An Officer and the Noble Woman, Part 42

[dtstrainers]

An Officer and the Noble Woman, Part 42
Author: dtstrainers
Paring: Donna Noble/Peter Carlisle
Co-Captain of this Ship: WhosInTheAttic, for getting me started on this, but all errors are mine alone.
First Mate: The lovely serenityslady has officially joined the crew.  Thanks for the support and suggestions, especially this time around.
Rating: PG for

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[dtstrainers]

Well, the Doctor likes to make people better and he isn't comfortable with the fact that not everyone gets away unscathed, even when he saves the rest of the Universe. To have the person who bears the brunt of it all be someone he loves and he's not able to fix it is something that he just can't walk away from. Jack was the obvious person to drive the truth about the Doctor and Donna home. The Doctor would listen to his friend like no one else in this matter, given that Jack would understand the crushing loneliness of eternity and had already loved and lost people- some by his own hand. Jack could, in some way, relate to what the Doctor is feeling.

You know, I never once thought of Jack telling Eleven that Peter thought he'd assaulted Donna. I guess it's because that would have really riled Eleven up and Jack was trying to make him calm down and see reason. But don't worry- that doesn't mean the issue won't come up again- just later. I've already written the dialog for that encounter.

And that cradle- honestly, I didn't mean for it to be more than a snicker, but now the idea of it is insinuating itself into my consciousness. I wish I could write Eleven that way, but I just can't. He may be. 1000+ years my senior, but with that baby face, I feel like the FBI would be on my case for writing CP.

As always, your comments make me smile, but not as much as your writing does.

[tkel_paris]

The big one is that he doesn't give them a choice. He also doesn't tell them things that they should know to make an informed choice. I always felt like he didn't tell Rose enough to make her decide properly between not growing up and growing up, he wasn't respectful enough to Martha to tell her things she needed to know to treat herself with a bit more respect sooner, I won't even get into Amy and Rory and Clara, and then... well, there's Donna and the Duplicate. Neither got a choice. Will we ever know what the Duplicate would have chosen had he been given that freedom?

Good. Because the Doctor needs to face what his actions look like to the rest of the universe. Maybe then he'd understand better why it seems like the universe hates him.

More than once I've felt like Eleven/River is basically the reverse of Doctor/Rose. The one who looked older could/should have been arrested for robbing the cradle, so to speak. So... yeah, can't support either. Ever.

Aw... :DDDDDDDDD *hugs*