Belladonna
Jul. 8th, 2008 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
preserved_gingerTitle: Belladonna
Pairing: implied Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Spoilers: 4X13. Journey’s End compliant, but not in the way you might think.
Disclaimer: The BBC's, not mine.
A/N: The title comes from the Latin name – atropa belladonna – for the plant deadly nightshade. Belladonna is Latin for “beautiful lady”, and atropa, according to Wikipedia, is thought to be derived from the Greek goddess Atropos, one of the three fates that would determine a life by the weaving of threads to symbolise birth, life and death. Atropos cuts these threads to mark the last. I think the title oddly fitting.
Summary: Why did he do what he did?
Pairing: implied Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Spoilers: 4X13. Journey’s End compliant, but not in the way you might think.
Disclaimer: The BBC's, not mine.
A/N: The title comes from the Latin name – atropa belladonna – for the plant deadly nightshade. Belladonna is Latin for “beautiful lady”, and atropa, according to Wikipedia, is thought to be derived from the Greek goddess Atropos, one of the three fates that would determine a life by the weaving of threads to symbolise birth, life and death. Atropos cuts these threads to mark the last. I think the title oddly fitting.
Summary: Why did he do what he did?
There was no real reason for him to have stolen Donna's memories that way. He knew enough to only take what he had to - the Time Lord hybrid consciousness. It wasn't even, as he pretended to himself, that he'd needed to save her mind from collapsing into itself.
Donna had seen him deliberately break his own hearts by doing a "midnight flit", comparatively speaking, leaving her with a crude mockery of him that, well, wasn't. And he'd wanted no reminder of what he'd done.
No; everything he had done had been to protect himself.
