To Days To Come
May. 16th, 2008 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
preserved_gingerCharacters: Rose. Mickey (non-speaking part). One other character
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine (sadly).
Spoilers: Nary a one, if you’ve seen Doomsday
A/N: An unbeta-ed bit of flangst (fluffy angst, you’ll see what I mean once you’ve read it) I wrote today to cheer myself up. The title’s from a line spoken by the Fifth Doctor in Time Crash.
Summary: And so that’s how she was here standing laughing at Mickey.
She’d been unable to stop herself from spending the first anniversary back on that beach after fantasising that perhaps this time he would manage to do the impossible. Nothing had happened, of course. Not even a whisper of her name, and that had probably been what hurt most. By the time she’d arrived home, depressed and distraught, she'd forced herself to admit that she had to try to move on. Yet even now, months after that anniversary, some days were still better than others.
She’d felt particularly melancholy when she woke that morning, missing him more than usual. She couldn’t help her mood, but it had been a long time since she'd missed him so keenly. Mickey had asked her if she fancied going for a walk; she'd agreed to go just to get him off her back more than anything: all she’d really wanted to do was curl up in bed and cry.
And so that’s how she was here standing laughing at Mickey, who was looking at her with his mouth open in astonishment.
“Don’t want to leave your mouth open like that, Mickey. You might end up catc—” Just as she registered that Mickey was looking behind her rather than at her, something (no, someone) covered her eyes and she cut herself off mid-sentence.
Those hands were cold. She only knew one person whose hands were anything like that, and she’d seen him for the last time a year and more ago. It couldn’t be him. Whoever it was shuffled closer to her until they were almost on top of her, and lowered their head until their lips – cold again, she could tell, even though it wasn’t him – were so close to her ear that she could feel their breath against her skin.
She was poised to give this stranger a well-deserved elbow in the stomach. Anything, if it meant she could get away. But it was uncanny how similar this person seemed to be to him, and she found herself holding back. Painful, violent hope surged inside her.
Then, at last, she heard it - the voice she’d never expected to hear again, the timbre of it unique to its owner. The tone of it was full of love and pain and longing, and all of it directed at her. How she’d longed for this.
“Oh, my Rose. My precious, precious girl. Did you miss me?”
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Date: 2008-05-16 08:31 pm (UTC)If only this were to prove true....
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Date: 2008-05-16 10:52 pm (UTC)If only this were to prove true....
Ah, who’s to say it won’t? Have hope!
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Date: 2008-05-16 08:32 pm (UTC)Awwwwwww!
Aren't they cute?
Thanks for that - cheered up my frankly crappy revision crammed evening.
*huggles you*
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Date: 2008-05-16 11:11 pm (UTC)Awwwwwww!
Aren't they cute?
They are indeed!
Thanks for that - cheered up my frankly crappy revision crammed evening.
*huggles you*
Yay for huggles! *huggles right backatcha*
Glad I cheered your evening even a little :)
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Date: 2008-05-16 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-16 11:09 pm (UTC)Love, love, love it. Just perfect!
Thank you! :D
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Date: 2008-05-16 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-16 11:09 pm (UTC)Flangst is my new fave word... *sigh* ♥
Hurray!
(Can’t remember if I’ve asked before – damn my memory! –but is that gorgeous icon snaggable?)
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Date: 2008-05-17 08:33 am (UTC)It is snaggable- I got it from here: http://schattenmond.livejournal.com/42454.html
(This contains spoilers up to 4.04 but nothing else.)
Here it is again, just for you :)
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Date: 2008-05-17 09:54 am (UTC)It is snaggable
Hurray!
Here it is again, just for you :)
Thank you :D
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Date: 2008-05-16 09:29 pm (UTC)That is most definitely a happy place to treasure!
That was wonderful and delightful and so full of happy goodness!
Yay!
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Date: 2008-05-16 11:07 pm (UTC)Yay!
See, I can write fluff (even though most of my stuff is angsty-angst-angst)!
Might try some more soon. Glad you like it! :D
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Date: 2008-05-16 09:40 pm (UTC)Just lovely. Argh.
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Date: 2008-05-16 11:06 pm (UTC)*makes a weird strangled sound*
Eep. That’s good, right?
Just lovely. Argh.
Thanks!
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Date: 2008-05-16 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-16 11:00 pm (UTC)Oh wow. That last line ... *shakes head* ... I am undone.
I was going to have him say just “did you miss me?” to her, similar to how he said it in The Christmas Invasion, but it didn’t feel quite right. I’m glad you like the compromise :)
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Date: 2008-05-17 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-17 01:02 am (UTC)Ahhhh!!! That was just great!
Thank you!
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Date: 2008-05-17 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-17 10:38 am (UTC)Squee! That was just lovely.
Thank you!
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Date: 2008-05-17 08:33 pm (UTC)"Oh, my Rose. My precious, precious girl. Did you miss me?"
**melts into a warm puddle of happiness**
Oh, that was so soo soooo very lovely. Thank you.
*still getting shivers at the thought of how his voice must have sounded*
'scuse me... I think I need a minute
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Date: 2008-05-19 09:02 pm (UTC)*still getting shivers at the thought of how his voice must have sounded*
Oh, yes, most definitely!
I’m glad you like this!
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Date: 2008-05-17 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-17 09:18 pm (UTC)Good thing about that temperature difference, though. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure Rose would have given him quite the wallop with her elbow.
Ah, the temperature difference is the thing that made her hold back, the thing that gave her hope.
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Date: 2008-05-19 07:55 pm (UTC)If I were Rose, I'd have probably died. ;o)
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Date: 2008-05-19 09:07 pm (UTC)If I were Rose, I'd have probably died. ;o)
If I were Rose, I’d be giving him what-for for scaring me like that – after doing my best to snog the breath out of him, ’course!
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Date: 2008-05-19 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-20 10:43 am (UTC)Well, that went without saying. LOL
Hee!
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Date: 2008-05-23 02:36 pm (UTC)*melts-then-dies-of-happiness*
I love the element of surprise!
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Date: 2008-08-18 10:14 pm (UTC)I love the element of surprise!
And I’m quite fond of how even Mickey works it out before she does! :D