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[#160] A FIRST FOR EVERYTHING (DOCTOR WHO)
Theme Prompt: #160 - Innocence
Title: A first for everything
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Rose can’t help but be in awe of the universe.
‘Nice view, huh?’ Jack said, easing back into the banana lounge as Rose slid into the one next to him. Overhead the sky was littered with more stars than Rose had ever seen in her life. This place was famous for having the most stars per square parsec of sky, according to Jack, and this was the premium viewing point. To Rose, it looked a lot like South End beach, except it was nighttime, and there was no sunbathing, only starbathing, assuming that was the term for it. The Doctor had of course yawned and told them he’d seen it all before, but that they should go and have fun all the same.
No sooner had they gotten comfortable than a strange little robot sidled up between their lounges, causing Rose to start at the sudden intrusion.
‘Its okay,’ Jack said. ‘It’s only a roboserve.’
‘Can I offer you a drink?’ it asked in a polite metallic voice.
‘You sure can,’ Jack replied. ‘Vodka martini, and don't skimp on the hypervodka. We paid extra for these seats. Rose, pick your poison.’
‘Sprite,’ she said, making sure to address the roboserve, just in case it took offence.
‘Sprite?’
Rose frowned, surprised to find that the roboserve had no idea what it was. ‘Lemonade? Do you have lemonade?’
‘Would you like that with or without a straw?’
‘She’ll have it with a straw,’ Jack said, cutting in, ‘and one of those cute little cocktail umbrellas and the little plastic monkey on the side.’ The roboserve considered this for only a brief second before its front hatch flipped open, revealing both their drinks. Jack grabbed them. ‘One “Not Sprite”,’ he said, passing her drink, before they clinked glasses and settled back into their lounges.
Rose’s gaze didn’t leave Jack as he sipped at the large martini glass, grinning like a cheshire cat. ‘What are you grinning about?’
‘Nothing.’
‘Yeah, you are.’ She knew the difference between them having a private joke and Jack teasing her. ‘You reckon I'm funny,’ she said, narrowing her eyes at him as she gripped her glass, ‘but not like funny ha ha.’
‘I'm merely admiring your sense of childlike wonder at the universe, that’s all.’
Rose bristled at the comment. ‘Alright, so I haven't been as many places as you have. That's not a crime.’ She smiled at her own comment and then looked at him. ‘In fact, I reckon it'll be all those crimes that got you to the places you've been.’
‘I've never been a saint,’ he admitted, ‘but I never committed a crime that would get people hurt. Not intentionally,’ he corrected himself. Rose recalled the circumstances under which they'd originally met. Technically, nobody had died or gotten seriously hurt, thanks to the Doctor's intervention, but there'd been the potential for it to all go horribly wrong. Not what he'd planned she was sure, but who knew the capsule had a slow leak.
Jack leaned back in his lounge chair, long legs stretched out as his t-shirt rode up just slightly from the low waistband of his black jeans, giving Rose just a sneak peak of what lay underneath. Not that she was romantically inclined toward him. Jack had become more like an annoying older brother, always looking out for her whilst simultaneously driving her crazy.
‘Y’know, once upon a time I was like you,’ he said, keeping his gaze skyward, admiring the diamond dusted sky. ‘The whole universe was just one big ball of wonder. The place I grew up was even more backward than Earth. Just a tiny little city built on the shore of a planet that was ninety percent desert. Then I joined the Time Agency and everything changed. There was a whole universe out there. All these places and creatures I couldn't even imagine.’ He turned over in his chair to look her in the eye. ‘I used to be the model pupil at the Time Agency Academy.’
Rose pulled a face of amused disbelief. ‘Shut up, you were not.’ Jack was a bad boy through and through. He definitely wasn't some goody two shoes. More likely he was the model of what not to do. He had too much cheek and charm to be anything else.
‘It's true. I was their poster child for what was possible. A rising star in the ranks of Time Agents.’
Rose was intrigued. Jack didn't usually give up his personal history quite so easily, but their location and the alcohol were clearly loosening his lips. Not to mention that the Doctor wasn't anywhere nearby. Jack was always more candid with her when he wasn't also trying to simultaneously impress the Doctor. ‘So, how'd you end up a grifter then?’
‘I got burned,’ he said, sipping his drink to disguise some of the bitterness he clearly still felt. ‘You think the world is just made up of good and bad until one day you realise it's actually a thousand shades of grey. Good people sometimes do bad things.’
‘Maybe,’ she conceded. But sometimes people you think are bad do good things as well.’ She had both in her life. The Doctor, who meant only to do good, and sometimes got it wrong; and Jack, who was trying so hard to be a good person despite whatever had happened that had made him go rogue.
‘All I'm saying is that I remember what it's like, being you, seeing it all for the first time. As being so amazed. People can call you crazy for thinking it's all brand new and incredible just because they’ve seen it a hundred times. Relish these precious moments Rose Tyler, because all too soon the magic fades and all innocence is lost. One day you'll look back and wonder where and when it happened, without realising that it can disappear in an instant.’
Rose lay back in her chair and sipped in silence. She didn't think it would ever get boring. Not with the Doctor and Jack in her life.
Title: A first for everything
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Rose can’t help but be in awe of the universe.
‘Nice view, huh?’ Jack said, easing back into the banana lounge as Rose slid into the one next to him. Overhead the sky was littered with more stars than Rose had ever seen in her life. This place was famous for having the most stars per square parsec of sky, according to Jack, and this was the premium viewing point. To Rose, it looked a lot like South End beach, except it was nighttime, and there was no sunbathing, only starbathing, assuming that was the term for it. The Doctor had of course yawned and told them he’d seen it all before, but that they should go and have fun all the same.
No sooner had they gotten comfortable than a strange little robot sidled up between their lounges, causing Rose to start at the sudden intrusion.
‘Its okay,’ Jack said. ‘It’s only a roboserve.’
‘Can I offer you a drink?’ it asked in a polite metallic voice.
‘You sure can,’ Jack replied. ‘Vodka martini, and don't skimp on the hypervodka. We paid extra for these seats. Rose, pick your poison.’
‘Sprite,’ she said, making sure to address the roboserve, just in case it took offence.
‘Sprite?’
Rose frowned, surprised to find that the roboserve had no idea what it was. ‘Lemonade? Do you have lemonade?’
‘Would you like that with or without a straw?’
‘She’ll have it with a straw,’ Jack said, cutting in, ‘and one of those cute little cocktail umbrellas and the little plastic monkey on the side.’ The roboserve considered this for only a brief second before its front hatch flipped open, revealing both their drinks. Jack grabbed them. ‘One “Not Sprite”,’ he said, passing her drink, before they clinked glasses and settled back into their lounges.
Rose’s gaze didn’t leave Jack as he sipped at the large martini glass, grinning like a cheshire cat. ‘What are you grinning about?’
‘Nothing.’
‘Yeah, you are.’ She knew the difference between them having a private joke and Jack teasing her. ‘You reckon I'm funny,’ she said, narrowing her eyes at him as she gripped her glass, ‘but not like funny ha ha.’
‘I'm merely admiring your sense of childlike wonder at the universe, that’s all.’
Rose bristled at the comment. ‘Alright, so I haven't been as many places as you have. That's not a crime.’ She smiled at her own comment and then looked at him. ‘In fact, I reckon it'll be all those crimes that got you to the places you've been.’
‘I've never been a saint,’ he admitted, ‘but I never committed a crime that would get people hurt. Not intentionally,’ he corrected himself. Rose recalled the circumstances under which they'd originally met. Technically, nobody had died or gotten seriously hurt, thanks to the Doctor's intervention, but there'd been the potential for it to all go horribly wrong. Not what he'd planned she was sure, but who knew the capsule had a slow leak.
Jack leaned back in his lounge chair, long legs stretched out as his t-shirt rode up just slightly from the low waistband of his black jeans, giving Rose just a sneak peak of what lay underneath. Not that she was romantically inclined toward him. Jack had become more like an annoying older brother, always looking out for her whilst simultaneously driving her crazy.
‘Y’know, once upon a time I was like you,’ he said, keeping his gaze skyward, admiring the diamond dusted sky. ‘The whole universe was just one big ball of wonder. The place I grew up was even more backward than Earth. Just a tiny little city built on the shore of a planet that was ninety percent desert. Then I joined the Time Agency and everything changed. There was a whole universe out there. All these places and creatures I couldn't even imagine.’ He turned over in his chair to look her in the eye. ‘I used to be the model pupil at the Time Agency Academy.’
Rose pulled a face of amused disbelief. ‘Shut up, you were not.’ Jack was a bad boy through and through. He definitely wasn't some goody two shoes. More likely he was the model of what not to do. He had too much cheek and charm to be anything else.
‘It's true. I was their poster child for what was possible. A rising star in the ranks of Time Agents.’
Rose was intrigued. Jack didn't usually give up his personal history quite so easily, but their location and the alcohol were clearly loosening his lips. Not to mention that the Doctor wasn't anywhere nearby. Jack was always more candid with her when he wasn't also trying to simultaneously impress the Doctor. ‘So, how'd you end up a grifter then?’
‘I got burned,’ he said, sipping his drink to disguise some of the bitterness he clearly still felt. ‘You think the world is just made up of good and bad until one day you realise it's actually a thousand shades of grey. Good people sometimes do bad things.’
‘Maybe,’ she conceded. But sometimes people you think are bad do good things as well.’ She had both in her life. The Doctor, who meant only to do good, and sometimes got it wrong; and Jack, who was trying so hard to be a good person despite whatever had happened that had made him go rogue.
‘All I'm saying is that I remember what it's like, being you, seeing it all for the first time. As being so amazed. People can call you crazy for thinking it's all brand new and incredible just because they’ve seen it a hundred times. Relish these precious moments Rose Tyler, because all too soon the magic fades and all innocence is lost. One day you'll look back and wonder where and when it happened, without realising that it can disappear in an instant.’
Rose lay back in her chair and sipped in silence. She didn't think it would ever get boring. Not with the Doctor and Jack in her life.
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