Rules
It wasn't just not fair that he'd taken Rose. It wasn't right that he'd chosen her.
When she left, I started trying to do some research – for the website, and for Rose - to find out where she'd gone. Unfortunately, there aren't many books in the reference sections on time travel. I know, I looked. What I did find, eventually, was in the fiction section. Under Sci-Fi. Science Fiction.
At first, I rather dubiously read a couple – for research, like I said. But some of them are actually quite good, and now I find myself reading – actually reading, for fun. I've got a couple of shelves full of books now, books set on distant planets, alternate universes, giant space stations and intergalactic wars.
And there's one thing I noticed in them. In all of them.
Rose shouldn't – can't be the heroine, the sidekick.
She's not been orphaned – she may have lost her dad, but she's got Jackie. She's not been mistreated, not been locked up for voicing her opinions – she and Jackie always got on pretty well, considering how strong willed the two of them are – and she's not lonely. She's got her mum, she's got Shireen. She's got me.
At least, she did have.
What's my point? She's got all these connections tying her to Earth, to 2005, no real reason to leave. No excuse for the Doctor to take her away.
And yet he did. Flaunting every convention, every unwritten rule of every story – the person is supposed to be rescued from inane drudgery (although perhaps it wasn't the most thrilling of lives, that's a bit much, don't you think? Shop work's not that bad), is supposed to be neglected, alone, unhappy. Rose wasn't any of those things, yet he took her anyway.
He took her, the Doctor for whom trouble and deadly peril are the normal state of existence.
Life isn't a story, I know. But sometimes, often, I wish it was.
Because then, she'd realise that really, she belongs here, now, with her family. And not with some lunatic, disaster-bringing alien.
But it's not, and that's what worries me most of all.
Because stories normally have happy endings.
In my opinion, Mickey's not the brightest guy ever, because he really doesn't see why Rose left him; I tried to get that across here. Did I succeed? Let me know!
