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blues skies #10: "Thy eternal summer"

Jul 29, 2011 08:21

Title: Thy eternal summer
Author: fannishliss
Prompt: #10, Shakespeare's XVIII
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters & Pairings: Eight, Rose
Rating & Warnings: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: When he is most alone, someone who loves the Doctor is right there with him.

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fandom: doctor who, blue skies: prompt 10, author: fannishness

Comments 16

n_e_star July 29 2011, 20:42:59 UTC

Oh, well done. Really, awesome.

fannishliss July 29 2011, 21:55:19 UTC

I really appreciate your comment. I reworked this many times over the course of a week, so it means a lot to get nice feedback.

Eight seems like such a gorgeous, doomed Doctor.

I'm very glad you enjoyed!

It feeds in as a prologue to a much longer story, if you are interested: http://fannishliss.livejournal.com/94450.html

thanks!

othermewriter July 31 2011, 21:36:39 UTC

Ohh our poor poor Doctor, glad though at his worst moment he had the bad wolf.

fannishliss August 6 2011, 12:26:31 UTC

oh hi! thanks for commenting -- it always makes me happy when someone takes the time to comment on a drabble. :)

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fannishliss August 8 2011, 16:45:11 UTC

Her line about the Time War struck me as exactly what the Doctor must have said... so it came together for me that way as my head canon too. :) I think they both said it! I was glad Eight could at least feel the echo and that there was someone out there believing in him.

For such a sunny prompt it went pretty dark on me!! The Doctor's Eternal Summer is a curse in a lot of ways.

bloose09 August 8 2011, 22:37:37 UTC

This gave me serious chills. So haunting and yet uplifting to know Rose/Bad Wolf was there at Eight's loneliest moment.

A beautiful prologue to "Her Golden Fire" indeed.

fannishliss August 8 2011, 23:04:36 UTC

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment. At one point I think the Doctor says that Bad Wolf is a phrase that's been following him his whole life -- does he mean since his first regeneration??? Because that is pretty significant to me!

This little drabble was a key part of the inspiration for Her Golden Fire, because understanding that moment was the key to both stories. :)

time_spectator August 10 2011, 05:56:23 UTC

Oh wow. Yes you were thunderstruck eh? That is a perfect place to evoke that Bad Wolf phrase and I can just 'hear' it (sort of echoed with Bad Wolf at that!).

fannishliss August 10 2011, 10:19:13 UTC

Bad Wolf is amazing. Thanks for taking time to comment!