bluesuit_handy: (serious face)
bluesuit_handy ([personal profile] bluesuit_handy) wrote2009-03-06 11:15 pm
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Who: Handy and Rose
Where: Hallway/Banquet Hall
When: Evening, after Handy's chat with Jack, and after he meets Temperance Brennan; also after Rose's conversation with Jack.
Summary: Troubled by what Jack said about Rose avoiding the Doctor and about her being from "after" Handy, said Handy decides to seek her out.


Handy left the library sometime in the late afternoon to take up wandering through the hallways of the hotel. He wasn't entirely sure whether or not he was looking for Rose - he both desperately wanted to talk to her after what Jack had told him and, at the same time (though he would never admit it to himself) he was at least a little bit afraid at what her reaction might be to seeing him again (not to mention that, as obvious as it was from what Jack had said, he didn't want to confirm the fact of his own death). He couldn't remember a time as the Doctor when he'd been so shy about anything, but then he wasn't really the Doctor. Not completely. A few speech patterns hadn't been the only thing he had inherited from Donna. For all that she was so brash and loud and brave on the outside, she (and thus Handy) didn't have that old self-assurance that had gotten the Doctor through so much of his life. They were both good at pretending, though, even to themselves, so Handy told himself that he hadn't immediately sought Rose out when he discovered her presence because he'd wanted to spend some time exploring by himself, not because he was afraid that the person on whom he'd come to rely for stability in his thus far very short life would turn him away.

It was good that he'd managed to convince himself of that, or else he might have turned right back around and gone back to hide in his room when he turned a corner and spotted her.

[identity profile] the-blaidd-drwg.livejournal.com 2009-03-08 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
She stopped, right there in the middle of dining hall, and turned to face him. "Could be what?" she asked with actual curiosity. "'s probably not anything I haven't thought of already, so out with it, you." And yet a tiny part of her was afraid that he'd come up with something she hadn't even begun to fathom. Even when he was part human, he was leagues above her in intelligence.

[identity profile] the-blaidd-drwg.livejournal.com 2009-03-08 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, she'd thought of that one before. But if they were copies, there wasn't any difference from the real thing, because everything certainly hurt just as much as it had before.

She tilted her head, seeming to study him for a moment, then pointed at his face and said with all seriousness, "Maybe a little bit round the edges," before turning to head to the buffet. She couldn't stop the giggle once she had her back to him.

[identity profile] the-blaidd-drwg.livejournal.com 2009-03-08 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Rose rolled her eyes as she grabbed a plate. "Doctor, this is my mum you're talking bout," she reminded him. "Manners are optional, like traffic laws." She spotted some lovely chips on the buffet and started piling them onto her plate. "Besides, I learned from the best," she said with a pointed glance in his direction.