"Yeah?" Rose perked up. She spun her own chair around backwards to lean on the head, but definitely listened with great interest.
And giggled slightly at the pep talk about the Fairy Godmother. It was new, but familiar enough to be intelligible at least!
The mirth faded at the last part, and her eyes dimmed again, sharp and serious. "I won't get in your way."
She hated herself a little. It used to be she wouldn't let anyone die on her watch. She'd pull everyone into a cupboard, and do the bloody impossible and they'd all survive. But enough seeing the world end, enough fractured timelines, enough planets, stars, and realities lost to darkness had dimmed that golden determination. A lot. Sometimes even doing the impossible wasn't enough. But just because one paradox ended, didn't mean there wouldn't be another universe's Peter Tyler out there inventing a way to cross the void.
"You ever fight the corrosion before?"
Somewhere in the back of her head, her mind tumbled over the idea of pure determination and willpower. Was all the times Rose survived magic? IN A WAY MAYBE!? But she already knew that... Bad Wolf. She survived where no one else could because she did one impossible thing but threw it around like confetti so that her entire life was like that. Except... all that did was let her survive. What did it matter if she couldn't protect anyone else? She did. Sometimes. Lots of times! But she didn't know when it was going to happen, she had absolutely no control over it, she could procure it, and she definitely couldn't use it as a weapon.
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Date: 2019-06-29 07:35 am (UTC)And giggled slightly at the pep talk about the Fairy Godmother. It was new, but familiar enough to be intelligible at least!
The mirth faded at the last part, and her eyes dimmed again, sharp and serious. "I won't get in your way."
She hated herself a little. It used to be she wouldn't let anyone die on her watch. She'd pull everyone into a cupboard, and do the bloody impossible and they'd all survive. But enough seeing the world end, enough fractured timelines, enough planets, stars, and realities lost to darkness had dimmed that golden determination. A lot. Sometimes even doing the impossible wasn't enough. But just because one paradox ended, didn't mean there wouldn't be another universe's Peter Tyler out there inventing a way to cross the void.
"You ever fight the corrosion before?"
Somewhere in the back of her head, her mind tumbled over the idea of pure determination and willpower. Was all the times Rose survived magic? IN A WAY MAYBE!? But she already knew that... Bad Wolf. She survived where no one else could because she did one impossible thing but threw it around like confetti so that her entire life was like that. Except... all that did was let her survive. What did it matter if she couldn't protect anyone else? She did. Sometimes. Lots of times! But she didn't know when it was going to happen, she had absolutely no control over it, she could procure it, and she definitely couldn't use it as a weapon.