Author: Who Wolf
Rating: K
Characters: Nine/Ten and Rose friendship, mentions of Jack
Summary: A photograph represents a moment you always want to remember. And she would never forget that one.
Spoilers: All of first series
Disclaimer: Doctor Who is copyright of the BBC - I don't own anything
A/N: Strange inspirations I have, don't I? I just saw the words somewhere, and it came.
She didn't have many pictures before then.
She wasn't one of those people who whipped out a camera on every occasion to capture the moment forever - after all, it had happened before and would happen again, so what was the point?
She didn't really think about it all that much. Life was just like that before.
Before she began travelling with the Doctor.
Now everything was new and exciting. There was always something she had never seen before, couldn't even have dreamed of. She had never experienced such things before, and probably never would again, and suddenly, she became one of those people that she often used to sigh about, and she took her camera pretty much everywhere - afterall, photographs showed a time you wnted to remember, and she never wanted to forget a second of her travels with the Doctor.
And the evidence of this lay in front of her. An opened page inside a large black, leather-bound photo album inside which it sat. Her most treasured picture.
There, in London 2006, they just stood there. Just her and the Doctor, both laughing and holding a bag of chips each. They hadn't even been looking at the camera, but had been looking at each other, sharing the joke between them in more than just words.
Later, after this picture was taken, they would visit the shops, where she would buy a certain Union Jack t-shirt, and then pop in to see her mum on the Powell Estate before leaving for wartime Britain, where they would be joined by the infamous Captain Jack.
But, no matter how much she cared about Jack, that one moment, that one picture, was her mostspecial.
Perhaps it was because it was natural, with no pose, but a picture taken several seconds after the taker had told them so, before handing them the camera back, grinning and disappearing into the crowd. Who knew?
She'd never thought about the man, the taker of this photograph, in the pin-striped suit again.
After all, he had just been a stranger on the street then, no-one she would remember so long after she had met him for but a second - but now the secretive little grin hat had made her wonder at the time, suddenly made a hell of a lot more sense to her.
She wondered then if he remembered that day, and if he had gone as his new self to take it yet, before she turned the page, leaving these thoughts behind as a new plague of them took over at the next picture, with the three TARDIS crew members in a Charlie's Angels style pose, holding bananas from Villengard like guns.
Little did the young time traveller know that, at that very moment, one grinning Time Lord in a pin-striped suit had just stepped out of the TARDIS and onto the streets of London 2006, where he would soon come across two friends, laughing and eating chips together.
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