[doesn't say anything for a moment] She was going to die if I didn't step in and do what I did. I had to make her forget. Everything about me, you, and all the places we'd been to. Just like what happened to Jamie and Zoe but far, far worse.
A Time Lord/human meta-crisis. She absorbed my mind into her body and only after it became active and had time to settle in, it began to harm her. Far too much knowledge for a human mind to handle. Had I let it go on even a moment longer, it would've burnt her mind out.
[she doesn't really want to admit that it was the right decision, because she doesnt' like the idea of the Doctor being responsible for that, but she can't do much else]
I wonder if it is truly better to forget than to go mad or die.
Because as long as she's alive, she has the chance to become that person again. Not by my own hands, but perhaps another's. Or her own. Her body would have the memories of wanting to travel still in a sense. At least I hope so. Perhaps she's taken up travelling on her own around Earth. There's still so many great things there for her to discover.
[softly] I... [looks away] Because of what I had to do to her.
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I do not understand.
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[doesn't say anything for a moment] She was going to die if I didn't step in and do what I did. I had to make her forget. Everything about me, you, and all the places we'd been to. Just like what happened to Jamie and Zoe but far, far worse.
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[doesn't reply for a long moment, then]
I do not believe you capable of such. There is no reason you would have had to do so.
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...I've had to do many things I haven't wanted to do, but were necessary. I'm not proud of a single one of them.
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What could have possible occurred for such a thing to happen?
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A Time Lord/human meta-crisis. She absorbed my mind into her body and only after it became active and had time to settle in, it began to harm her. Far too much knowledge for a human mind to handle. Had I let it go on even a moment longer, it would've burnt her mind out.
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[she doesn't really want to admit that it was the right decision, because she doesnt' like the idea of the Doctor being responsible for that, but she can't do much else]
I wonder if it is truly better to forget than to go mad or die.
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I'd rather none of the above, thanks.
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And yet you chose for her, regardless.
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I couldn't let her die! Not when it was within my power to save her.
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Did you really save her, Doctor, or simply condemn her to a fate she did not want?
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[falters a bit as he answers] ...She wanted to travel with me for ever. I think we both knew it would have to end eventually--just not so soon.
What matters is she's still alive. To me, the Donna I knew is dead. But her being here now as she was before...[trails off]
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None will ever be able to travel with you forever. It does not mean they should not exist.
How can her physical existence matter more than the truth of her?
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Because as long as she's alive, she has the chance to become that person again. Not by my own hands, but perhaps another's. Or her own. Her body would have the memories of wanting to travel still in a sense. At least I hope so. Perhaps she's taken up travelling on her own around Earth. There's still so many great things there for her to discover.
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It does not change the fact you stole her life away. It was unfair, Doctor. It was wrong.
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