I just finished a 10.2/Rose fic which has Rose and the original Doctor having sex just the one time after IP/TSP. I debated whether or not to leave that part in because I couldn't decide whether it made what he did in JE worse or better. If they were sleeping together then it makes it harder to suggest that he gave her up in JE because he’d decided he couldn't give her what she wanted. If you see what I mean.
I ended up keeping it in because I thought it was a good explanation for Rose's wistfulness in TL (like she's nursing something in her past that she can't quite share with Donna) And from the Doctor's POV: I just decided that he'd concluded that he couldn't start a sexual relationship with her given the pain he'd been through after their first separation. Like he knew he couldn't go through it again.
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Date: 2008-08-23 05:30 pm (UTC)I ended up keeping it in because I thought it was a good explanation for Rose's wistfulness in TL (like she's nursing something in her past that she can't quite share with Donna) And from the Doctor's POV: I just decided that he'd concluded that he couldn't start a sexual relationship with her given the pain he'd been through after their first separation. Like he knew he couldn't go through it again.