After the Storm (6/7) Doctor, Donna, Jack - Rating G

[catsfiction]

WORDS: 4386

SPOILERS: Up to the The Next Doctor.

CREDITS: picture by rosengirl

RATING: Gen

CHARACTERS: Donna, Sylvia, Wilf, Tenth Doctor (original), Jack, Martha

Chapter Five
Chapter Four
Chapter Three
Chapter Two
Chapter One

Sympathy is cheap. Commitment isn't. But if anyone can teach the Doctor that, it's Donna Noble.

This was meant to be the final chapter

Comments

[shining_moment]

Oh gosh, I just keep loving this more with each chapter. I adore the relationship you've written between the Doctor and Donna, love him fighting with himself about how honest to be and then giving in to it because he knows that, of everyone, she's the one he can be honest with.

I loved this little section so much-
“I like the not-talking, too,” he said, though he didn’t expect her to believe him. It was the kind of statement that substituted, uneasily, for many similar but more revealing ones left unsaid. Roughly, it translated, “I like being with you. I like pottering around while you sit doing your nails. I like coming into the kitchen and finding you’ve made tea the way I like it. I like knowing someone else is there.”

I'm also very pleased that it grew a chapter :)

[catsfiction]

This chapter was a joy to write because they do have a very relaxed and honest relationship, at least by DW standards. Thank you for the review.

[dark_aegis]

That was wonderful. As I told you before, this is definitely your best work so far. Your Doctor and Donna are absolutely brilliant. Love their relationship and how he fights with himself to give her what she wants. I can't wait for the next installment :)

[catsfiction]

Aww! Thank you for all your encouragement and support. It really is appreciated.

[wendymr]

Another brilliant chapter, though no surprise there. Add me to the list of those delighted to see it's grown an additional chapter!

I love the idea that Jack has a little plan of his own here.

He’d have to look after her. He was very good at looking after species and races of people, less accomplished with them in small numbers, particularly the smallest number of all. Jack knew that, and that was why he’d dumped them together and vanished.

For Jack, of all people, to do this to him had a certain irony about it.Yes, he knows only too well that the Doctor is pretty bad at commitment, and right now he's running scared. So, yes, leaving him alone with Donna is definitely make-or-break time. Incidentally, the line before that, about the first time Donna wondered if she could really trust him - that was a gut-punch

[catsfiction]

Yes, Jack is playing a bit of a waiting game here and you're right in your assessment of her role at Torchwood. I can see her being their eyes and ears out in the community to some extent, but not really in the thick of it somehow (I'm sure there'd be fireworks with Ianto for a start).

The final chapter should be pretty fluffy stuff, with a surprise or two.

[torn_eledhwen]

I love the last line. I also love the way Donna gets him to talk - it's true, he talked more with her than with either Rose or Martha.

[catsfiction]

Yes, she could always get him to open up. A combination of directness, warmth and never forcing the issue which I think only Donna could bring off. It's a great pleasure to write.

[azalaisdep]

This was meant to be the final chapter, but these two won't shut up.

They won't, will they? ;-) But that's one of the things that makes your Ten and Donna bang on the nail - you catch their dialogue so well. I can always hear them both in my head.

I can *see* your Doctor so easily too - "The Doctor shuffled his feet and scratched his head." - that's DT to the life.

And I did chortle at the idea (so true!) that Commitment is a scarier word to the Doctor than Cybermen...

[catsfiction]

I've always felt that (for me) writing their dialogue was completely natural, I just sit down and out it flows. I have no idea why. I just wish it was the same with smut. Still, there are plenty of other people who can do that stuff.