Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

Yes, it has been.  I did far more driving today than I am accustomed to.  I took the car down to Burlington to have it fabric guarded and paint sealed.  It is an hour long drive from my house.  I got a loaner car from the dealership.  It was a tiny little Yaris, which is not bigger on the inside than the outside like my Matrix is.  And it was a low end one, so didn't eve have cruise control, which is not fun for an hour long drive on the highway or freeway.  But it drove well otherwise.  It was just really loud on the road noise.  So anyway, drove it back home and took a nap from one to three, then picked up my son from school and then headed back to the dealership, then back home again, so all in all I drove four hours today and my back is sore from it.  It is a much nicer trip in my car, with satellite radio or my CD's then regular radio which does not like the foothills much.

A/N:  I was feeling a little bit sorry for Jack at the end of Post Pomp, so wrote this little follow-up one shot for him.

Post Pomp Post Script

Jonathon Ashford Kensington the Fourth, later to be known as Captain Jack Harkness, paced the deck of the good ship Time Salvager. He knew that he had made the correct decision to save the life of the woman he loved, but he couldn’t bear the thought that in less than 12 hours Rose Tyler and everything that had happened in the last two hundred sixty days would be wiped from his mind as if it had never existed.

A/N:  And in this chapter we find the return of Mickey and...hope!

Chapter Twenty-One:  Two Hundred Sixty Days - Hour Four Onwards

“What the hell was that?” Jack asked his eyes wide in shock as he strode towards the Doctor.

“It’s called a Reaper,” the Doctor said his tone gone so cold, so brittle, that Jack stopped for a moment.

A/N:  Cassi, Jack and the Doctor arrive back in the 51st century. The two men rush to see Rose. Her reaction is not what either man expected.

Chapter Eighteen:  Two Hundred Sixty Days

Cassi had her ship materialize on the space bucket next to her father’s TARDIS. “We’re going to have to give your old girl a jump start,” Cassi said looking up from the readings she had taken on her monitor.  “She’s lost a lot of power.”

A/N:  Rose comes to a decision regarding her feelings and shares it with Mickey. But is it the right decision? Only time will tell.

Chapter Fifteen:  Two Hundred Fifty-Seven Days

Didn’t think I’d ever be writing in here again, Cara. Now that I know you’re not really Cara, that the TARDIS was, it still doesn’t seem wrong to call you that. Ah, well. It doesn’t matter. I’ve the need to put down my thoughts on paper again so here they go.

Jack’s been gone two days now and all I’ve been able to think about is what he said to me just before he left. He wants me. He wants as many years as he can have with me. Even if he has to give me up at some point to keep the universe from going boom, he doesn’t care. He said that he’d rather take that time with me and give it everything he had, than never even try. Because even a limited number of years with me would be worth the heartache later. And he’d have the memories to sustain him.