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Title: A Life without Innocence
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Rating: G
Character/Pairings: Rose Tyler, Mentions of the ninth Doctor
Word Count: 317 on MS Word
Warnings: None
Summary: He gave her compassion, but what did it cost her.
Author's Note: This is set before nine regenerates into Ten.
“One cannot have compassion and innocence…” ---Eugenia W. Collier
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Clouds of rope stretch across a pale moon over a grassy hill outside of London. Teenagers spread out on blankets and stare at the stars. Term papers, chores, and part-time jobs forgotten as they sit back on a Friday night and watch the stars. That’s what we see, but Rose Tyler doesn’t.
She sees past the smiling faces and into their souls. She sees that some blankets are a bit more tattered than others or that some of the teens lankier than they ought to be. She sees them and feels for them. She sees their pain, and their pain hurts.
Soft music plays as they kids settle in a circle and smile up at the stars and each other. Guitars are strummed, feet are stomped, and hands clapped to an imperfect rhythm as voices join in the chorus. That’s what we hear, but Rose Tyler doesn’t.
The jovial tones fall on deaf ears as the only sounds that come to her are ones of sorrow. She hears the girl whose voice is laced with what seems to be permanent trepidation, and a boy who doesn’t sing at all.
***
Rose thinks she remembers a time when she didn’t see the world this way. She thinks she can remember a time when she knew not of the pain and the suffering of others. A time when smiles really were smiles and the stars could light up a night sky and still not reveal what longed to be hidden.
The rose colored glasses that she had once viewed the world through had shattered when an impossible man uttered one word as his fingers laced through hers, “Run!”
With one word, the Doctor had taken away one nineteen year old girl’s innocence and given her something in return…a new life—a life of compassion.
Author:
country_whoRating: G
Character/Pairings: Rose Tyler, Mentions of the ninth Doctor
Word Count: 317 on MS Word
Warnings: None
Summary: He gave her compassion, but what did it cost her.
Author's Note: This is set before nine regenerates into Ten.
“One cannot have compassion and innocence…” ---Eugenia W. Collier
***
Clouds of rope stretch across a pale moon over a grassy hill outside of London. Teenagers spread out on blankets and stare at the stars. Term papers, chores, and part-time jobs forgotten as they sit back on a Friday night and watch the stars. That’s what we see, but Rose Tyler doesn’t.
She sees past the smiling faces and into their souls. She sees that some blankets are a bit more tattered than others or that some of the teens lankier than they ought to be. She sees them and feels for them. She sees their pain, and their pain hurts.
Soft music plays as they kids settle in a circle and smile up at the stars and each other. Guitars are strummed, feet are stomped, and hands clapped to an imperfect rhythm as voices join in the chorus. That’s what we hear, but Rose Tyler doesn’t.
The jovial tones fall on deaf ears as the only sounds that come to her are ones of sorrow. She hears the girl whose voice is laced with what seems to be permanent trepidation, and a boy who doesn’t sing at all.
***
Rose thinks she remembers a time when she didn’t see the world this way. She thinks she can remember a time when she knew not of the pain and the suffering of others. A time when smiles really were smiles and the stars could light up a night sky and still not reveal what longed to be hidden.
The rose colored glasses that she had once viewed the world through had shattered when an impossible man uttered one word as his fingers laced through hers, “Run!”
With one word, the Doctor had taken away one nineteen year old girl’s innocence and given her something in return…a new life—a life of compassion.
