Hopefully, this will end up as a series of ficlets dealing with life after the events of Last of the Time Lords for those who remember the Year That Never Was, and a few of those who don't.

So far unbetad (volunteers?), so there may be a few mistakes. I'll try to update within the week.

The Broken CD

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The first thing Tish does when she gets home is smash her Scissor Sisters CD. She can't even look at it without being reminded of that psycho bastard singing along as the world burned.

Her friends don't understand. She's different, they tell her with their puzzled looks and awkward pauses. They are just the same as she remembers, chattering on about everything and nothing, things she once would have found fascinating. Now she finds them inane and meaningless. Tish wants to scream at them, shake them until they understand. Who cares which celebrity is doing what? She watched the world suffer, thousands of people die, and she's afraid. Afraid right to her bones. Afraid it will happen again and that this time there will be no Martha and the Doctor to stop it.

She doesn't sleep well. By the looks on their faces, she can tell that her parents don't either. That awful, terrible Year That Never Was keeps playing in her head each time she closes her eyes. Martha seems to be coping better than anyone even though Tish is sure that the things she saw as she walked the world must have been far worse than anything that happened aboard the Valiant. It makes her wonder just what Martha saw during her travels with the Doctor.

Tish doesn't know how to cope with the unchanged world. All she knows is that her life will never be the same.

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