[Doctor Who] cool (Nine/Rose)

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Title: cool
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 242 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Doctor Who, Nine/Rose, she has a thing for leather
Pairing: slight Nine/Rose
Other: n/a

Excerpt: She's never told anyone that she has a thing for leather, because really, no way Mickey would be able to pull it off.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. ~Jean Paul Gaultier

She's never told anyone that she has a thing for leather, because really, no way Mickey would be able to pull it off. He'd look ridiculous in his little yellow car and that would take all of the sexiness out of it. And she can't tell her mum, because she had this feeling that Jackie would agree, and she just can't deal with them agreeing on something like this. It's just not right.

So she tells no one, but she can't help the little thrill that she feels when he grabs her hand for the first time and drags her down that hallway. She's running, possibly to save her own life, but there's smooth black leather brushing her fingers and she has this strange idea that now, now, something is beginning. Something big. And of course there'd be a strange man in a leather jacket in the middle of it.

She never tells him, either, because he'd just get all smug about it, and when she stomps her foot and juts her chin, he just laughs at her childishness.

So she keeps it to herself. And once in a while, after he regenerates, she goes to her closet in the TARDIS, and picks up the battered coat she still keeps, and she breathes in that old warm smell.

Can't blame a girl. She has this thing for leather. And it's nothing to do with missing the old him at all.

At least, not that she'd admit.