Doctor Who drabble
Title: In a Green Shade
Fandom: Doctor Who (Fourth Doctor era)
Characters: Harrison Chase and the krynoid
Rating: PG
Warnings: None needed.
Word count: 200 (double drabble)
Notes: Harrison Chase is the plant-obsessed villain from "The Seeds of Doom." This really won't make sense if you haven't seen that story, and possibly not even if you have. Perverse implications were there in the subtext already, so don't blame me. Title comes from Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden, which I could not stop thinking of while watching "The Seeds of Doom." Perhaps you can also blame Marvell for some of the perverseness.
Magnificent, Chase thinks as the krynoid's vast shadow falls across his face.
He's not surprised when, godlike, it hears and answers. "Not monstrous?"
The Doctor's word. Fool, filthy animal. "Beautiful."
"You . . . love me."
He has always loved his plants. Plants are innocent and tender, and they've given him back more true goodness than any human. But none before has responded so spectacularly to his care. "Yes," he whispers.
A vine wraps around his ankle, and he trembles at its cool, dispassionate touch. No skin, no fingers have ever moved him so. "You will help me," it says. "To grow. To release my seed pods. To cleanse this world."
No more animals, no meat things with their stink and their terrible appetites. Just harmless blood and bone, compost for the new garden of Eden.
Vines loop over him, surrounding him as the krynoid's mind surrounds his, and he falls onto the soft grass. Below him, above him, there is only green. A chlorophyll ocean to drown in.
"Be one with me," the krynoid urges as it roots its consciousness in him, as he dissolves into it, and he no longer needs to speak. Everything in him answers yes.
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Fandom: Doctor Who (Fourth Doctor era)
Characters: Harrison Chase and the krynoid
Rating: PG
Warnings: None needed.
Word count: 200 (double drabble)
Notes: Harrison Chase is the plant-obsessed villain from "The Seeds of Doom." This really won't make sense if you haven't seen that story, and possibly not even if you have. Perverse implications were there in the subtext already, so don't blame me. Title comes from Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden, which I could not stop thinking of while watching "The Seeds of Doom." Perhaps you can also blame Marvell for some of the perverseness.
Magnificent, Chase thinks as the krynoid's vast shadow falls across his face.
He's not surprised when, godlike, it hears and answers. "Not monstrous?"
The Doctor's word. Fool, filthy animal. "Beautiful."
"You . . . love me."
He has always loved his plants. Plants are innocent and tender, and they've given him back more true goodness than any human. But none before has responded so spectacularly to his care. "Yes," he whispers.
A vine wraps around his ankle, and he trembles at its cool, dispassionate touch. No skin, no fingers have ever moved him so. "You will help me," it says. "To grow. To release my seed pods. To cleanse this world."
No more animals, no meat things with their stink and their terrible appetites. Just harmless blood and bone, compost for the new garden of Eden.
Vines loop over him, surrounding him as the krynoid's mind surrounds his, and he falls onto the soft grass. Below him, above him, there is only green. A chlorophyll ocean to drown in.
"Be one with me," the krynoid urges as it roots its consciousness in him, as he dissolves into it, and he no longer needs to speak. Everything in him answers yes.
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