Days to Come

[vail_kagami]

Rating: PG
Prompt:  #013 - Tomorrow
Claim: The Time War
Table: Here
Spoilers: Time Crash
Characters: The Doctor (5)
Summary: After meeting his older self in Time Crash the Doctor has some time to wonder and worry.
Note: Congratulations, me! I have finally managed to write another story I can't stand at all!

Comments

[debart]

You can't stand it? I'll stand this story for you!

I loved that five was a bit unnerved by ten's behaviour! Great foreshadowing.

Deb.

[huggabledog]

Poor Five. Vail, only you could make such a happy, positive meeting sad. Well written though of course - and I could see Five dwelling on something like that. It didn't occur to me that there was that secret about Gallifrey being gone when they met in Time Crash. I wonder if the Doctor regrets not taking the Daleks out at their genesis (4th regen) - I still think he should have done it. Good thing I'm not a Time Lord. Thanks for the fic. Write more! (Oh dear, clicked on the wrong Reply button - sorry guys if this appears twice - I think I've deleted the other one)

[marah_sarie]

Awww, poor Fivey *pets the Doctor*

"He’d felt like nothing, as if he wasn’t even there."

Since Time Crash, I've liked the idea that Ten's bouncy-hyper act was partly to distract Five, and partly to distract himself from the strain of clamping down on his telepathic barriers, to prevent Five from having any idea of what's coming a few regenerations down the line. I like here that it only sort of worked, that Five still came away with a sense of the darkness in Ten, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, I thought this story was great! Now, Fivey, go and distract yourself with Turlough... :)

[nightrider101]

Aww... I'm sorry you didn't like this story. I liked it just fine! :) I like how you write it from Five's perspective. And yes, it was very sad. Usually I read your stories with one hand griping the desk and one eye open waiting for my heart to be broken. Reading your stories is like living on the edge! :D

And the Doctor owed it to that man to make the most of the time he had before everything went to hell. For one day he might be broken and lonely in cosmos that didn’t feel right, but he would still have his memories of this present, if nothing else.

Perfect description of where Ten was at during Time Crash. Honestly, who can blame him? Great job!

[foalen]

So very sad, but I love the hopeful determination of five at the end. Its so like the Doctor to think that way despite the darkness he believes is to come.