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quirkysmuseFandom: Doctor Who
Title: She Could Have Said Yes
Author: Paynesgrey
Characters/Pairings: Grace Holloway, Eighth Doctor, Grace/Eight
Rated: G
Word Count: 345
Warnings/Spoilers: No warnings. Spoilers for the 1996 Doctor Who movie.
Notes: Written for the "Yes" challenge at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
who_contest. Winner 3rd place.
Summary: When he asked her to come with him, Grace could have said yes.
She watched him leave, her eyes trailing from his soft blond hair kissed by a breeze and tracing down the pattern of his velveteen coat. Fireworks spattered in the sky bursting with celebratory color. Time seemed to slow for her, and though she sort of wanted it to stop, to hold onto this precious moment she’d never forget - meeting the Doctor and having this adventure with him, she couldn't.
Being with him had been riveting and scary and mostly - impossible, more than anything. She’d learned a lot of things since she’d met him, about herself, and about what was really capable in the world.
Her heart ached a little bit. Grace Holloway had met a man that she could see herself with, a man easy to fall for but hard to compare to anyone else.
When he’d asked her to come with him, she almost jumped at the chance. Tempting, he’d said, when she’d asked for him to come with her.
But her life was not for him, and if anything, his life was the tempting one.
She wondered how many people, starry-eyed and full of wonder, that he’d ask to come join him on his journeys. Though, she’d like to think she was special in a way, and the press of his lips still ghosted over hers, tempting her further to throw away everything and go off with this impossible, thrilling man.
But she couldn’t, not while learning the things the Doctor had showed her and knowing she’d escaped death for one more chance to do something right in this world. So, she couldn’t go with him. She wanted to; admittedly, saying yes would have been the easy part.
Yet, Grace felt a pinch of hesitation which slowly turned into resolve. She couldn’t go, even knowing a life with him would be more wonderful than she could ever imagine.
She had to stay here and help people, using the gifts and talents she was given. She could help and change so many lives, here, just as the Doctor had done for hers.
Title: She Could Have Said Yes
Author: Paynesgrey
Characters/Pairings: Grace Holloway, Eighth Doctor, Grace/Eight
Rated: G
Word Count: 345
Warnings/Spoilers: No warnings. Spoilers for the 1996 Doctor Who movie.
Notes: Written for the "Yes" challenge at
who_contest. Winner 3rd place.Summary: When he asked her to come with him, Grace could have said yes.
She watched him leave, her eyes trailing from his soft blond hair kissed by a breeze and tracing down the pattern of his velveteen coat. Fireworks spattered in the sky bursting with celebratory color. Time seemed to slow for her, and though she sort of wanted it to stop, to hold onto this precious moment she’d never forget - meeting the Doctor and having this adventure with him, she couldn't.
Being with him had been riveting and scary and mostly - impossible, more than anything. She’d learned a lot of things since she’d met him, about herself, and about what was really capable in the world.
Her heart ached a little bit. Grace Holloway had met a man that she could see herself with, a man easy to fall for but hard to compare to anyone else.
When he’d asked her to come with him, she almost jumped at the chance. Tempting, he’d said, when she’d asked for him to come with her.
But her life was not for him, and if anything, his life was the tempting one.
She wondered how many people, starry-eyed and full of wonder, that he’d ask to come join him on his journeys. Though, she’d like to think she was special in a way, and the press of his lips still ghosted over hers, tempting her further to throw away everything and go off with this impossible, thrilling man.
But she couldn’t, not while learning the things the Doctor had showed her and knowing she’d escaped death for one more chance to do something right in this world. So, she couldn’t go with him. She wanted to; admittedly, saying yes would have been the easy part.
Yet, Grace felt a pinch of hesitation which slowly turned into resolve. She couldn’t go, even knowing a life with him would be more wonderful than she could ever imagine.
She had to stay here and help people, using the gifts and talents she was given. She could help and change so many lives, here, just as the Doctor had done for hers.
