Doctor Who Ficlet: A Non-Linear Life
Jan. 4th, 2016 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Title: A Non-Linear Life
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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Characters: The Doctor, any incarnation.
Rating: G
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Linear living just doesn’t suit the Doctor.
Word Count: 272
Written For: ![[personal profile]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lannamichaels’s prompt ‘Doctor Who, the Doctor, linear time is boring,’ at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters. They belong to the BBC.
Linear time is boring.
The Doctor has tried it before, he grew up in linear time, but he didn’t really like it even then. One day follows another, everything happens in order, effect following cause. It’s all so predictable and… safe. There’s no uncertainty, no adventure, no risk. It’s just sort of blah.
Give him a life out of order anytime, where cause sometimes follows effect and you meet for the first time people who’ve already know you for years. Jumping around in time is exciting, unpredictable, and best of all it means he can skip past all the boring bits. He never knows where he’s going next, sometimes doesn’t even know where he’s just been, but it doesn’t matter. Every day can be a new adventure.
He has a TARDIS and he’s not afraid to use her. He can go anywhere in space or time, watch solar systems being born, meet famous people before they’re famous, see the most momentous historical events as they’re happening, and because he can, he does.
If he’d stuck to living in linear time, he’d still be plodding along, one day to the next, never seeing or experiencing much of anything unless it happened in his own timeline. Where would the fun be in that?
He realised a long time ago that he just wasn’t cut out for linear life, couldn’t bear the thought of everything that was out there passing him by. That wasn’t living, it was merely existing. Let people living everyday lives worry about everyday things like mowing the lawn, washing the car, or walking the dog.
He has a universe to save.
The End.
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I love Janto
Date: 2016-01-04 07:57 pm (UTC)Not everyone is able to deal with TARDIS travel. And running for ones life.
Doesn't the Doctor change things when he pops in than out?
Re: I love Janto
Date: 2016-01-04 10:21 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Re: I love Janto
Date: 2016-01-05 12:20 am (UTC)The TARDIS, who is a living being, sometimes brings him to places that need fixing.
To put the universe on the right track.
I also loved that episode.
She stole him.
Re: I love Janto
Date: 2016-01-05 09:57 am (UTC)Re: I love Janto
Date: 2016-01-05 11:09 am (UTC)And write their stories with that in mind.
FF is up. Yay.
Re: I love Janto
Date: 2016-01-05 11:40 am (UTC)That's why I made Ianto's TARDIS a prominent character.
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Date: 2016-01-04 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 10:48 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2016-01-04 10:55 pm (UTC)But yes, this is from the Doctor's POV, so he wouldn't necessarily voice it or even think it. Still I always like to acknowledge that, as much as the Doctor likes to think he's in control, he isn't.
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Date: 2016-01-04 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-05 10:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-05 09:53 pm (UTC)Nevertheless, I'm okay for a little trip if he ever shows up at my doorstep.;D
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Date: 2016-01-05 11:02 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2016-01-06 10:25 am (UTC)great fic
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Date: 2016-01-06 10:48 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2016-01-10 03:06 am (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2016-01-10 11:59 am (UTC)The Doctor's lifestyle isn't for everyone though. I'll stick with a linear life, though I wish I could skip the bad bits.