Six

[preserved_ginger]

Title: Six
Character(s), in order of appearance: Ten. Mention throughout of Rose.
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: 12
A/N: Coming to terms with this is more difficult than I’d expected ... hence these drabble!fics. This particular one comes from seeing a parallel between Ten’s behaviour on the beach in Journey’s End and his treatment of Harriet Jones in The Christmas Invasion.
Disclaimer: Not mine
Spoilers: Journey’s End; I’ve borrowed language and themes also from The Christmas Invasion.
Summary: Six words.

Six words. Just six. Six words in which he comes the closest he’s been in years to admitting to somebody just how much he needs them. And although he needs Rose more now than ever, the treacherous little voice in his head keeps telling him how he doesn’t deserve her and how, now his double is “a completely new man”, he should give her up for her own good.

She knows how he feels about her. She has to know. He’s done everything but say it.

And yet —

“He needs you. That’s very me.”

Just six. Six words.

Six.

Comments

[nebularific]

Ouch. This just reminded me why I hate RTD so much right now. Those six words are the closest the *Doctor* can come to saying his feelings, just goes to prove that Bluesuit isn't really him... *grr* [yes, I still have issues with JE.]

Lovely little fic though. I hadn't spotted to parallel before, but there it is.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

Yup.

This just reminded me why I hate RTD so much right now. Those six words are the closest the *Doctor* can come to saying his feelings, just goes to prove that Bluesuit isn't really him... *grr* [yes, I still have issues with JE.]

Don’t worry, I have issues with it as well (by the sounds of it, quite possibly the same ones as you.)

Lovely little fic though. I hadn't spotted to parallel before, but there it is.

It took me a little while to find the parallel myself, but once I had the thing pretty much wrote itself.