DR WHO FIC: Juxtapose [drabble]
title Juxtapose
author charlottetrips
rating & word count G, 332
genre character study, drama
characters Donna Temple-Noble
summary Sometimes, there was another life she saw in the faces of those around her. (Written for drabble challenge “Companion” on who_contest)
Sometimes she looks at her little children and sees other faces. Instead of the warm brown skin, there’s pale white and blonde hair. And she aches for them. Oh, she loves her children, wouldn’t want to replace them for anything, but there are times, moments when the park is quiet and there’s just a light breeze and the laughter of Lucy and Herbie when she remembers a different park, a fear for different children.
She shakes her head in those moments, confused. She stopped telling Shaun about them, not wanting to see the worry that etches his brow. Stray thoughts like these don’t have that much effect in her life, the gossamer threads never forming into something substantial, just leaving a feeling of loneliness and subtle sadness in its wake.
These feelings, when they come, are hard to understand. There’s fulfillment in her life: a husband, children and a nice job with good pay. She has friends and family and her little house with its proverbial picket fence. But on nights when the sky is so clear she feels she can see every star in the galaxy, she finds herself aching to see what’s up there, to explore and there’s a strange sound that fills her head, like the pumping of engines that don’t exist.
And then her head hurts and she has to tear her eyes away from the black tapestry, the sudden urgency to do so out of proportion to the action itself. There’s no medical explanation for it and she doesn’t buy what the quack tells her and so she deals with it herself, not wanting to burden her husband and her grandfather being strangely unwilling to talk about it.
But she still finds herself standing under the sparkling sky, looking up and up, searching for something that is never going to come. It’s a feeling written into her bones. It’s on those rare nights that the tears fall, for she feels she’s missing something but not knowing what.
Author’s Note:
Donna was very annoying to me when she first appeared on TRB, but as we came to know her in Season 4 and as she was there for the Doctor and such an obvious Doctor/Rose shipper, I really actually liked her. She was the best friend that he needed and she never had that unrequited/doomed love of the other two companions. It really sucked that she reverted back to Annoying Donna in the end though. I wish she could’ve kept that character growth that she had in the time she spent with the Doctor.
Please let me know what you think.
author charlottetrips
rating & word count G, 332
genre character study, drama
characters Donna Temple-Noble
summary Sometimes, there was another life she saw in the faces of those around her. (Written for drabble challenge “Companion” on who_contest)
Sometimes she looks at her little children and sees other faces. Instead of the warm brown skin, there’s pale white and blonde hair. And she aches for them. Oh, she loves her children, wouldn’t want to replace them for anything, but there are times, moments when the park is quiet and there’s just a light breeze and the laughter of Lucy and Herbie when she remembers a different park, a fear for different children.
She shakes her head in those moments, confused. She stopped telling Shaun about them, not wanting to see the worry that etches his brow. Stray thoughts like these don’t have that much effect in her life, the gossamer threads never forming into something substantial, just leaving a feeling of loneliness and subtle sadness in its wake.
These feelings, when they come, are hard to understand. There’s fulfillment in her life: a husband, children and a nice job with good pay. She has friends and family and her little house with its proverbial picket fence. But on nights when the sky is so clear she feels she can see every star in the galaxy, she finds herself aching to see what’s up there, to explore and there’s a strange sound that fills her head, like the pumping of engines that don’t exist.
And then her head hurts and she has to tear her eyes away from the black tapestry, the sudden urgency to do so out of proportion to the action itself. There’s no medical explanation for it and she doesn’t buy what the quack tells her and so she deals with it herself, not wanting to burden her husband and her grandfather being strangely unwilling to talk about it.
But she still finds herself standing under the sparkling sky, looking up and up, searching for something that is never going to come. It’s a feeling written into her bones. It’s on those rare nights that the tears fall, for she feels she’s missing something but not knowing what.
Author’s Note:
Donna was very annoying to me when she first appeared on TRB, but as we came to know her in Season 4 and as she was there for the Doctor and such an obvious Doctor/Rose shipper, I really actually liked her. She was the best friend that he needed and she never had that unrequited/doomed love of the other two companions. It really sucked that she reverted back to Annoying Donna in the end though. I wish she could’ve kept that character growth that she had in the time she spent with the Doctor.
Please let me know what you think.