AN: This chapter is all Beloved-Stranger.

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I own nothing you recognise. This is all completely un-beta'd and totally fresh off the top of my brain!


It is two weeks to Christmas and Phil walks into his office, a beautiful shot of espresso topped with whipped cream made courtesy of his new ward, Rose Tyler.

"What is this?" he asks, blinking at the tinsel edging almost every surface, red baubles dangling from the ceiling. A sprig of holly hangs on the back of his screen.

"Christmas decorations!" Rose yells from her desk part-way down the hall. "You're welcome!"

He places his coffee on his desk and begins to clear the tinsel and take down the baubles.

The next day he walks into his office and a proximity bomb explodes at chest height, decorating his suit with tiny red and green and silver snowflakes. When the decorations return, he does not remove them. He stops wearing that suit after Agent Hill comments on the colourful trail he leaves behind him two months later.


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