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Can't run from me

Jul 28, 2012 15:37

Title: Can't run from me.
Author: fate_incomplete
Rating: PG
Warnings: Angst
Spoilers: None
Characters: Eleven, Amy, Rory
Word Count: 920
A/N: Written for the who_contest prompt - War & Peace
Summary: The one thing he can't run from, is himself...

( He fought off mild and completely unhelpful panic... )

the girl who waited, bowties are cool, fic, oh glorious angst, doctor who: love of the impossible, roranicus pondicus, hyper sexy eleven

Comments 11

dancingdragon3 August 10 2012, 03:39:54 UTC

So wonderful! The truth is so painful when it comes to the Doctor and you elucidate it beautifully. There was aching tension in that story, and I was on tenterhooks the whole time. Very evocative.

I have to admit, I thought for sure it was the Dream Lord talking to Eleven. But bravo to it being the Doctor himself.

What gives it that extra level of crazy is that the dream doesn't have to be real to be real. There is a part of the Doctor that he is running from that haunts and wants to punish him for everything he's done. You hint at that so well with the ending:

He caught a glimpse of his reflection in the monitor over head, closing his eyes as he thought it smiled contemptuously at him. The only survivor of a war he had ended by killing millions, the ghost of every life extinguished because of him was hidden in that smile.

fate_incomplete August 10 2012, 09:11:54 UTC

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. The dreamlord was in the back of my mind while writing this, but I wanted it to be something a little more personal. That contempt for himself was so strong in my mind, the dialogue was what came to me first and the rest fitted around it.