Doctor Who Ficlet - Distractions

[order_of_chaos]

Title: Distractions
Author: order_of_chaos
Pairing: Doctor/TARDIS
Rating: G
Wordcount: 163
Spoilers: The Last of the Time Lords
Summary: TARDIS' POV. She distracts the Doctor from his misery the best way she can think of.

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He’s going to start brooding. Any moment, he’s going to freeze up and stop talking and stop tinkering and just plain stop moving altogether.

So hard to keep living.
So much easier to not outrun the feelings of grief/guilt/loneliness, and just drown in them for a century or two.

Or ten.

She hates it when he does that, and right now there’s no one to distract him from the silence in his head.

Nobody to delight him, nobody to challenge him.
Nobody for him to stumble into potentially deadly danger with; nobody to need him to get them out of it again.

It’s up to her, then. Materialising carefully, half inside the Titanic and half out of it, the TARDIS creates the most distracting distraction she can think of.

And it works.

Bits of ship are everywhere, and the Doctor’s frowning – alive and indignant and wanting to fix things again.

If he asks, she’ll blame the paradox machine.

She doesn’t think he’ll ask.

Comments

[eryaforsthye.livejournal.com]

*grins*

I like this muchly.

*pats melancholy!Ten*

[order_of_chaos]

Thank you!

Ten: *closes his eyes and tries to remember how to purr*

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Awww. Me likey tardis.

[order_of_chaos]

*beams* Ain't she just lovely?

Ten: *strokes bits of tardis*

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Tardis: *purrrs*

Yes, yes she is!

[torn-eledhwen.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! I do like the voice you've given the TARDIS. :)

[order_of_chaos]

*grins* Thank you!!

[eve11]

I love it!

[order_of_chaos]

*grins* I'm glad!

[jovialien.livejournal.com]

hee hee, very nicely done! I was wondering where the ship came from... ;)

[order_of_chaos]

Well, if the assembled Hoards of Genghis Kahn couldn't get in, I didn't see why the Titanic should be able to either :)
Thank you! Very glad you liked it!

[imortalitybites.livejournal.com]

Very cute. Made my morning a lil better. :)

[order_of_chaos]

Thanks! I'm glad it did. *grins brightly*

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

Such a clever TARDIS...He doesn't deserve her. Nice-thank you!

[order_of_chaos]

I'm not sure it's possible to deserve the TARDIS - she's fantastic. *smiles* I'm glad you liked it!

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

That's perfect! I love it! The simple style and understatement are beautiful.

Thank you.

[order_of_chaos]

I'm glad you liked it! *grins*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Oh, love it. And it's the best excuse so far for the end of the last series.

[order_of_chaos]

*grins* Thank you!

[amybeckett.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason the TARTIS couldn't seem to park to save it's life! Like it. :)

[nightrider101.livejournal.com]

I adore your TARDIS! The Doctor's incessant need to not be alone was captured so well in this.

Bits of ship are everywhere, and the Doctor’s frowning – alive and indignant and wanting to fix things again.

If he asks, she’ll blame the paradox machine.

She doesn’t think he’ll ask.

His constant need to keep moving, to never stop... Yes, the TARDIS understands this need and answers the best way she knows how. *hugs the TARDIS*

[order_of_chaos]

Thank you! *grins* They have, after all, known each other for centuries.

TARDIS: *hums cheerfully*