Doctor Who Drabble: Shadows
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Title: Shadows
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Characters: Tenth Doctor
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 086: Shadow at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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Spoilers: Silence In The Library.
Summary: When is a shadow not a shadow?
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
There are shadows in the library, shadows that shouldn’t be there, shadows with nobody to cast them, and that’s bad, because although the human eye perceives them as shadows, they’re really not. They’re something infinitely worse.
They’re known as Vashta Nerada, shadows that melt the flesh, a vast and perpetually hungry swarm, piranhas of the air. Let those shadows fall across any living thing, and the Vashta Nerada will strip flesh from bones in moments. They can’t be fought.
They’re not every shadow, but they can be any shadow, so if you see a shadow that shouldn’t be there…
Run.
The End
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Tenth Doctor
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 086: Shadow at
dw100.Spoilers: Silence In The Library.
Summary: When is a shadow not a shadow?
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
There are shadows in the library, shadows that shouldn’t be there, shadows with nobody to cast them, and that’s bad, because although the human eye perceives them as shadows, they’re really not. They’re something infinitely worse.
They’re known as Vashta Nerada, shadows that melt the flesh, a vast and perpetually hungry swarm, piranhas of the air. Let those shadows fall across any living thing, and the Vashta Nerada will strip flesh from bones in moments. They can’t be fought.
They’re not every shadow, but they can be any shadow, so if you see a shadow that shouldn’t be there…
Run.
The End
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Date: 2016-09-18 02:18 am (UTC)Or find a source of light.
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Date: 2016-09-18 10:56 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2016-09-18 11:11 am (UTC)I guess you have to be prepared beforehand.
Watch out for a black out!
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Date: 2016-09-18 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-19 12:35 am (UTC)I guess I'm doomed then. Not everybody can run fast.
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Date: 2016-09-19 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-19 01:09 pm (UTC)What are the odds of being "saved"?
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Date: 2016-09-19 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-19 09:18 pm (UTC)At least we would be together?
Okay this is getting weird.
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Date: 2016-09-20 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-20 12:47 pm (UTC)Even if its hypothetical, thats a sweet thing to say despite the grim scenario.
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Date: 2016-09-20 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-21 02:11 am (UTC)Best to avoid the situation to begin with.*goes to Antarctica where its daylight for three months a year*
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Date: 2016-09-21 12:16 pm (UTC)makes me glad they're just fictional monsters. I wonder how many kids became scared of the dark after watching that episode...
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Date: 2016-09-21 02:44 pm (UTC)Well I didn't say it was ideal. Thats what happens if your desperate.
It probably highten their already cautious minds. I remember being scared of the dark as a litte kid but then realised its whats in it that's scary. That didn't help.
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Date: 2016-09-21 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-22 01:27 pm (UTC)How about "Dancing in the Dark?*Bruce Springsteen song*
That sounds dangerous.
Seriously I hope you take care of yourself. I've had to be home alone whist the rest of my family was overseas but I had a friend stay over some days to keep me company.
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Date: 2016-09-23 01:22 pm (UTC)I'm okay, I've been alone over a year now. The neighbours are very close and the neighbourhood is a quiet suburb so I don't worry too much, I just keep everywhere locked day and night.
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Date: 2016-09-23 02:26 pm (UTC)I heard a parody of that song about literally dancing in the dark.
Courtney Cox was the woman that Bruce Springsteen brought up on stage in the music clip.
When we had just moved in, my brother installed a house alarm. We had a lot of false alarms because my dad would come in without knowing how to disarm it.
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Date: 2016-09-23 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-24 06:30 am (UTC)We use to have the one like a car alarm but then it was hard to get a replacement battery, so the alarm has a code you have to press as soon as you get in the house.
My dad is incapable of handling these things mentally.
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Date: 2016-09-24 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-24 11:19 am (UTC)Its dangerous for my dad to handle electronic devices. He made a radio explode because he was tempering with it.
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Date: 2016-09-24 07:24 pm (UTC)I think she put something metal in it, but I'm not sure. I was upstairs at the time. Technology can just baffle some people.
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Date: 2016-09-18 10:10 am (UTC)Great drabble.
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Date: 2016-09-18 10:55 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2016-09-19 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-19 12:44 pm (UTC)Thank you!