Oh I love the awkwardness in the middle of this chapter, Donna understandably hurt by what he did but then hating that she feels that way when she knows why he did it.
Too many lovely parts to quote a favourite, seriously. Lovely stuff :)
It's a tricky subject, because at the end of the day he did save her life but at such a cost. It's so hard to know whether it was the right thing to do (not least because it broke all of our hearts :P)
I adore this so much! I actually really liked their near-argument, and I don't blame either of them for it because I feel like the tension is very real.
I would appreciate an idea, though, of how time is passing. How many hours has Donna been alive of the 24 or so she has left until you save her at the last second? That would really build the tension!
Thank you! I'm so glad you felt the tension was there, because I've always thought it was a difficult issue - how Donna would react to what the Doctor did.
*sighs* You must ask difficult questions! :) Ummm okay, I said the Doctor got to Donna's house at 10:21 the previous evening so her time started at about 10:30. After visiting James and the mortuary it will have been well into the early hours of the morning, and then the Doctor worked through the night in the TARDIS. I've said here that as they started their walk, 'Morning was just breaking' and they haven't travelled in time to get to where they are now, only space. So I'm going to put the time at about 9am (which is perhaps a bit of a studentish way of classifying when the start of the morning is :P). And by the time they get to where they're going, it'll be 10am. Soo she's about half-way through her time, really. If you add up all the plot it might not realistically reach a full 24 hours but I did say about 24 hours so hopefully that lets me off
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*lol* Well, you're most welcome to ask hard questions on my fics in returns! ;-)
Thank you so much for your answers though. I agree that you've got flexibility to be approximate in how long things take, but feeling the hours ticking away certainly helps build tension!
Haha, I'm pretty sure I've asked you several difficult questions about your fic in the past... I seem to remember one about parallel timelines that required an answer longer than the fic itself (I'm exaggerating but still :P)
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Too many lovely parts to quote a favourite, seriously. Lovely stuff :)
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Thank you :)
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Well done!
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I would appreciate an idea, though, of how time is passing. How many hours has Donna been alive of the 24 or so she has left until you save her at the last second? That would really build the tension!
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*sighs* You must ask difficult questions! :) Ummm okay, I said the Doctor got to Donna's house at 10:21 the previous evening so her time started at about 10:30. After visiting James and the mortuary it will have been well into the early hours of the morning, and then the Doctor worked through the night in the TARDIS. I've said here that as they started their walk, 'Morning was just breaking' and they haven't travelled in time to get to where they are now, only space. So I'm going to put the time at about 9am (which is perhaps a bit of a studentish way of classifying when the start of the morning is :P). And by the time they get to where they're going, it'll be 10am. Soo she's about half-way through her time, really. If you add up all the plot it might not realistically reach a full 24 hours but I did say about 24 hours so hopefully that lets me off ( ... )
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Thank you so much for your answers though. I agree that you've got flexibility to be approximate in how long things take, but feeling the hours ticking away certainly helps build tension!
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