Never meet your heroes

Rose was upset. There was no other word for the look of disappointment on her face. And after all the trouble he'd gone through for this to have worked to begin with.

She had kept on asking him, endlessly and repetitively it felt, to be a bit more Spock. He'd had no idea what that meant, until one day she got him to watch an episode of Star Trek.

The show was laughable, but he decided to see if he could give her these people she loved so dearly.

And so here they were, on board the USS Enterprise, having found that time travel and television make a great combination if no one else could do it. Because as far as Rose was now concerned, it was all real.

And so to her delight, and now disappointment, was Spock.

After sharing a rather harrowing adventure in which three people from the security team had died, the Doctor led Rose and Jack back to the TARDIS and said their goodbyes to the infamous crew. And Rose was sulking.

"I thought you'd like it Rose. You kept on asking me to be more like them, so instead I gave you them. What's wrong?"

Rose stared at him, shrugged, shook her head slightly and sighed. "Never mind. You wouldn't get it anyway."

With that he grinned and hugged her. "One thing you've got to understand about this time travel business, Rose, and this is very important. Never meet your heroes. It always will disappoint you when they aren't like you imagined it to be."

She grinned up at him and ducked her head. "It's just, you know, the show. And the real thing...it's...different."

"'Course it is! What were you expecting?"

She shrugged and looked at him, a little embarrassed about the whole affair. "I just thought he'd be a bit more...open."

It took him a while to figure out what he meant by that, but when he did, he couldn't help but laugh. "Rose, the man's a Vulcan!"

She frowned at him before burying her head. "I know, but it's so hard to forget that he's also half human. I just suppose I expected to see that part of him somewhere and instead got the other half."

He patted her shoulders and grinned at her. "Well, now you know to enjoy watching the telly, and not trying to meet the characters, real or not."

"Yes sir!" she stated, giving him a small salute and a grin.

She never asked him to be a bit more Spock again. She had Jack, a normal human being, to scan for alien tech now.