Time Is A Companion

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Title: Time Is A Companion
Rating: PG
Setting: Season Three
Character(s): Ten, mention of Martha.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Spoilers: None whatever, assuming you know (and who doesn’t?) what happens in Doomsday.
A/N: This is set in the same universe as (and follows on from) The Longest Distance. Title and summary both from a quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Summary: Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.

He could remember the oddest things. Not always what he wanted to remember, either.

He could remember how it had felt when she had lied to him about their baby – he couldn’t for the life of him pin down how he knew, he just did – but he had forgotten exactly how her skin felt beneath his fingers.

And each memory of his relationship with Rose started to slip from him, no matter how much he wanted to hold on to what little he had left; as each memory lost its sharpness he was crueller and crueller to Martha.

Comments

[glory_jean]

as each memory lost its sharpness he was crueller and crueller to Martha.

Bad Doctor.

But...

poor sad Doctor.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

I love your icon :D

Bad Doctor.

Yes. But it’s not a conscious thing, or at least I don’t think it is.

But... poor sad Doctor.

My point exactly.

[glory_jean]

I love your icon :D

XD

It's up for grabs. I snagged it from sporkyoracle

Thought it was just too cute.

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

Oh Doctor. There're several things I didn't like about Martha, but she did get quite a bum deal in her tenure as companion.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Oh Doctor.

Yup. *pets him*

There're several things I didn't like about Martha, but she did get quite a bum deal in her tenure as companion.

She got a horribly raw deal, didn’t she? The further from Season Three I get the less I dislike her, though, which is odd.

[beauty-within16.livejournal.com]

Poor Doctor,but poor Martha too.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Poor Doctor,but poor Martha too.

Oh yes, definitely. This is hard on both of them.

[helygen.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh this is so sad, and says so much about his attitude towards poor Martha

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh this is so sad, and says so much about his attitude towards poor Martha

I think there probably was something like this going on his head when he was being particularly obtuse about what Martha obviously thought of him. It’s the most charitable explanation for his behaviour I can think of.

[helygen.livejournal.com]

"I think there probably was something like this going on his head ..."

Oh most definitely

[effulgent-girl.livejournal.com]

I really need to stop reading angsty stories right before I go to bed. Does not help the mind shut done. Lovely and sad.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

I really need to stop reading angsty stories right before I go to bed. Does not help the mind shut done.

Yeah, I know the feeling (ponders whether that’s the reason I find it so difficult to sleep sometimes).

Lovely and sad.

Thank you!