This right here is the angsty Nine/Rose growing up fic that no one was asking for. It is based on the Secret Sisters song Iuka, and it is super depressing and angsty, and no one should read it. At all.
Seriously, call it quits now.
It’s also a little bit NSFW there at the end.
So really, no one should read it.
His first clear memory was of a squirmy, warm, pink bundle placed in his child’s arms to hold. The mothers had insisted that he sit (you wouldn’t want to drop her, Chris), and Jackie had warned him to hold her head.
“Isn’t she beautiful?” his mother had asked.
“She looks funny. Not like the babies on TV,” he’d said, with the candor of a child.
Jackie, far from getting offended, had laughed. “She’s too new. She’ll look a bit less red and a bit more like the babies on the TV in a few days.”
Chris looked down into the scrunched goblin face for another minute. “I hope you’re right. She looks like a squished tomato right now.”
His mother, Verity, gave him a gentle cuff on the back of his head and Jackie laughed.
“Rose,” Jackie said, with a fond look down at her daughter. “That’s what she looks like to me, a rosebud. Not a squished tomato.”
Chris frowned and looked at the wee red face peeking out of pink cotton. He supposed Jackie had a point. Rosie had a face that did remind him of the tiny, crumpled rosebuds that grew outside his mother’s kitchen window.
“Rose Tyler,” he said slowly, tasting the name like a piece of Halloween chocolate. “I like it.”
“Glad to hear it,” Jackie said, patting him on the head.
The mothers descended into grown-up conversation and Chris and Rose were effectively left alone.
He continued to watch her with the focused curiosity of the very young. After a few minutes, as though she felt the intensity of his gaze, the scrunchy eyes opened and focused on him- a peculiar cloudy blue, but direct and solemn.
“Hello Rose Tyler,” Chris whispered. “I’m going to take care of you forever.”
Rose opened her mouth in a gummy smile.
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