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sixwordstories2013-05-29 12:12 pm
hasthreefingers) wrote in sixwordstories2013-05-29 12:12 pm
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Oh, no. No. Not this again.
I thought Time Lords were, like, space- and time-traveling worms.
No?
No?
Yeah, but can't the Doctor help fix you somehow? [Havent they talked about this before? It certainly feels and sounds like a familiar argument.]
Not me. I'm the one broken thing he could never fix.
Maybe he just hasn't found how yet. We should put our heads together. You know. Time Lords and humans. It could work.
[ This vacation has certainly turned depressing. Fantastic job, Donna Noble. ]
[ This vacation has certainly turned depressing. Fantastic job, Donna Noble. ]
Yeah, maybe.
Of course, sanity might be worse at this point.
Of course, sanity might be worse at this point.
[ And there goes her pity. ]
What? How could it be worse? Seriously.
What? How could it be worse? Seriously.
Would you want to suddenly have a thousand years worth of guilt dropped on you?
If it meant not having to constantly worry about eating people, yeah! I think I would!
Then why not commit suicide now, and save myself the extra suffering?
Because the kind of guilt I have waiting for me is enough to break me all over again, just in a more depressing way. At least now I have some happy memories, you know? Give me a better nature and the good things will be the worst.
I need a little bit of madness to be stable at this point. The thoughts that keep me going aren't pleasant ones.
Because the kind of guilt I have waiting for me is enough to break me all over again, just in a more depressing way. At least now I have some happy memories, you know? Give me a better nature and the good things will be the worst.
I need a little bit of madness to be stable at this point. The thoughts that keep me going aren't pleasant ones.
Sorry I'm so late! I was doing another play and it was more than I expected.
hasthreefingers
2013-08-09 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but maybe if you faced it with, you know, all your faculties instead of the bits and pieces you've got right now, you could actually, you know. Heal. Or whatever it is you lot do. You know, be the best Time Lord you can be instead of... of... you know.
[ Instead of the ever-hungry-lightning skull he tends to be. ]
[ Instead of the ever-hungry-lightning skull he tends to be. ]
How do you heal from having blown up planets for a lark? Or because one person from there annoyed you slightly?
I've committed so many genocides . . .
I've committed so many genocides . . .
I don't know. With time?
Not by running from it, that's for sure.
[ Which she can say easily, thank you very much, because it's not like Donna has ever committed genocide. Nor can she imagine it on the same scale that the Master can. Human brains, so limited. ]
Not by running from it, that's for sure.
[ Which she can say easily, thank you very much, because it's not like Donna has ever committed genocide. Nor can she imagine it on the same scale that the Master can. Human brains, so limited. ]
*He glares.* Easy for you to say. The Doctor has done nothing but run from the things he did, and he's hardly in my league.
[ Is that a muscle twitching in her jaw? Hmm... It's gone before anyone can say for sure. ]
He faces it. Just in bits and pieces. And in between, he helps people. Which puts him way out of your league. He's not even in your orbit, buddy boy.
He faces it. Just in bits and pieces. And in between, he helps people. Which puts him way out of your league. He's not even in your orbit, buddy boy.
*Eyeroll.* Yes, thus 'hardly in my league.' As in, I've done so much worse than he has.
But he's the one who wiped all the other Time Lords. You think he doesn't consider that worse?
Lives are lives, and I'm still leading in numbers lost.
I just don't think that's the best thing to do, to run from it. Bury it. It isn't healthy.
In this situation there really is no 'best thing to do.'
With an attitude like that, you need a new name. "Master" simply won't suit. Maybe something like, "Spineless?"
*Eyeroll.* I have a network of mind-control satellites, 'Master' is a perfectly good name. Want me to show you?
[ That doesn't sound like an entirely idle threat, and in the blink of an eye, Donna's maternal kindness is gone, covered over by fear, which in turn is covered by anger. ]
Try it and I'll have you flat on the floor so fast you won't know what the concept of movement is again for years.
Try it and I'll have you flat on the floor so fast you won't know what the concept of movement is again for years.
You really are a little firebrand, aren't you? I like that.
Don't get any ideas, Dumbo. [See this finger she's pointing at you, Master? That is the finger of serious business.] I'm just here to show you a thing or two about people. You know. Humans.
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