“Her name was Rose.” (Ten/Rose, G, drabble)

[preserved_ginger]

Title: “Her name was Rose.”
Characters: Donna Noble, The Doctor
Rating: G
Setting: The Runaway Bride
Dedication: For glory_jean, because she liked it.
Summary: Donna Noble, with her uncanny knack of asking the right question at just the right time.

“Your friend. What was her name?”

He’d almost made it. Had almost managed to hold on long enough to get back into the Vortex, a place where he could finally give voice to his grief, and rage, and pain.

But no.

Donna Noble, with her uncanny knack of asking the right question at exactly the right moment, had put the kibosh on that. Maybe that was a good thing; maybe if he let the emotions came to the surface now he could manage to keep some control over them; of himself.

Or not.

“Her name was Rose.”

Comments

[thehornedgod.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I like that way of looking at that scene: he's one minute away from taking the TARDIS out of reality and letting go. Who knows if he'd ever come back to Earth? He didn't seem to have been too keen on carrying on in the timeline where he never met Donna. But he did meet her, and she snags him, makes him say it while he isn't alone.