The Longest Distance

[preserved_ginger]

Title: The Longest Distance
Rating: PG
Setting: The gap between The Runaway Bride and Smith & Jones
Character(s): Ten
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Spoilers: None whatever, assuming you know (and who doesn’t?) what happens in Doomsday.
A/N: This is set in the same universe as (and follows on from) The Fire In Which We Burn. Title and summary both from a quote by Tennessee Williams.
Summary: Time is the longest distance between two places.

That unfinished sentence still haunted him, and every waking hour (and for him, there were many) he spent searching for a way to finish it. That was a distraction for him, anyway, to draw his attention away from the fact that there were other things he was forgetting that he would much prefer to remember.

For example, he could remember the agonised expression on her face when she realised that he couldn’t come for her. That she really was stuck there.

He could remember that with a painful clarity, but had forgotten the exact feel of her lips under his.

Comments

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

*wibbles*

*hugs*

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

:( Aaw. Painful last line.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Clowns?

:( Aaw. Painful last line.

Painful, ’cause it’s true – at least in this ’verse.

[glory_jean]

*sniff*

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

*sniff*

*hugs*

[requialexa.livejournal.com]

One thing that really struck me is that the way it rushes to that abrupt & painful admission & then just ends-- It feels just like Ten rushing about looking for a way back busying himself so as not to think too much.
Sad, but true :) Well done!

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

It feels just like Ten rushing about looking for a way back busying himself so as not to think too much.

Yup, I thought that too – he’s good at the deliberately-not-thinking-about-it when he wants (needs?) to be.

Well done!

Thank you!

[trustme1013.livejournal.com]

*sob*

*crushed*

*sigh*

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

*sob*

*crushed*

*sigh*

*HUGS*

[beauty-within16.livejournal.com]

That was heartbreaking.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

That was heartbreaking.

It’ll get better for him (eventually).

[helygen.livejournal.com]

Beautifully written, and that last line is heartbreaking

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Beautifully written, and that last line is heartbreaking

Thank you – and it’s meant to be (so I’m glad it worked!)