Time Is A Companion

[preserved_ginger]

Title: Time Is A Companion
Rating: PG
Setting: Season Three
Character(s): Ten, mention of Martha.
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 Longest Distance. Title and summary both from a quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Summary: Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.

He could remember the oddest things. Not always what he wanted to remember, either.

He could remember how it had felt when she had lied to him about their baby – he couldn’t for the life of him pin down how he knew, he just did – but he had forgotten exactly how her skin felt beneath his fingers.

And each memory of his relationship with Rose started to slip from him, no matter how much he wanted to hold on to what little he had left; as each memory lost its sharpness he was crueller and crueller to Martha.

Comments

[helygen.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh this is so sad, and says so much about his attitude towards poor Martha

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh this is so sad, and says so much about his attitude towards poor Martha

I think there probably was something like this going on his head when he was being particularly obtuse about what Martha obviously thought of him. It’s the most charitable explanation for his behaviour I can think of.

[helygen.livejournal.com]

"I think there probably was something like this going on his head ..."

Oh most definitely