ROSE TYLER sent : protective starters.
↳ i know you can handle it yourself, but it doesn’t mean you should have to do this on your own @shedefend·.
❝ i- ❞ she really is lost for words, taken aback by the sincerity in rose’s voice, and martha is visibly unsettled. truthfully, she has always been the one to carry the weight of everyone else’s problems, and her own : usually, she accepted that responsibility readily, always happy to help, willing to be the shoulder others cried or leaned on. she had never really thought much about it that’s why she did what she did. even her family used her as a crutch : the bridge between, using her as a sounding board. she was used to it.
swallowing her confusion, martha smiled at rose and nodded, fidgeting with her hands in front of her. ❝ right, yeah - of course, i know that … ❞ and she does, but relinquishing control of any situation is difficult for martha, who, even when drowning in chaos, almost always turned the tide. her smile is tight, somewhat strained, but she resigns herself to the inevitable. she really doesn’t have to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders ( anymore ) so why not accept help when it’s offered ? ❝ sorry, i’m just-yeah. right, can you … ❞ she nods towards her phone as it rings for the third time, and she sighed. ❝ it’s either mace, my mum, or jack. just tell ‘em i’m busy and hang up, we don’t have a lot of time. i’ll sort them out later. ❞
MARTHA JONES IS STRONG . she's known it since eyes first went laid upon the other [ … ] an unfamiliar face on a screen in what she originally believed to be her spot , calm in a crisis . the sort of woman you automatically , instinctually , look towards for instruction && leadership in times of stress && conflict && the knowledge that the stakes were high && the world was two steps away from crumbling away around you . even people like that need someone at their side [ … ] even women like burning suns need to know they are not alone .
SHE PICKS UP THE PHONE AS ASKED . curls around the receiver && puts on the customer service voice she hasn't utilized since she was nineteen && unaware of just how big she truly was . it's only a couple words spoken on both ends before the call is ended and rose turns back . ❛ was your mum . ❜ steps closer to martha && it feels akin to moving into her orbit . ( rose tyler has long since known what it is like to be around magnetism . to be around the same stuff you find at the center of the universe masquerading as a human . to be drawn in . eager . )
❛ TOLD HER YOU WERE HELPIN' ME WI ' SOMETHIN' IMPORTANT . ❜ it's not wrong , not really [ … ] it's more the other way around , though . just figured saying it that way would lead to less questions for martha later on . ❛ now ----- ❜ she smiles , but it's small . tight . a twisting of pink , chapped mouth && not much else . goes to tuck hair behind ear only to remember that it's pulled up && away . ❛ tell me what y'need me t'do [ … ] want me t'do . ❜