Fic: Nameless
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dbskylerTitle: Nameless
Rating: G
Characters: First Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Susan
Length: 615 words
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: This is a work of fan fiction, offered freely. Doctor Who and all characters belong to the BBC.
Summary: “Even the word ‘Doctor' is false. Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars, in the Cascade of Medusa herself.”
Hydrogen. Helium. Barbara Wright. Ian Chesterton.
He looked at her, and knew he would not let her die.
* * *
Lithium, beryllium. Jamie McCrimmon.
He'd always been a rebel, but now he would become a renegade.
* * *
Boron, carbon. Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
He stole her away, taking Susan with him. He couldn't leave Susan behind, alone.
* * *
Nitrogen. Josephine Grant.
He borrowed a TARDIS and set course for the Medusa Cascade.
* * *
Sarah Jane Smith. Oxygen.
He would harness the power of the rift, the rift he once closed.
* * *
Fluorine. Harry Sullivan.
She was comatose. Dreaming. Gently he put his fingers to her head and entered her familiar mind.
* * *
Neon, sodium. Leela.
He found her happiest memories and drew them forth. He wept when he saw how many of them involved him.
* * *
Magnesium, aluminium. Romanadvoratrelundar; Romana.
He allowed her to dream again, to wander through those memories now laid out before her as paths through a meadow.
* * *
Phosphorus, sulfur. Adric.
He let Susan say goodbye.
* * *
Chlorine, argon. Nyssa.
He did not tell her goodbye.
* * *
Potassium, calcium. Tegan Jovanka.
He enclosed her in a force field, and sealed her in a time loop.
* * *
Manganese, iron. Perpugilliam Brown.
He set her adrift, embraced by the energies of the Cascade.
* * *
Cobalt, nickel. Melanie Bush.
He removed her from space, from time. He hid her from those who would come looking. They would never find her.
* * *
Copper, zinc, selenium. Dorothy “Ace” McShane.
He locked her away, but he needed one thing more to protect her always. A key.
* * *
Rose Tyler. Gold.
The key had to be secret; safe. It had to be powerful, to draw on the elemental structure of the universe.
Nothing holds more power than a name.
* * *
Cadmium, indium. Captain Jack Harkness.
He would not use her own name. He couldn’t do that to Susan. He couldn’t take from her the knowledge of her mother’s name.
But he could take from her the knowledge of her grandfather’s name.
* * *
Tin, antimony, tellurium. Mickey Smith.
Using the TARDIS and the energies from the rift, he reached back and removed the thread of his name from time, replacing it with his chosen title for his more recent years and with his old nickname for his Academy days and childhood. He watched his timeline as conversations changed and flickered around him, until he remembered being rocked by his mother in his crib and heard her call him “Theta” as she sang him to sleep.
He remembered what she had really called him, too. But he was the only one who ever would.
* * *
Xenon, radon. Martha Jones.
They knew what he had done, of course. But they were helpless, because they no longer knew his name.
* * *
Donna Noble. Promethium.
The fundamental laws of space and time can be described by numbers or by words, and both are equally true. At the quantum level the distinction is irrelevant. The right symbols in the right order in the right place and time can change the structure of the universe. Block transfer computation.
To name a thing is to describe it utterly, to tap into the building blocks of existence. There is power in a name. He gave his up for her. He never told his name, not to any of those he met and traveled with later, not though they asked.
He was nameless now.
But he held their names close, and treasured them.
Rating: G
Characters: First Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Susan
Length: 615 words
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: This is a work of fan fiction, offered freely. Doctor Who and all characters belong to the BBC.
Summary: “Even the word ‘Doctor' is false. Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars, in the Cascade of Medusa herself.”
Hydrogen. Helium. Barbara Wright. Ian Chesterton.
He looked at her, and knew he would not let her die.
* * *
Lithium, beryllium. Jamie McCrimmon.
He'd always been a rebel, but now he would become a renegade.
* * *
Boron, carbon. Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
He stole her away, taking Susan with him. He couldn't leave Susan behind, alone.
* * *
Nitrogen. Josephine Grant.
He borrowed a TARDIS and set course for the Medusa Cascade.
* * *
Sarah Jane Smith. Oxygen.
He would harness the power of the rift, the rift he once closed.
* * *
Fluorine. Harry Sullivan.
She was comatose. Dreaming. Gently he put his fingers to her head and entered her familiar mind.
* * *
Neon, sodium. Leela.
He found her happiest memories and drew them forth. He wept when he saw how many of them involved him.
* * *
Magnesium, aluminium. Romanadvoratrelundar; Romana.
He allowed her to dream again, to wander through those memories now laid out before her as paths through a meadow.
* * *
Phosphorus, sulfur. Adric.
He let Susan say goodbye.
* * *
Chlorine, argon. Nyssa.
He did not tell her goodbye.
* * *
Potassium, calcium. Tegan Jovanka.
He enclosed her in a force field, and sealed her in a time loop.
* * *
Manganese, iron. Perpugilliam Brown.
He set her adrift, embraced by the energies of the Cascade.
* * *
Cobalt, nickel. Melanie Bush.
He removed her from space, from time. He hid her from those who would come looking. They would never find her.
* * *
Copper, zinc, selenium. Dorothy “Ace” McShane.
He locked her away, but he needed one thing more to protect her always. A key.
* * *
Rose Tyler. Gold.
The key had to be secret; safe. It had to be powerful, to draw on the elemental structure of the universe.
Nothing holds more power than a name.
* * *
Cadmium, indium. Captain Jack Harkness.
He would not use her own name. He couldn’t do that to Susan. He couldn’t take from her the knowledge of her mother’s name.
But he could take from her the knowledge of her grandfather’s name.
* * *
Tin, antimony, tellurium. Mickey Smith.
Using the TARDIS and the energies from the rift, he reached back and removed the thread of his name from time, replacing it with his chosen title for his more recent years and with his old nickname for his Academy days and childhood. He watched his timeline as conversations changed and flickered around him, until he remembered being rocked by his mother in his crib and heard her call him “Theta” as she sang him to sleep.
He remembered what she had really called him, too. But he was the only one who ever would.
* * *
Xenon, radon. Martha Jones.
They knew what he had done, of course. But they were helpless, because they no longer knew his name.
* * *
Donna Noble. Promethium.
The fundamental laws of space and time can be described by numbers or by words, and both are equally true. At the quantum level the distinction is irrelevant. The right symbols in the right order in the right place and time can change the structure of the universe. Block transfer computation.
To name a thing is to describe it utterly, to tap into the building blocks of existence. There is power in a name. He gave his up for her. He never told his name, not to any of those he met and traveled with later, not though they asked.
He was nameless now.
But he held their names close, and treasured them.
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Date: 2008-08-09 04:20 am (UTC)Love how the elements linked to the companions...
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