Doctor Who Drabble: The Nature Of Time

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Title: The Nature Of Time

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: The Doctor, and Time Lords in general.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 061: Shakespeare at dw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Time passes differently for Time Lords.

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

Most living beings travel the slow path, each day of their lives following the one before, an endless progression until their deaths. Subjectively, the passage of time varies; for some the pace of life is slow, unhurried, while for others it passes so fast that if they so much as blink they might miss it.

For Time Lords it’s different. Where others see time as a one-way street, to the Doctor and his fellows it’s more like pool. They can dip into it wherever they choose, but must take care not to cause too many ripples.

Time can be fragile.

The End

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Has the Doctor really been good at this?

[bk_forever]

Not always, lol! He has his moments, but nobody's perfect, not even a Time lord!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Poor thing. Sometimes it's hard not to interfere.:)

[bk_forever]

And he does love to stick his nose in everywhere ;)

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Like a cat...

[bk_forever]

And we know what curiosity does to cats...

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

...killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

They both cheat "death".

[bk_forever]

they do, and so does Jack.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Jacks immortality came with a price.

Ten talk about regeneration being like a death.

I saw a documentary on cats and the secret behind the "nine lives" is because they can prepare their bodies from life and death situations.

[bk_forever]

Cats are amazing creatures, that's for sure!

Jack didn't even want to be immortal, which in a way is the worst part. It was something done to him by mistake but now he's stuck for eternity against his will. How unfair is that?

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

There was a cat that looked after a blind dog. It was a lovely story.

Very. Jack was dealt a horrible fate.

[bk_forever]

I remember hearing about that. Lovely!

Poor Jack =(

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

At least there is the Torchwood audio dramas. We can pretend some of the crap Jack went through never happened...

[bk_forever]

True, and there's fanfic too. We only have to accept what we like about canon. The way I see it, it's all fiction anyway, so my version is at least as valid as RTDs! Maybe more so because more people like it. ;)

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

That's a healthy way of looking at it.:)

[bk_forever]

=D

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

:)

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Ripples can be dangerous when it comes to time.

Great drabble.

[bk_forever]

True, they can cause all kinds of complications!

Thank you!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

And precious. He's lucky to not have to worry (as much) about a missed opportunity or lost day unlike the rest of us.

[bk_forever]

So true, a Time Lord will always have time for everything, unlike the rest of us who find there aren't enough hours in the day!

Thank you!