The Little Picture

[teashadephoenix]

Title: The Little Picture
Author: Tess/mihane_echo
Rating: Rated E for everybody. It's gooey and slightly fuzzy. (It appears to be a hamster stuck in marshmallow fluff.)
Word Count: 311
Spoilers: None
Summary: The Doctor reflects on what Donna's given him.
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: Random desperate need for some happy!Doctor. Scribbled it out in twenty minutes. Now I'm going to bed.



She loves listening to his hearts. The double-thump, so unlike her own and yet so familiar. It's comforting, safe and warm and home. Laying in the grass together, with magnificent purple birds soaring through the orange sky, she rests her ear against his chest and listens.

He glances down at the ginger head on his chest and strokes her hair. He loves her hair. It's soft and fluttering between his fingers and it catches the sun in the way that only red hair can, fiery-hot and blazing. He never thought in a million years that he would have this again, that he even could have it again. A family was something for other men to have, never him.

But Donna gave it to him. Made him realize that he didn't have to be alone. That he didn't have to sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of the big picture. That little picture that she understood so well had needed some mending, and Donna had known exactly how to do it.

He's grateful for her every day.

"Well, aren't you two just a picture," says the loveliest voice in the universe, and the Doctor opens one eye to squint at the figure standing over him. Donna grins down at him, haloed in the golden light of the setting sun. Her auburn hair also looks to be on fire, just like that of the little girl he holds on his chest.

Their daughter giggles and looks up at her mother.

"I like listening to Daddy's heartbeats," she tells her. "It's really cool."

"Is that right?" muses Donna, stretching out by the Doctor's side in the long grass. She sweeps her hair off her neck and smiles at him. One hand finds his and she twines her fingers between his. He squeezes them gently in reply. "I like listening to Daddy's heartbeats too."

end

Comments

[katherine-b.livejournal.com]

It might be as fluffy and cutesy as you say (and that is the cutest description ever!) but I still loved it! I think it was the 'safe and warm and home' part that got to me most though.

[lounge-lily.livejournal.com]

She definitely has a gift for the smaller picture.

[skatergurljb.livejournal.com]

aww... That was sweet. Going to my memories.
I'd kill several people for red hair.
Uh... sorry. That wasn't a fluffy thought. But, this was really fluffy, like hamsters in marshmallows fluffy. But aren't hamsters stuck in marshmallows horribly cute though?

Loved this.

[washingtonmaid.livejournal.com]

that was so fluffy and cute and fantastic!
she is the cutest little timebaby.

[loves-glamour.livejournal.com]

*sigh* that was lovely *moar sighing*

[shining-moment.livejournal.com]

Oh that's so gorgeously cute :)

[the-willows.livejournal.com]

That was just gorgeous!

Why couldn't this have happened? Why?

*huggles them all*

[kwiknkleen.livejournal.com]

That was fluffily wonderful. I just love hamsters. Not marshmallows though. So how 'bout it was like a fluffy hamster?

Have you seen Bolt? I love the hamster in that. haha

[time-converges.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's so wonderfully fluffy and sweet! I love it - I have a soft spot for the Doctor with kids, anyway. :)

[michele659.livejournal.com]

I loved this story so much! It was beautifully written and made me smile. The ending of the Doctor and Donna's story on the show morbidly depressing, andmelodramatic that I wanted to kill "Rusty".The Doctor always has to be alone and sad and bereft like it's some kind of Greek tragedy.Happy endings are boring? No, to me what's boring is to show the same ending for the Doctor over and over (except using different people,of course). Sorry,little rant there because damn it-THIS is what should have happened to the Doctor and Donna! She was the best thing to ever happen to him,and she made the show wonderful.
I love the sweet,quiet simplicity of the story.The Doctor having such gratitude and happiness over having a family and home.Of course he still has to worry,but there's Donna bringing him back down to earth. She always knew the little things make up the big picture,and now he knows it too.

[biodamped]

Oh, this is lovely. I always adored that Donna saw the smaller details - i think i have endless discussions from my msn with Lil about how Donna ended up saving the world because she saw the details while the Doctor was faffing about the big picture. And thus, the two of them are perfect together.

Short version = more love for you. ;)