preserved_ginger

Title: New, New Beginning
Rating: PG-13
Setting: 2X00
Beta(s):

brilliantomega
Character(s): Ten. Rose.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
A/N: Thanks to

brilliantomega for the title. Inspired by the fact I can never get enough fic that has anything to do with The Christmas Invasion (which is a serious candidate for my favourite episode ever). All italicised dialogue from the episode.
Summary: Yet what of Rose?

“Yeah, I … I thought, ’cause you changed … you might not want me any more.”

And what of Rose? Rose, to whom he’s barely spared a thought since he woke up, other than to assume that she’d be there (and the arrogance of that assumption may yet come to bite him in the arse, although obviously he hopes it won’t). He doesn’t even know if she wants to stay with him, now she’s had time at home to think about it.

So he’ll have to do something about it. Something good. Because if she doesn’t come with him, if she doesn’t want him, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the world will not be enough to express what he’d feel.

He can force the issue, if he wants to. He knows enough to keep her with him, willing or no; knows tricks (last carried off, he suspects, by the Master – the less said about him, though, the better) that would bring him a willing Rose in his bed each night, if that’s what he wants. (Not that he’ll do anything; if she doesn’t want him, there’s no way he’d force her.)

He could do those things, of course he could (not that he’d forgive himself for doing it, but that’s not the issue at hand). But if she doesn’t love him, if she doesn’t really, really love him, then what would be the point?

“Oh, I’d love you to come!”