Fictitious Endeavours

Title: Memories
Character/Pairing: Ten/Rose
Setting: The Runaway Bride
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Disclaimer: Based on characters owned and created by BBC, used without permission.
Beta Reader: bananasandroses 
Author's Notes: Drabble. Inspired by this pic



He stands amongst the revellers, his hearts thudding painfully in his chest. He's doing what they always did, investigating, but it holds no joy for him now. On the dance floor a scene plays out – one that is all too familiar. Memories, like a forgotten song, re-play unbidden in his mind. She had been so close, but never close enough. Always in his heart and in his arms, but never in his bed. Folly, he thinks. Would it have hurt any less? He doubts it. And he would not have to live with all of the might-have-beens.