Decisions, Decisions...

So Amy sent me back ch. 7 of Zeppelins and ch. 30 of You're What?  I wonder which one I should post tonight?  Any thoughts?  *giggles evilly*

Decisions, Decisions...

So Amy sent me back ch. 7 of Zeppelins and ch. 30 of You're What?  I wonder which one I should post tonight?  Any thoughts?  *giggles evilly*

You're What?: Chapter Thirty

Straddling the Truth

 

Jack leapt to the Doctor’s defense, wrestling Jackie off of him and down onto the floor. He straddled her, his strong hands holding down her arms. “Let me at him,” Jackie hollered struggling fiercely in his secure hold.

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“Get off me!”

 

“No,” he said simply. “I’m not going to let you hurt him. He’s Rose’s husband and she loves him and they are a family and you’re just going to have to figure out a way of dealing with him that isn’t castration.”

 

“You know, he’s not the only one I could do that to,” she says menacingly.

 

“You think I haven’t been threatened with that before?” he asks not responding to her words in any other way. “Now calm down.”

 

“But…but they planned this! She’s nineteen years old and they planned this,” Jackie said. She’d fallen still beneath the man’s strong thighs. His incredibly strong thighs.

 

Jack looked up and met Rose’s eyes and she sighed at the look there. “No, Mum, we didn’t.” She glanced over at her husband. “I’m sorry, Doctor, I know you were just trying to protect me, but I can’t let her keep thinking that. The baby was an accident,” she told Jackie, “but we want him.”

 

“An accident? Rose, that’s hardly that much better. What happened? You know about birth control, have done since you were eleven years old and you got your first period.”

 

“Mum!”

 

“And you’ve always been careful,” Jackie continued. “With Mickey and that worthless Jimmy. I never had to worry about that with you.”

 

“We weren’t…we weren’t using birth control. The Doctor said we didn’t need it,” Rose admitted.

 

“Rose--,” the Doctor began

 

“Well, you did!” she snapped, cutting him off.

 

Jackie, who had calmed at Rose’s confession, began struggling again at this newest revelation. “Oh, Rose you know better than that. I’ve told you men will say whatever they need to say to get you on your back.  You’re nineteen. You’re not exactly inexperienced in the ways of men—.”

 

“Mum! You make it sound like I’m easy.”

 

Jackie’s eyes narrowed. “You slept with an alien, Rose. Without protection! I don’t think you’re easy, I think you were stupid. You could have ended up with Space Syphilis or Galactic Gonorrhea or, or, or something!”

 

“I made sure neither of us had any communicable diseases. We didn’t jump into being lovers without thinking it over,” the Doctor said.

 

“We were careful,” Rose insisted.

 

“Just not careful enough to use a condom or take some pills.”

 

“He said it wasn’t necessary,” Rose told her mother.

 

“Why the hell did you tell her that?”

 

“We didn’t need it. I thought it was impossible,” the Doctor said.

 

“Only it wasn’t,” Rose said softly. “Or we wouldn’t have Charlie on the way.”

 

“You damn, cradle-robbing pervert!” Jackie shouted. She bucked Jack right off of her and managed to scramble to her feet before he got himself back together. “It is bad enough that you are having sex with my daughter, but to tell her she didn’t need birth control so you could get her pregnant? Oooh!” She advanced on the Doctor and Rose interposed her body between her husband and her mother.

 

“I thought we couldn’t!” he insisted.

 

“Yeah, well, you got it wrong. So now instead of my sweet nineteen year old daughter ever getting to lead a normal life she’s tied to some…some…member of the dirty mac brigade for the rest of her days!” Jackie growled.

 

“Mum, it wasn’t like that!” Rose protested. “He’s not like that. It’s just…he’s the last of his kind. His body was just trying to repopulate his species.”

 

“Oh, so you planned this then? Found some young girl in her prime child-bearing years, seduced her with time and space and eventually yourself, lied to her about things and next thing you know, she’s up the duff? I told you, Rose; you should never have gone with him!” Jackie said.

 

“It wasn’t like that,” Rose growled.

 

“Yeah, and you used to tell me you and him weren’t “like that” either.”

 

“We weren’t. Not when I said it!” Rose insisted.

 

“I should have known,” Jackie wailed plopping back down in the arm chair she’d vacated earlier. Rose eyed her warily before sitting down next to the Doctor on the couch, tensed to leap to his rescue if her mum should fly at him again. “From the day you got here you’ve been giving my Rose lusty eyes.”

 

“Oi, you’re just mad because I turned down the pass you made at me!”

 

“You made a pass at him?” Rose asked three parts horrified to five parts indignant.

 

“First day I was here, she did,” the Doctor said. “I wasn’t interested.”

 

“No, you were interested in my Rose!”

 

“Mum! Is that why you’ve always been such a cow to him?” she asked.

 

“Rose Marion Tyler, don’t you dare call me a cow!” Jackie snapped.

 

Rose looked sheepish, but didn’t apologize. She could think of worse animal word’s she could have chosen. She refrained from saying that out loud.

 

“Look,” the Doctor said realizing he might have gone a step too far in bringing up Jackie’s earlier actions. “I didn’t set out to seduce your daughter. I didn’t set out to impregnate your daughter or carry on my species. I’ve thought since the war my people should die with me. But now Rose is pregnant and…I’m happy. Rose makes me happy. I can’t imagine my life without her. I love her. I want her. And I want this baby. We are a family now, and by extension that means you and I are family, too. We don’t have to like each other, but for Rose’s sake, for Charlie’s sake, I hope we can at least get along.”

 

Jackie frowned at him and glanced back and forth between him and her daughter for a long time. It was obvious she was thinking hard. Finally she sighed and crossed her arms across her chest. “I want a wedding,” she said.

 

The Doctor crossed his arms across his own chest. “We’re already married.”

 

“I don’t care. I didn’t get to see it. Rose is my only child. I should have been there. I want a wedding,” she repeated stubbornly.

 

“All right,” Rose said.

 

“Rose!” the Doctor protested.

 

Rose glared at him and was the third person in the room to cross her arms across her chest. “She is my mother. She should have been there.”

 

“She couldn’t have been.”

 

“I know that. But it doesn’t change things. We can have another ceremony, an Earth ceremony,” she told him. “One that my mum can see.”

 

“It’s not necessary,” he grumbled.

 

“It is to me,” Rose said. “And it is to her.”

 

“Rose.”

 

Jack decided to pipe up. “Besides, I think Jackie’s accepted the news rather well in comparison…” He trailed off.

 

“In comparison to what?” the Doctor asked darkly.

 

“Oh, I think you know exactly what I’m talking about.”

 

“Jack,” Rose said warningly. Jack and the Doctor glared at each other. Finally the Doctor looked away.

 

“Fine. We’ll do an Earth wedding. But nothing too fancy,” he said grudgingly.

 

Jackie smiled and though she was still not entirely pleased by the situation she clapped her hands together. “Rose, hand me the phone. I have a wedding to plan.”

 

Rose reached out and snagged the phone off the nearby charger and handed it to her mum, ignoring the Doctor’s groan. Rose elbowed him in the ribs.

 

The slight slamming of the front door was the first anyone noticed that Mickey was no longer in the room.

 

 

 

“Jack, you can’t be threatening to tell my mum about what the Doctor did in the beginning,” Rose said later that evening when she was alone with the man on the balcony. The Doctor had gone off to his ship and she and Jack had escaped Jackie’s frenzied wedding planning for some fresh air.

 

“I wouldn’t have really told her,” he said.

 

“I know, but the Doctor’s still tender about that.”

 

“And you’re not?” he demanded.

 

“I’ve forgiven him,” she said simply.

 

“And that makes it okay?” he wanted to know.

 

“No. But it means it’s in the past and we aren’t going to bring it up, understood?”

 

“I suppose so.”

 

“I really need to go talk to Mickey. He should have had enough time to cool off now. Can you run interference for me if Mum comes looking? Keep her busy. I need to get things straightened out once and for all.” Rose said.

 

“Yeah, but I don’t think that phone’s coming off her ear any time soon.”

 

“Probably not. And Jack?” Rose asked.

 

“Yeah?”

 

“By keeping her busy, I don’t mean seducing my mum,” Rose said.

 

“What if she tries to seduce me?” Jack asked flippantly.

 

“Jack! I don’t want you sleeping with my mum!”

 

“Ah, you’re no fun, Rose. First I can’t sleep with you. Then I can’t sleep with your gorgeous mum. Next you’ll tell me all of London is off limits,” Jack pouted.

 

“Tell you what. I’m sure the maid of honor or one of the bridesmaids will be happy to hook up with you,” she said. “Just not my mum.”

 

“Only one of the bridesmaids?” he asked.

 

“Jack Harkness, you are incorrigible! These are my friends. And I’d like to keep them as friends and not as a bunch of girls cat fighting over the gorgeous Captain and suddenly hating each other and me for introducing you to them in the first place. Got it?” she wanted to know.

 

“Yeah, I got it. Just tell me which one likes sex the most and I’ll go for that one,” he replied.

 

“I will not,” Rose said. “You’ll just have to take your chances. Besides, can’t the amazing Captain Harkness charm any girl out of her knickers as often as he wants?”

 

“Not any girl, Rose,” he answered. “That’s okay. From what you’ve told me about your friends, I’ll just go for Shireen.”

 

“Good luck with that,” Rose told him.

 

“Bad choice?”

 

“Challenging, that’s all. And you like a challenge.”

 

“I do at that.”

 

Rose reached out and gave him a brief hug, too quick for him to try to take advantage of it, and said, “I’ve been putting off Mickey long enough. The Doctor knows where his flat is. If I’m not back in an hour, have him come get me.”

 

“You worried Mickey will do something stupid?” he asked.

 

“Not really, but…” Rose bit her lip. “But I prefer he knows where I am. You never know with alien invasions and the city of London.”

 

Jack laughed and Rose waved a good-bye at him over her shoulder and went in search of her one-time boyfriend and hopefully still best mate.

Ch. 31:  http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/131049.html

You're What?: Chapter Thirty

Straddling the Truth

 

Jack leapt to the Doctor’s defense, wrestling Jackie off of him and down onto the floor. He straddled her, his strong hands holding down her arms. “Let me at him,” Jackie hollered struggling fiercely in his secure hold.

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“Get off me!”

 

“No,” he said simply. “I’m not going to let you hurt him. He’s Rose’s husband and she loves him and they are a family and you’re just going to have to figure out a way of dealing with him that isn’t castration.”

 

“You know, he’s not the only one I could do that to,” she says menacingly.

 

“You think I haven’t been threatened with that before?” he asks not responding to her words in any other way. “Now calm down.”

 

“But…but they planned this! She’s nineteen years old and they planned this,” Jackie said. She’d fallen still beneath the man’s strong thighs. His incredibly strong thighs.

 

Jack looked up and met Rose’s eyes and she sighed at the look there. “No, Mum, we didn’t.” She glanced over at her husband. “I’m sorry, Doctor, I know you were just trying to protect me, but I can’t let her keep thinking that. The baby was an accident,” she told Jackie, “but we want him.”

 

“An accident? Rose, that’s hardly that much better. What happened? You know about birth control, have done since you were eleven years old and you got your first period.”

 

“Mum!”

 

“And you’ve always been careful,” Jackie continued. “With Mickey and that worthless Jimmy. I never had to worry about that with you.”

 

“We weren’t…we weren’t using birth control. The Doctor said we didn’t need it,” Rose admitted.

 

“Rose--,” the Doctor began

 

“Well, you did!” she snapped, cutting him off.

 

Jackie, who had calmed at Rose’s confession, began struggling again at this newest revelation. “Oh, Rose you know better than that. I’ve told you men will say whatever they need to say to get you on your back.  You’re nineteen. You’re not exactly inexperienced in the ways of men—.”

 

“Mum! You make it sound like I’m easy.”

 

Jackie’s eyes narrowed. “You slept with an alien, Rose. Without protection! I don’t think you’re easy, I think you were stupid. You could have ended up with Space Syphilis or Galactic Gonorrhea or, or, or something!”

 

“I made sure neither of us had any communicable diseases. We didn’t jump into being lovers without thinking it over,” the Doctor said.

 

“We were careful,” Rose insisted.

 

“Just not careful enough to use a condom or take some pills.”

 

“He said it wasn’t necessary,” Rose told her mother.

 

“Why the hell did you tell her that?”

 

“We didn’t need it. I thought it was impossible,” the Doctor said.

 

“Only it wasn’t,” Rose said softly. “Or we wouldn’t have Charlie on the way.”

 

“You damn, cradle-robbing pervert!” Jackie shouted. She bucked Jack right off of her and managed to scramble to her feet before he got himself back together. “It is bad enough that you are having sex with my daughter, but to tell her she didn’t need birth control so you could get her pregnant? Oooh!” She advanced on the Doctor and Rose interposed her body between her husband and her mother.

 

“I thought we couldn’t!” he insisted.

 

“Yeah, well, you got it wrong. So now instead of my sweet nineteen year old daughter ever getting to lead a normal life she’s tied to some…some…member of the dirty mac brigade for the rest of her days!” Jackie growled.

 

“Mum, it wasn’t like that!” Rose protested. “He’s not like that. It’s just…he’s the last of his kind. His body was just trying to repopulate his species.”

 

“Oh, so you planned this then? Found some young girl in her prime child-bearing years, seduced her with time and space and eventually yourself, lied to her about things and next thing you know, she’s up the duff? I told you, Rose; you should never have gone with him!” Jackie said.

 

“It wasn’t like that,” Rose growled.

 

“Yeah, and you used to tell me you and him weren’t “like that” either.”

 

“We weren’t. Not when I said it!” Rose insisted.

 

“I should have known,” Jackie wailed plopping back down in the arm chair she’d vacated earlier. Rose eyed her warily before sitting down next to the Doctor on the couch, tensed to leap to his rescue if her mum should fly at him again. “From the day you got here you’ve been giving my Rose lusty eyes.”

 

“Oi, you’re just mad because I turned down the pass you made at me!”

 

“You made a pass at him?” Rose asked three parts horrified to five parts indignant.

 

“First day I was here, she did,” the Doctor said. “I wasn’t interested.”

 

“No, you were interested in my Rose!”

 

“Mum! Is that why you’ve always been such a cow to him?” she asked.

 

“Rose Marion Tyler, don’t you dare call me a cow!” Jackie snapped.

 

Rose looked sheepish, but didn’t apologize. She could think of worse animal word’s she could have chosen. She refrained from saying that out loud.

 

“Look,” the Doctor said realizing he might have gone a step too far in bringing up Jackie’s earlier actions. “I didn’t set out to seduce your daughter. I didn’t set out to impregnate your daughter or carry on my species. I’ve thought since the war my people should die with me. But now Rose is pregnant and…I’m happy. Rose makes me happy. I can’t imagine my life without her. I love her. I want her. And I want this baby. We are a family now, and by extension that means you and I are family, too. We don’t have to like each other, but for Rose’s sake, for Charlie’s sake, I hope we can at least get along.”

 

Jackie frowned at him and glanced back and forth between him and her daughter for a long time. It was obvious she was thinking hard. Finally she sighed and crossed her arms across her chest. “I want a wedding,” she said.

 

The Doctor crossed his arms across his own chest. “We’re already married.”

 

“I don’t care. I didn’t get to see it. Rose is my only child. I should have been there. I want a wedding,” she repeated stubbornly.

 

“All right,” Rose said.

 

“Rose!” the Doctor protested.

 

Rose glared at him and was the third person in the room to cross her arms across her chest. “She is my mother. She should have been there.”

 

“She couldn’t have been.”

 

“I know that. But it doesn’t change things. We can have another ceremony, an Earth ceremony,” she told him. “One that my mum can see.”

 

“It’s not necessary,” he grumbled.

 

“It is to me,” Rose said. “And it is to her.”

 

“Rose.”

 

Jack decided to pipe up. “Besides, I think Jackie’s accepted the news rather well in comparison…” He trailed off.

 

“In comparison to what?” the Doctor asked darkly.

 

“Oh, I think you know exactly what I’m talking about.”

 

“Jack,” Rose said warningly. Jack and the Doctor glared at each other. Finally the Doctor looked away.

 

“Fine. We’ll do an Earth wedding. But nothing too fancy,” he said grudgingly.

 

Jackie smiled and though she was still not entirely pleased by the situation she clapped her hands together. “Rose, hand me the phone. I have a wedding to plan.”

 

Rose reached out and snagged the phone off the nearby charger and handed it to her mum, ignoring the Doctor’s groan. Rose elbowed him in the ribs.

 

The slight slamming of the front door was the first anyone noticed that Mickey was no longer in the room.

 

 

 

“Jack, you can’t be threatening to tell my mum about what the Doctor did in the beginning,” Rose said later that evening when she was alone with the man on the balcony. The Doctor had gone off to his ship and she and Jack had escaped Jackie’s frenzied wedding planning for some fresh air.

 

“I wouldn’t have really told her,” he said.

 

“I know, but the Doctor’s still tender about that.”

 

“And you’re not?” he demanded.

 

“I’ve forgiven him,” she said simply.

 

“And that makes it okay?” he wanted to know.

 

“No. But it means it’s in the past and we aren’t going to bring it up, understood?”

 

“I suppose so.”

 

“I really need to go talk to Mickey. He should have had enough time to cool off now. Can you run interference for me if Mum comes looking? Keep her busy. I need to get things straightened out once and for all.” Rose said.

 

“Yeah, but I don’t think that phone’s coming off her ear any time soon.”

 

“Probably not. And Jack?” Rose asked.

 

“Yeah?”

 

“By keeping her busy, I don’t mean seducing my mum,” Rose said.

 

“What if she tries to seduce me?” Jack asked flippantly.

 

“Jack! I don’t want you sleeping with my mum!”

 

“Ah, you’re no fun, Rose. First I can’t sleep with you. Then I can’t sleep with your gorgeous mum. Next you’ll tell me all of London is off limits,” Jack pouted.

 

“Tell you what. I’m sure the maid of honor or one of the bridesmaids will be happy to hook up with you,” she said. “Just not my mum.”

 

“Only one of the bridesmaids?” he asked.

 

“Jack Harkness, you are incorrigible! These are my friends. And I’d like to keep them as friends and not as a bunch of girls cat fighting over the gorgeous Captain and suddenly hating each other and me for introducing you to them in the first place. Got it?” she wanted to know.

 

“Yeah, I got it. Just tell me which one likes sex the most and I’ll go for that one,” he replied.

 

“I will not,” Rose said. “You’ll just have to take your chances. Besides, can’t the amazing Captain Harkness charm any girl out of her knickers as often as he wants?”

 

“Not any girl, Rose,” he answered. “That’s okay. From what you’ve told me about your friends, I’ll just go for Shireen.”

 

“Good luck with that,” Rose told him.

 

“Bad choice?”

 

“Challenging, that’s all. And you like a challenge.”

 

“I do at that.”

 

Rose reached out and gave him a brief hug, too quick for him to try to take advantage of it, and said, “I’ve been putting off Mickey long enough. The Doctor knows where his flat is. If I’m not back in an hour, have him come get me.”

 

“You worried Mickey will do something stupid?” he asked.

 

“Not really, but…” Rose bit her lip. “But I prefer he knows where I am. You never know with alien invasions and the city of London.”

 

Jack laughed and Rose waved a good-bye at him over her shoulder and went in search of her one-time boyfriend and hopefully still best mate.

Ch. 31:  http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/131049.html

A Sky Without Zeppelins: Chapter Seven

 
A/N:  I've given a bit of Jonathon's backstory, matching it in a way to the losses of the Time War in the Doctor's history.  His losses are similar though not so incredibly total as a world lost.  Just his own personal world lost.  And before anyone Britpicks about Little House on the Praire being an American thing, I talked to three Brits who all read the books when they were girls, and in  my AU there's a very strong sharing of literary culture between the U.K. and the Americas, both North and South.

Chapter Seven

They decide to take a walk and Jonathon offers Rose one of his pullovers to wear as the weather had started getting chill on the way back from the grocery store. It is far too large for her, coming down to mid-thigh and her hands disappear well up the sleeves, but he grins at her and says, “I was right the other day when I said you’d look good in my clothes.”

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A Sky Without Zeppelins: Chapter Seven

 
A/N:  I've given a bit of Jonathon's backstory, matching it in a way to the losses of the Time War in the Doctor's history.  His losses are similar though not so incredibly total as a world lost.  Just his own personal world lost.  And before anyone Britpicks about Little House on the Praire being an American thing, I talked to three Brits who all read the books when they were girls, and in  my AU there's a very strong sharing of literary culture between the U.K. and the Americas, both North and South.

Chapter Seven

They decide to take a walk and Jonathon offers Rose one of his pullovers to wear as the weather had started getting chill on the way back from the grocery store. It is far too large for her, coming down to mid-thigh and her hands disappear well up the sleeves, but he grins at her and says, “I was right the other day when I said you’d look good in my clothes.”

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