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and the night wasn't night anymore | Doctor Who | Clara, Jeff

Oct 23, 2013 02:25

t: and the night wasn’t night anymore
f: Doctor Who
c: Clara, Jeff
ch: 100_fairytales - 058. the girl who does not know herself.
r/wc: G/2605
w: Spoilers up to The Name of the Doctor, and then I’ve basically imagined how that would affect Clara. *shrug* It’s set post that and I guess post the anniversary, but, handwave.
s: “I don’t believe in ghosts,” Clara says ( Read more... )

character: jeff angelo, challenge: 100_fairytales, tv show: doctor who, character: clara oswald, type: gen

Comments 6

hawkmoth October 23 2013, 12:29:00 UTC

Oh, wow. This absolutely brilliant! So many good ideas, so many awesome words.

outside this home where reality swallowed itself alive

It’s a flash, a google search behind her retinas, and, yes, there we go.

Clara, poor Clara, having to live with all those impossibilities haunting her.

And yea! for finding Jeff as a possible anchor for her "afterlife."

paperclipbitch October 23 2013, 18:21:07 UTC

I'm hoping Clara won't end up too much like this in canon because that would be so upsetting, but it was interesting to play with! Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

1lastdanceluv October 24 2013, 00:38:01 UTC

Oh wow, this was perfect! Loved it, so... well, perfect! Thanks so much! :)

honeynoir October 26 2013, 15:52:11 UTC

Oh, this is v. gorgeous and clever and poetic! Love the meshing of Clara's and Jeff's and the Ponds' lives, and the sabbatical, and Clara working on finding out who she is... So lovely!

sunsetdawn20 October 31 2013, 10:47:21 UTC

AND HERE IT IS! As I was first watching that episode, during that whole sequence about Clara's different lives, I was wishing I could read something from you about this. Ever since then I've been waiting and HERE IT IS! OMG you have no idea how happy this makes me now.

And it's everything I could wish for. I absolutely adore how you write her, and all the damage that the Doctor inflicted on her, well, on everyone. And yep, thanks now I ship them too. It makes a scary abount of sense, really.

And I'm seriously tempted to make a prompt table of some of your best lines, I sometimes do that with lines from novels that are particularly beautiful. I never had the urge to do it with fics, but some of your lines are so breathtaking that I need to stop and stare at them for a while and think of all the stories I haven't written yet but could and should.

Thank you so much for this!

flowsoffire November 4 2013, 16:37:10 UTC

Oh my goodness, this was just mind-blowingly beautiful-the writing, atmosphere and insight are truly brilliant, I could basically quote half of the fic back at you. I loved the way you depicted the huge consequences jumping into the Doctor's timeline had on Clara, of course it would leave her a little broken and your portrayal of that was really haunting. I loved all the parts about the memories that aren't hers and the people she's never known yet has. The idea of her looking for the Ponds, and meeting Jeff, was just wonderful. I loved your description of Leadworth and how out of place Clara seemed there, and of Amy's house-deliciously chilling, it reminded me of Sally Sparrow and "Sad is happy for deep people." But not for desperate, lost people like Clara, not like this, not when it means another kind of emptiness and loss, one she hasn't known herself but still knows so keenly ( ... )