Romancing Rose
Prompt:"heartbreak"
From: abbytemple
Words: 254
The first time abbytemple and I watched "Doomsday" (I had seen it before), she didn't cry. I was sobbing. But she swears she cried the next time. Anyway, I decided to write a mopey Doctor.
There were days when the Doctor would get quiet. He would stop bouncing around and would stare into space. Sometimes, Donna would catch him fingering a ring that looked suspiciously like the one he bio-damped her with. His hair, as well as everything else, would droop and hang limply for a while.
Donna didn't know exactly what he was thinking about or if this was what Timelords did to rest, but he looked sad, so she assumed the former. He could have been thinking about the Time War, of the billions of Timelords he destroyed. Maybe he was thinking of Rose, who knew?
But she hated when he did that. She didn't know what to do. He was sad. He was lonely. That was what she knew about him. But in these moments of what she suspected was mourning, she realized what she really knew about him.
Nothing.
Well. . . maybe not nothing. She knew that no matter what he said, he was not alright. He was not invincible, at least not emotionally.
And Donna didn't know what to do. That was what bugged her most about the mysterious Doctor that somehow stole a huge chunk of her heart and wasn't giving it back anytime soon.
But Donna knew that soon they'd find another planet to save, another villain to defeat. Sure, they'd both shed tears and yelled about the injustice of it all, but that was what they did.
If they didn't, who would?
It wasn't fair, but what could they do?