An Officer and the Noble Woman, Part 47

[dtstrainers]

An Officer and the Noble Woman, Part 47

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[tkel_paris]

How long has Nerys been waiting to unleash that tirade? Donna is going to have loads of questions for her family and for Peter. That she didn't pass out there after that is amazing... and hopeful.

But... I'm afraid this is the opening of the storm, and the worst is coming. I'm hoping that more than one person in Donna's life slams Nerys verbally for that, and I'm thrilled that Lewis kicked her out.

You're forgiven for not commenting. I do hope you can manage comments on various things soon. Assuming your car situation is now okay. Then you'd have a good excuse to not comment.

[dtstrainers]

Nerys - in this universe- is one of those people who never forgets a passing comment and who always sees people in the worst possible light. If you're enjoying something that she doesn't have, it's not fair, so she does her best to wreck your happiness. To her, that's fair. If she's miserable, you have to be as well. She has no concept of personal growth, so Donna's solo vacation to Egypt was interpreted as a way to have an abortion and be free of unwanted complications without anyone being the wiser, because that's what she would have done in a similar circumstance. The year searching for the Doctor and her subsequent disappearance would be seen as Donna's search for the man who jilted her. Nerys assumes Donna found him, got pregnant by him again and, when he dumped her because of it, she had the baby in secret and gave it up before finally giving up on Peter, coming back and settling for Shaun. Donna winning the lottery was the only reason Nerys could see for Dr. Smith/Peter to come back, so Nerys is doubly angry, as Donna got

[dm12]

Ooh, there's a reason I never liked Nerys.... well, several. Peter was right about her, she's no friend to Donna. She has no idea of how much damage she could have done, nor does she care. Donna was right to lash back at her, and I'm glad that Lewis threw Nerys out. And she's making assumptions about Donna getting pregnant. I suppose fainting could be a symptom of that, and her absence for a year or so after her failed marriage attempt to Lance could be explained that way..... Again, Nerys hasn't a clue.

Time lines crossing.... the Doctor has no clue either because Donna is in his future and she's watching him in his past. This gets so confusing! At least Donna seems to be surviving it so far, but it's not over yet!

Thanks for updating; I hope the next one is sooner than this (I guess Nerys was demanding her time and stamping her foot to delay until you put her in)...

[dtstrainers]

Nerys is self-absorbed and can only see the actions of the people around her based on what she'd do herself. Life has not been kind to Nerys, so she sees no reason to be kind in turn. She and Donna became friends because misery loves company, but Donna never lost hope. She hides it behind a shell of cynicism, but Donna still believes that life can be good. Despite her conditioned, pessimistic, knee-jerk responses to life, in her true soul, she's the most cautious of optimists.

Nerys, Nerys, Nerys... She's not done, yet.

Oh, how easy it would be to blame the delay on Nerys, but no- about 85% of her vitriol was written before. The addition is in the next part, which ended up having to be split away from this entry because it didn't work as a combined chapter any more, which meant that this didn't stand well on its own, so Nerys just got a bit nastier is all.

[shyfoxling]

I've just caught up through chapter 49 over on AO3. Would this correspond to a (yet to be posted) chapter 50 over there, given its internal date?

[dtstrainers]

Yes, it would. I gave up on the .1, .2 business over there and just called a chapter a chapter.

I usually post the same day on both sites, but I got busy yesterday and forgot. Thanks for the reminder- I'll take care of it now.

Thanks even more for slogging through my personal obsession over at AO3 and for finding the next installment here!

[shyfoxling]

I actually originally ran across it here, but it's so much easier to deal with such a long fic on AO3 where all the chapters are neatly collected together. I sort of gulped it down over a few sick days spent in bed, hehe.

[dtstrainers]

I'm sorry you were under the weather and I hope this helped you pass the time. Lord knows I love to wallow in fanfic when I'm home sick. I really love being able to go to AO3 and display all the chapters so that I can fact-check my fiction and make sure I keep names/dates/etc straight. This was originally plotted as being about 15 chapters, so yeah- the scope of it kind of amazes me at times.
Thanks again for taking the not-inconsiderable time to read this and then actually commenting as well.

[serenityslady]

Well. That was certainly informative. Nerys is the vindictive bitch we always suspected she was and finally got to unload all of her jealous, vitriolic, venomous, spiteful hatred. She has never been Donna's friend, keeping her around just to make herself look and feel better. The lottery windfall had to hurt, and seeing Donna rich and happy after meeting Peter only threw petrol on an already white-hot fire

[dtstrainers]

I almost feel bad for making Nerys so two-dimensional, but the head cannon I've created for her supports her actions. Life has not been kind to her and as a result, she's decided to get back at the world in whatever way she can

[dm12]

Ten was totally fatalistic, and believed the bunky prophecies. I could see him dying to save Donna's grandfather as atonement for wiping Donna's life, everything she was, everything she did. As a result of that outlook, he died alone in one of the saddest regenerations ever. He was alone, he was railing against everything he was, and Eleven's birth was out of that pain, designed to forget everything... at least outwardly. Ironic, actually, that he seemed to not remember his former companions until the TARDIS thrust it on him via the voice interface.

Don't make us wait too long for the next chapter!

[dtstrainers]

I will do my best not to. I will post at least once before Gallifrey One, if not twice.

[cynthia2015]

I'm still reading!. I will continue to do so. I haven't seen this pairing before so its an interesting dynamic.

[dtstrainers]

Thanks much! The original Blackpool pairing was lovely, but I just didn't think it would last, given who Peter is and how Natalie was unwittingly involved in the case Peter was investigating. He's stumble over the truth one day and it would poison their relationship, through the fault of neither party. If you've seen it or read Past Our Dancing Days, this cryptic response will hopefully make sense.

[cynthia2015]

I have seen Blackpool. I didn't like the nature of their affair due to the circumstances in which they were in even before reading your other fic. But I think I will reread it.

I've already went back and reread my favourite part's of An Officer and the Noble Woman. You can guess which scenes.;)

[dtstrainers]

I blush to think, but as I feel the narrative supports another scene of a delicate? carnal? nature, I can promise there will be more, if I'm reading between the lines correctly. In fact, it's already written, but plot must come before fun/angst for the sake of context.