Fic: An Eternity of Exploration (Doctor/Donna)
Title: An Eternity of Exploration
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Doctor/Donna
Prompt: J: Journey('s End)
Word Count: 317
Rating: G
Summary: It’s the end. She never thought she’d have to say it, but that day has come.
Notes: Written for mari_mac1109. 30/5/10.
It’s the end. She never thought she’d have to say it, but that day has come. She’s leaving the Doctor.
The worst thing is it’s not by choice. She wants to stay with him, to roam the world and explore and see things most people only ever dream of seeing. She wants her time with him to last an eternity. But it won’t. It can’t. Not if she wants to live.
The Doctor isn’t about to let her stick around for the remaining few hours of her life when there’s an easy fix. Wiping her memory. It kills her to think about it. Once he’s erased those memories she will no longer remember their journeys together. She won’t remember the good times or the bad. She won’t remember him.
Will living her life be enough for her again? Will it hurt to have her memories wiped? Will she ever be able to see the Doctor again afterwards?
Probably not. Well, it might hurt, but ‘probably not’ answers her other questions. Definitely not is the answer to the last, again, if she wants to live. It’s a condition of the wiping. To keep the wipe from reversing she can never see him again.
And what about the Doctor? How will he cope? How will he deal with the loss of yet another Companion? Will he be okay? She has no doubt he will be eventually but she’s seen a darker side to him, a side to him with little mercy to wrong-doers, even those trying to reform in some cases. Hopefully in her absence it will not consume him. Hopefully he’ll find someone else - sooner rather than later.
She can only hope.
Their time together is coming to a close and they are reaching the end of their journey. Only time will tell what condition they will be in when they make it out on the other end.
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Doctor/Donna
Prompt: J: Journey('s End)
Word Count: 317
Rating: G
Summary: It’s the end. She never thought she’d have to say it, but that day has come.
Notes: Written for mari_mac1109. 30/5/10.
It’s the end. She never thought she’d have to say it, but that day has come. She’s leaving the Doctor.
The worst thing is it’s not by choice. She wants to stay with him, to roam the world and explore and see things most people only ever dream of seeing. She wants her time with him to last an eternity. But it won’t. It can’t. Not if she wants to live.
The Doctor isn’t about to let her stick around for the remaining few hours of her life when there’s an easy fix. Wiping her memory. It kills her to think about it. Once he’s erased those memories she will no longer remember their journeys together. She won’t remember the good times or the bad. She won’t remember him.
Will living her life be enough for her again? Will it hurt to have her memories wiped? Will she ever be able to see the Doctor again afterwards?
Probably not. Well, it might hurt, but ‘probably not’ answers her other questions. Definitely not is the answer to the last, again, if she wants to live. It’s a condition of the wiping. To keep the wipe from reversing she can never see him again.
And what about the Doctor? How will he cope? How will he deal with the loss of yet another Companion? Will he be okay? She has no doubt he will be eventually but she’s seen a darker side to him, a side to him with little mercy to wrong-doers, even those trying to reform in some cases. Hopefully in her absence it will not consume him. Hopefully he’ll find someone else - sooner rather than later.
She can only hope.
Their time together is coming to a close and they are reaching the end of their journey. Only time will tell what condition they will be in when they make it out on the other end.