Re: Fill: She Keeps Walking Away (I)havelovedSeptember 12 2011, 21:58:41 UTC
Oh, "Turn Left". I love that episode to pieces but it seriously does make my heart ache. When I wrote my "Turn Left"-era Rose fic for the open challenge earlier this summer, rewatching segments of the episode really broke my heart; I always burst into tears when she comes running and says so faintly, "I came so far..."
For me, what seals how much she's been through is the look on her face in "Partners in Crime", which was what I was referring to there. She looks so tired, so worn, and even if she must know that the Doctor can't be far away, she can't go to him. I was also slightly bothered by that line in HN about her walking away, until I saw this piece of fanart and realized that maybe he was dreaming of her walking away in that moment, or in others where perhaps he glimpsed her but couldn't be sure--they had to have kept just missing each other, or so I imagined when I wrote my fic (I had her see Eight but not go to him and just miss Eleven).
And there's that other line--"She will not answer me, and she keeps walking away." If she ran into other incarnations of the Doctor--too early or too late--of course she couldn't say anything. She couldn't even tell Donna her name for fear of the whole thing collapsing. How many near misses did she go through? It really breaks my heart, and I'm glad I got to capture that here. Glad you enjoyed it! :D
For me, what seals how much she's been through is the look on her face in "Partners in Crime", which was what I was referring to there. She looks so tired, so worn, and even if she must know that the Doctor can't be far away, she can't go to him. I was also slightly bothered by that line in HN about her walking away, until I saw this piece of fanart and realized that maybe he was dreaming of her walking away in that moment, or in others where perhaps he glimpsed her but couldn't be sure--they had to have kept just missing each other, or so I imagined when I wrote my fic (I had her see Eight but not go to him and just miss Eleven).
And there's that other line--"She will not answer me, and she keeps walking away." If she ran into other incarnations of the Doctor--too early or too late--of course she couldn't say anything. She couldn't even tell Donna her name for fear of the whole thing collapsing. How many near misses did she go through? It really breaks my heart, and I'm glad I got to capture that here. Glad you enjoyed it! :D
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