[TM] 216 - Impossible

She was on the pages of it. That Journal of Impossible Things. Drawn in the margins, sketched onto the covers of it all and she'd never set eyes on it. Just had the words from the archives to know it by. All the little things Martha had put down on paper. Jotted notes logged into the TARDIS mainframe as if maybe sometime in the future someone important would see it. In case things went wrong.

Things went wrong all the time. It wasn't even a doubt in her mind that Rose knew just how wrong things could go. He'd get distracted, or lost... or just made you think you were lost when everything else was exactly where he needed it. It was amazing in that odd sort of way that he'd manage to keep it all straight in his head. Figured he had a head for it. A mindful notion of just what really was impossible, and for him most of the time it was nothing.

Nothing was too far out of reach, too long ago or too off into the future. There could be a giant drooling slimey creature right in front of him. Something that could put the fear of well... anything right into him and they'd end up getting a greeting and a smile that made you wonder just who was that man? How can he just look at all the wrong in the world, all the bad and the evil and think that he can just make it better? That one man... if he's even a man really, can just fix it all.

But he can fix it all, and even more impossible is that Rose knows he will. He'll do it because he's The Doctor.

It's not even a doubt in her mind that impossible shouldn't even be a word when you're around him.

[ooc: totally au notion that the book got archived by Martha into the TARDIS mainframes]

[MYL] 12.1 - Never. Ever. Again

- Take the Seventh Gimbus cause Jack says its the best.
- Forget where the TARDIS is parked. I swear it was one time, you'd think it was a hundred.
- Convince him to let me take a boy along when I figure he'll just muck it up anyway.
- Answer yes to any of the questions from the Byynies.
- Answer no to any of the questions from the Byynoos.
- Forget which is the Byynies and which is the Byynoos.
- Let go.

[MtM] 02.08 - Five Days

01. "Rose, here I'll take the lotto money down to him, you've been here bit longer than you figured already yeah?"

Rose nodded, eyes a bit wide at how boring she'd realized her job actually was. How on earth she was going to manage this and not want to pull her hair out at the end of it was definitely a feat to be seen, "Yeah thanks, I'll get y'next week yeah?"

Rose was already tugging her jacket on and making her way toward the exits, it was just a bit past when she was supposed to meet Mickey and she could see them ahead shutting the gates up, "Hey! Don't lock up yet, I'm runnin' as fast as it'll let me. Maybe make a higher wage I'll get some sensible shoes yeah?"

Her remark is simply replied to with a scowl of a look that she'll show Mickey first thing.

02. "I'm supposed to just leave it. Let it sit."

"Forever?"

"Yeah. Forever, said it'd just become an old police box no one noticed after a while."

"You'll miss'm yeah?"

"Course I'll miss'm. Miss'm already. You mad or something? He was everything for a while, and now... now it's like I'm nothing all over again."

"So go back?"

"I can't."

03. "I... I got it right? I can't believe I got it right? Oh you are so not going to make it through." Rose's finger is pointing to her competition. She's thinking she's bloody brilliant at this point, all the times the Doctor's rambled on an on about things and she's just remembered all the important bits right at the right time. It's like it's not even a game to her anymore.

She's laughing, a bit crazed watching the AnneDroid turn and vaporize each contestant and she knows it can't be real, but she doesn't even care... cause she's going to win.

04. "What d'you mean it's broken?"

"I am sorry Rose, but when he came through the mirror... in the great hall he wasn't aware that you'd..."

"That I'd what? Tripped into time and ended up here? Here...which is a when not even a where yeah? Cause you're here... and he's not yeah? I'm like stuck... like stuck stuck?" Rose is looking at the draped curtain that a moment ago had a ship on the other side of it, but now... now it was just a wall.

"So..."

"He left four years ago. Through the fireplace... which is gone now."

"Yeah... right. So..."

"I am sure you will not find it to be quite so unpleasant as that expression on your face."

05. It's beautiful, and even though she wants to say it's the most amazing thing she's ever seen, she knows just how much more there is to see. So she settles on the word beautiful, the TARDIS behind them just standing there watching it all. All the rock formations jutting across the skyline and the winged creature that sail through the air as if it was water, and they could just be swimming forever up there. Forever is a word that's on her mind. It's a constant. She knows better than to say Never ever, but forever seems like it'll do nicely.

"How long are you staying with me?"

It's as if he knows her that well... as if he knows just what she was going to say from the start of it all, and she knows she doesn't need to say the word for him to even know. It's there... right there all the time in the way she smiles at him.

"Forever."