Thursday: On Vacation

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My last day... *pout* I shall have to come up with some crazy themes and do this again!

Today's theme is On Vacation.

After yesterday's insanity, our characters really need a break. What do they do to get away from their normal lives?

Please think about our wonderful codemonkeys and use the correct format (the second is for crossovers).

Fandom, Pairing, Prompt
Fandom1/Fandom2, Pairing, Prompt

Firefly, River, Building sand-castles on the beach
Torchwood/Heroes, Jack/Ianto/Gabriel, A broken stopwatch spoils half their vacation plans

Please remember not to post more than 5 prompts in a row and more than 3 prompts per fandom. If one or more of your prompts are answered, you can prompt again later in the day.

If you don't see anything you like, you can always Adopt a Lonely Prompt.

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Doctor Who, Doctor/Rose, "I'll love you until the end of time." "Really? Let's go see!"

Avoidance Tactics

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"I'll love you until the end of time." Rose said, sidling up to the Doctor, laying her head on his shoulder.

"Really? Let's go see!" He replied excitedly, but moved away from her to the console of the TARDIS.

"What? Are you joking?"

"No, wouldn't it be lovely to see the end of time? I think it'd be fantastic, Rose!"

Of course, he was a Time Lord, she should've known that he'd take 'until the end of time' literally and want to see it.

What was most disconcerting however was that this was the third time Rose had used the L word, and she had yet to hear it from that alien.

"Why don't you say it?" she asked softly.

"Rose...it's not that simple." His voice sounded pained, but he was still keeping his back to her.

"Why not?"

"Well, Time Lords and humans aren't exactly the most compatible of species."

"What's that got to do with anything?"

"Rose, just trust me when I say it isn't a good idea."

"Fine." She turned on her heels and went further into the TARDIS.

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A bumpy ride later, they ended up floating in total black; no color, no shapes, nothing, like the endless space without the stars, planets, or debris one found when traveling through space and time.

Rose, the Doctor found, was still pissed at him, and avoiding him pretty well.

He flung open the doors and waited for her to show her head, as he knew she would (she was a curious and fragile human after all).

He didn't have to wait long before he heard her shuffling nearer.

"I suppose this is the end of time," she said in a clipped tone.

"Yeah. End of time, end of humans, end of Time Lords, end of everything. No stones, no planets, nothing to indicate there were any civilizations, no way life can ever grow again."

"That's kind of depressing."

"That's kind of the point when things, things you've become accustomed to, things you see every day, come to an end. All that's left is this...nothingness."

Rose was smart enough to know that there was subtext underlying in this whole spiel about things ending.

She came to stand next to him, slowly going for his hand. "But, if everything is just going to end, wouldn't it be better to not have any regrets when it does?"

"You think you'd have regrets?"

"Yes, most definitely. Wouldn't you?"

"I don't know, Rose. When you live as long as I have, regrets seem better than broken hearts."

And there wasn't anything else she could say to that. When she really thought about it, maybe he did know what he was talking about. Compared to him, she didn't know anything, compared to him, she had hardly begun to live.

Yet, she kept his hand in hers.

Re: Avoidance Tactics

[juliet316]

So bittersweet and sad.

Re: Avoidance Tactics

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant! Exactly what I needed to hear these days.. thank you!