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All was as it should be... or was it?

Edward Smythe was an eccentric gentleman with a penchant for velvet coats and funding public libraries. Rose Tyler is the pretty, young widow in need of funds who he hires as the librarian in his latest project.

The long hours they spend together setting up the library lead to a closeness between them. Dr. Smythe enjoys making Miss Tyler blush and she seems to enjoy making him laugh and he finds himself inventing reasons for them to stay hours longer than is perhaps necessary.

He’s falling in love with the gorgeous, mysterious librarian and he knows she feels something too but she won’t let his courtship move past a few stolen kisses amongst the books they both adore and he doesn’t understand what is prompting her hesitation.

Thanks for asking, @cryofthewolf!  I combined both into 1.

TenToo, Rose, and their little girl.  Since it is TenToo, tagging @doctorroseprompts and @timepetalsprompts

Uh, given the prompt, warning for slight usage of language?  Though, the prompted line is really the only instance…

Prompts from this list:

94.  “I had a bad dream again.”

95.  “Have I mentioned, I fucking hate Halloween.”

AO3

Scary Movie

He’ll never admit it, but his reflexes and senses havedulled in the time since becoming human.

Which is why when he opened his eyes for no apparent reasonin the middle of the night, he almost had a bloody heart attack to see twosmall eyes staring at him from the side of the bed.

“Are you awake?” thesmall, dark shape asked in a loud whisper.

“I am now.  Use yourquiet voice, Mummy’s sleeping,” hewhispered back at a more appropriate volume for – 3 AM?!

The little girl simply stared at him, waiting.

With a deep sigh, he carefully untangled himself from thesheets, swinging his legs over the side of the bed and at the same time risingand swinging his daughter into his arms.

He knew he wasn’t going back to sleep for a long while whenshe wrapped her arms tightly around his neck, and they were still trembling.

Carrying her out to the living room, he sat on the couch andsnuggled her close.

“Young ladies named Sarah Jacqueline are supposed to beasleep at this time of night,” he toldher seriously as she played with the neck of his t-shirt.  He took a moment to be thankful that Rose hadmade him put it and his sleep pants back on after their, uh, pre-sleepactivities.

“I had a bad dream again,” Sarah confessed softly, burrowing into him.

“Oh, love,” he sighed,gently stroking her hair.  “I’m sorry.”  Though he hated that she was scared, he did relish that she still came to him - soon enough she would be too old to seek comfort from them, and the thought hurt his solitary heart.

She shrugged, pretending it was nothing, as though he couldn’tread her like a book.  Her mother’sdaughter, indeed.

“Is there anything I can do to help you get to sleep?” he asked, and she looked up at himeagerly.  Before she could even start headded, “That does not involve ice cream or candy or cookies or other sugaryitems?”

Her little bottom lip protruded, but she didn’t argue,instead asking, “Can we just have a cuddle here?”

“Of course we can, my darling.”  He carefully swung around torecline, resigned to spending the rest of the night on the couch.  It wasn’t long before she drifted off,leaving him with his thoughts.

-

The next thing he knew, there was the lightest dual pressureof a hand on his shoulder and Rose’s mind brushing his over their bond.

He blinked his eyes open to find it was still dark, hiswife crouched down next to him.

“Another bad dream?” she asked sympathetically, brushing a kiss along their daughter’s brow.

“Yep.  Third thisweek.”  He made no effort to hide his annoyed tone, though he kept it low to avoid waking the sleeping child.

“I’ll talk to Mum, tell her to absolutely never again showthat movie.”

“Thanks, but that doesn’t solve the here and now.”  He reigned in the uncharitable thoughts hewas thinking about his mother-in-law, and looked up to see his wife lookingamused.  “What?”

“’S just, she’s our daughter.”

“Yeah?”

“I dunno, I just would’ve thought that she’d be braver thanthat.  I mean, I could understandNightmare before Christmas, or something like that, but honestly Doctor – how isshe afraid of Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie?”

His lips twisted in agreement, carefully moving to sit up sohe could put Sarah back in her own bed.

Like a well-oiled machine they got her settled withoutwaking her, and walked back to their own bed hand in hand, climbing beneath thecovers.

It’s not until they’re settled, her head on his chest overwhere his second heart used to be, his arms wrapped around her, that he speaksagain.

“Rose?”

“Mmhmm?”  She’salready drifting back to sleep.

This is from a future Soulmates story:

Rose cradled [James’s] head and shoulders against her stomach, and she stroked her fingers through his hair soothingly as he sobbed in her arms. Tears welled in her eyes, and fell down her cheeks when she blinked, but she ignored them in favor of comforting her soulmate.

Weekly round up of fic I’ve read and enjoyed this week.  Do yourself a favor and check ‘em out!

askbox fic (1) for @chiaroscuroverse by anon (Nine/Rose, NSFW, BDSM, Domme!Rose)

askbox fic (2) for @chiaroscuroverse by anon (Nine/Rose, NSFW-ish?)

untitled (53) by @tenroseforeverandever (Nine/Rose)

Soaked to the Skin by @countessselena (Nine/Rose, huddling for warmth, hurt/comfort)

Rose and the Mechanic: Chapter 6 by @annamarie83 (Nine/Rose, Human Nature UA)

Pipeline by @onthedriftinthetardis (Nine/Rose, NSFW)

Nature of War: Chapter 16 by @cryofthewolf (Eight/Rose, Human Nature UA)

Last Chance by @badwolfxoncomingstorm (Eight/Rose)

One Last Moment of Quiet by @starsandfairytales (Eight/Rose)

Images on Jericho’s Walls by jer832 and scifiangel (Nine/Rose, mentions of It Happened One Night (psst @rundalek!))

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