Drabble: Daddy Issues

[wendymr]

Fic: Daddy Issues
Author: wmr
Characters: Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler
Rated: G
Spoilers: S1, S2
Disclaimer: They're not mine. I'm just borrowing them
Summary: He wants to give her the one thing she's always dreamed of.

Daddy Issues

He tries in 1987. He fails. Her father still dies. But it wouldn’t have worked; he’d have given her a

Comments

[wendymr]

she's now got the family she always wanted, plus a lot of money, and her best friend to boot? That's a lot of consolation on both sides

Ah, but I'm not sure that I buy that, for Rose at any rate. Yes, the Doctor can console himself that he's been able to give her all that, but is it really what Rose wanted in the end? She chose him over her family. She chose to leave her mum and Mickey and come back to him twice, both times in the full belief and understanding that she'd never see them again. As for money, I don't believe we ever saw her have any particular tendencies towards wanting it, or suggesting that she felt deprived through not having it.

It's a consolation prize, not something that Rose wanted for herself; but I can certainly see her making the best of it. After all, she loves Jackie; she loves Mickey; she'll come to love Pete. She wouldn't adapt instantly, but I couldn't see her suicidal, or burying herself in grief and not getting on with life. She'd get on with things, because she always did, but she'd look and hope for a way back, just as she did in POTW. Maybe, though, after Bad Wolf Bay, she'd finally accept that it's impossible and let herself belong where she is.

[bulky_monster]

That's what I mean, though; it's a consolation. Regardless of everything, he left her so much better off than when he found her. He changed her for the better, and that's to me the whole point.

Of course there's grieving to do and all; as someone who's experienced a lot of loss, I don't mean to diminish that. But I think that once Rose came to terms with everything, she'd be left with primarily gratitude and contentment. She would hope to see him again, but she'd remember him as happily as she could.

It seems like we're sort of in agreement actually, we're just looking at it from different angles :)