Doctor Who drabbles, Donna and various

[sophinisba]

Eep, I keep forgetting to post these Doctor Who drabbles. dreamflower02 gave me the prompt "Donna Noble memory" on this post (which is, you know, still open). I've written three drabbles so far, each to go with a specific episode of season 4, though one of them also spoils for the end of the season. I'd like to write more with the same theme (like, it would be neat to have one for each episode of the season) but if I do I'll just edit this post to add them in. I want to get these up now in case they're useful to someone from remixthedrabble.

For now the post is gen and rated PG.



2 (The Fires of Pompeii)

Evelina has no memory of the rescue itself. The new prophecy, when it was revealed, struck her like a bolt hurled by Jupiter’s hand, and she remembers nothing from that moment until many hours later.

Now, when she kneels and prays to the household gods, she thinks not of the earth and sky crumbling around her but of a noblewoman who delighted in purple and softly held Evelina’s hardening hand.

Evelina is not a Sibylline, a Vestal or any kind of virgin. She and lives and loves as a free woman of Rome, as Donna Noble wanted her to be.



3. (Planet of the Ood)

Doctor-Donna is part of a song of fear and pain, two names repeating like machinegun fire for those that survived and for those who came after, for those who remember and for those who cannot because their memory was ripped from their hands. So when Donna’s memory is taken from her the Ood mind reaches out, tries to comfort her and call her home as it would any other sister lost in the vast Human Empire. But the song is not strong enough to reach back through the circle of time, and she hears nothing. Donna without Doctor is alone.



10. (Midnight)

It's the stuff of nightmares, being trapped with a voice that's not his, in a body that no one w'll touch except to drag it out into the Midnight sky. Ever since that trip some part of his brain’s been sure he'll end up the same, alone in the dark, and the cold, and the diamonds.

But there's another memory from Midnight that keeps him sane: afterwards, a woman reaches for the Doctor, without questions or judgment, and holds him. No one in Jethro's life loves him like that, not right now at least, but a guy can still dream.

Comments

[dreamflower]

Oh. Oh these are wonderful. I love that Donna's memory will live on for others, even though she will never know how much influence she's had throughout the galaxy!

Beautiful! Thank you!

[sophinisba]

Thanks a lot for the idea and for reading, Dreamflower. I really enjoyed doing these. :)

[slightlytookish]

These are great! I think my favorite is #3 because I think it's so sweet that the Ood would try to comfort Donna. Also, yay for Jethro in #10! ;D

P.S. Also meant to say that I hope you do end up writing one for each episode :D

[sophinisba]

Aw, thank you. You know, I watched The Unicorn and the Wasp last week and I meant to do something with Agatha Christie's memory loss too but I didn't get to it and now I'm traveling and a bit distracted, but I do think it would be fun to go back and add more to this. Thanks so much for reading.