Title: Time: Minutes
Summary: The second of seven short fics going through Jake and Mickey's relationship in jumps- from right after Rickey dies up to several years later.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who. If I did I'd...probably still be writing fanfiction, but I wouldn't post it.
Notes: Jake/Mickey, past Jake/Rickey. So, yeah, concrit is very much appreciated, reviews are chocolate, concrit is truffles, and somewhere in there are jellybabies.
Minutes
It was minutes before he could think again. At the beginning, when Mickey had come back, come back alone, left Rickey behind, told him that Rickey had died, that the cybermen had got him, it had been minutes before he could think again. Those stupid tin men with their metal minds and metal feet- how were they so fast? They were made of metal, all cold and hard and heavy. They shouldn't have been so fast. And Rickey shouldn't have been so slow. He loved to run, how could he have been so slow? It was just a fence, just a stupid fence and a stupid tin man. He was Rickey Smith, damn it, he shouldn't have been so slow. He should have- he should have got over it, climbed faster, run faster. He should have lived.