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Title: Quite Right Too (A Ten/Rose Diptych) – But Grace Won’t Come
Rating: PG-13
Setting: Season Four
Character(s): Ten. Donna. Rose (off-camera).
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Spoilers: None, other than the name of the Season Four companion.
Disclaimer: Not Mine
A/N: Ten/Rose, post-Doomsday, from Donna's point of view (The title of this part is from the song Something’s Got To Give by Runrig.) Part of the To Days To Come ’verse. For

jai_23.
Summary: He grieves her like a lost, beloved wife.

He grieves her like a lost, beloved wife.
Can barely bring himself to say her name,
But says he hopes she has a brilliant life
(And yet without her he can’t have the same.)
He seems to almost have a sense of shame
For how the two of them were torn apart.
And guilt for it has caused him naught but pain;
The memory lies heavy on his heart.
And so he’s never had the chance to heal,
To hold her in his memory but move on.
It’s as if he won’t let himself feel;
Can’t get past the fact that she is gone.
She’s gone, but she’s still here. She’s like a ghost.
And that, I think, is what hurts him the most.