DW fic - Days that Last Forever
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grlgoddessTitle: Days that Last Forever
Author: grlgoddess
Characters: Doctor, Donna
Rating: PG
Word Count:773
Summary: A few days in the Doctor's life and Donna's that seemed to take far longer than the rest.
Disclaimer: If I owned it, do you think I would be posting here? (actually, I probably would, but that's beside the point as it is pure speculation as Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. For now.)
AN/Warnings: For "The Doctor and Donna Midsummer Madness Fic Festival" at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
doctor_donna. Prompt was "The Longest Day"
part of my fic-verse. (and, in fact, contains parts that I haven't got near to writing just yet, but I'm posting it all the same.)
Also, I am in need of a beta for said fic-verse. I have got down the basics of grammar and what-not, and will probably be mostly in need of help with pacing. If you're interested, please let me know! :)
~~
The day seemed to drag on forever. They both felt time passing slowly past them. Slower and slower still. If they had bothered to pay attention to the other, they might have noticed that they were not alone in being tortured by time's passing. Of course, they were too preoccupied to care. How to tell the other? How to admit to their best mate that they felt more than that? They were both so stubborn, so determined, but still afraid. In all the things in the universe, all the dangers they had faced, this was scaring them more than anything.
The Doctor had taken them to a beautiful place. A place to relax, away from dangers and threats and running. The sun shone a lovely shade of pale blue onto the darker blue grass. They wandered the market place, standing awkwardly close together, yet too far away for casual contact. They were, in fact, acting like a pair of middle-schoolers in the midst of their first crush.
As the day drew to a close, and the purple moon rose above the trees, while the blue sun faded off into the east, they sat together on a secluded hill in the middle of a park. Their minds raced with ways they could tell the other, alternating with excuses to put it off just one more day. Then, Donna Noble broke the silence.
"Doctor?"
"Yes, Donna?"
And she kissed him. They ended this long and tortuous day, both getting exactly what they wanted.
~
The Doctor wandered the empty hallways of the TARDIS. He was alone, but the presence of Donna Noble hung around every turn he took. Stalking him. Haunting him. It had only been a few hours since he had last seen her, and he was very aware of the fact that he never could again. He tried to tell himself that there was nothing else he could do, no other way to keep her alive. He knew that was what was the most important. Somewhere, somewhen, Donna Noble was living her life, safe, and hopefully happy. Only it was a life without him. She couldn't miss him, but he felt the loss deeply enough for the both of them. With every breath, every time his hearts beat, he missed her.
The day dragged on, as the Doctor drifted through the vortex in the TARDIS. The longest day of his long life. A day filled with pain and sorrow and loss.
~
One day, Donna Noble woke up. She felt more awake then she had since she was shocked into being the DoctorDonna. Wait! The metacrisis. She shouldn't be able to remember. She should be burning up.
But she felt fine.
She laid back into her bed and thought. These past few years since the Doctor left her had not been as void of him as they should have. She remembered little tidbits sneaking through, more and more each year. The Doctor was not as good at mindwipes as he thought he was. Or maybe, there was just another factor that he had neglected. A factor that he couldn't have known about at the time.
"Mummy?" the little girl said as she entered Donna's room, "Are you sick?"
Donna looked at her little girl in a new light, seeing her truly for the first time.
"Of course not Emma," she said, now knowing that she had named her that based on a vague remembering of the daughter she had lost in the Library, "Why would you think that?"
"You haven't made breakfast yet," she said, looking at her in a stern way that Donna now recognized as being so like the Doctor.
"Come on then, you silly goose," she said, picking up the tiny child and heading to the kitchen of their little flat, "What's for breakfast then?"
Donna went about the rest of the day in the same manner that she usually did, except inside her mind, everything had changed. When she had time to think, she organized all of her new-found thoughts inside her mind. It was a relief to finally be able to explain some of Emma's more unusual traits, her intelligence, her slower growth, her hummingbird heart, and of course, the identity of her father. However, above all that, she was keeping an ear out for that familiar churning of the TARDIS engine, the sound of home. The longing and waiting that kept her distracted all day long, turned that day into the longest of her life so far, only to be replaced by every subsequent day after until she could find her Doctor again and slap him senseless.
Author: grlgoddess
Characters: Doctor, Donna
Rating: PG
Word Count:773
Summary: A few days in the Doctor's life and Donna's that seemed to take far longer than the rest.
Disclaimer: If I owned it, do you think I would be posting here? (actually, I probably would, but that's beside the point as it is pure speculation as Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. For now.)
AN/Warnings: For "The Doctor and Donna Midsummer Madness Fic Festival" at
doctor_donna. Prompt was "The Longest Day"part of my fic-verse. (and, in fact, contains parts that I haven't got near to writing just yet, but I'm posting it all the same.)
Also, I am in need of a beta for said fic-verse. I have got down the basics of grammar and what-not, and will probably be mostly in need of help with pacing. If you're interested, please let me know! :)
~~
The day seemed to drag on forever. They both felt time passing slowly past them. Slower and slower still. If they had bothered to pay attention to the other, they might have noticed that they were not alone in being tortured by time's passing. Of course, they were too preoccupied to care. How to tell the other? How to admit to their best mate that they felt more than that? They were both so stubborn, so determined, but still afraid. In all the things in the universe, all the dangers they had faced, this was scaring them more than anything.
The Doctor had taken them to a beautiful place. A place to relax, away from dangers and threats and running. The sun shone a lovely shade of pale blue onto the darker blue grass. They wandered the market place, standing awkwardly close together, yet too far away for casual contact. They were, in fact, acting like a pair of middle-schoolers in the midst of their first crush.
As the day drew to a close, and the purple moon rose above the trees, while the blue sun faded off into the east, they sat together on a secluded hill in the middle of a park. Their minds raced with ways they could tell the other, alternating with excuses to put it off just one more day. Then, Donna Noble broke the silence.
"Doctor?"
"Yes, Donna?"
And she kissed him. They ended this long and tortuous day, both getting exactly what they wanted.
~
The Doctor wandered the empty hallways of the TARDIS. He was alone, but the presence of Donna Noble hung around every turn he took. Stalking him. Haunting him. It had only been a few hours since he had last seen her, and he was very aware of the fact that he never could again. He tried to tell himself that there was nothing else he could do, no other way to keep her alive. He knew that was what was the most important. Somewhere, somewhen, Donna Noble was living her life, safe, and hopefully happy. Only it was a life without him. She couldn't miss him, but he felt the loss deeply enough for the both of them. With every breath, every time his hearts beat, he missed her.
The day dragged on, as the Doctor drifted through the vortex in the TARDIS. The longest day of his long life. A day filled with pain and sorrow and loss.
~
One day, Donna Noble woke up. She felt more awake then she had since she was shocked into being the DoctorDonna. Wait! The metacrisis. She shouldn't be able to remember. She should be burning up.
But she felt fine.
She laid back into her bed and thought. These past few years since the Doctor left her had not been as void of him as they should have. She remembered little tidbits sneaking through, more and more each year. The Doctor was not as good at mindwipes as he thought he was. Or maybe, there was just another factor that he had neglected. A factor that he couldn't have known about at the time.
"Mummy?" the little girl said as she entered Donna's room, "Are you sick?"
Donna looked at her little girl in a new light, seeing her truly for the first time.
"Of course not Emma," she said, now knowing that she had named her that based on a vague remembering of the daughter she had lost in the Library, "Why would you think that?"
"You haven't made breakfast yet," she said, looking at her in a stern way that Donna now recognized as being so like the Doctor.
"Come on then, you silly goose," she said, picking up the tiny child and heading to the kitchen of their little flat, "What's for breakfast then?"
Donna went about the rest of the day in the same manner that she usually did, except inside her mind, everything had changed. When she had time to think, she organized all of her new-found thoughts inside her mind. It was a relief to finally be able to explain some of Emma's more unusual traits, her intelligence, her slower growth, her hummingbird heart, and of course, the identity of her father. However, above all that, she was keeping an ear out for that familiar churning of the TARDIS engine, the sound of home. The longing and waiting that kept her distracted all day long, turned that day into the longest of her life so far, only to be replaced by every subsequent day after until she could find her Doctor again and slap him senseless.
