Drabble: Six Senses

[redknightalex]

Title: Six Senses
Author: redknightalex
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Ninth Doctor
Word Count: 100
Setting: Pre-”Rose”
Warnings: PTSD and angst.
Disclaimer: The BBC owns this all. I own the angst.
Summary: The prison of six senses.

Comments

[heintz57]

OOOO that was intense but good and very angsty. Nicely done.

[redknightalex]

Thank you. It was quick and hurried but worked out in the end.

[annissag]

Very well written. So sad. I want to hug him. :(

[redknightalex]

If I had a picture of Nine for you to hug, I'd let you hug him. :)

Thank you. :) It was a quick drabble that tried to say why Nine scared me, and get out my emotions, as quickly as possible. Someday I swear I'll do a meta.

[saiyako]

*hugs Nine and you*

This is Nine exactly, everything is right there on that physical level, so that he's basically an open wound. And I love the suggestion here that Eight died by fire - that's not how I'd thought of it, but it's quite fitting.

[redknightalex]

Group hug! ...Ow, Doctor, you're squeezing too hard. Doctor!

Thank you: the physical pain was exactly what I was going for.

I think the idea of fire came from Ten (and perhaps Nine, but I can't remember him speaking of fire) talking about all of the burning he had witnessed during the wars and coupled with reading Eight's story in "The Forgotten" about the key and dying alone...I don't know, they meshed. There's another plot bunny involved with that thread...but for another day.

(oh, poor Eight!)

[saiyako]

Well, he is a pacifist who's just committed multiple genocide, he can be forgiven for needing a lot more comfort, right?

Mm, Ten does talk a lot about things burning. I can't stop hearing his reply to the Master about Gallifrey: "It burnt." Just the two words, and ouch.

Oh - "A million Dalek ships on fire", was that Nine? It sounds like Nine in my head, probably talking to the Lone Dalek? And then they talked about it burning in its crater for three days before anyone could get near it, and I know, re-entry, but I always got the feeling RTD meant for it to have been burning already before it hit atmosphere.

I need to reread The Forgotten again. Maybe once I finish Trial of a Timelord, I'll dig it out.

But, yes, the fire worked, it was good.

(And yes, poor Eight! *hugs him*)

[redknightalex]

Both Nine and Ten talk of fire but I can see both of them saying "a million Dalek ships on fire." And if it was in "The Lone Dalek"....man, that episode gave me the creeps. Talk about Nine being a complete mental case and practically doing a role-reversal with the Dalek (ie torturing the prisoner, degrading the Dalek, and lack of any empathy). I know the Daleks are evil creatures but I couldn't help but think of Nine being not the tortured soul anymore but the vengeful soldier who only wants revenge/pain from his previous master. It was...*shudder* Yeah.

But let's get back to Eight! I'm working on grabbing the comics and reading through the novels but getting my hands on the first TPB is really, really difficult. So instead I watch my favorite bits of the movie...or my icon. :D

[emraldeyedauter]

Goodness me such a wonderful wrap up of what Nine is or was. I think Rose helped him heal a little.

[redknightalex]

I'd like to think Rose helped him heal a bit too but I'm not really sure how much she could have done. Still, wishful thinking, yeah?

Maybe Ten was to Nine what Eleven is to Ten? Interesting thought (and I hate analogies actually).

Thank you, hun. :)