fannishliss

Title: Melting
Rating: PG
Word Count: 353
Pairings or Characters: Four/Rose, Cloen/Rose
Warnings: none
Summary: Traveling with the Dimension Cannon, Rose nearly always finds the Doctor — just not the one she's looking for.

Author's Note: this is for who_contest drabble challenge # 8: Cold.  There is also a longer version with more author's notes.
   

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Here is a little thing I like to do sometimes.  emraldeyedauter prompted Ten/Rose: Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"   -- hope you like it!

The Rose Not Taken
(with apologies to Robert Frost)

Two lives diverged on a windy shore,
 and sorry I could not live them both
 and be one man still, long I stood
 and gazed at the two as long as I could,
 with all their hopes stretched out before;

 I thought the other me just as fair,
 and having perhaps the better claim
 because he was human, less worse for wear,
 and all my love was burning there—
 one fire, one blood, one heart, the same—

 Our hearts in her hands equally lay
 when she pulled him into her arms to kiss.
 Oh, how I marked every jot of that day!
 —that girl who forever and ever I'd miss--
 I doubted I'd ever be back that way.

 I shall be telling this with a sigh
 somewhere ages and ages hence:
 Two lives diverged on that shore, and he,
 he took her hand, and said those words,
 and that made all the difference.

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If you like SPN, you might also like: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Winchester  :)