Ask a Character Meme

[milieva]

Because I thought it would be fun, and I know a few of you have questions about my fics, so I thought I would resurect an old meme.

Leave a comment to ask any of my characters, from any of my stories, any question you want, and "they" will answer you! (Warning: there may be story spoilers in these comments.)

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[mrs_roy.livejournal.com]

Why James, Rose. Why. Seriously, he can't be half as good as the Doctor, remember he, father of your beloved children? I mean if you don't need him, I'll gladly home him!

[milieva]

mrs_roy:

Remember him? Of course I remembered the Doctor. Every horrible minute of my existence in that world, I remembered the Doctor. You speak as if I were choosing James over him. I most certainly wasn’t.

What I had with James started out simply enough. He was my friend, my partner at Torchwood. Honestly, I thought he was nice and perhaps even a little too good for me. After Lily was born, and the Doctor didn’t seem to be coming back for me, he became a bit more persistent in his pursuit of me. Before, it had just been meeting before or after work for a coffee, or perhaps having a meal together during our break. I didn’t think anything of it at first. I’d had many a friend I did those things with at Hendricks.

When I first went out with him on a proper date, I spent much of the evening talking about Lily, and he seemed genuinely interested in her. It would be some time before I would discover part of his interest was not innocent curiosity.

As you know, James was informing on the both of us for some time. What I didn’t realize was that some of it had started before I’d even given birth. It would seem Solomon had an idea about my child before I was informed officially and went through the inquisition. (You should see the things they have down in her paperwork about her father. If you believed their notes, you’d think the Doctor had taken me to Barcelona with the sole purpose of making me pregnant. )

Not that I fully forgive James all the information he gave them, I can understand why he did it. His sister was ousted to the organization after the birth of her son. Her son was born with an unusual bluish tint to his skin. This left them under the close eye of Torchwood and Solomon, and also gave Solomon the leverage they needed to bend James to their will, because he was willing to do nearly anything to keep them safe. Even inform on me and my little child, which he did for some time before I caught on.

I can’t say I fully condone my own actions when it came to James, but I was trapped in an alternate universe and had been told it was impossible for me to go home. When I first went home with him, I suppose I wasn’t thinking about the Doctor, or my child. I only thought that this was nice guy and maybe I could move on and make a life for myself amidst all this chaos.

Only a few weeks later I was given information that someone close to me was exchanging information, so I looked into James. That was when I found the e-mails on his computer, and the photos.

From then on, the relationship became a matter of survival. If I could keep him attached to me, I knew he wouldn’t give them nearly as much as they would like, but he would give them enough to keep them at bay. It was a delicate balance, and a game I got caught up more often than not.

My relationship with James had little to do with anything outside of fear and a survival instinct. I even briefly toyed with the idea of having a child with him, but I couldn’t follow through. If I had, Solomon would have taken Lily from me for sure.

I did finally break it off with him for good just a few months before the Doctor came back. I simply couldn’t do it anymore. I felt too guilty, too torn between protecting my child and betraying her father or returning to my own convictions and possibly losing her forever. I felt awful for having done it when he went so far as to ask me to marry him. Marry him? I couldn’t.

In the end, they still took her, but I did get her back.

Now we are both safe, far from those that kept us terrified for nearly half a decade.

I hope I have made myself clear. James was nothing more than a means to an end. He was the one who thought he was more than that.

If you think I forgot the Doctor during that time, I fear you are sadly mistaken. He was never far from my mind. I had a constant reminder of him at home, Lillian Victoria Tyler, my beautiful daughter. I think it hurt more that she looks so much like him. She even has many of the same mannerisms, talking so fast when she finds something fascinating, tugging at her ear when she’s embarrassed.

I need to go now, the baby needs tending to, and the Doctor is off who knows where. I hope I answered your questions, though I don’t know why they even needed asking.

--Rose

[mrs_roy.livejournal.com]

Well to be fair, you did lie about being pregnant, perhaps if you had told him he could have been there sooner. Could have taken you away from the hoplessness of that world. You did what you did to survive, I suppose. I hope the Doctor beat the living crap out of him. Did you ever think about having sex in an elevator? Somewhere James might have just happened to walk by and see? I think the Doctor really needs to stamp his authority, not that he owns you, of course not, but well, you are his wife, and you were pregnant with his second child, living with his eldest.

[milieva]

Sex in a lift, just so James could walk in and see us? You must be joking. At that point in time, my only thoughts were either getting gout alive, or at the very least my daughter getting out safely. I would do anything to be sure the latter happened. I made the Doctor promise he would take her if anything happened to me. Or at least I attempted to. He wouldn’t promise to leave me behind if things got too bad.

As far as the Doctor hurting James, he is above that sort of thing. He is not fond of violence. James wasn’t physically involved in the things that happened to Lily and me. He made his feelings known to James. More than once actually.

[mrs_roy.livejournal.com]

Doctor, Doctor, what do you think about James? About Roses betrayal. Why not punch the jerk? And why did not kick Roses arse into gear, wanted to lose your daughter did you? Don't give me the whole Rose is her own person speech, your wife, your daughter, your responsibility! How close was she to losing her, and you were just there as an accessory. And letting her drink, what was with that! Poor Lorien.

I ask the children this as a collective, do you respect your parents relationship, or is it just whatever goes, bit of a joke?

[milieva]

What do we think of our parents’ relationship? I can’t speak for my bothers and sisters, but I can tell you what I think of it.

Mum and Dad are completely gaga for each other. So much so, it’s maddening. The two of them are always flirting. They’re always so focused on each other, you’d think they were newlyweds or something. It’s disgusting. I mean take Dad, for instance. When Mum was pregnant, and I mean HUGE, he still wanted to shag her. She was as big as a house and he thought she was gorgeous. I know Ren and I had a laugh when she kicked him out of bed in those last weeks.

Then again, I gues Mum isn’t much better. She complained for nearly the entire ten months she was pregnant with Sean, and yet she was the one who talked Dad into having Mims. I give up. There is no way to understand them.

-Lily


Lily’s always complaining about Mummy and Daddy now. She thinks they’re silly. I think they’re cute. Daddy loves Mummy a lot. He really will do just about anything for her. He’s always asking us what we think she would want to do, or what he can do for her.

He’s still trying to teach her how to fly the TARDIS. Lily’s better at it, and she hasn’t been doing it nearly as long as Mummy. I think that’s because Mummy’s human, but we aren’t supposed to say she can’t do stuff because she’s not part Gallifreyan or a Time Lord. Because ‘Mummy’s clever’, or at least that’s what Daddy says.

She is clever, but she’s not at the same time. She can’t calculate really big numbers in her head, but she did know when the boys rewired the cooker even before she went to put the kettle on.

Can’t get anything by her.

-Ren

[milieva]

Mummy and Daddy are superheroes or something. They know everything Sean and me do ‘fore we do it. Like this one time with the temporal flux…er never mind. Lily says I’m supposed to talk about them as a couple.

They kiss a lot. Which is sort of gross. Like when they don’t know one of us walked in and Daddy’s touching her under her clothes. I don’t know why they are always doing that, even when Mummy doesn’t want a new baby yet.

But they do. All the time. It doesn’t make sense. I guess it’s a grown up thing.

That’s all I’ve got.

-Alan


Last time I asked Daddy why they had another baby, he said I should ask Mummy. Mummy said it was because they love each other. I don’t know if I believe that. Because when Mummy was really big with Mimi, she was grouchy and didn’t really act like she loved Daddy all that much. But now that Mimi’s been born, she’s not so mean to him. Daddy says it’s because she feels better.

They’re together a lot. Mummy’s always sitting in the console room with him round the time we go to bed. And they always smile those smiles at each other.

Mimi says she likes those smiles, because Mummy feels so happy when Daddy smiles at her, and Mummy’s heart goes faster then too.

-Sean

[milieva]

What Rose does with her body is entirely her business. I have no say in the matter, no matter how much I try to.

As far as losing Lorien, that wasn't even a possibility. Unless something horrific happened to Rose, such as a kraken attack, or she died, there was little chance of her losing her once she was implanted. Losing Rose was an entirely different matter. If she’d kept on as she was she would have died.

But she didn’t, so no harm done.
I can’t claim responsibility for Rose’s actions, when I do not condone them. Both of us are equally guilty of that. Her drinking while pregnant is something I do not appreciate at all, but none of the children have been harmed by alcohol. I think she had more to drink with Lillian than she did with Lorien, honestly.

And apparently my children are not terribly fond of physical displays of my affection for their mother. Rather amusing, that. Given they wouldn’t be here if we weren’t affectionate.

[ladymalchav.livejournal.com]

James: What the fuck?