02 January 2012 @ 08:02 pm
014 [Voice | Video | Action for the flat]  
[The audio feed clicks on in the middle of a sentence. It was meant to be a private recording but flipped over to public in the middle of things.]

--ought to want to leave. There's a whole Universe out there to explore and I've just seen a tiny corner of it. And I do want to see the Universe. I want to see all the planets and all the bits that are goin' to be and the parts that have been. Never wanted that 'fore him, y'know? I was happy with my nice life, my job in the department store and my chips 'til he showed me the whole Universe and I didn't think I'd ever be happy with that nice sorta life again. Now...I realise it's more 'bout him then it is about the travelin'. I think maybe it always has been. He is...the most amazing man.

[She pauses for a long moment, no other sounds to really cue her unintended audience to what's going on.]

I thought I'd lost him. Not lost your child in the grocery store over by the sweets sorta lost. Really lost. Sealed dimensions sorta lost and there were days...I couldn't give up hope because then there was just nothin' but some days it was so hard to hope. They kept tellin' me what the odds of findin' him were. Mum kept sayin' not to get my hopes up but they never understood, my hopes were always sorta pinned up on him so far up that they couldn't get any higher.

[She sighs, pausing to try and gather all of her thoughts so that this voice memoir has some sort of focus instead of just rambling. She's fairly certain her rambling is getting worse in response to spending so much time with the Doctor and his rambling. It's not a bad thing, it's just not a concise thing.]

I've got both of them here and...I am so loved. Each one of 'em would tear apart the Universe for me and I love both of them so much, I think it's goin' to rip me apart inside. I'm just grateful, I guess. Grateful to be able to have both of them here and to spend--to get to have this. It's better than the stars, the universe, the planets and all the time lines together.

[Another sigh, more frustrated than the other.]

None of this is sayin' what I mean but writin' it doesn't help either. M'grateful beyond all sortsa words. Doctors, if I ever disappear and you hear this: don't be disappointed 'cause I didn't want to leave. Sorta both your faults anyhow. I love you both and this has been the best adventure.

[There's a click as she stops the recording and then some shuffling as it flips to video. She's lying on her stomach in her room.]

Thinkin' it's time to paint the flat. Doctor? Up for it?
 
 
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[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 3rd, 2012 10:34 pm (UTC)
Thanks, Rose.

I'm kind of - I never thought it would happen.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 3rd, 2012 11:49 pm (UTC)
Yeah?

I sorta think the City is brilliant.
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 3rd, 2012 11:59 pm (UTC)
Yeah. He's - well, he's Jack Harkness. And I'm just a mechanic from Kennewick, Washington.

It is, isn't it? When it's not being dreadful.

But I'd never even have met him, much less gotten a chance for this anywhere else.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 12:26 am (UTC)
[Rose can identify. She occasionally got feelings like that when she used to travel with him but then she became the girl who absorbed the time vortex and even now, the Doctor is constantly telling her how brilliant she is so that now she's actually in danger of absorbing his ego.]

I woulda found the Doctor again, eventually [Again, again.] But the City makes it easier.
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 12:30 am (UTC)
I bet you would have.

I'd never have even known any of them existed.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 02:27 am (UTC)
I'm awfully lucky to have met both of 'em in my world.
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 02:32 am (UTC)
You are. You really are.

Jack said something, oh months ago, about how if we ever had the chance he'd take me back to the 40's with him and... I don't know. Just the thought of being able to do something like that. It's amazing.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 03:06 am (UTC)
Nineteen forties? Meet Jack in 1939--I think in World War II London, It was a good trip.

It's brilliant. Time travel and travelin' to other planets. Absolutely brilliant.
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 03:09 am (UTC)
It sounds just amazing.

He has a vortex thing...

Did you get to dance with him then? He's something else.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 03:34 am (UTC)
Vortex manipulator. Doctor fixed it where he can't use it last time I was there. [She doesn't know that Jack fixed it.]

Yeah on his ship in front of Big Ben to Glen Miller. Not doin' much half way. [That was a fun trip. They saved London, met Jack and the Doctor danced. And somewhere along the way 'dance' became code for other things.]
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 03:37 am (UTC)
[Mercy's not going to mention Jack seems to have fixed it then.]

Vortex manipulator. That was it.

Sounds wonderful. We danced together during a curse, 'Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square'. Long before anything happened between us. It was such fun we made it sort of a before dinner or as dinner's cooking regular thing.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 04:28 am (UTC)
[It wouldn't matter either way. Jack seems pretty adept at fixing it when the Doctor breaks it and the Doctor keeps giving him the manipulator back so he probably knows Jack is going to fix it again.]

Sounds like a nice sorta regular thing to me.
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 06:30 pm (UTC)
Oh, it definitely is.

Especially after a tough day.

Some soft music, a little dancing...

Makes everything seem better.
[identity profile] iam-thebadwolf.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 08:35 pm (UTC)
Sounds nice.

Doctor and me have a hammock in the livin' room we tend to curl up in most nights.

Anyway, when we dance it always just sorta ends up that kind of swayin' in place dancin' that you at
[identity profile] coyote-walking.livejournal.com on January 4th, 2012 08:55 pm (UTC)
Oh, a hammock sounds really nice!

And nothing wrong with the swaying in place stuff. The closeness is what I like most.