Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

A/N:  Recognizable dialog is from the episode The Christmas Invasion.  Tissue warning may be in effect.

                                                                Chapter Two: Uncertainty

The Doctor stares at Rose with large, dark eyes and then rises abruptly from the table. His jaw is set as if she has said something distasteful and her heart sinks in her chest. “Not here, Rose,” he says gesturing at her mum and Mickey. It’s not talking to her that’s distasteful; it’s doing it in front of an audience. She closes her eyes in relief and then stands up.

“Oi, where you going?” Jackie asks. “This is Christmas dinner, this is.”
 

A/N:  Well, the angst bunnies hit and would not let me work on Zeppelins at all today.  So here we have, for your reading pleasure, the first of the Ten line in the Moments in Darkness series.  If you haven't read the rest of the series (click on the moments in darkness tag if you'd like to read), we left off with a "just finding out she was pregnant" Rose making her way back to Nine during Parting of the Ways and him giving up his life for her and regenerating into Ten, so obviously a Ten/Rose fic.  He does not know she's pregnant, and we do not know what effect taking in the Vortex energy may have had on the baby.  More or less follows canon but with the obvious differences.  Takes place at the end of the Christmas Invasion.

                                                     Chapter One:  Different

He says he is the same man, still the Doctor, but every time Rose looks at him she isn’t seeing her Doctor.  She sees a stranger standing in his place.  Gone are the steel blue eyes that seem to look right through her and see everything she is thinking, convey every bit of emotion and love that he feels for her in one heated glance.  Gone are the wrinkles that crinkle so fully at the sides of those same eyes when he smiles.