Title: No Man's Land
Disclaimer: Not mine. I'm not looking to make a profit here, just looking for piece of mind. I'm not even sure who really owns them.
Author: Sabine
AN: 200 words. If Rose was awake at night and the walls were too thin she might be thinking this. I've only seen three episodes, and I've only ever seen the Ninth, so this is all very new to me.
What are you supposed to do when your (male, alien) companion wakes up screaming in the middle of the night? Do you go in and wake him up, risking horrible awkwardness and embarrassment for you both? Or do you lie there, hideously awake, respectfully pretending you don't her him through the wall while your chest constricts with sympathetic pain? I am a coward. I lie here in the dark, and wish painfully that I could go in there and comfort him. But I don't. Because I'm afraid I won't be welcome. Or maybe that I'll be too welcome, that such tired, nighttime proximity in the middle of all this sublime tension that's been building between us would be our undoing, and then where would we be?
He's been almost manic lately. Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it scares the hell out of me. Not so much the frenetic energy but the sad heaviness I see in his eyes in the moments in-between. I think he moves around so much because if he doesn't it'll all catch up to him, everything he's trying to leave behind.
I was only planetless for a few hours, I can't imagine living like that permanently.