Fic: All That Was

[glory_jean]

Title: All That Was
Character/Pairing: Nine, Rose
Setting: Just after Father's Day, missing scene
Rating: All ages
Summary: Is this what you see?
Disclaimer: Based on characters owned and created by BBC, used without permission
Author's Notes: Is it a drabble or is it a poem? Not sure. It has 100 words, but the format suggested itself.



She lifts her tear-streaked face from her hands and pins him with an unblinking stare.

"Is this what it's like for you?" she asks. "All the time?

"I can remember it – my father's story – the one I grew up with.

"But I can remember the new one, too. The one Mum tells now.

"Is this what you see?"



He hesitates and she can see all of the words within his eyes, at the tip of his tongue, wanting to be said:

It's complicated....

Not exactly....

You wouldn't understand....


But,

finally,

he spreads his hands and says only,

 "Yes."
 

Comments

[erikssiren.livejournal.com]

That was lovely. I really like the format, too.

[glory_jean]

Thanks. :D

I'm glad the format worked for you.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous.

[glory_jean]

Thank you! :D

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nicely done! And the text format is very clever, too. Very vivid!

[glory_jean]

Thank you! :D

I'm so glad my formatting experiment was so well received.

[kaffy_r]

I like this. The double-time line is so rarely referenced, and you've done it nicely.

[glory_jean]

Thanks! :D

I've always been fascinated by how Jackie's story changes.

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

The formatting definitely makes the story even more powerful. Very nice.

Also- the bottom of your header- is that from the book Human Nature?

[glory_jean]

Thank you. :D

I wasn't sure how my text style would work for people. I'm so pleased the feeling conveys.


And the header: Yes, good catch! :D I have a strange fixation on the Journal of Impossible Things.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

The format was perfect for the tone and subject of the drabble. Great job!

[glory_jean]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. :)

[jer832.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. I love the format, which suggests to me that he is fighting an inner battle. It's very Nine, isn't it?

[glory_jean]

I thought I'd responded to this. D'oh!

Thanks! Exactly, the Doctor has the need to over-explain but for once, he recognized that wasn't what she needed at the moment.

[jer832.livejournal.com]

I just reread this. It's more gorgeous and dense (I hope you don't mind that word, I think it's what I mean) every time I read it. Your comment, coupled with this Nine immersion I seem to be having at BWR made me wonder what it would have been like if Ten were answering. As you said, it's what she needed.

[glory_jean]

Yeah, I know what you mean by "dense" in this case. :D

That is the interesting difference between Nine and Ten. Nine could talk (even if we tend to forget that) but he was also capable of very simple answers too. Whereas - Ten, not so much.

I think of the scene in Long Game.

"Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's a slave."

"Yes."

Ten, I think, would have said: "Oh, I think we both the know the answer to that." And then explained why that is. ;D

[jer832.livejournal.com]

At the opening of The Empty Child they are running around the console and CE is talking just as fast as DT ever did, maybe faster. I first saw CE in DW, so that's all I knew of him. I played that scene over a few times because he is so clear in his speech and his accent is a dream.

It's weird the stereotype that Nine became. I'm from the U.S. and I guess it's similar to the Southern accent down home slightly slow hick stereotype we have. I knew I was a Ninth DW fan when he gave that little inward smile and THAT speech in Rose. Nothing I've seen in the new DW has topped that.

[glory_jean]

Oh, those little Nine smiles....

**swoon**