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Title: Things That Are
Rating: 12A
Characters/Pairings: Ten/Rose
Disclaimer: Regrettably, I am not the BBC.
Thanks to:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
glory_jean for excellent beta-work; and helygen for convincing me it wasn’t horribly unlike the book.
Author's Note: I’ve been working on this for what feels like for ever. Inspired by, and an homage to, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, I began it intending to work through my Journey’s End issues. Given that I feel roughly the same about it now as I did before, I’m not convinced it worked ;D
Summary: It’s not that he wants to. It’s because he has no choice.
Rating: 12A
Characters/Pairings: Ten/Rose
Disclaimer: Regrettably, I am not the BBC.
Thanks to:
glory_jean for excellent beta-work; and helygen for convincing me it wasn’t horribly unlike the book.Author's Note: I’ve been working on this for what feels like for ever. Inspired by, and an homage to, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, I began it intending to work through my Journey’s End issues. Given that I feel roughly the same about it now as I did before, I’m not convinced it worked ;D
Summary: It’s not that he wants to. It’s because he has no choice.
“But I saw today that there was one thing unforgivable – the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I’m not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to the Universe’s. Why should I be able to understand that, and not you? It may be a private bargain: that, if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, I won’t quite despair of myself in the end.”
( Things That Are )
