Fic: Nineteen (Doctor/Rose)

[intrikate88]

Title: Nineteen
Author: intrikate88
Word Count: 151
Spoilers: “Doomsday”
Pairing: Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose
Summary: She’s always nineteen for him.

She’s nineteen when she meets him, but not really. He suspects she’s lied about her age, but doesn’t know for sure until they travel from 2005 to 1987, and see her at six months old. He never says anything about it (two years doesn’t matter when compared to over nine hundred years).
They don’t celebrate her eighteenth birthday, even though he knows (relative to her personal chronology and circadian rhythms) when it is.
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She’s nineteen when she leaves him, but not really. He can’t remember when the TARDIS didn’t have a bedroom for her and it doesn’t disappear into the back of whatever space the TARDIS’s interior inhabits. Her clothes still turn up in odd places and he would swear he sometimes hears her voice echoing down the corridors.
He celebrates her twentieth birthday with a chocolate cupcake (with ball bearings on top) and hopes that she has one too.

Comments

[garnettrees.livejournal.com]

Something about this just killed me... I think it's the earnesty of his feelings, and how there's no concrete ending. It's very true-- you don't stop missing people you love, no matter how long they've been gone. This is beautiful. Thank you!
-Meredith

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Thank you for commenting! I'm glad you liked it. :)

[rebelsaint.livejournal.com]

Oh I absolutely love this. It's so short, and you manage to fit so much emotion into the small space.

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

*g*

Thank you so much!

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey whatsit indeed. As far as I can remember, and I could be wrong since my mind is more in Hellenistic mystery religions and post-colonial theory at the moment and this fic was a mental burp, Rose told the Doctor she was nineteen in the first or second ep. I believe that "Father's Day" took place in November of 1987, which means that Rose was seventeen when she met the Doctor. Even though they came back a year later in 2006, by her measurement it was only a few days later, so she was still physically seventeen. Unless the timeline places "Rose" in 2004 and her "World War Three" return in 2005, in which case she'd be sixteen. (Feeling Buffy vibes here.) So I'm not sure about the specifics, but I am pretty sure she was NOT nineteen in "Rose", and I don't know how the laws go in the UK, but that would be she wasn't legally an adult by US laws, which is a whole 'nother can of worms. (And adds to my lingering feeling there's some dark undercurrent to DW that I haven't figured out yet.)

...and that explanation was possibly longer than the fic itself. Really, I just liked the parallels of her saying she was nineteen when she met him, and really being nineteen when she left him two years later. It's a balance echo-y thing! Like poetry and literary devices! *beams*

Thanks for commenting.

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

It IS so complicated. It's such crack. :P

Oh, I totally didn't interpret your comment as picking, I just tend to ramble. I sometimes wonder if there's nothing for my future but to become a professor or something just because I cannot shut up with the analysis. Like, ever. And DW is ripe for it. But I'm glad you thought it was a lovely fic. *g*

[femaelstrom27.livejournal.com]

*sigh*...this was terribly sad and lovely. I loved it a lot. Man, now I'm all depressed.

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Aww! Sorry I made you all depressed! But I'm glad you loved it. :D

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

That darn wibbley wobbley timey wimey stuff will get you every time, huh? ;) I personally love it when a fic writer can take a possible oopsy ;) from a show and make it work so beautifully like that! Really nicely done. :D

I particularly adored how the TARDIS doesn't let her just "disappear," but keeps her bedroom and clothes and even her voice echoing along with them. *sniff* Aw, that's just GOT to be canon, I don't care if we haven't seen it on the show (yet). ;) Lovely job! ♥!

Continuity? Pfft, who needs it?

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

There is an aching sweetness in this ficlet- you pack a punch with a few words.

Also- because I had to go visit your profile- Hi, neighbor!

Re: Continuity? Pfft, who needs it?

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

And because I just realized my profile is rather generic and that last comment could come across as a wee bit creepy- Kennesaw, myself.

Re: Continuity? Pfft, who needs it?

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

I don't have a stalker? How disappointing! :P Nah, I figured it was something like that. I myself am nearly in Kennesaw and only just barely have a Marietta address, so we really are neighbors! Nice to meet you!

And I'm so glad you liked my fic! :D

[starlightmoonla.livejournal.com]

Awww *sniff* I think that part that really got to me was the ending where he is celebrating her birthday and he hopes she has one as well.

Though a tad depressing you did a wonderful job with this story! :)

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you!

[dave7.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just gorgeous. :) (And makes so much more sense of the time line! This is now my personal canon.)

Thanks for sharing this. :)

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

SCORE I MADE PERSONAL CANON. <333

Thank you for commenting!

[nycteris-m.livejournal.com]

aw the cupcake had me *tears* that's so sweet...

I loved having both the view of nine and ten about her being only 19 too... wonderful!

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you!

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Her clothes still turn up in odd places and he would swear he sometimes hears her voice echoing down the corridors.

*SOB*

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you know. I've never really thought about the continuity age issue thing before and you KNOW how I tend to obsess over small details from this show. I'm assuming that RTD just kind of screwed up (they do that), but very interesting take on it.

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Well, since Rose seemingly being born in 1987 is only a year before the year I was born, I figured out quite quickly that things just didn't add up. It probably is just a screw up. Or a seventeen year old girl wanting people to think she's older. (Yeah, like that ever happens.)

I just liked the parallels! :P

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

God. It wasn't THAT sad when I wrote it. :P

[xbriyeon.livejournal.com]

Agh, loved this.. <3

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you so much, I'm glad. :D

[ninamazing.livejournal.com]

Awww. AWWWW. This is totally D/R for me. People should do more fics about the Doctor remembering her. I had him go back in time and watch her grow up. :D

[andell.livejournal.com]

So beautiful.
Would you mind, if I translate this drabble into Russian language?
I will state everywhere that I am just a translator and you are the author of the drabble.

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your compliments, I'm flattered you think its so good. As for translation, though, why do you want to translate it and where do you want to post it?

[andell.livejournal.com]

1. Because i like it. :)
2. On this russian site - http://timelord-diary.ucoz.ru/

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess you can. I'm glad you like it that much.