I do not own anything. Sorry not sorry for the tears.
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'I still remember the look on your face
Lit through the darkness at 1:58
The words that you whispered for just us to know
You told me you loved me, so why did you go away?
Away'
One late night 13 year old Dorothy McShane who just recently started going by Ace was in her room planning her weekend away from her mum. She was going away with her best friend Manisha. "Ace." She hears her mum scream down for her.
"Coming," quietly, "this is the first time she has called me Ace after asking for three months to go by it." Her mum pats the spot next to her.
"I have something to tell you sweetie."
"What is it Mum?"
"You know how you had plans with Manisha this weekend."
"Yes, I can't believe you. You promised you wouldn't change your mind. You said that you were glad to get rid of me this weekend." She refuses to sit next to her as she rants.
'I do recall now, the smell of the rain
Fresh on the pavement, I ran off the plane
That July ninth, the beat of your heart
It jumps through your shirt, I can still feel your arms'
"Dotti," she uses the old nickname that she only ever used when Ace was really little, voice dipping slightly. "You know how there have been attacks lately."
"Yes."
"It happened to someone we know."
"No, no, no. It can't. Not Manisha and her family. Not the only people that love me." Audrey holds back those words; knowing her daughter doesn't know she loves her. That is why she named her after her favorite movie character. "We need to go to the hospital."
"We can't."
"Why can't we? Don't you care about anyone but yourself and your latest boyfriend."
"I broke up with him because of his views."
"I don't care. Manisha is more than a friend. She's my sister." She gets up and runs up the stairs. Her mum follows her and before Ace can slam the door she wraps her daughter into her arms. As the arms tighten her daughter breaks down crying with such force she almost falls down if it wasn't for her mum's arms she would've.
'But now I'll go
Sit on the floor wearing your clothes
All that I know is I don't know
How to be something you miss'
"I got you. Your Mum is here." Audrey stands there holding her daughter in her arms for the first time since she was 10 and they started arguing all the time.
"Why must this happen," Ace stops crying after a near hour.
"I don't know," she wipes some tears from her daughter's face. "The reason I said we can't go to the hospital is because it isn't visiting hours. In the morning we can go."
"I don't know if I will be able to sleep, Mum."
"I know, but you should try." She helps her teenage daughter climb into bed and tells her a story. She gets a chair so she could keep an eye on her daughter whose heart is facing the worst thing that could happen to a child. Before she realizes it she too is asleep in the chair.
'I never thought we'd have a last kiss
I never imagined we'd end like this
Your name, forever the name on my lips'
While asleep Ace dreams of many of the things her and Manisha had done. From the dare where they had to climb over the wall of one of the oldest houses in town to preparing for secondary this fall. Audrey is woken by the scream of her daughter. "What is it?" She jumps up.
"You can't die on me Manisha."
"Dorothy, you're having a nightmare." Ace sits up quickly in her bed and breaks down again. Her mum crawls behind her and starts to rock her and starts rubbing her back in a soothing motion. Ace falls into an uneasy sleep. Not wanting to leave her teenage daughter alone she lays down with her and doesn't fall asleep again.
'I do remember the swing of your step
The life of the party, you're showing off again
And I'd roll my eyes and then you'd pull me in
I'm not much for dancing, but for you, I did
Because I love your handshake, meeting my father
I love how you walk with your hands in your pockets
How you kissed me when I was in the middle of saying something
There's not a day I don't miss those rude interruptions'
The next morning Audrey gets up, stands up back cracking her back and makes her way down to make sure she can get some caffeine in her. She decides to make some coffee and that this will be the first time for her daughter to try some. "Mum?"
She hears her daughter's voice rough from crying and screaming since she heard the news, "here drink this. Visiting hours don't start for a few more hours." She pushes a plate with some toast in front of her too.
"I don't want to eat."
"You have to Dotti." Ace takes a few bites.
'And I'll go
Sit on the floor wearing your clothes
All that I know is I don't know
How to be something you miss'
Ace and her mother arrive at the hospital to see Manisha's Mum with red rimmed eyes as she looks up to see the two McShanes. "Ace." She runs up to her and the two break down crying again.
"How is she?"
"Not good Sweetie. They don't know if she will make it."
"What, NO! She's only 13, there must be something they can do. I can give blood if they need any."
"She didn't bleed. It's all burns from her not being able to make it out when they threw fire through her window and what they used knocked her out."
"What was she doing up there? You guys are usually spending time together then."
"She was cleaning her room." Ace starts to tear up again.
"So it was my fault?"
'I never thought we'd have a last kiss
I never imagined we'd end like this
Your name, forever the name on my lips, mm-hmm'
"No Sweetie, it wasn't your fault. It was those who did it. All the rhetoric that it's ok to hate on anybody that has a different skin color."
"It isn't though. Your family is one of the best families here in Perivale."
"Thank you Sweetie, come and wait with me."
"Can I see Manisha?"
"You won't want to. I want you to remember how you knew her."
"Ok," Ace looks down. Ace and Manisha's mum sit down as Audrey heads down to the burn ward to see her ex there.
"What are you doing here?"
"I heard about."
"Well go, my daughter is sitting in the waiting room crying over her best friend. You need to leave before I call the police and tell them about your little group."
"It wasn't us."
"Still with what you have told me, you deserve jail," her ex raises a hand and it comes down to her face as doctors around them hear it. Next thing she knows he is being escorted out of the building. She goes back to her daughter as the doctor calls for Manisha's mum.
'So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep
And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe
And I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are
Hope it's nice where you are
And I hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day
And something reminds you you wish you had stayed
You can plan for a change in the weather and time
But I never planned on you changing your mind'
"NOO!" Her mum screams as she tries to hit the doctor who just told her the news. "Not my daughter! She can't be dead." Ace breaks down again now with one less friend in her life. Her best friend, her sister. Audrey rushes to her daughter's side as Mr. Purkayastha holds his wife.
"Not Manisha," Ace cries into her Mum's shoulder. "Anyone but her, why couldn't it be someone who did this."
"I don't know. Promise me something."
"What?"
"You will never lose your good heart."
"I can't."
6 weeks later Ace is in all black walking with her mum to a local church. "How are you doing Dottie?"
"Not good. I am saying goodbye to Manisha today."
"Honey, she wouldn't want you to be sad?"
"How would you feel if you lost the most important person to you?"
'So, I'll go
Sit on the floor wearing your clothes
All that I know is I don't know
How to be something you miss'
After the funeral Ace and her Mum make it home to find a box sitting on their doorstep addressed to Ace McShane with unfamiliar writing. "Mum?"
"I don't know. I don't even recognize the handwriting, so it isn't anyone from here." As the two of them enter the small flat Ace opens the box to find a black pilot jacket with her name on the back. She puts it on and feels warmth she hasn't felt since before losing Manisha. She feels around it and finds a letter.
''In the far future you will meet me, but for now decorate this jacket however you see fit. I did have to add your name as it's one of a kind. Ace.
Sincerely,
Someone who cares.''
"Whose it from?"
"I don't know, but I like it." Audrey sees the smile on her daughter's face.
"Keep it. I missed your smile."
'I never thought we'd have a last kiss
I never imagined we'd end like this
Your name, forever the name on my lips'
Around Christmas time Ace is out with some of her new friends and the old house she felt something evil in, and the feeling keeps growing. One night after a dare she gets released while wearing her jacket that now has more badges on it. After she climbs over the wall she grabs old sticks and a rock to start a fire and lights the house on fire. She doesn't leave as she watches the house burn down. Police arrive and take her home. They know what she is going through as they have yet to catch those who killed her friend. They bring her home to her mum.
"I can't believe you burned down the Gabriel Chase house."
"There's something there, that is evil."
"This all goes back to Manisha?"
"Not everything is about my dead best friend!"
'Just like our last kiss
Forever the name on my lips
Forever the name on my lips
Just like our last'
"And that Professor is everything you need to know about why I burned down Gabriel Chase."
"Now you know why you felt all of that."
"One minute," Ace runs and goes to find the letter, she had it in her pocket the day she was swiped away in a Time Storm. She gets it and brings it to where they were sitting in the library in front of a fire drinking tea. She opens it and she now recognizes the handwriting. "It was you."
"Me?"
"I know what your handwriting looks like," she shoves the letter into his face and he reads it.
"It's true, I do care about you Ace."
"When I put on this jacket the first time it was the first time I felt any comfort in months. Thank you. Now I have a home here on the TARDIS."
"That you do. You will always be welcome here no matter what." Ace doesn't know that he will have to break her heart a few more times. He hopes that she won't hate him for that and always treasures her jacket.