first_in_time | New Lives and Mourned Pasts

The trip was long but at least they had jobs to go to and somewhere to live even if it was small. They each had one suitcase half filled with clothes and a life they were leaving behind. Once they were left in the by the side of a dusty road on the outskirts of a small country town Barbara walked with Ian to their new home, unconsciously holding onto his hand as she had done so many times before. Their real estate agent waited at the door of their new home to hand them a set of keys. He wished the newly weds ever lasting happiness then left them to it.

"It seems I've missed my own wedding," Barbara said with a sigh as she put the suitcase down in the middle of the almost empty lounge room and chuckled a little. She was tired and felt dirty from all their traveling.

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splendid_roman

"We both have. But we'll get to it, once we've saved up some money." What they did have they'd need for food and more possessions than they carried with them. At least the house came with furniture. Ian put his suitcase down looked around the room. At least they had somewhere they could call home.

He turned to Barbara. "Regretting leaving the Doctor and Vicki to end up two years out?"

((OOC: I'm guessing you mean the 9th option, as Barbara is dead in the last one :) ))

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first_in_time

"No," Barbara said with a shake of her head and wrapped her arms around her. "We're safe now and although our adventures were fantastic, I have everything I need here."

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splendid_roman

He smiled. "It was fun, but it's good to be on Earth in our own time and not going anywhere." He stepped closer and put his arms around her. "I'm glad I have you with me."

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first_in_time

"As I'm glad I have you but how are we going to fake a marriage if we don't even have rings?" she said, looking up at Ian with a slightly worried expression. She knew she loved Ian, so that part wouldn't be difficult but it wasn't as though they'd stepped off the Dalek ship with a long time to think everything out logically and settle into the ideas. She worried that they'd be found out in little time.

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splendid_roman

"We don't like rings?" But as he said it he knew it was a terrible suggestion. "Maybe we eloped and couldn't afford rings as well. But it's not rings that fake a marriage it's us." He let go of her to pace around the small room. "There are things most couples would have done and talked about and we haven't done any of that."

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first_in_time

"So you think that we should discuss things like children?" she asked, a little confused.

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splendid_roman

"Maybe." He stopped and rubbed his hand down his face. "We did do the right thing in pretending to be married, didn't we?"

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first_in_time

Barbara shrugged a little. "If we just started living together as an unmarried but attached man and woman, we wouldn't be as welcomed." And it wasn't as if their families would welcome them back so easily after being lost for two years.

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splendid_roman

"No, we wouldn't." And living apart would cost more money and would just lead to them getting married in the end, so they might as well say they were. It had all been logical at the time.

"I'm sorry." He smiled at her a little. "I love you, I just always thought that if I got married it would be obvious what to do."

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first_in_time

Barbara laughed delicately at that. "Generally she. You get maried there's months of preparation and planning, then the couple actually gets married. We blew up a spaceship and had to adjust yo being back on Earth full time."

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splendid_roman

He laugh himself and went back over to Barbara to take her hands. "We've never even had a date."

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first_in_time

"We could attempt to have one this evening although I don't know how much I want to do other than curl up somewhere and sleep," Barbara said and kissed the back of one of Ian's hands. "We could just spend the evening together. For once we don't have a lot to worry about. We're here, we start our new lives tomorrow, and we can stay here for as long as we like."

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splendid_roman

"We have plenty of other things to do today, sorting the house out. Let's just stay in." He was sure newly weds would be expected to stay in on their first night in their house.

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first_in_time

"Newly weds have an excuse to stay in," Barbara told him and chuckled a little more.

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splendid_roman

"They do," he said hesitantly. They weren't technically newly weds and they hadn't had a wedding or a honeymoon and he was a little nervous about the sort of thing newly weds would do on a night in.

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first_in_time

Barbara pushed the tingling nervousness that sat in her stomach away. They were good friends, admittedly good friends who had declared their love, but friends nonetheless. The idea of kissing Ian sent excited chills up her spine, so understandably sex made her feel moderately uncomfortably in the most excited way.

"Shall we sort out where our clothes will live?" she asked, avoiding all, or most, sensitive subjects.

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splendid_roman

"Yes, all right." He was relieved at the change in subject and dropped Barbara's hands to pick up his suitcase.

There wasn't a great deal of furniture in the bedroom, but they didn't have many clothes, so it didn't matter. When Ian opened his suitcase and surveyed the contents he joked, "I think I've got enough clothes to fill half a drawer."

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first_in_time

"Sounds like mine," she smiled and looked at the drawers. "How about you take the top drawer, since you're the tallest, and I'll take the bottom?"

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splendid_roman

"All right." He opened the top drawer, pulled his clothes out of the suitcase and dumped them in the drawer. And that was done, so then he went to put his toothbrush in the bathroom.

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first_in_time

Barbara let him go and surveyed the room while he was gone. There was only one bed in the entire house.

"...Ian? We're going to have to work out a roster for who sleeps on the sofa won't we?" she asked and went to find him.

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splendid_roman

"Will we?" He leaned against the bathroom doorway while he considered. "Maybe we should just act like we are married, since we're living together." It was an odd position to be starting a relationship from, whatever they did.

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first_in_time

Barbara blushed. "Do you mean...just sleeping or...being intimate as well?"

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splendid_roman

"I mean sleeping. To start with, anyway." They could get onto the intimacy later, when they were ready. "There's no harm in sleeping in the same bed, is there?"

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first_in_time

Barbara shook her head. "No there isn't," and she could certainly put a lid on the lust she felt toward Ian for the moment.

They'd been too busy trying to figure things out to really let themselves be a couple. Barbara had half expected everything to explode for a time once they'd come back home since they restrained themselves so much on the TARDIS but they'd been so preoccupied adjusting to life again that there'd hardly been time to consider Ian's more physical assets.

"I can't imagine I'd get pregnant from sleeping next to you each evening," she said and blushed deeper at her joke.

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splendid_roman

Ian blushed himself. That all depended on how restrained they were. It would be easier to forget themselves when they were kissing. "We should probably buy some condoms anyway. Just in case." It was something that a married couple would be expected to buy, so it wouldn't raise any eyebrows.