales and glories
Of new new London Town.

But in their ways and treaties,
And in their children's rhymes,
I hear a haunting echo
Of a life that was once mine.

Ring-a-ring o' roses
As the sunset glows
How much I long to be back home,
Back where The Doctor roams.

My name it is Rose Tyler,
From London all the way
Born hard, and late, in Peckham Rise
In a house a world away.

I used to be a shop-girl
Then a traveller through time
But thanks to Ghosts and Daleks
That life's no longer mine.

Ring-a-ring o' roses
As the sunset glows
How much I long to be back home,
Back where The Doctor roams.

I travelled with The Doctor.
If I'd known what was in store
When we insulted Queen Victoria
I'd have lost that bet, I'm sure.

For Torchwood's why I've lost him,
The one who made me whole;
When he sealed that breach behind me,
He took with him my soul.

Ring-a-ring o' roses
As the sunset glows
How much I long to be back home,
Back where The Doctor roams.

I must not become bitter,
(Or let time just dim my brain)
The folk here keep on changing,
Yet I shall stay the same.

The monarch and MPs have gone,
To Mickey's fierce dismay
And the strange, yet half-familiar
Has become the everyday.

Ring-a-ring o' roses
As the sunset glows
How much I long to be back home,
Back where The Doctor roams.

Farewell, new new London Town,
I cannot bear to stay,
Almost, but not quite, familiar.
No matter what Mum says,

My soul is full of memories,
From the world I used to know
And my heart still aches to join him there,
Back where I cannot go.

And as I'm reminiscing,
While scarlet sunset glows
How much I long to be back home,
Back where The Doctor roams.

My heart still aches to join him there,
Back where I cannot go.