Meme-time

[wendymr]

A friend asked if I'd do this one:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp some time in the future after the end of the story, or some time in the past before the story started, and I'll tell you what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

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[wendymr]

Guilt

When she holds his hand now, it’s not for reassurance - for him or for her. It’s for possession.

She’s claimed him. Ever since that day when he took her - stole her, actually - she’s decided he is hers. And he’s too much of a coward to stop her.

So they still travel and adventure and get into danger and escape... but she’s never in so much danger as she is when they’re alone in the TARDIS. Danger she willingly walks into because she doesn’t understand. Doesn’t know him as he really is, because he will never show her.

Night after night, she takes him to his room and takes him into her body. Lets him spill himself inside her, lose his guilt and his grief and his pain inside her, just for a few minutes. Until she falls asleep and it all comes back, and he has to live with what he’s doing to her as well as all the rest of it.

One day, he promises himself, he’ll tell her the truth. Let her see what he really is, what he’s done, and what he’s doing to her. Show her that if she stays, if she lets him keep doing this to her, one day she’ll be destroyed too. One day.

But one day never comes. Too easy to close his mind and pretend that it’s real. That her innocent, naïve protests that she loves him are true. That he deserves to be loved, even if he barely believes that the emotion exists.

Three months and two days later, they meet another killer of his own race. The brash Captain, so full of himself and his cleverness, who came within seconds of wiping out the entire population of the Earth. It’s averted, through some fantastically clever psychology, even if he does say so himself, and a lot of luck.

And he recognises his opportunity.

She fancies the Captain. Because the conman flirts with her in a way that he won’t. He offers her smiles and flowery compliments that the Doctor will never voice, no matter how she teases and seduces. He’s jealous, of course. But what’s a bit of jealousy, compared to the advantages on offer?

So he saves the fake Captain, even flirts with him a little himself. Jack will seduce Rose, of course. He’ll give her everything a human female wants from an affair, and everything he won’t give her.

And, yes, Jack will break her heart.

But at least this way he won’t be the one who breaks it.

END

[dave7]

Oh my... *stunned*

Just... utter brilliance.

[neadods]

*blink*blink*

Sometimes the only response I can manage is "Guh!"