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[sapote]

It's not that he couldn't. The steps were unfamiliar, sure, right, because he had new hands and new legs and new - everything - since the last time he'd tried it. It's that it was faintly ludicrious, is what it was, all arms and legs on the deck, the music ruddering through the floor panels, the girl ridiculously light, simian, human. He could look a Slitheen in the face and call it beautiful; he could face down a disintegrator ray without flinching. He was, after all, a Doctor. But there was something so - biological - about this, about her face so close to his: two eyes, two ears, a mouth, and the soft curve of her waist, the single pulse under his hands.

It made him faintly queasy, it did.

But it was easy, it was easy and it made her happy, and he didn't mind, when she was flushed and laughing against him, back sweaty, lonely pulse rattling along under her skin. Her ludicrious human nerve endings sparked and reacted; the accustomed but foreign reek of her pheremones rose like curry on the stove, or rain after dark . Her pupils were wide and black - a simple autonomic response - when she looked up into his face. A person was a person and they were both people, and he smiled his unaccustomed smile, feeling, nervously, that this time his mouth was too narrow with too many teeth, and put his hands on her again.
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unbetaed Dr. Who snippet by sapote3
Written directly after "The Doctor Dances", Doctor/Rose
Rating depends on how much you read into the metaphor. Not explicit.
Other warnings: made-up words? Written for my own amusement, but that's always the case. Very unbetaed. Possibly strange.

All feedback welcome.

Comments

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I choose to read this as 10/Rose, just so you know. Strange, yes. Sad? Strangely. I just want them both to be happy, dammit. what's that song? I want you to want me, I need you to need me? yeah. just a little.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

yeah, I didn't specify which doctor on purpose, because I hadn't seen Ten yet when I wrote it, but it fits.

Just this once, everyone lives

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

Funny, I read it as Nine.

And this is a little strange, but in the good way! (I mean, the Doctor is strange, therefore his head should be a strange place.)

Re: Just this once, everyone lives

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yes, I wrote it as Nine. I &hearts Nine rather a lot.

[prchung.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this and wish that there'd been more to it actually.

lonely pulse rattling along under her skin
I really liked that. The way you broke down her physicality in his perspective was lovely and insightful, and I thought very much the Doctor, especially Nine.

I, too, am very biased when it comes to Nine.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I would like to write more Who - Nine or Ten, now that I've gotten a bit of a look at Ten. So far the inklings of ideas that I've got are heavy on the weird, though.

I'm glad you enjoyed this and commented!

[lavilleperdue.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have only ever watched part of a DW episode, but I was intrigued by the "possibly strange" remark (wow, I am so easy), and I had to take a look. I'm glad I did, though, because I really like the slightly melancholic and kind of off-balance feel to the Doctor's perspective, contrasted with Rose's simple happiness. Very interesting. :)

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

thanks! ::tries to pimp Dr. Who through telepathy:: It's a weird dynamic, and one of those things that I feel like is just barely examined enough in canon to let you know that it really is there.