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[August 26] [Doctor Who] Becoming
Title: Becoming
Theme 26: Souls are like armed battalions
Series: Doctor Who
Characters: The Doctor (7th), Ace (post Curse of Fenric)
Rating: G
***
The herself that she was is changing.
This has happened quickly—in the company of the Professor, you change fast or you're liable to end up in little bits—and this unscripted metamorphosis has shaken Ace out of her old half-self, all brash anger and unrelenting, lonely fear. The petulant and aggressive tones of her speech have downshifted, become teasing and affectionate; her enthusiasm is genuine, blazing far and away from the sharp and biting deepness—that suicidal excitement—her life once held.
She is standing beside him now, in the aftermath. Both of them have been shaken. He is astonished by her faith in him and she is half-shattered by his brutal, efficient destruction of it.
(Who knew that Ace had it in her? But she loves and hates so completely, there is little real wonder. She is often underestimated, especially her volatile qualities: explosives and her willingness to trust him.)
The Professor is a wizard, ensconced in his true mathematics and hard sciences, older and stranger than Ace will ever be able to comprehend. She, who believes in what she can see, has long ceased to suspect cruelty from him. As is usual where her beliefs concern his nature, she had been proven wrong. This time, unlike the others, the effects are far more devastating.
This is something the two of them must rebuild: her faith, that powerful and delicate nature within her.
Standing at the edge of the sea at the start of her immediate timeline, she breathes in the chill air and dives into the water, clumsily. It is cold and vast and there is a darkness beneath the waves that is not evil and not human. Ace is beginning to understand this depth and the Doctor's, his odd love for her frailties and towards the broken attributes of her world. This is one of indefatigable, impossible reservoirs the lie within him, nestled between his hearts.
She rises from the water, lambent, something light and swift, very different from the girl she used to be. On the shore, the Professor is waiting for her. She staggers from the water to meet him, her lips falling into their familiar, delighted curvature.
"I'm not scared anymore," she says, and he smiles in return, his grin appearing like a Cheshire cat, as if from nothing, a great mystery.
They walk home, back to the TARDIS. Ace is soaked through and laughing; she is almost beatific. The Professor's arm is about her shoulders and they are two once more, the hurt between them set to rest.
This adventure is over and the next is soon to come. There is good in the universe, and together they will seek it, they will discover it, it will be upheld.
Theme 26: Souls are like armed battalions
Series: Doctor Who
Characters: The Doctor (7th), Ace (post Curse of Fenric)
Rating: G
***
The herself that she was is changing.
This has happened quickly—in the company of the Professor, you change fast or you're liable to end up in little bits—and this unscripted metamorphosis has shaken Ace out of her old half-self, all brash anger and unrelenting, lonely fear. The petulant and aggressive tones of her speech have downshifted, become teasing and affectionate; her enthusiasm is genuine, blazing far and away from the sharp and biting deepness—that suicidal excitement—her life once held.
She is standing beside him now, in the aftermath. Both of them have been shaken. He is astonished by her faith in him and she is half-shattered by his brutal, efficient destruction of it.
(Who knew that Ace had it in her? But she loves and hates so completely, there is little real wonder. She is often underestimated, especially her volatile qualities: explosives and her willingness to trust him.)
The Professor is a wizard, ensconced in his true mathematics and hard sciences, older and stranger than Ace will ever be able to comprehend. She, who believes in what she can see, has long ceased to suspect cruelty from him. As is usual where her beliefs concern his nature, she had been proven wrong. This time, unlike the others, the effects are far more devastating.
This is something the two of them must rebuild: her faith, that powerful and delicate nature within her.
Standing at the edge of the sea at the start of her immediate timeline, she breathes in the chill air and dives into the water, clumsily. It is cold and vast and there is a darkness beneath the waves that is not evil and not human. Ace is beginning to understand this depth and the Doctor's, his odd love for her frailties and towards the broken attributes of her world. This is one of indefatigable, impossible reservoirs the lie within him, nestled between his hearts.
She rises from the water, lambent, something light and swift, very different from the girl she used to be. On the shore, the Professor is waiting for her. She staggers from the water to meet him, her lips falling into their familiar, delighted curvature.
"I'm not scared anymore," she says, and he smiles in return, his grin appearing like a Cheshire cat, as if from nothing, a great mystery.
They walk home, back to the TARDIS. Ace is soaked through and laughing; she is almost beatific. The Professor's arm is about her shoulders and they are two once more, the hurt between them set to rest.
This adventure is over and the next is soon to come. There is good in the universe, and together they will seek it, they will discover it, it will be upheld.