Doctor Who Drabble: Months, Not Hours

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Title: Months, Not Hours

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Rose, Jackie Tyler.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 045: Late at dw100

Spoilers: Aliens Of London

Summary: Rose is shocked to find out how much time has really passed.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

Twelve hours! The Doctor said they’d been gone twelve hours! For a Time Lord, his sense of time is unbelievably bad. Twelve hours? Try twelve months. That’s how long she’s been missing, leaving her mum worried sick wondering what happened to her only child, imagining the worst.

Guilt hits Rose like a punch to the gut. She’s been off having a lark, travelling the universe with the Doctor, enjoying the best time of her life while her mum’s been going through hell.

“I meant to phone. I really did. I just forgot.”

No amount of apologies will ever be enough.

The End

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Was there a reason the TARDIS came back too late?

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As far as I could tell, it was just the Doctor's lousy timekeeping. Poor Jackie.

Thank you.

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Great drabble.

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Thank you!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Jackies face when Rose came back.

Rose was pretty naive. She just meet the Doctor and poor Mickey being suspected of her murder.

At least the Doctor didn't make that mistake again and earned Jackies trust later on.

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Yeah, she forgave him in the end. Jackie looked like she might faint from disbelief, and poor Mickey, after everything, he not only got left behind but practically got a police record. He deserved better.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Then Rose laughs at Nine because he got hurt from Jackie's slap. Seriously?

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Sometimes I think Rose wasn't exactly playing with a full deck. Some of her reactions were a bit...

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Questionable?

RTD said the Doctor saw Rose as the "best" woman he had ever met. Doesn't mean it was true. So it shouldn't bother me. Yet it still does.

Ah!

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Yes, that's the word I couldn't think of this morning! I was still half asleep earlier, makes thinking difficult.

RTD talks out of his arse. He has no idea about women whatsoever *rolls eyes*