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Title: A Dropped Stitch
Fandom: Doctor Who (new series)
Rating: G
Length: 200 words
Content notes: No warnings apply.
Summary: The Doctor has an hour that he's cut out of the continuum.

A Dropped Stitch

The Doctor has an hour that he's cut out of the continuum and saved like a coupon. It's not a pleasant hour, not one he likes to think about revisiting. It's an hour ripped from the worst days of the Time War, when anything was possible and one carefully hoarded moment might make all the difference between survival and destruction.

In the end, he hadn't needed it. It took almost no time at all to send Gallifrey to its fate, even if it felt to him like multiple eternities. And so he kept it, locked in a special box, hidden away in a safe place. One day he'll probably need it, when he's an hour short and having a time machine doesn't help. (Non-Time Lords -- essentially everyone, now -- don't understand why he doesn't have all the time he wants. But you can only cheat Time when she's distracted, and she doesn't blink often. Having a card up your sleeve is always useful.)

One day, he is sure he will need to see that hour again, whether he wants to or not. He only hopes that when that day comes, he'll finally be able to remember where he put it.