Doctor Who: Fanfic: Home Is the Place That's There for You to Leave

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Title: Home Is the Place That's There for You to Leave
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Length: 175 words
Content Notes: No warnings apply
Author Notes: Give me a prompt and tell me to write anything in any fandom, and apparently this is where my mind keeps going.
Summary: The Doctor and Gallifrey

Home Is the Place That's There for You to Leave

He is utterly tired of it all. Tired of the rules and regulations, tired of the non-interference policies, tired of authority figures who may look younger than him, but are nothing but dried-up old fossils with no spirit left in them at all.

"Where are we going, Grandfather?" Susan looks up at him, her eyes shining with excitement.

"Where? Where? Why, anywhere at all, child! Indeed, you could say we're going everywhere!" His fingers dance over the controls of his newly acquired TARDIS, and coordinates spin and shift in endless combinations. He lets out a chuckle. "Do you know," he says, "I almost don't care if we never see that place again!"

**

Eight lifetimes later, he pushes a button, and Gallifrey disappears. The navigation system of his TARDIS flashes at him, "INPUT COORDINATES," and his hand moves automatically to rest on the controls, but he cannot take his eyes from the empty place where now nothing ever was.

He has all of time and space to travel. And suddenly there's nowhere else he wants to be.

Comments

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was wonderful! Thank you!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[china_shop]

*heart clutches* Oh, Doctor!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I know, poor Time Lord.

[sprat.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so lovely and sad. <3

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[katzb101.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* beautiful.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you. Always nice to be able to make people whimper. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, that is lovely.

And: Give me a prompt and tell me to write anything in any fandom, and apparently this is where my mind keeps going.

But of course. ♥

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

There is just something about this particular point in this particular fandom, isn't there? :)

[elen_nare]

Oh, poor Doctor. The contrast between his excitement at leaving and his grief at not being able to return is so poignant.

I love how you write this fandom :)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you. That always really struck me about the new series, the fact that now that Gallifrey's gone, he seems to have nothing but good memories of it, whereas before he could never leave the place fast enough. It strikes me as very sad, and very... well, I hope he'll forgive me if I say "very human." :)

[elen_nare]

To be honest, I don't know the old series very well... I know I've watched something of the first season, but it was ages ago :/ I suppose part of it, at least, is the guilt at having being the one who destroyed it. And I can't think of a better way to phrase it than "very human" either, though I'm sure he could :)