Okay, this just freaking broke my heart. All of it. The story flowed so organically, from Rose's reasons for her fury (the memories were all that got her through) to realizing she was mad at the wrong timelord, to the heartbreaking explanation John Noble gave for why things had to be the way they were. That he couldn't watch his best friend die. Not after everyone else had, too. I love Rose and Ten, I love that she is there for her, hoping and wishing she si enough to keep the loneliness at bay...
]Wordlessly she moves in front of him and wraps her arms around him, pulling him as close as she can. He shakes in her arms, something she’s never felt before, and his fingers cling to the back of her shirt with such desperation she feels like she’s a buoy and he’s adrift at sea. He buries his face in her hair and she closes her eyes, listening to the thump-thump of his lonely human heart.
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Date: 2009-01-04 09:03 pm (UTC)]Wordlessly she moves in front of him and wraps her arms around him, pulling him as close as she can. He shakes in her arms, something she’s never felt before, and his fingers cling to the back of her shirt with such desperation she feels like she’s a buoy and he’s adrift at sea. He buries his face in her hair and she closes her eyes, listening to the thump-thump of his lonely human heart.
Really powerful ending.