Fandom: Doctor Who
Author:
strange_charmed aka Characters: The Doctor (10th), The Family of Blood, (mentions of Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Joan Redfern and Martha Jones)
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Summary: The Family of Blood considered eternal life to be a gift ... but the Doctor knew better.
A/N: For the challenge at
who_contest, prompt "Family"It wasn’t a gift, not really. Curses can come in pretty packaging, after all. But under the façade, there is only dust: an eternity of wishes and dreams burned into submission by the smoldering ash of regret, then crushed by the insufferable stranglehold of time.
A long life isn’t always a better one.
Time is an enchanting curse. It is a golden tangle, glowing luminous with possibilities. But it doesn’t heal all wounds. Instead, it wraps tighter and tighter, cutting and burning and never, ever yielding its endless constriction. Eventually, time always wins.
Everything else withers away. Everything dies. Everything that matters.
And in the end...
Rose had once tried to give Jack a gift, albeit one she couldn’t control. It was an attempt to right a wrong that never should have been committed.
Well, so was this, in a manner of speaking.
There was no-one else in the eerily quiet field that night, just him and them. Him, wearing the wrong suit, the wrong name. Them, wearing the wrong bodies. He thought of the wrong blonde in love with the wrong man. The degradation of companion to servant. Young boys caught in a war of his own unintended making.
He thought of the life he could never have, would never have. Pretty packaging, that.
Time spun around all of them, twisting tighter and tighter, like a noose.
In the distance they could still hear the crackle of fire engulfing the village, see the glow from the slow burn of the schoolhouse. And the slow burn in their captor’s dark eyes. There was no-one left.
No one to take a stand, no one to stop him...
Tough.
In the end, you just get tired. Tired of watching everything turn to dust.
They walked in hushed silence.
The fires raged on.
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This really does sum up the confusion, doesn't it?
There was no-one else in the eerily quiet field that night, just him and them. He's alone with a family doomed by his handHim, wearing the wrong suit, the wrong name. soon he'll be again, in another suit - a suit of blueThem, wearing the wrong bodies. He thought of the wrong blonde in love with the wrong man. Ten II and RoseThe degradation of companion to servant. oh poor, poor Martha... what a sacrifice she made; she also sacrificed her heart for him without anything in returnYoung boys caught in a war of his own unintended making.innocents caught up in a war that had to be fought, and sacrificed... the Time War
I love dabbles. They force the core of the issue to the surface.
He thought of the wrong blonde in love with the wrong man. Ten II and Rose?
I was actually thinking of poor Joan and John Smith since this was in s3! And the boys from Farringham firing useless rifles at the Family per John Smith's direction. But considering that Ten's whole life is a Greek tragedy on replay, it totally works for that pairing & the Time War too! Ten's life bites, and I think in this case he totally succumbs to the tempation to curse others with his burden.
And yeah, you are right. Ten's life did bite didn't it? :'(
Hey are you having connection issues to LJ today at all? I can only access it from my phone, which is how I'm stuck reading and posting everything x.X to get this posted I had to email it to myself then copy-paste in here - no idea why it's not working on either of my home PCs!! =(
*Is breathless with awe*
And I think the tiny mention of Rose and Jack works really well :)
Well done :)
Time spun around all of them, twisting tighter and tighter, like a noose. I want to marry this line!
You hit this out of the park, lady! Thanks for sharing.
This was pretty intense in the most incredible way. In one of the comments someone's said Ten's life did bite - and I think you caught this really well. But you also caught the magic of his life as well, as well as the wonder of time and portrayed everything has a price, even time itself since everything turns to dust in the end.
This was brilliant :) well done.
This was pretty intense in the most incredible way. In one of the comments someone's said Ten's life did bite - and I think you caught this really well. But you also caught the magic of his life as well, as well as the wonder of time and portrayed everything has a price, even time itself since everything turns to dust in the end.
Thank you so much!! That is exactly what I was trying to capture! =D
This is very powerful and beautifully written. Well done indeed. There is so much sadness and anger that it cannot help but hit home. Thank you for it all.