Title: XX.
Pairing: The Doctor/Martha
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Prompt: 20. I hate you, you bitch.
Disclaimer: Belongs to the Beeb, who coincidently also own my soul.
He imagines Martha must hate Rose. Hate the shadow of the other woman he traveled with. The woman he loved before he met Martha. It's understandable. Rose held and still holds a big place in his hearts. It's a place that Martha knows she'll never have.
But if she did, well, she wouldn’t be Martha, she'd be Rose. And he doesn't want her to be Rose. He realizes how much he's treated her like a 'latest one', like a 'not-Rose'. Each stupid little detail where he should've noticed she cared and didn't.
"I'm sorry," he says, without context.
She thinks it's a rejection.
It's not.