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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first_in_time

"That's probably not such a terrible thing," she told him gently and went over to softly kiss him good morning. "We'll both get used to it in time."

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splendid_roman

"I suppose we will," he said. He quite liked the good morning kiss and resolved to do that every morning. "Maybe I'll go through my lesson plans before school, since I have so much time."

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first_in_time

"There's an idea," she said and sat at the table with him where she started her breakfast. "What are you planning on tech in this week?"

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splendid_roman

"I'm going to start with experiments, so they can have some fun after the holidays and I can see what each class knows. I haven't really planned much beyond that." They hadn't really had that much planning time.

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first_in_time

"Sounds logical to me. It's difficult to teach when you're not sure where your students are." Barbara sipped at her tea and smiled at Ian.

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splendid_roman

He nodded and started on his cereal. "What are your plans like? You can't have fun experiments in history." He grinned at her.

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first_in_time

"Probably just going over the topic and seeing what they know already. I was thinking that we'd write about the industrialist era in the younger years and the First World War in the older years. Or possibly the other way around. I haven't decided yet." Barbara had another sip of tea and began to make herself a bowl of cereal.

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splendid_roman

"Not any of the time periods we've been to?" he asked jokingly.

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first_in_time

"Not at this point in time," she replied, "not when those memories are still haunting my dreams."

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splendid_roman

He frowned at that and realised he should have been paying more attention earlier. "Bad dreams?" he asked softly.

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first_in_time

"Uh, yes," she replied, suddenly wondering if it as a good idea to have said anything. "I've been having them for a while now. They're nothing really, just silliness," but they had kept her awake most nights, "I'm sure they'll go aware soon."

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splendid_roman

He reached out to take her hand. "It's not silliness if they're waking you up." He wished there was something else he could do, but she was probably right and being used to living a normal life again would make them fade away.

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first_in_time

Barbara let her fingers be taken up by Ian. "Well now we're safe, aren't we? Daleks aren't meant to be here for many years yet. We don't even go to the moon for quite some time."

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splendid_roman

"We're safe here." He squeezed her hand. "We don't need to worry about Daleks or anything else invading."

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first_in_time

"I just have to convince my dreams of as much," she chuckled. "I feel all the more better for you being here with me, however."

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splendid_roman

He smiled. "I'm not going anywhere. We'll try and find something to do this evening to take your subconscious mind off it."

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first_in_time

"I don't suppose there's a scrabble set I could thrash you in about the place, is there?" she asked and grinned.

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splendid_roman

He let go of her hand so they could return to their breakfasts. "And what makes you think you'd win?" he asked, grinning.

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first_in_time

"Because I'm very good," she assured him and hid her wider grin behind a spoonful of cereal.

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splendid_roman

"I'm better." He lifted his chin slightly, although the effect was spoiled when he had a spoonful of cereal himself.

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first_in_time

Barbara scoffed with a mouth full. "I doubt that."

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splendid_roman

"We'll find a cheap scrabble set somewhere and then we'll see," he promised.

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first_in_time

"How do I know you won't distract me?" she asked with a grin.

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splendid_roman

"Of course I'll distract you," he said, grinning. "I am very distracting. I proved that last night."

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first_in_time

"You're lucky I liked it so much," she said with a grin and had another sip of tea.

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