Everlasting Peace (Ten/Rose, 12A, drabble)

[preserved_ginger]

Title: Everlasting Peace
Rating: 12A
Character(s): The Doctor
Disclaimer: Regrettably, I am not the BBC.
Thanks to: glory_jean for the beta. Molto bene ;D
Spoilers and Warnings: Spoilers for Turn Left; implied character death
Summary: He couldn’t save Rose. So he doesn’t want to save himself.

Water gushes in, swirling down; drowning the Rachnoss and threatening to drown him, too.

He’s forgotten how to stop himself, and there’s no-one here to tell him – not that he’d listen, anyway.

There’s one person who’d made his cursed experience bearable, even if he’d never been capable of adequately verbalising exactly what she means to him. But she’s gone; he’ll never see her again ... and it hurts.

He loves her so much – and without her, what’s left?

The water rises fast; too fast. He can’t escape it. He closes his eyes, breathing slowly, until – at last – there’s no more pain.

Comments

[effulgent-girl.livejournal.com]

wah. That episode showed what she meant to him.

[juliet316]

*sniffles* Poor Doctor.

[humansrsuperior.livejournal.com]

*wibble!*

This is gorgeous. So powerful in so few words. Brava!

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

Depressing but accurate. That was such a D: moment in the episode, when you realized what had happened.

Yet another reason to be thankful for Donna Noble!

[thehornedgod.livejournal.com]

This is my canon. Thank goodness for Donna.

I don't think Racnoss has an h in it.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Ouch. The Doctor's been lucky with his companions since the Time War. Somehow he's always found someone to keep him from giving up completely -- until Turn Left.

He’s forgotten how to stop himself...

Exactly. Well done :)

[helygen.livejournal.com]

I love the way that you capture his thoughts and feelings so eloquently, and yet in so few words. This, for me, is exactly what he was thinking in that scene.

Brava, hun