The Man With The Broken Hearts

[preserved_ginger]

Title: The Man With The Broken Hearts
Rating: U
Character(s): The Tenth Doctor
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Beta: principia_coh
Spoilers: Heavy in spoilers for The Next Doctor.
Notes: The idea for this comes both from the Christmas Special and a quote from an Emily Dickinson poem (the quote in question is used as the summary for the fic to keep spoilerific stuff under the cut).
Summary: Parting is all we know of heaven, / And all we need of hell.

When parting’s all he can know of heaven,
And likewise all he’ll ever need of hell,
Maybe, someday, he can be forgiven –
For Chaos knows he doesn’t do it well!
He has companions. But they all depart,
For many reasons (not all of them the best),
’Tis their leaving, one by one, breaks his hearts;
He holds them in his mind: his sometime guests.
He tries his best. There’s none could ask for more.
(OK, there’s one or two – he’ll grant you that.
But he’s no super-hero. He has flaws.
Sometimes even his best still comes out flat!)
He’s meant to be alone. With many friends –
But everyone still leaves him, in the end.

Comments

[pterodactylpoke.livejournal.com]

aw.
i really like this.
thanks for sharing.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I am glad you like it :D

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

I'm thrown off because it rhymes sometimes and doesn't other times. But the idea is very true and good. Interesting use of chaos as a deity figure. But one can certainly say that it rules over a good part of his life!

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

Woah, that's not my icon!

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Woah, that's not my icon!

?

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

I told LJ to display my "Discontent" Doctor/Rose icon, and it's displaying that red and white anime one that I've never seen before in my life. At least, for me it is. >_>

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

I told LJ to display my "Discontent" Doctor/Rose icon, and it's displaying that red and white anime one that I've never seen before in my life. At least, for me it is.

OK, that’s officially weird. I’m looking at the icon in question, and I’m definitely seeing the “Discontent” one ...

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

I looked in my icon section and saw that it had actually been replaced with the anime one... so I deleted the anime one and re-uploaded my Discontent one. As long as you use the same keyword, it just replaces the previous icon with the new one on all pages.

Don't know why the Livejournal gods decided I needed a new icon, though. o_O Maybe they found mine too depressing?

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Maybe LJ had a brain fart? It isn’t as if it’d be the first time!

[thehornedgod.livejournal.com]

Interesting use of chaos as a deity figure.

Innit though? It's like Chaos and Order as warring constants in those old Mike Moorcock pulps, with entropy winding down the universe like a stumbling toy soldier. Would the Time Lords have had gods, or fundamental forces with faces and silly hats?

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Would the Time Lords have had gods, or fundamental forces with faces and silly hats?

It’s an interesting conundrum, isn’t it?

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Interesting use of chaos as a deity figure.

I get the feeling sometimes that if he were to believe in a deity of any kind (other than the Rose of The Satan Pit, obviously), then Chaos would be it.

I'm thrown off because it rhymes sometimes and doesn't other times.

Rhymes and half-rhymes, I suppose. It scans in my head, which I guess is all that really matters.

[thehornedgod.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Doctor. I like this. Rhyme works really well for that kind of bleakness.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Doctor.

*Nods*

I’ve been trying to make this into something of how the Special affected me, along with a reading of how angsty the Doctor was feeling in it, if that makes sense?

Rhyme works really well for that kind of bleakness.

Thank you, I thought so as well.

[helygen.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant, a very accurate and telling look into the Doctor's head during that scene. Nicely done, hun

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I am glad you like it.

I wrote this to get the thought-images out of my head, mainly – that, and as a reaction post of sorts.

[tempusdominus10.livejournal.com]

Awww...that was apt. Especially the first line of that poem...great stuff, man. Keep on truckin.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I am glad you like this.