milieva_fics | Doctor Who: To Be Stuck With You

Title: To Be Stuck With You

Characters: Rose (Ten/Rose)
Disclaimer: No matter how angsty the series gets I had nothing to do with it.
Prompt:

60damnprompts: 60 days in the life of Rose Tyler: Day 36: Together (Table)

Summary: What would things have been like if they hadn’t been separated?

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Part of her would always wonder what would have happened if they hadn’t been separated. How would things have been different?

They wouldn’t have been able to go on for much longer pretending her symptoms were merely a long lasting flu. Eventually they would have had to face the facts. Then they would have had to tell her mother.

What would the Doctor have done had he known she were pregnant?

Would he have taken her home?

It would be quite something to tell her mother. She would definitely have gone as ballistic over it as she had in her current situation, maybe even more so.

No matter how much they would try to deny that their relationship didn’t revolve around such basal things, there would be no easy way to argue it without Jackie becoming even angrier about the entire thing. A one-off on Barcelona wouldn’t exactly sit well with her. It might even make her accuse him of having taken advantage of the situation.

Her daughter having an alien’s child would be more than enough to send her over the edge, the particulars weren’t even necessary to facilitate that outcome.

She could see him taking her home.

She could see him trying to talk her into staying there for her own safety.

She couldn’t, however, see him leaving her there and never coming back.

If they were still together, he would never leave her. He might have gone off and had a few adventures on his own, but he would always come back. He would have been there through the entire thing. Perhaps he would have even been willing to make their new relationship status more official.

It definitely would have been more than a little silly for them to avoid making that proper step to being lover when they were expecting a child. No amount of skirting the tension was going to keep the baby from growing in her belly.

What’s more, he would have been there to help her on those bad days, changing sheets and helping with baths. She would have someone to hold her when she was tired and frustrated, telling her it would be alright.

Things would have been so much different if she were still with him. She wished so much that things could have gone that way.

But that was the thing about wishes.

They were rarely ever granted.

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