Fic: All That's Left of My World
Title: All That's Left of My World
Author: eloriekam
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Characters: Ten, Peri
Summary: He was callous in that tunnel because he didn't understand, and by the time he understood, he was too scarred to remember the conversation for long. When he recalled it, he has to go apologize to her, because he was so very wrong.
Word Count: ~5150
(Long) Author's Notes: I got the idea for this story while watching the Trial of a Time Lord discs last year, and also deciding that Six is a rather underrated Doctor although my first impression of him wasn't that great. Six and Peri have an exchange in "The Mysterious Planet" (quoted and italicized material in the fic) that, to me, just begged for a post-Time War Doctor to go back and apologize to her for, because he can understand it after.
"This cinder we're standing on is all that's left of my world. Everything I knew." -Peri, 'The Mysterious Planet'
Story (personal LJ): And all he'd done was tell her that nothing lasted forever, at the same time believing in his heart that his ancient world and race could outlast it all.
Author: eloriekam
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Characters: Ten, Peri
Summary: He was callous in that tunnel because he didn't understand, and by the time he understood, he was too scarred to remember the conversation for long. When he recalled it, he has to go apologize to her, because he was so very wrong.
Word Count: ~5150
(Long) Author's Notes: I got the idea for this story while watching the Trial of a Time Lord discs last year, and also deciding that Six is a rather underrated Doctor although my first impression of him wasn't that great. Six and Peri have an exchange in "The Mysterious Planet" (quoted and italicized material in the fic) that, to me, just begged for a post-Time War Doctor to go back and apologize to her for, because he can understand it after.
"This cinder we're standing on is all that's left of my world. Everything I knew." -Peri, 'The Mysterious Planet'
Story (personal LJ): And all he'd done was tell her that nothing lasted forever, at the same time believing in his heart that his ancient world and race could outlast it all.