fic: or the first [river/tenii]

[honeynoir]

Title: Or the first
Rating: PG
Characters/pairings: River, TenII, Rose (River/TenII, River/Doctor, TenII/Rose)
Wordcount: ~ 1400
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who.
Summary: She gets invitations, next.
A/N: The other ficlets about River in Pete’s world are tagged.

Comments

[easytheretyger]

Oh my god, this is so utterly sad. The human Doctor's sense of loss is something I've been playing with myself this week, so this got me right in the gut. To find out that River is time-ish -- ouch.

His eyes are dark; terrible greed and terrible grief and a pinprick of desire.

That's just heartbreaking. :'(

I totally adored this series.

[honeynoir]

The human Doctor's sense of loss is something I've been playing with myself this week
Ooh! Something you've posted/are going to post? (Am so behind on the flist. /o\)

So glad you liked the series!

[easytheretyger]

Something I haven't posted yet. Needs a bit of a polish, maybe tomorrow if I can get my brain to play ball. It was inspired by your series actually (the bit where he's trying to track down all of the people he knew in the other universe). Then I read this and they're mostly killed by the Cybermen? Gah.

Poor 10.2, I can't reconcile why he would choose to stay there still. Or why Ten would send him there? Annoying episode is annoying.

[honeynoir]

Looking forward to that!! And, well, he's known so many people -- the ones I mentioned him writing to and such are definitely alive. Plus, who knows if he's telling Rose the truth about all of them? He's not exactly ~open. (And now I suddenly remember a brilliant fic where he met alt!Martha, and can't find it. Blah.)

I can only assume Ten didn't want another Doctor around (The Almost People is such a contrast). The in-episode explanation is supposed to be that 10.2/Rose fixes all, I think? I mean, I'll ship it, but it won't be magically perfect.

[easytheretyger]

It does fix it for her IMO, but not for him.

I just think it was out of character to send 10.2 off to where he could never see him again. I mean he was part time lord and that's all 10 wanted was for there to be another time lord still left.

Then again, so much in that episode is out of character it's hard to believe that it's the same programme. :D

[honeynoir]

Yup, he could've kept 10.2 in the TARDIS like he planned the Master. He couldn't face himself every day, IDK?

Someone said that ep was like the ultimate fic, and it kind of was. Allllll of the companions. *g* (I'm so glad they didn't include that part where 10.2 and Rose grow their own TARDIS. There really is such a thing as too perfect.)

[easytheretyger]

Yeah, the grow your own TARDIS, how weird. :D