When She Met Him

A Doctor Who General Fanfic

Summary:
Just a simple afternoon stroll, when Gwyneth met the butcher's boy.

Rated K for nothing to bump it up.

Disclaimer: No OCs in this one, unless you count the personification of the butcher's boy.

A/N: Ghilanna Faen Tlabbar, whose name I copied and pasted thank you very little, had a challenge to think of the "Pairings You Never Think Of", and these two – Gwyneth and the butcher's boy – were one of said pairings. She's got a challenge thread under that name in the Take a Banana forum.

I'm as surprised as you are it's exactly 250 words.

(250 words)

It was a simple afternoon stroll that she was taking when she met him. She knew she shouldn't have been walking all on her own. It wasn't the respectable thing to do. She was a woman now, and women did not take afternoon strolls by themselves. Even less so did children, which she yet considered herself. Still, she had her angels to watch over her. With them, she was never alone and always protected.

So she thought nothing of taking a stroll through the park alone. And that was where she met him. She must have stumbled over a root, for one moment she was walking along as normal and the next he was helping her up. She couldn't help staring into his wonderful eyes as he did. They were a soft brown, sparkling and warm.

"Are you alright, miss?" he asked. His voice was as lovely as his eyes. She nodded mutely, unable – or unwilling – to answer. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, sir." He shook his head, a smile lighting up his face.

"You've no need to call me 'sir.' My name is Billy Carter." He brought the hand he'd used to help her up to his lips and brushed them on the knuckles. "And who might you be?"

"Please, sir, I'm only a serving girl."

"Well, miss serving girl, what do they call you?"

"Gwyneth, sir."

"Gwyneth," he repeated as if trying it out. "It's a lovely name. Now, Gwyneth the serving girl, where is it you were headed?"

A/N: :D My first challenge-inspired fic. It's not much romance, unfortunately, but I do like it.