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Title: The Future Soon
Rating: PG
Word Count: 369
Author's notes: Ho-hum, Time War stuff. Trying to get back into writing something other than articles.
In the future, there will be a war. It will span across the stars, throughout time. It will devastate planets, galaxies, the universe itself. Thousands of species will be killed, entire races obliterated. Some will be left to die off slowly. Some will be wiped from history, their existences never recorded.
In the future, the Doctor will be recalled to Gallifrey. He will take no further companions -- the danger is too great. He will face an enemy who’s fate he once held in his hands and decided that he did not have the right to destroy, an enemy who’s sun he later exploded, an enemy who knows only of vengeance and genocide. He will argue, threaten, beg, plead with his fellow Time Lords to find a way to preserve peace without further deaths; when it fails, the Doctor will fight to save his species, all species, and Time itself.
In the future, the Doctor will clutch a fellow Time Lord as he dies, will feel the sudden absence of a mind connected to his own. When the battle is over, he will stumble, streaked with soot and dirt and the blood of hundreds, back to the TARDIS. He will collapse, huddle as close to the TARDIS as he can, and let her try and wipe away the horror, the violence and bloodshed. He will think of his travels, think of Susan, think of Jamie, think of the Brig, of Romana and Sarah Jane, of Nyssa and Tegan and Turlough, of Peri, of Ace, of Grace. He does not think of Katarina. He does not think of Adric.
In the future, the Daleks will pass through the Transduction Barriers as if they were nothing but air. They will overrun Gallifrey, invade the Citadel, slaughter Gallifreyans and Time Lords alike. The Doctor will be on his knees in the TARDIS, agony in his mind and destruction in his hand. He will commit the genocide of two species, will watch his world burn and his people perish, and will feel their deaths in his mind. He will die. He will survive.
In the future, the Doctor will be everything that he never wanted to be -- an unwilling soldier in an unwinnable war.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 369
Author's notes: Ho-hum, Time War stuff. Trying to get back into writing something other than articles.
In the future, there will be a war. It will span across the stars, throughout time. It will devastate planets, galaxies, the universe itself. Thousands of species will be killed, entire races obliterated. Some will be left to die off slowly. Some will be wiped from history, their existences never recorded.
In the future, the Doctor will be recalled to Gallifrey. He will take no further companions -- the danger is too great. He will face an enemy who’s fate he once held in his hands and decided that he did not have the right to destroy, an enemy who’s sun he later exploded, an enemy who knows only of vengeance and genocide. He will argue, threaten, beg, plead with his fellow Time Lords to find a way to preserve peace without further deaths; when it fails, the Doctor will fight to save his species, all species, and Time itself.
In the future, the Doctor will clutch a fellow Time Lord as he dies, will feel the sudden absence of a mind connected to his own. When the battle is over, he will stumble, streaked with soot and dirt and the blood of hundreds, back to the TARDIS. He will collapse, huddle as close to the TARDIS as he can, and let her try and wipe away the horror, the violence and bloodshed. He will think of his travels, think of Susan, think of Jamie, think of the Brig, of Romana and Sarah Jane, of Nyssa and Tegan and Turlough, of Peri, of Ace, of Grace. He does not think of Katarina. He does not think of Adric.
In the future, the Daleks will pass through the Transduction Barriers as if they were nothing but air. They will overrun Gallifrey, invade the Citadel, slaughter Gallifreyans and Time Lords alike. The Doctor will be on his knees in the TARDIS, agony in his mind and destruction in his hand. He will commit the genocide of two species, will watch his world burn and his people perish, and will feel their deaths in his mind. He will die. He will survive.
In the future, the Doctor will be everything that he never wanted to be -- an unwilling soldier in an unwinnable war.