Silence ((Tom))

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The library was always silent of a lunch and that was why Sky always went there at that time, to avoid the weird looks and small crowds of giggling girls or boys that would distract her. She moved across the soft carpet, brushing her long blonde hair from her face as she moved over to one of the corner desks, sitting down and pulling out her books before starting to flick through slowly, knowing all the information in them already.

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Tom was working hard over his books, he pulled out the pencil behind his ear and scribbled some notes down on the paper that he would revise later. He gave a tired sigh and ran a hand through his dark sandy hair. He looked over as Sky walked into the library and sat down, he had no idea why she would ome here; she seemed to know everything the teachers did and must have loads of friends, she seemed like that type of a girl. He collected his books and slipped into the chair beside her "Hi" he said quietly, so as not to disturb the other students working.

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Sky looked up just after she'd pulled out one of the books her father had given her that she had yet to read and gave a small smile to Tom. 'Hey,' she said softly with a slight nod of her head, quickly flipping open the scrap book to the first page of scrappy linked writing.

[Rose Brennan]

There was a long silence as Sky poured over her books and Tom sat there, slightly embarrased for a moment. He briefly looked through his physics notes before closing them, he'd been through them at least a thousan times already, if he did anymore his brain would explode. He watched Sky, her soft blonde hair fell over her shoulders and her hard hazel eyes were narrowed in concentration as she scanned the messy scrawl that covered the book, Tom wondered where she'd got it, it wasn't a library book. He let her read for about a quarter of an hour before saying softly "What you reading?" he had been going to say 'Do you want to go for a drink sometime' but the idea of asking a girl like this out had made his courage fail him, he'd ask in time but he'd do it properly.

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Sky looked up at tom with a small smile, trying to think of what to call it for a moment but cleared the thought. 'Oh, its just a sort of a time travelling information booklet thing that Mr Smith gave me,' she said, lying slightly. It was really a book on every monster and alien in the universe that her father had faced and where and how he had met them and fought them.

This unfortunatly also included a large part about the time war which she wasn't too keen on finding out about. She gave him and grin. At least she wasn't reading the torchwood files again, even if Jack said she could. Ianto did get rather upset when she did since he didn't have the time.

[Rose Brennan]

Tom shrugged "Sounds interesting, do you believe in that sort of stuff?" he'd never been entirely sure, he believed in aliens but time travel...it all seemed so confusing. But then again it must be amazing to travel the stars and see things so may other couldn't even dream of, to go back and see amazing historical events happen before your very eyes.

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Sky smiled, nodding. 'Yep, alrightthis is more like a journal than anything, like,' she said, flipping through a bit till she found the rather small bit about the gamestation. She moved it infront of Tom, pointing to the roughly scetched picture of the ghosts. 'That is a report of what really happened in canary wharf or,' she said, flipping backwards a small while and pointing to another picture of someone under an arch with spirits all around her. 'The closing of the Cardiff rift.'

Sky looked at Tom with a smile before giving a soft sigh. 'That's as far as I know, the rest is sort of, less detailed, I think Mr Smith didn't have enough time to continue writing it or something,' she said softly, wondering why herself now.

[Rose Brennan]

Tom shrugged and looked at the untidy writing "Maybe something happened to him in the battle that he just didn't want to write anymore" he said thoughtfully "It wouldn't suprise me, I lost my uncle in the battle" he sighed, remebering his mothers despair at the loss of her younger brother. Tom had only met him once but he'd been cool enough he supposed.

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'Oh yeah,' she said blankly, knowing perfectly well what had happened in the battle that made him not want to write anymore. She just happened to come in on that chapter. Sky shook her head to clear her wandering thoughts as she gave a flick through the book till she came to a page she hadn't known he'd writen about.

'No one thought that it would happen that quickly, even Pete and Jackie knew that it would happen one day but to happen that quickly. It was true what Pete Tyler said to me, that one day that it was going to happen sooner or later, that every enemy I had in the universe would join together and would start attacking, killing off everyone affiliated with him one by one and the first would be the Tyler family.

That night when everything went wrong was just too quick and unsuspecting that no one was ready for it otherwise I wouldn't have taken Rose out that night but for once, they caught me off guard. Pete will never forgive me for the death of Jackie Tyler as this was something that never happened, he got a second chance but now I'm not sure even Rose and I will make it through this.

Yeah I've lost family before, wife, kid, grandkids but loosing Sky was something different, something I just couldn't see happening and to think that Mickey would sink that low is just...'

Sky just looked up at Tom blankly before at the book where words had been blurd by what looked like tears.

[Rose Brennan]

Tom watched her read, her brow began to furrow and he could tell she wasn't liking what she was reading. Out of the coner of his eye he read some of the text, Tyler Sky's second name was Tyler, this must apply to her... Could Jackie be her mother, grandmother? He was caught off guard as Sky looked up at him with a blank expression that seemed to hide something, definetly related, bloody hell now what? Tom placed a hand on her gently "Are you OK?" he asked gently, not wanting to seem to forward or insensitive.

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Sky gave a small, half choking cough before straightening up. 'Yeah, yeah I'm fine,' she said, glancing at the page again before back up at Tom. She gave a soft sigh and closed the book. 'I'm going to have to give this back to Mr Smith later, I don't think I can read much more of it,' she said with a sigh, pushing it back into her bag.

'Hey Tom, if you haven't got a lecture over lunch, would you maybe like to come and get a drink with me?' she asked softly, brushing her hair behind her ears with one of her hands.

[Rose Brennan]

Tom stood up, something obviously was wrong but he thought it would be best to drop it. His eyes shone at the offer "yeah" he said nervously "I'd love to" he smiled at her but inside he was extremly nervous; Sky was beautiful but according to some of the other kids she could be quite hard, he'd have to see form himself.

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Sky grinned, giving a small smile as she stood up, grabbing her bag and the two books that still on the chair and giving a soft smile. 'Great, so, lunch time at the goldgate?' she said, giving his a warm smile as she glanced at her watch, her mind now cleared of the thoughts she had just before.

[Rose Brennan]

Tom nodded "Fantastic" he said with enthusuasimnand ran a hand through his short blonde hair; he grabbed his brown leather jacket from the back of the chair and put it on, in truth, he couldn't wait to go...it wasn't really that long. He was still wondering about that book but if Sky didn't like it, he'd let that conversation drop, she seemed to be happy enough right now.