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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
-Donald Barthelme
It all started in Birmingham.

He had been lingering around a train station there, trying to think of a place to go.  As he wandered he had seen someone holding up a sign.

STEPHEN WILLIAMS

He looked around the terminal and it didn’t seem anyone was ( Read more... )

“Rose.”  His voice was hoarse and came out somewhere between a whine and a moan.

He was lying in bed, watching Rose examining herself in the mirror as she got herself ready for work.  They had been arguing more than usual the last couple nights.  She didn’t turn around, but her gaze met his in the mirror.  She gave him an annoyed look and an equally ( Read more... )

It's not there now
Ineloquence and anger
Are all we have
He’s different now.  Well, somewhat different.  New hair and eyes and He’s a bit more filled out.  Stronger and taller and not quite as lanky.  Not quite as bouncy.  Not nearly as manic.

He’s the Doctor.  He’s just no longer his Doctor.

This new Doctor has more contempt for him than even ( Read more... )

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?" - Jane Austen
It isn’t love like the Doctor knows it.

It’s raw and brutal and painful and aching.   It’s about fractions and moments and filling in gaps and pieces.  These are things a Proper Doctor never thinks about.  Things ( Read more... )

I'm doing the best that I could.
Trying my best to be understood
Maybe I'm changing slowly
I get out, turn around if only I...

“This world.  This universe.  I’m not sure how you lot wrap your minds around it.”

Small talk in a small moment, that wasn’t very small. Trying to dismantle the security system in a possibly alien base.

He turns around and she’s ( Read more... )

You still see strings of time and possibility passing through your mind’s eye.  Never as strongly as you remember a Proper Time Lord being able to perceive these shifts.  Choppy moments glued together.

You see a life where the Doctor kept you.

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I've been trying to keep on top of all the dangerous goings on on Earth,   There's really quite a lot to keep up with in that regard.  Earth always seems to find a way to stay right smack in the middle of danger.  It's funny that way.  I always thought alien threats took Sundays off.  I guess because I used to take Sundays off, but really they don' ( Read more... )

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When things began to fall apart with Rose, he had begun to look for Donna and Martha.  He wasn't sure if anything would happen with them.  If they would be allowed to know each other the way they used to.  He just wanted to know that they were out there, somewhere in this world.

When he couldn't immediately find Martha, he didn't panic.  Maybe she ( Read more... )