Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  amberfocus, amyo67
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.

Previous chapter:  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html

Chapter Two: Long Story, No Time to Tell it

 

 

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And you can tell it was a long one by the fact that I'm just getting around to talking about it now.  I met Peter's grandmother and she is a very vivid personality.  If she were a character in a novel you probably wouldn't believe anyone could possibly be that...I can't even come up with words to describe her.  She's just so...alive.  There.  Present in time and space and reality and outside it all at the same time.  It's like she's her own sun or something.  And she's incredible.  I can't believe how stressed I was about meeting her.  I'm just so incredibly relieved that she likes me.  It's not like it would have been the kiss of death to my relationship with Peter if she hadn't liked me, but this woman is the matriarch, you know?  She's the one everybody in the family looks to for advice or anything else, really.  I feel like I passed a bigger exam this weekend than any of the ones I took a few weeks ago to graduate from college.

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Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  amberfocus , amyo67   
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.

A/N:  This is my first Doctor Who fanfiction.  I hope you like it.

Chapter One:  Life Goes On

 

 

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I spent three weeks back home on the farm.  You don't know how good it was to see everyone again, especially James.  Even though he's my cousin, we grew up like brother and sister and it was really hard not being there while he was going through chemo.  He's got a clean bill of health now and his hair is growing back beautifully.  It's funny because it's coming in curly.  He always had a slight wave but this is much more than that.  It's gorgeous.

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It's been forever, and I do mean forever, since I posted here. Things have been going really well for me. I'm about to graduate from college. We're in the home stretch now and it looks like I'm going to graduate with honors. I'm very, very happy about that. Grandma's trust said that if I graduated college with honors I had access to the fund after graduation instead of waiting until I'm 25. Access to, mind, not full use of, but...that means that Peter and I can take a real honeymoon.

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So life is good and my family is doing well and what else? Oh, I'm writing Doctor Who fanfic. I'm so nervous about it. I've been betaing fanfic for Amberfocus for over a year now, but I've been too much of a chicken to try it myself even though I've taken scads of creative writing courses.  Anyway, I got up the courage to email her with the first part of it yesterday and she loved it.  I about fell over.  When your absolute favorite author tells you she loves it and then proceeds to give you five paragraphs telling you exactly why she loves it, it's pretty heady stuff.  The one suggestion she had is that I might not want to write it in the first person.

She says it's highly effective in first person, but it's rarely done in this fandom and it might put people off.  So I'm going to think about it, but I really do think it might lose a lot of it's effectiveness if I change it to second person.  It's Rose's POV.  She also said she'd support me in keeping it first peson if that's really what I want and that maybe I should ask Amy to look it over and give her opinion.  Amy, you're on my teeny-tiny f-list so if you're reading this would you be willing to do that?  If so can you PM me with your email address?

Well, I'm up far too early. 4 a.m. is rather ridiculous Two weeks of Minnesota farm time have ruined me royally. Oh, it was worth it to see Mom and Dad, Josephine and David, Nicholas and Dana, Isabella and Stephen and baby Daniella for the first time outside of photos. And my younger cousins James and Ellie are still living with Mom and Dad. I don't think they'll ever go back to their parents. Probably just as well. I didn't even mind milking cows again, and truth is, I still miss Miss Myer, the cow I raised from a calf in high school, every time I leave home and come back to school. And everyone loved Peter, even if we are new, they all clicked with him.

Even the baby seemed to adore him. I think she liked him better than me. Hard to tell with an 8 week old, but she calmed down for him right away. Me, she fussed at. So not fair. I'm auntie Vic, I'm supposed to be the one all the neices and nephews turn to because I'm young and fun and full of energy. Well, that's true so far with Jo's kids and Nicky's, but the jury's still out on Belle's daughter. So not fair. Belle's my twin sister. You'd think the baby wouldn't be able to tell the difference that much, but we don't smell the same, and of course our personalities are very different.

Still, seeing Peter hold Dani gave me all kinds of thoughts I've never really thought about before. Like "oh, he's good with kids," and "gee, he'll make a good daddy one day," and "why does holding a baby like that make me want to snog him senseless?" Yeah, and I don't even want kids in the next, oh, five to six years, at least. If then. Maybe in my very early thirties, though. And only one or two. I grew up in a house with two sisters, one brother, and two cousins. There have always, always been babies in my life and when I came out here to go to school, it was amazing to find out what silence sounded like. I kind of want to keep that for the next decade or so.

But then Peter held that child. Gah. Why am I even thinking about him like that? We haven't even slept together yet. Which I know sounds odd, seeing as he came home with me to meet my family and all. And I had to tell my mother seperate rooms. She, my actual stodgy old mother, was going to put us in the same room. Thank goodness for drafty old farmhouses and lots of rooms. He's serious about me already. He's said so. I'm starting to think he's a virgin, though. Possible, since he's quite the techy geek. I think he's beautiful, but he's definitely the nerdy type. I just don't have the nerve to ask him. And for once in my life, well, I really don't want to rush.

Anyway, back to being up early. It's a pain because it means I'm falling asleep at 7 or 8 at night. My first class isn't until 8 a.m. I guess I could study ahead, but I seem to have lost my student skills. And I went to summer session, too! It's only been a couple of weeks. I hope I get them back before school starts in earnest. I hope I can get back on Pacific Daylight Time soon, too.

On a lighter note, I got to beta the third chapter of Treading Water by amberfocus yesterday. Whew! That's the only thing that's come close to making me want to rush things with Peter!

Okay, so this is me. I'm a small-town girl going to a slightly larger-town university in the Pacific Northwest of Washington state in the U.S.A. I have a boyfriend of two months named Peter who is a raving Doctor Who fan. In fact, that's how I met him. He saw me reading Doctor Who books at the coffee shop where he works and finally got up the courage to ask me out and we had an instant chemistry that reminds me very much of Rose and the Doctor. Why, yes, I'm a Whofan, too. Whether I rave or not remains to be discovered.

I have blonde hair and brown eyes, am far too tall, have a wicked dark sense of humor, and an incurable lust for knowledge. Well, non-boring knowledge anyway. My best LJ friend is amberfocus whose Doctor Who stories I've been betaing since January. She's fantastic, if you haven't read her, you so don't know what you are missing in this fandom. Least if you're a Rose/Doctor fan.

She's the one who encouraged me to finally set up my own LJ even though I haven't been brave enough to write my own fanfic yet. She even found me this lovely icon to go with my name. *hugs amber*

What else? Well, I love horseback riding and sailing and reading and writing. Not really much else besides my favorite shows and books. Yeah, I'm a bit limited in scope, but my first two hobbies are expensive enough without adding more. Think that's about it. I don't know how much I'll post, my life is pretty ordinary and I mostly got this just to read and comment on DW fanfic throughout the LJ'verse.