Comment_Fic 11-15: Doctor Who
Title: Avoidance Tactics
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Doctor (Ten)/Rose
Prompt: "I'll love you until the end of time." "Really? Let's go see!"
"I'll love you until the end of time." Rose said, sidling up to the Doctor, laying her head on his shoulder.
"Really? Let's go see!" He replied excitedly, but moved away from her to the console of the TARDIS.
"What? Are you joking?"
"No, wouldn't it be lovely to see the end of time? I think it'd be fantastic, Rose!"
Of course, he was a Time Lord, she should've known that he'd take 'until the end of time' literally and want to see it.
What was most disconcerting however was that this was the third time Rose had used the L word, and she had yet to hear it from that alien.
"Why don't you say it?" she asked softly.
"Rose...it's not that simple." His voice sounded pained, but he was still keeping his back to her.
"Why not?"
"Well, Time Lords and humans aren't exactly the most compatible of species."
"What's that got to do with anything?"
"Rose, just trust me when I say it isn't a good idea."
"Fine." She turned on her heels and went further into the TARDIS.
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A bumpy ride later, they ended up floating in total black; no color, no shapes, nothing, like the endless space without the stars, planets, or debris one found when traveling through space and time.
Rose, the Doctor found, was still pissed at him, and avoiding him pretty well.
He flung open the doors and waited for her to show her head, as he knew she would (she was a curious and fragile human after all).
He didn't have to wait long before he heard her shuffling nearer.
"I suppose this is the end of time," she said in a clipped tone.
"Yeah. End of time, end of humans, end of Time Lords, end of everything. No stones, no planets, nothing to indicate there were any civilizations, no way life can ever grow again."
"That's kind of depressing."
"That's kind of the point when things, things you've become accustomed to, things you see every day, come to an end. All that's left is this...nothingness."
Rose was smart enough to know that there was subtext underlying in this whole spiel about things ending.
She came to stand next to him, slowly going for his hand. "But, if everything is just going to end, wouldn't it be better to not have any regrets when it does?"
"You think you'd have regrets?"
"Yes, most definitely. Wouldn't you?"
"I don't know, Rose. When you live as long as I have, regrets seem better than broken hearts."
And there wasn't anything else she could say to that. When she really thought about it, maybe he did know what he was talking about. Compared to him, she didn't know anything, compared to him, she had hardly begun to live.
Yet, she kept his hand in hers.
originally posted here
Title: Like Lovers Do
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Nine/Rose
Prompt: the first time he realized he was falling in love with her.
He should hate her. Hate her guts for interfering with time travel- using him like she did! He should do something instead of just lecturing her, instead he goes back to his police box and sulks.
And sulks some more at the beasts that are suddenly appearing and devouring the people and that his TARDIS is now just a police box and not the TARDIS.
Because he's starting to fall in love with her, and right now, he'd give her the world. But it seems all she wants is for her father to be alive. And he can't find any fault with her in that respect. He feels her pain, and wants to make that pain go away.
So he lets her save her father, and though he makes a fuss about it, it isn't as big a fuss as he can make. He allows it because, all of a sudden, his sole purpose in life is to make Rose Tyler happy.
To think one insignificant human's happiness has overridden all of his common sense...
He hasn't experienced being in love with a human before, but he thinks he's starting to see why it makes human beings do foolish things for it.
originally posted here
Title: Barely Breathing
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Prompt: Lost and Found (Donna POV)
Spoilers for the ending of season four
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Why don't you ask her yourself?
Those words seem to be the catalyst. At first he seems to not know what I'm talking about. I know it'll make the moment all that sweeter though, when he turns and sees her. His Rose. Finally returned to him.
I smile, anticipating this moment, probably more than him. I was never one to wholly believe in true love, but he makes me think maybe it is possible after all.
And then, they're running toward each other, and I'm filled with a warm feeling in my stomach. Traveling with the Doctor, I've seen a lot of strange, and wonderful things, yet, possibly, they all pale in comparison to this.
A love lost and then found. It makes up for all the bad out there, all the sadness and grief, all the death of planets, aliens, and humans alike.
originally posted here
Title: Rituals
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: none (Donna Noble and Wilfrid Mott character piece)
Prompt: starry Night
Spoilers for the ending of season four
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When the Doctor leaves, having expunged Donna of all her memories of meeting and traveling with him, Wilfrid Mott does the only thing he can think of that will come even close to making everything right as it should be: he and Donna sit in folding chairs, wrapped in blankets and stare up at the night sky.
Though she doesn't know why he insists on doing this with her every night (no matter if she's tired, or it's cold outside), she always comes.
She comes and they sit and watch. Because the Doctor crossed their paths once and maybe, someday, he'll return again.
originally posted here
Title: Untitled
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Rose/Ten II
Prompt: the baby has two heartbeats and this universe was never meant to have a Time Lord.
Spoilers for the ending of season four
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Rose is beyond joyous when she learns that she's pregnant. She and the Doctor become the excited new parents, getting the nursery ready, buying baby clothes, and reading stacks upon stacks of pregnancy and parenting books.
After the morning sickness, swelling, and gaining of pounds, Rose gives birth to a healthy baby. Well, as healthy a baby is when it has two heartbeats.
Rose is worried about her baby. Would they take him away because he wasn't exactly normal? Would they question it?
"Rose, we have bigger problems than what other people are going to think." Her husband says to her the night they bring their baby boy home from the hospital.
"Oh, what else can go wrong?"
"Baby Pete has two heartbeats and this universe was never meant to have a Time Lord."
"He's a Time Lord? But how can that be? I thought you were wholly human?"
"I am human, and little Pete technically isn't a Time Lord, well not really except for having two hearts, but I still have remnants of Time Lord DNA encoded in my genes, and I guess when we procreated some of those remnants passed onto him. But I wouldn't worry, it's so faint that it shouldn't do much damage."
"You really think so?" She tightens her hold on the sleeping baby in her arms, a panic seizing her heart. She wouldn't let anything happen to him. She'd take her own life before she let the universe harm her baby.
"I'm fairly sure of it, but...just to be safe..." He trails off not wanting to complete his thought.
"But you don't think we should continue living here if there even is a possibility of any harm coming to him?"
He shakes his head sadly.
"But, we can't travel through time and space anymore. Where would we go if this world isn't safe for him?"
And that right there is the crux of the argument. Rose believes he had given upon on thoughts of traveling through time and space ever again, but really, the truth of it he hasn't.
Thanks to a small piece of rock, he hasn't had to give up those particular fancies. What he said to Rose about having some remnants of Time Lord DNA is true, but it's not faint in him. The desire to search out new worlds and civilizations, the drum of discovery is as loud as it probably is in the original Doctor.
So he takes his wife's hand, and leads her out to the garage, unraveling a white piece of cloth to reveal a familiar blue object.
He can hear the quiet, shocked gasp coming from Rose, the widening of the eyes, the questioning look she gives him.
But he just takes her hand once again, and leads his family inside. He might be part-Time Lord, and burdened with the unsatiated desire to seek out adventure, but he's a family man now too.
originally posted here
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Doctor (Ten)/Rose
Prompt: "I'll love you until the end of time." "Really? Let's go see!"
"I'll love you until the end of time." Rose said, sidling up to the Doctor, laying her head on his shoulder.
"Really? Let's go see!" He replied excitedly, but moved away from her to the console of the TARDIS.
"What? Are you joking?"
"No, wouldn't it be lovely to see the end of time? I think it'd be fantastic, Rose!"
Of course, he was a Time Lord, she should've known that he'd take 'until the end of time' literally and want to see it.
What was most disconcerting however was that this was the third time Rose had used the L word, and she had yet to hear it from that alien.
"Why don't you say it?" she asked softly.
"Rose...it's not that simple." His voice sounded pained, but he was still keeping his back to her.
"Why not?"
"Well, Time Lords and humans aren't exactly the most compatible of species."
"What's that got to do with anything?"
"Rose, just trust me when I say it isn't a good idea."
"Fine." She turned on her heels and went further into the TARDIS.
-------
A bumpy ride later, they ended up floating in total black; no color, no shapes, nothing, like the endless space without the stars, planets, or debris one found when traveling through space and time.
Rose, the Doctor found, was still pissed at him, and avoiding him pretty well.
He flung open the doors and waited for her to show her head, as he knew she would (she was a curious and fragile human after all).
He didn't have to wait long before he heard her shuffling nearer.
"I suppose this is the end of time," she said in a clipped tone.
"Yeah. End of time, end of humans, end of Time Lords, end of everything. No stones, no planets, nothing to indicate there were any civilizations, no way life can ever grow again."
"That's kind of depressing."
"That's kind of the point when things, things you've become accustomed to, things you see every day, come to an end. All that's left is this...nothingness."
Rose was smart enough to know that there was subtext underlying in this whole spiel about things ending.
She came to stand next to him, slowly going for his hand. "But, if everything is just going to end, wouldn't it be better to not have any regrets when it does?"
"You think you'd have regrets?"
"Yes, most definitely. Wouldn't you?"
"I don't know, Rose. When you live as long as I have, regrets seem better than broken hearts."
And there wasn't anything else she could say to that. When she really thought about it, maybe he did know what he was talking about. Compared to him, she didn't know anything, compared to him, she had hardly begun to live.
Yet, she kept his hand in hers.
originally posted here
Title: Like Lovers Do
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Nine/Rose
Prompt: the first time he realized he was falling in love with her.
He should hate her. Hate her guts for interfering with time travel- using him like she did! He should do something instead of just lecturing her, instead he goes back to his police box and sulks.
And sulks some more at the beasts that are suddenly appearing and devouring the people and that his TARDIS is now just a police box and not the TARDIS.
Because he's starting to fall in love with her, and right now, he'd give her the world. But it seems all she wants is for her father to be alive. And he can't find any fault with her in that respect. He feels her pain, and wants to make that pain go away.
So he lets her save her father, and though he makes a fuss about it, it isn't as big a fuss as he can make. He allows it because, all of a sudden, his sole purpose in life is to make Rose Tyler happy.
To think one insignificant human's happiness has overridden all of his common sense...
He hasn't experienced being in love with a human before, but he thinks he's starting to see why it makes human beings do foolish things for it.
originally posted here
Title: Barely Breathing
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Prompt: Lost and Found (Donna POV)
Spoilers for the ending of season four
.
.
.
Why don't you ask her yourself?
Those words seem to be the catalyst. At first he seems to not know what I'm talking about. I know it'll make the moment all that sweeter though, when he turns and sees her. His Rose. Finally returned to him.
I smile, anticipating this moment, probably more than him. I was never one to wholly believe in true love, but he makes me think maybe it is possible after all.
And then, they're running toward each other, and I'm filled with a warm feeling in my stomach. Traveling with the Doctor, I've seen a lot of strange, and wonderful things, yet, possibly, they all pale in comparison to this.
A love lost and then found. It makes up for all the bad out there, all the sadness and grief, all the death of planets, aliens, and humans alike.
originally posted here
Title: Rituals
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: none (Donna Noble and Wilfrid Mott character piece)
Prompt: starry Night
Spoilers for the ending of season four
.
.
.
When the Doctor leaves, having expunged Donna of all her memories of meeting and traveling with him, Wilfrid Mott does the only thing he can think of that will come even close to making everything right as it should be: he and Donna sit in folding chairs, wrapped in blankets and stare up at the night sky.
Though she doesn't know why he insists on doing this with her every night (no matter if she's tired, or it's cold outside), she always comes.
She comes and they sit and watch. Because the Doctor crossed their paths once and maybe, someday, he'll return again.
originally posted here
Title: Untitled
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Rose/Ten II
Prompt: the baby has two heartbeats and this universe was never meant to have a Time Lord.
Spoilers for the ending of season four
.
.
.
Rose is beyond joyous when she learns that she's pregnant. She and the Doctor become the excited new parents, getting the nursery ready, buying baby clothes, and reading stacks upon stacks of pregnancy and parenting books.
After the morning sickness, swelling, and gaining of pounds, Rose gives birth to a healthy baby. Well, as healthy a baby is when it has two heartbeats.
Rose is worried about her baby. Would they take him away because he wasn't exactly normal? Would they question it?
"Rose, we have bigger problems than what other people are going to think." Her husband says to her the night they bring their baby boy home from the hospital.
"Oh, what else can go wrong?"
"Baby Pete has two heartbeats and this universe was never meant to have a Time Lord."
"He's a Time Lord? But how can that be? I thought you were wholly human?"
"I am human, and little Pete technically isn't a Time Lord, well not really except for having two hearts, but I still have remnants of Time Lord DNA encoded in my genes, and I guess when we procreated some of those remnants passed onto him. But I wouldn't worry, it's so faint that it shouldn't do much damage."
"You really think so?" She tightens her hold on the sleeping baby in her arms, a panic seizing her heart. She wouldn't let anything happen to him. She'd take her own life before she let the universe harm her baby.
"I'm fairly sure of it, but...just to be safe..." He trails off not wanting to complete his thought.
"But you don't think we should continue living here if there even is a possibility of any harm coming to him?"
He shakes his head sadly.
"But, we can't travel through time and space anymore. Where would we go if this world isn't safe for him?"
And that right there is the crux of the argument. Rose believes he had given upon on thoughts of traveling through time and space ever again, but really, the truth of it he hasn't.
Thanks to a small piece of rock, he hasn't had to give up those particular fancies. What he said to Rose about having some remnants of Time Lord DNA is true, but it's not faint in him. The desire to search out new worlds and civilizations, the drum of discovery is as loud as it probably is in the original Doctor.
So he takes his wife's hand, and leads her out to the garage, unraveling a white piece of cloth to reveal a familiar blue object.
He can hear the quiet, shocked gasp coming from Rose, the widening of the eyes, the questioning look she gives him.
But he just takes her hand once again, and leads his family inside. He might be part-Time Lord, and burdened with the unsatiated desire to seek out adventure, but he's a family man now too.
originally posted here