Gift- day eight
Jacquie held the gift in her hands and turned it over countless times by now. On the gift was a label with the name Rose Tyler, the name of her daughter that she wasn't sure she would ever see again. Still she hoped, that's why she bought her a gift. She wouldn't give on and think that her daughter have died out there millions of years in the future on some game station. Mickey had advised her to don't do this to herself because she is making herself ill, but she couldn't. She partially blamed herself that she let her daughter talk her into helping her with that crazy idea of opening the TARDIS. Now Rose was gone and she hand only that present in her hand with Rose's name on it. She knew how manipulative her daughter could be and she only needed to mention meeting Pete, to make her mother help her going back to that alien.
Jacquie sighed what had happened had happened and she could not change it, but she would not listen to Mickey and she would keep on buying Rose gift every birthday and ever Christmas she thought. She turned the gift once more in her hand and placed it on top of the piles with other gifts.
"Merry Christmas Rose," Jacquie said quietly and went to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea. And then was when she heard that noise that meant her daughter was back for Christmas even if later it turned out to be with a different man.