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Doctor Who:
Your Past Is Better Than Your Future
A few adventures across time streams reveal to the Tenth Doctor how much he should miss his past lives.
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The Living Rose
By Eugena
Rated: M
New developments arise after "The Stone Rose"
Chapter One:
In which Rose Thinks of the Past and the Present
With GENIE whisked off to his new home, Rose sat down in the chair by the console and reviewed her last few days. She'd never look at another statue the same way again. After all, she was one once. The possibility of losing The Doctor, however, was much worse.
She had long ago decided that he was more important than herself. Her thoughts drifted to The Stone Rose—Fortuna. The Doctor had a time machine, and he certainly didn't let her know how long it took him to become a master sculptor. He'd admitted to her when they first saw Fortuna that the sculptor was enamored with her appearance. Now, they both found out The Doctor was the sculptor. Was he still enamored with her? He certainly made Fortuna very detailed—her bum, her broken fingernail.
She looked down to her right hand. She touched the ring. The Other Doctor came to mind. She saw him smile, and she smiled back.
"Daydreaming?" The Doctor asked when he saw her playing with the ring. Some days, he tried to avoid bringing up that past.
She turned to look at him, her smile dropping a bit. No human could tell how slight, but he could.
"You thought of everything," she said.
"I suppose I did. I needed you back—no paradoxes."
"Circular logic," she mused. "Still," she said as she stood up, there's one thing to discuss."
"Oh?"
"You kissed me."
He swallowed hard. "I did."
"Made a statue of me, kissed me, seems so...domestic."
He put up no objection as her lips met his.
"I should make statues more often..."