Doctor Who Drabble: Destiny

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Title: Destiny

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: The Doctor

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 040: Emerson at dw100

Spoilers: Nothing specific.

Summary: The Doctor is fulfilling his destiny.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

Self-belief is something the Doctor knows quite a lot about, mostly because he has so much of it. He believes he has a purpose, and that he does what he does for a reason; perhaps the universe itself set him on his course and continues to guide him, sending him where he’s needed. After all, why else would he end up somewhere he didn’t intend to go, at exactly the right moment to save lives, defeat threats, solve crimes, prevent disasters, or free entire worlds from tyranny?

He’s fulfilling the role he was created for, and it’s so much fun!

The End

Comments

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Very good! :D

[bk_forever]

Thank you!

The Doctor can be a bit dense, he somehow manages to overlook the fact that it's the TARDIS who takes him where he needs to be.

Thank you!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

He always was one to overlook the obvious. ;D (When Idris said that to him, I was, like, "Yes! Yes! Thank you!!!" Because I'd had a theory that she was doing exactly that.)

Very welcome. :D

[dm12.livejournal.com]

Fun sometimes, but sometimes I think what he needs to do devastates him, he breaks a little bit more with each decision he has to make that costs lives.

And yes, the TARDIS is definitely involved, right along with the universe. She sees things in a way totally different to how the Doctor does....

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I think a lot of us had. I mean, we all know that the TARDIS is at least partly organic, a living machine, so it's obvious she must have a mind of her own. The Doctor just believes he's the one in control, silly boy.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Silly, indeed! :D She must get so frustrated with him sometimes, with his ego and thinking he's the one calling the shots. :D (Oh, great; now I want to write a fic of the two of them fighting, lol!)

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I think the Doctor intentionally blocks out the bad stuff, it's the only way he can cope.

The TARDIS has a will of her own, and a great deal of wisdom. She sees all of time and space, like the Doctor, but I think perhaps she's better at seeing where he's most needed than he is.

Thank you!

[bk_forever]

Do it, do it!

Half my plot bunnies come from conversations with people in comments. They're a good source of inspiration.

She really does need to put him in his place!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Haha! Okay, I will. I was so tempted that I made a note to, anyway; it just sounds like it'd be fun. :D

Oh, she so does. His own vanity's gonna get him in trouble someday.

[dm12.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but it's always in his eyes... even as he plays the goofball.

I agree about the TARDIS, and she might be better able to see the Doctor's time line. He would probably not see his own future... which is why she is better suited to place him where he must be.

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That's a good point! If the Doctor could see his own timeline he'd know when he was going to regenerate, when he'd find or lose companions... Makes sense that he can't and so the TARDIS has to guide him.

Yeah, he's seen so much that it has a cumulative effect. He's weighed down by everything he's done but I suppose he's just learned to set things aside to a certain extent. What's done is done, and it can't be changed. Don't dwell on it. Not that it always works, he does his share of brooding, but he keeps going. Perhaps he's trying to keep ahead of the memories.

[bk_forever]

I've got tons of notes for fics I'm going to write eventually, lol! I have a bunch I should finish first though. But, next week is Challenge Week, and I have pieces to write for two other communities that are due this week, and there'll be a new prompt at slashthedrabble Wednesday or Thursday... I never seem to find time to work on the ones I'm already writing o_O

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

So do I. :) I have a "community" for the stuff I'm absolutely going to do, and another for the stuff that I might come back to eventually.

Wow; you've got your hands full! :-O That was me back in December, lol; too much work, and barely enough time. I don't know how I managed.

[dm12.livejournal.com]

Well... you know what they say, "It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Even though the experience is bittersweet, one has to live whatever life one has to the fullest extent possible, and we wouldn't know what true happiness is without experiencing sadness.

And yes, the TARDIS is often the Doctor's guardian, his truest companion. The only one who has been with him through everything. Even if another companion wants to be with him forever, it can never happen. They all find that out in the end.

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I like having a lot of challenges to write for, it helps distract me from how rotten I feel most of the time, although in all the juggling I missed one last week - much to my shame. beattheblackdog is a multifandom community set up by a friend of mine for writers who battle depression, so it's very important to me, and I totally forgot that i hadn't written for last week's challenge *headdesk*

My favourite is Contest Week at fic promptly where you have to fill as many prompts as possible in a week and there are daily challenges you can attempt too. That really gets the creative juices flowing, I wrote over 34k words in a week last time. So much fun, even if it's a bit manic!

[bk_forever]

That's true, and the good times are better when contrasted with the bad times than they would otherwise be. Into every life, some rain must fall.

The TARDIS is the Doctor's closest friend and confidante, even if he doesn't seem aware of it. She probably feels everything he feels through the connection they have. True empathy, though it must be one sided otherwise the Doctor would be constantly aware of the TARDIS's feelings when he generally seems to be oblivious to them.

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Great drabble.

[dm12.livejournal.com]

I think I might agree with those that say that the link between the Doctor and the TARDIS is so strong, that when he finally finishes out all of his lives, the TARDIS will die right along with him.... they are that close. Even when the Doctor seems oblivious to it, he must be aware.

[dm12.livejournal.com]

Silly Doctor indeed! When Donna was added into the mix, it was definitely the females who controlled things....somehow, I wouldn't be surprised if Donna made friends with the TARDIS and they conspired together. Donna makes friends with other companions (Martha) very easily, so why not? You can see that the Doctor got a little upset about that, he thought there would be competition ("No fighting please.") but instead they made fun of him ("I'd rather you'd fight.")! What would he make of Donna becoming friendly with "his" TARDIS?

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Thank you!

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She must always be there in the back of his mind, a constant but unobtrusive presence most of the time, but perhaps he's so used to her he doesn't consciously notice her most of the time.

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The Doctor wants to be the centre of attention in his own home at least, he can't stand it when he feels surplus to requirements, like when his companion and ex-companion are getting all chummy. Donna makes friends easily because she's such a down to earth and genuine person. I'm sure she and the TARDIS are firm friends and gossip about the Doctor behind his back, or inside Donna's head more likely.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

It is a huge help; I was going through a rough stage (still sorta am), and I was in hc_bingo, and inadvertently ended up writing a lot of my prompts really close to the deadline. Made me a stressful wreck for a better reason, lol. First time in it, and I decided that I just had to do a blackout. I'll probably wind up doing the exact same thing all over again, though, when it opens back up. :D *is a glutton for punishment*

Boy, I probably could've used that community some years back, because I was dealing with depression; that is a hella ugly place for your head to go. :-/

Oh, that sounds like fun! Crazy, but fun. :D

[bk_forever]

It's open to all, whether you're a current sufferer or not, with a weekly support post and a weekly writing challenge, so your welcome to join in and give us some much-needed support.

I did that with cottoncandy bingo (which collapsed under its own weight again, the mods have a tendency to bail). When I signed up I just thought I'd be happy if I completed a line, but with about a month to go my brain, which has OCD tendencies, suddenly decided NO! You HAVE to get a blackout. Man, that was stressful. I did it though, my one and only Torchwood AU series used up seven squares for different chapters, another fic filled three more, and the rest were one-shots. Never again!

Crazy is right - I won that one with 65 fills. Basically it's a case of 'Look at daily challenge, hunt through lonely prompts that fit the challenge, write it, post it, find another, write it, post it... Keep going until the next challenge appears, start all over.' Very little else gets done those weeks, but I still have to write for my other challenges as well... o_O Sadly, during the next one, towards the end of April, I have to have a 'procedure' at the hospital which means I might miss at least one challenge, possibly more, which sucks =(

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Well, okay, I'll certainly look into it. :) It's always good to have a support system.

Wowwie. That sounds exhausting! I did something similar with one of my dw_allsorts tables: I got it into my head that I had to do a twenty-prompt table and write one chapter per prompt. No idea what the hell I was thinking. I got it done, but my reaction to it was the same: Never again!

Sixty-five?! Whoa! :-O That's just...wow. *is mind-blown*

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We support anyone who needs support no matter why they need it, it's a newish community and we have a wide range of stress, depression, anxiety problems and such. It helps just to be able to moan to people who get it, or are at least sympathetic because they have their own issues.

I just got lucky that several squares worked for chapters, it wasn't something I set out to do but it made things a bit easier to complete my card!

To be fair, a couple were 100 word drabbles, another was 150 words, most were between 400 and 700 words, short pieces, but then it's not the word count that matters, it's the number of fills. Normally for Contest Weeks I'm in the 40-45 range, I just really outdid myself on that one. I even wrote a fandom I'd never tried before. only 150 words, but it was something. I'm not very brave with new fandoms, I take so long to get the voices of characters I've not written before..

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

That's really cool. :) I think I'll join; there are certainly times when I feel like I need to confide in someone, and lately there's been a short supply of that.

I'm sure it did; those cards can be really tricky. So many of mine had me scratching my head; there were some I didn't figure out for months.

That's still impressive! :) Yeah, I get what you mean; I usually get into one fandom, and that'll be the only one I write for. There are still some voices in this one that I'm not quite convinced I have down, where others came easily right from the start.

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I always thought I'd never write anything but Torchwood, with maybe the occasional crossover with Doctor Who. But then FAKE decided to invade my brain, and the Doctor wanted some fics of his own, and I tried my hand at Buffy, then a few others during contest week when the challenge was to write in fandoms that didn't have many fills... That was tough!

I hated my bingo card when I got it, even though we were allowed to veto a few prompts and choose two that we wanted on our cards. I got a lot of prompts I didn't know what to do with. Somehow I managed eventually, but I'm still not sure how I did it at such short notice.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

With me, it was all about 'The Monkees', with the occasional dip into original. Then I got a really bad case of writer's block, until I was talked into trying to write DW fic. I feel like I should branch out (there's a 'Party Animals' fic I've been toying with for at least a year, and I started watching 'Once Upon A Time' last year, which made me itch to do something), but I know these characters so well. Playing with the idea of a DW/Labyrinth crossover, though, for next month's hc_bingo amnesty challenge, if I can wind up with workable prompts. If not, I think I'm gonna have to sit that one out. :-/

Wow. I got so lucky on mine; I loved just about everything. The only one I took issue with and ended up asking for a replacement on was 'fire'.

[bk_forever]

Jareth on the TARDIS, or the Doctor in the Goblin City, definite potential there!

Oh, I love The Monkees! I grew up with them, and Mike Nesmith made some pretty good albums on his own too. I've never read any Monkees fic though.

h/c bingo is a very different animal, fire in h/c is pretty grim whereas in cottoncandy bingo it would be an easy prompt, cuddling in front of a fire. I got 'window' and 'lighthouse' and 'I becomes We' and 'Desert' *sigh* What's fluffy about a window for goodness sakes?

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Yeah, if it works out, it will (hopefully) be fun. :) I don't know what else I could do; I'm not really into any other fandoms.

I keep forgetting how much I love them, and then I get reminded, and it's fun all over again. :D Mike was always the hardest one for me to write.

*giggles* I'm sure there'd be some way for a window to be fluffy. I don't know how--maybe serenading, or something?

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I made it work as part of my 'Small Problems' series where Jack and Ianto get shrunk to action figure size on a Rift retrieval and have to make their way back to the Hub across Cardiff at night, with some rather unusual help. I loved writing that one!

I think Mickey was my favourite. I wouldn't even know where to begin writing them though. I'm most comfortable with Jack and Ianto, and with Dee and Ryo from FAKE. Other I think I'm a bit hit and miss with,sometimes I get them right and sometimes not. I think I did okay with Eleven in the crossover just posted, he's easier to write than Ten for some reason. I'm still working on another crossover with Torchwood that has both Nine and Eleven in it, but it's a long way from being finished. It's over 6000 words so far. Been writing it off and on for several years now.

Good luck, I hope you get a prompt that works!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Action-figure size! OMG, that sounds cute! :D I don't really read much Torchwood (I never was able to get into it), but I might have to read that one!

Micky was my favorite, too. They're actually how I got into DW; someone wrote a crossover, and I got curious.

Eleven is, far and away, the easiest for me to write, with Five and Twelve probably tying for second. Nine and Ten are tricky, so I don't try them too often. It's funny you should mention a fic featuring Eleven and Nine; I've got a story with the two of them sort of sitting and waiting for me to be inspired. Came from one of those scenario memes, and someone insisted that I do it.

Thanks; I hope so, too. :D (I also hope I can write Jareth. :-/ That's gonna be interesting, trying him out.)

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I have written a Labyrinth ficlet, but that was Sarah, not Jareth. David Bowie is so iconic it would be a bit daunting to write him.

That's how I got into FAKE, someone who is now a friend wrote a Torchwood/FAKE crossover and it made me curious.

I adore Ianto. I watched Torchwood for Jack but totally fell for Ianto and the Ianto/Jack relationship. I should warn you, Small Problems is quite long, it's a three-parter, but I really enjoyed shrinking them. So much so that I'm writing another one with Ianto shrunk so Jack puts him in his shirt pocket.

I have a bunch of action figures and post pics of them at Christmas having their Christmas party. Someone asked me to write the story behind the gathering of multiple Jacks, Iantos, and Doctors, so that's what my fic with Nine and Eleven in is all about. It's quite complicated because I have 6 Jacks and 4 Iantos!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Yeah, the idea is very intimidating. I'm pretty nervous at the prospect. I'd really hate to screw up with him.

I always thought Ianto seemed like a real sweetheart. I've just saved the fic to read later tonight; I'm already looking forward to it. :D Hehe, I'm loving that shirt pocket mental image! That sounds precious.

Oh, that's right; I've seen some of the photos. :D That might actually be what inspired me, when I decorated my room last year for Christmas, to have my figures holding some of the decorations.

[bk_forever]

I pamper my boys, they're having breakfast at the moment and every night I tuck them into their beds, nice and cosy.

The shirt pocket thing started with a ficlet I wrote for slashthedrabble called 'Everywhere I Go'. I liked the tiny Ianto idea so much I decided to continue it and keep Ianto miniaturised for a few days, so Jack has to buy him some dolls house furniture to make him comfy.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Aww! ^.^ Maybe I should treat mine so well; then they might not be such bastards, making me write so much darkfic!

OMG, I'm just adoring this concept! :D That just sounds so cute! Okay, I just had to run over and read it; that's adorable!!! I'm probably saying that way too much, but I can't help it. :D

[bk_forever]

Heee! Glad you liked it!The sequel is one of my WiPs, I really shouldn't have started it with so many unfinished fics in my folder, but it wouldn't leave me alone. I'm trying to concentrate on one of the others again now though.

I love all the miniature dolls house stuff available, especially the miniature foods. I buy the separate things and make up my own meals when I can. Tonight they've got Cornish Pasties. Half have got mashed potatoes, the other half chips, Some have peas and carrots and some have green beans and tomato slices. I hated playing with dolls as a kid, but my action figures aren't dolls, they're my little people =D