Time is Not a Line, 2/3
For the Eight x Rose August prompt: Rose meets Eight first. Also for @perfectlyrose‘s prompts of going out for a drink (okay so it’s tea), and “welcome home.”
Shortly after leaving San Francisco, the TARDIS brought the Doctor to London in April, 2005 to take care of a temporal anomaly. When he finally succeeds, he’s surprised to find a glimpse of his own future in Rose Tyler’s past.
Eight x Rose, Nine x Rose, all ages
AO3 | FF.NET | TSP | Ch 1
Rose crossed her fingers as she turned the key in the lock; she really didn’t want to explain her date to her mother. Maybe Mum is at Bev’s. She sighed when the living room was dark. Perfect.
Her luck didn’t hold, however. In the ten minutes it took to change her clothes and freshen up her makeup, her mum came home. Rose heard the door open and shut as she fluffed her hair in front of the mirror, and she painted a smile on her face before stepping out of her room with her bag slung over her shoulder.
The flat smelled like curry, and Jackie waved the take-away bag as she carried it into the kitchen. “I brought us dinner.”
“Oh, I’m actually going out,” Rose said regretfully. “A friend and I are meeting up for chips.”
Her mum leaned back on her heels to stare at her through the doorway. “Oh, are you meeting Mickey?”
Rose rolled her eyes. She’d broken up with Mickey two weeks ago, and her mum couldn’t let it go. They never should have been more than friends in the first place, but as far as Jackie was concerned, Mickey was a good bloke who she could trust not to hurt her daughter.
“No, not Mickey. Just an old mate I ran into when I was out looking for a job today.” She made a show of glancing at the clock as she walked to the door. “An’ I’ve gotta go if I’m going to be on time. I’ll see you later, Mum!”