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The Best-Laid Plans (6/6) Rating Gen, Spoilers to JE

Dec 22, 2008 17:47

AUTHOR: sensiblecat

WORDS: 3970

SPOILERS: Post Journey's End, but not "The Next Doctor"

CHARACTERS: Tenth Doctor, Duplicate, Rose, Donna, Jackie

IMAGE : effulgent_girlI have borrowed liberally but, I hope, respectfully, from the final lines of "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" by JRR Tolkien - I didn't need to change the names, which gave me great pleasure. ( Read more... )

the best-laid plans

Comments 22

lostwolfchats December 22 2008, 18:17:56 UTC

Ooo - lovely. What a lovely ending.

catsfiction December 23 2008, 08:54:20 UTC

Thank you very much. I hope it gave you a warm, seasonal feeling!

anonymous December 22 2008, 21:34:56 UTC

What a wonderful ending.

catsfiction December 23 2008, 08:54:31 UTC

Thank you!

ladychi December 22 2008, 22:16:34 UTC

What a lovely ending. I was in tears, as I was at the end of Lord of the Rings. Brilliant job.

catsfiction December 23 2008, 08:55:41 UTC

It made me cry, too. The LOTR bit is so beautiful, it often has that effect on me, and the movie did it full justice, I think. The theme of the Doctor surrendering his immortality seemed to tie in quite nicely to the other story.

the_lucky_stars December 22 2008, 22:35:50 UTC

That was probably my favourite of all the post-JE fics that I've read.

catsfiction December 23 2008, 08:56:26 UTC

I'm very flattered, because there are some wonderful ones out there, and I can enjoy them whatever my personal views on JE. But it was nice to get this one out there, too, and leave the original Doctor with his Rose.

ladyofgallifrey December 22 2008, 22:50:21 UTC

I love you. You wrote what I (very nearly, but not quite) had wanted to see, and you showed how beautifully and perfectly it could be done. And you quoted from my very favoritest book in the whole world (LOTR).

"You cannot always be torn in two..." makes me misty-eyed every time, because it speaks to so many things, even to us ordinary humans.

Thank you.

catsfiction December 23 2008, 08:57:47 UTC

You wrote what I (very nearly, but not quite) had wanted to see, and you showed how beautifully and perfectly it could be done.

Thank you. That was exactly my aim. One lovely thing was that I'd actually forgotten the names of Sam's wife and daughter, but it was as if my subconscious had remembered them when the name "Nellie" came, apparently from nowhere, for the Doctor and Rose's little girl.

I hope you have a lovely holiday season.