How did it end like this? How did she, Gwen Harkness time traveller, ended up working in a corner shop?
It was the daleks fault.
They took her sister away, and yes the Doctor saved Rose like he promised, but the daleks were going to kill everyone on earth and they had to stop it….
Gwen would wake up with her lips swollen, as if Jack had planted that last kiss on her in her sleep…the last kiss she shared with her husband, who is surely dead by now.
The Doctor sent Rose home with her….
But he forgot that Rose was incredibly stubborn….
And those words again, Bad Wolf…why hadn't Gwen noticed them before? Hell she thinks she might have written some of them as a child.
Rose looked into the heart of the TARDIS, and Gwen stumbled back with her mother, and then the doors closed and the TARDIS left.
Leaving Gwen behind.
She was working in a newsagent, she ate chips, and she went to bed. When she was asleep she was somewhere else…with Jack. And she would wake with her lips swollen from his kisses and tear trails on her cheeks. Occasionally she would get drunk on a Friday night with Mickey, Shareen and Keisha; she would have such vivid hallucinations of Jack then.
It's been six months.
Christmas is going to be tomorrow
Rose, the Doctor and Jack haven't returned and for all Gwen knows they're dead.
And then she hears it.
The engines of the TARDIS.
Maybe just maybe this will be the best Christmas ever…maybe just maybe she'll smile again.
Authors note: I couldn't come up with anything for parting of ways so I thought a little drabble in Gwen's point of view before the Christmas Invasion would do. I will do the Christmas Invasion and I will work on the second series soon.