An Officer and the Noble Woman, Pt 51
An Officer and the Noble Woman, Part 51
Author: dtstrainers
Paring: Donna Noble/Peter Carlisle
Rating: PG for a bit of strong language and the Clash of Angry (Near) Immortals
Word Count: 3,218
Disclaimer: Donna and Peter- not mine, but in my mind.
Thanks much to the lovely serenityslady. As always, your comments are invaluable ( Read more... )
Author: dtstrainers
Paring: Donna Noble/Peter Carlisle
Rating: PG for a bit of strong language and the Clash of Angry (Near) Immortals
Word Count: 3,218
Disclaimer: Donna and Peter- not mine, but in my mind.
Thanks much to the lovely serenityslady. As always, your comments are invaluable ( Read more... )
Jack is right. The Doctor abandoned her and now he thinks he can just swan in and pick her up? She made a life for herself, with someone else, someone who is actually healing her! What would she have to say about that?
While I love the theory of Donna returning to the TARDIS, this has got to stop. The Doctor is getting dangerous here, and jealousy is definitely not a good look on him! At this point, Jack's warning about leaving both of them alone is appropriate, because I think he's capable of doing Peter serious harm.... and if he thinks Donna's going to appreciate that just to return to him, he's got a ton of slaps coming! She's not the type to dismiss damage done to anyone else "just to get back," like some others!
As for your author's note... we are here to help you along and encourage you to keep writing and complete this story. We're along for the ride, and what a ride it is! I feel both sympathy and anger towards the Doctor at the same time, it's complicated. They were both so good for each other, and we are really seeing what he's like without her. But best friends look out for each other's best interests even if it doesn't serve their own, and the Doctor clearly isn't doing that at all. Oh, and once again, he wouldn't let her make the choice. That's what got him into this to begin with, and he obviously hasn't learned.
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The Doctor is only walking himself into something more than a slap. Donna is going to tear him a new one and drop him like a hot cake, but not before deflating him and making him see sense. And I almost expect this him to die in the process. Because she could say, "Where did my best friend go? You're no longer him, and it has nothing to do with you changing bodies. You've become the monster and you're responsible."
Love, we're all here. I look daily for updates from any friends, and ones from you are the biggest treat. This is definitely gearing up for one major confrontation, and I'm on tinderhooks waiting for it. Good luck, and may the Doctor learn in time to regain a friend even if she'll never travel with him again.
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You did get my reference to Rose punching through all of those universes, "just to get back to 'her' Doctor." None of us know the damage that was done as a result of her search. He warned her to stay put, and now he's doing the same thing? He really is lost...
I agree, I truly hope the Doctor learns in time, because if he thinks he's going to gain Donna back this way, he's got another thing coming! She will feel that she totally lost her friend (it was never about how he looks; regeneration would have been a non-issue) unless he finds a better way, something that will offer her the choice and preserve the relationship she has with Peter. Donna is generous, she is compassionate, but there are limits!
Somehow, I have the feeling he won't learn... and it won't be pretty.
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The Doctor likes to be at the center of things, the center of attention. he always has. For him not to be the center of Donna's existence or her mind, for those memories to be fading on their own.... while it means the danger to Donna is passing, which is a very good thing, it means his centrality in her existence is also passing. And the Doctor can't stand that! He is a sick individual, especially when left on his own. The closest he ever came to normal was with Donna, and that's because Donna never took his nonsense.
Politically-incorrect possessive!Doctor is sooo my cup of tea. That said, a dressing down from Jack for his post-meta-crisis behavior (and possibly a forthcoming Donna lecture too!) is SOOO insanely satisfying to read here. Never thought a fic could bring me so full circle that I would prefer Donna NOT to return to the Doctor, but this one has done it for sure. DonnaxPeter 4eva!
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Donna has made much of the life she has, she's well liked, well respected by those who count, and she's finally found someone she could spend the rest of her life with. If the Doctor were truly her best friend, he would be so happy for her. Yes, at first he'd be concerned, but now that he knows she seems to be safe, he needed to move on. He's not... and that's wrong!
He would get a big lecture from Donna about finding someone else, and a whole slew of sins. If he thinks she'd just drop everything now to run with him, he's got another thing coming.
I'm rooting for Peter now!
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Yes, Eleven needs an intervention but he's in denial. He's going to have to come to terms with the consequences of his actions. He's hurting still- I'm thinking this part is after Eleven's lost Amy and Rory and before Clara an he just can't accept the loss. I think Eleven looked at Amy as if she was his Donna stand-in, but it wasn't enough. (Seriously, Moff? Another strong-willed, mouthy ginger? While I liked Amy, Donna would have cleaned the floor with her over her treatment of Rory.)
As for the slapping? Oh, Donna would slap his head clean off his shoulders, for several reasons. First, what he did to her in the first place. Second, for not respecting her choices, yet again. Third, for skulking about and spying on her. But mostly because he didn't find someone else to stop him.
I've already started on the next posting, but given my schedule and the glacial rate at which I write, I'll be happy if I can have it posted by late August.
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