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writers_island ([personal profile] writers_island) wrote2009-10-26 06:42 pm

Doctor Who -- "This Girl is Taking Bets"

part of the "She" drabble set
Doctor Who (Tenth Doctor), Rose(/Ten)

She’s the ashes of the people that you really meant to be. - "This Girl is Taking Bets", Thea Gilmore

This Girl is Taking Bets | G | 100 words | complete

The planet is called Britannia, discovered two hundred years before their visit. The streets are festooned with streamers, fluctuating colors bright. The music is electric, atonal, and loud, and he feels every one of his 900-odd years.

Her laughter cuts through the din. She’s playing with an anti-gravity ball, standing head and shoulders above the children around her. His Red Riding Hood, lost in time and space. His Bad Wolf. So innocent, but capable of such destruction. So very, very young, but her eyes are old.

“Doctor!” She’s holding out her hand. He can’t help smiling when he takes it.

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