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.

[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.

[beauty-within16.livejournal.com]

Poor Doctor,but poor Martha too.

[helygen.livejournal.com]

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

[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.