Doctor Who Fic: Atonement
I realised as I came to post this fic that I've only written completed four stories this year, which is somewhat of a shortfall on what I intended.
Title: Atonement
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating / Genre: PG, Gen.
Words: 285
Spoilers: Doctor Who (Tenth Doctor): 3.13 Last of the Time Lords & Torchwood: 2.06 Reset (small).
Disclaimer: Doctor Who is property of BBC.
Author's Note / Schmoopy Dedication: Just a little short piece, but long overdue. For all the Whovians on my flist new and old.
Summary: Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay;
~~~
There are voices in her head.
She doesn't know why, exactly, but when she wakes from yet another nightmare of metal spheres with the cruel laugh of an unearthly child, she just feels that somehow, these violent images are real. A secret history folded away in another time or space, memories unasked for, stirring unbidden each night in her dreams; a warning, a punishment possibly, but real nonetheless.
And so is the girl. Martha Jones. Saving the world; alone, on foot, and frightened.
It takes her almost week to find her once she knows Martha's name and longer to get through the various encryptions on her student and banking records, even with her knowledge of universal IT backdoors, someone's been careful this time and she's not surprised. Once she finds her though, the pattern's not hard to spot; disappearances, sudden interest in Cardiff, being in two places at once, already excellent marks improving still further in an impossibly short space of time.
Despite her expertise with a computer and other sought after unique skills, her name carries a lot less weight than it once did. Fortunately, there's still a few old friends who will take her call. And she wants to help this girl, this Martha Jones. How else can she say thank you? How could anyone?
When she finishes telling Brigadier Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, formally of UNIT, the story of Martha Jones, Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, doesn't feel better the way she thought she would. There's no inner peace. The dreams don't stop.
But the world seems somehow safer. And no matter what the Doctor or anyone else may think, past or present, that's all she ever really wanted.
~~~
Title: Atonement
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating / Genre: PG, Gen.
Words: 285
Spoilers: Doctor Who (Tenth Doctor): 3.13 Last of the Time Lords & Torchwood: 2.06 Reset (small).
Disclaimer: Doctor Who is property of BBC.
Author's Note / Schmoopy Dedication: Just a little short piece, but long overdue. For all the Whovians on my flist new and old.
Summary: Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay;
~~~
There are voices in her head.
She doesn't know why, exactly, but when she wakes from yet another nightmare of metal spheres with the cruel laugh of an unearthly child, she just feels that somehow, these violent images are real. A secret history folded away in another time or space, memories unasked for, stirring unbidden each night in her dreams; a warning, a punishment possibly, but real nonetheless.
And so is the girl. Martha Jones. Saving the world; alone, on foot, and frightened.
It takes her almost week to find her once she knows Martha's name and longer to get through the various encryptions on her student and banking records, even with her knowledge of universal IT backdoors, someone's been careful this time and she's not surprised. Once she finds her though, the pattern's not hard to spot; disappearances, sudden interest in Cardiff, being in two places at once, already excellent marks improving still further in an impossibly short space of time.
Despite her expertise with a computer and other sought after unique skills, her name carries a lot less weight than it once did. Fortunately, there's still a few old friends who will take her call. And she wants to help this girl, this Martha Jones. How else can she say thank you? How could anyone?
When she finishes telling Brigadier Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, formally of UNIT, the story of Martha Jones, Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, doesn't feel better the way she thought she would. There's no inner peace. The dreams don't stop.
But the world seems somehow safer. And no matter what the Doctor or anyone else may think, past or present, that's all she ever really wanted.
~~~