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Author Note: orignally written for a prompt at comment_fic on livejournal, which was Donna, she can't figure out why seeing that particular shade of blue always makes her feel this way
Next Stop: Anywhere
Donna puts the saucepan full of pasta back down on the kitchen counter out of the way as John runs around her legs and under the dining table in the middle of the room. At least he tries to. The over-large police helmet – a plastic kids one some uncle got him, deep blue with a silver crest – makes him a little too tall and he bounces back slightly as it catches the table edge.
'You alright, love?' she asks.
2020-2-21 Next Stop, Anywhere is a song sung by Rapunzel, Eugene, and Cassandra in the first episode of Season 2, Beyond the Corona Walls. Next Stop, Anywhere is a song sung by Rapunzel, Eugene, and Cassandra in the first episode of Season 2, Beyond the Corona Walls. Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure versuri 'Next Stop Anywhere', I wanna break every rule And cross every line Whoo-hoo! I wanna show all the stars How stars oughtta shine I wanna do as i please And knock the world to Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure - Next Stop Anywhere lyrics.
'No stopping!' John ducks his head, scrambles under the table, and successfully comes out of the other side.
'Not even in the name of the law?' Donna asks, hands on her hips.
'I gotta go catch the bad guys!' her son shouts, already in the living room.
She doesn't quite remember when he started this newest obsession, but she likes that he plays at being a policeman bringing people to justice rather than at killing people like the Thompson's brat next-door. There are good guys and then there are the real good guys, and the real good guys save people.
It's just that sometimes when she looks at him with that ridiculous hat slipping down over his eyes she gets a thrill of excitement and possibility and wonder, that John could go anywhere, anywhere at all, and he'd have the most fantastic time, running and bringing justice, and she swears that she can see stars reflected in his eyes.
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It's the blue of the helmet. It's the colour that flashes at the heart of a diamond, that creeps in at the edges of the sky as dawn approaches, that lurks in pictures of the swirling universe. It's so much excitement, but just behind it there's something else. Donna doesn't know what to call it. Fear maybe? That little voice that grown-ups have telling them that there are consequences after the adrenalin rush has worn off and that consequences can hurt. That being able to go anywhere isn't everything.
Maybe it's just that John's her little boy and she's nowhere near ready to let him go yet, however fantastic anywhere might be.
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