"No no, not like that," Rose quickly doodles a face on her balloon with sunglasses and a mustache, and bowtie.
"Expectations. There's a Charles Dickens' book about that, yeah?" Rose winced inwardly. Charles Dickens. Did everything have to come back to the Doctor?!
"If you set yourself up expecting things to be one way, you might miss the good things that happen for other reasons. And hurt people who've got other expectations in mind too, yeah?" scribble scribble scribble. She makes the Bow tie polka dotted, it looks good in the red. And then debates giving him devil horns, but that's racist.
"I'm just kind of waffling, I guess. I thought the hardest part of my mission was just finding someone to help me fight."
Rose kisses the balloon's "cheek" and sets if off with an eyes-closed silent wish, returning the marker with a "Thanks."
"Thing is, I found allies, way more than I thought I could, and obviously... nothing's what I expected. I thought I had to find my best friend, and I'm lucky! I did! But he's half as young, or twice as old as when I was looking for him." Rose shrugged. "Expectations, yeah? Here's to letting them go."
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"Expectations. There's a Charles Dickens' book about that, yeah?" Rose winced inwardly. Charles Dickens. Did everything have to come back to the Doctor?!
"If you set yourself up expecting things to be one way, you might miss the good things that happen for other reasons. And hurt people who've got other expectations in mind too, yeah?" scribble scribble scribble. She makes the Bow tie polka dotted, it looks good in the red. And then debates giving him devil horns, but that's racist.
"I'm just kind of waffling, I guess. I thought the hardest part of my mission was just finding someone to help me fight."
Rose kisses the balloon's "cheek" and sets if off with an eyes-closed silent wish, returning the marker with a "Thanks."
"Thing is, I found allies, way more than I thought I could, and obviously... nothing's what I expected. I thought I had to find my best friend, and I'm lucky! I did! But he's half as young, or twice as old as when I was looking for him." Rose shrugged. "Expectations, yeah? Here's to letting them go."