teashadephoenix: (dw - tardis - shipper)
Tea/Tess ([personal profile] teashadephoenix) wrote2009-07-13 01:55 pm

Weekly Drabble Challenge Response: What I Want For You

Title: What I Want For You
Author: Tess/[livejournal.com profile] mihane_echo
Rating: Rated Awwwwwwh for Ship/Pilot squish
Word Count: 342
Spoilers: None, surprisingly. Set during 4.01 Partners in Crime
Summary: She's watching him close himself off and she just can't have that.
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, it belongs to the Beeb and I'm borrowing it to play with. I promise I will return them (marginally) unharmed. ;3
Author's Note: This is an incredibly wordy way of expressing a very simple idea. Ugh, I'm so long-winded; my bloody icon says what the fic says in four flippin words. Anyway... Written for Weekly Drabble Challenge #15 at [livejournal.com profile] doctor_donna. Prompt was watching.



They can see it.

The whole of time and space. An intricate web of possibilities, of maybes, second chances and what ifs. Strands of time, the lifelines of people and stars and events, collide and entwine, curling into and over and around each other into a puzzle the human eye could never decipher.

But then, they aren't human.

He watches the flow of time as though he is outside of it, the only one who can tell the difference between the things that haven't happened but must, and the things that have but must be rewritten. He separates himself from everyone else, shouldering his heavy mantle of being the last one, the lonely god, the only one who can claim responsibility for the universe.

And she watches him.

She knows, better than he, how like everyone else he really is. Time weaves around him the same as it does around everyone else, presenting an infinite number of paths before him to take. Opportunities he's missed. Doors he's not opened.

Chances for him to be happy that he hasn't taken.

She watches her precious pilot, the one she loves most in all of time and space, close himself off over and over again, afraid of his own future. What if he's never happy again? What if he is? What if he grasps that happiness again, and loses it again?

Better to just separate himself.

She watches him, grieves for him. He needs something more, something she can't give him. He needs flesh, and touch, and voice and laughter, and she wants him to have it. She wants him to be happy.

He almost had happiness with the blond shopgirl. And she can see in his future that he could have happiness with a pushy archaeologist.

The TARDIS grumbles to herself as she weighs her options.

This just won't do.

And then she plants herself down by a little blue car in a back alley.

She loves him, and she isn't selfish.

That doesn't mean she can't be picky about who he's happy with.

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[identity profile] time-converges.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, of course she can be picky. :) I love this!

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I do love the temperamental Miss TARDIS. <333

[identity profile] cnd83.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
awww, brilliant! I love the Tardis taking care of her Doctor!!!:D

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, thanks. Someone's gotta do it if Donna isn't there. ;D

[identity profile] sonicgirl2005.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Squish squish squish! :)

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
<33333

[identity profile] misswitch.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, so, so cute. I adore this fic. *smushes it close*

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, thank you! ;D

[identity profile] shining-moment.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, the TARDIS is very wise :)

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't she just? <333

[identity profile] lounge-lily.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes! I love the Pilot/Ship squish. If he'd just let her make all his important decisions, he'd be so much better off.

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe, yes he would! Though she has thrown him off course and taken him to places he probably would rather not have. Pompeii, Midnight, etc...

But then that's my head canon for the TARDIS anyway, is that she can see what must be done and even if she knows it's going to hurt him, she has to fulfill her own destiny and take him. I probably give her WAY too much sentience, but there you go. I luffle the TARDIS. <333

[identity profile] lounge-lily.livejournal.com 2009-07-15 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
No, I think you give her just enough sentience. He needed to be in Pompeii and Midnight to fully appreciate Donna's awesomesauceness in dire times. The TARDIS knows what she's doing.

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-16 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's true, she does. ;B

[identity profile] raptorgirl.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, it's so sweet how the TARDIS loves the Doctor. Cute story. :)

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. ;D

[identity profile] lemon-pencil.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this! It's lovely how the TARDIS looks after him =)

On a random tangent, would you mind if I added you? I like your fics =)

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And oh, by all means. <333

[identity profile] loves-glamour.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
yes she can be as picky as she likes =) lovely

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, dear. ;D

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
That is so beautiful! I freely admit that I didn't catch on that it was the TARDIS until quite late, but I can absolutely imagine her feeling that way!

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I wasn't trying to be too obvious who the narrator was, so thank you. <3 I'm glad you liked it!

[identity profile] kwiknkleen.livejournal.com 2009-07-15 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yay \o/ for the TARDIS. She knows what and who is best for the Doctor.
Brilliant.

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-16 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! And she would, wouldn't she? I mean she's been with him for centuries. ;B

[identity profile] gorengal.livejournal.com 2009-07-15 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, I love the old girl! Beautifully done. :)

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-16 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. <333
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[personal profile] sykira 2009-07-16 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the Tardis' perspective! Great story.

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-17 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! ;)

[identity profile] goodbye2pisces.livejournal.com 2009-07-17 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I can't even tell you how much I loved this. Just fantastic. You go TARDIS girl! :D

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-17 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Awh, thank you. ;D We love the TARDIS.

[identity profile] cytherea999.livejournal.com 2009-07-25 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, love the TARDIS, she's my favourite!

Thanks for this, *squish*

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-07-26 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't she great? I would so love to have a TARDIS of my own. ;o

Thanks for reading and squishing it! <3
biodamped: for better or for worse ([dw] the tardis ships doctor/donna)

[personal profile] biodamped 2009-10-03 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
This is a wonderful wonderful story and i squealed with glee when i saw the reference to my icon. *is shameless*

[identity profile] mihane-echo.livejournal.com 2009-10-04 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay well A its adorable. I love that icon and you're brilliant for making it. <3 And B it's the Doctor's most faithful companion, his lovely ship, being picky about who he's with. I could NOT pass that up. xD