defenders of the earth;

SUMMARY: After the destruction of Lumic and the Battersea power station, and a rare chance to get to know her father, Rose decides she wants to stay on the parallel world. [CHAPTER 1]

TAGS: hurt… eventual comfort, Rose wants to leave, post 2x06 The Age of Steel, unresolved emotional tension (*cough* Reinette *cough*)

Read on AO3: gingerbread house

“For whatever reason, you’re trying to pick a fight with me, and I don’t want anything to do with it. I’m going to give you some space—”

“Don’t you dare!”

Her voice was so cold and unkind that he froze in his tracks. She choked out a sob he was certain she must not have wanted to; she stood rigid in determination, her shoulders tense yet she trembled when she folded her arms. He wasn’t certain he had ever seen her like this, so furious and especially with him. And he had an awful feeling the fury had been building, worsening and worsening until it became intolerable as it was now.

“As hard as it must be for you to believe that my whole world doesn’t revolve around you, this is about me, and what I want. And I want to stay, and I’m going to.”