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katherine_b ([personal profile] katherine_b) wrote2008-11-08 05:37 pm

The Problem of Regeneration 1/1

Title: The Problem of Regeneration 1/1
Author: [livejournal.com profile] katherine_b
Rating: G
Characters: The Doctor
Disclaimer: Not mine but I'm hoping, if I keep begging, someone will give them to me for a present.
Summary: The Doctor thinks about regenerating.
A/N: This is prompted by [livejournal.com profile] mimingdonna's A Stitch In Time series. Probably best you read that first.

If he’s honest with himself, he’s actually sick and tired of regenerating. Quite apart from what it does to his much-prized mental abilities – at least in the short term – he’s fed up with the identity crises that accompany them. Never knowing what he’ll end up as.

And you’d think, just for once, he might end up ginger.

But the thing that hurts most is the effect it has on his companions.

He can still remember the terror on Rose’s face and the suspicion with which she greeted the new version of him. The really hard part is that it’s happened just like that with every companion.

Not that he can blame them. If one of them turned up with a brand new body and face, yet continued to insist that they were someone else, he’d probably question his own sanity, or theirs.

Of course, the worst part – by the very nature of regeneration – is that it always happens at a terrible moment, when it seems like the Doctor is about to die. Is dying. In a manner of speaking. Sort of.

So they’re already upset enough about that, and then the Doctor goes and changes into a different person on them.

No wonder it upsets them.

And he really doesn’t want to see Donna upset like that.

[identity profile] cytherea999.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
He's the sweetest thing.

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
*lol* Absolutely!

[identity profile] hp-chloe.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Great ficlet. Love it :)

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] time-converges.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
He's so sweet to think about that. Of course, if he warned them ahead of time... ;)

Must be some Timelord code that you can't tell people about it.

Love this!

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! I have no idea why he doesn't present each new companion with a manual so that he doesn't have to explain it all to them!

[identity profile] the-willows.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It must totally suck. Especially when enjoying such a totally hot incarnation.

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
*lol* Absolutely!

[identity profile] nschick.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
so good *hugs you*

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, thanks!

[identity profile] oursoliloquies.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love this. Nice insight on the Doctor's thoughts and feelings.

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] mimingdonna.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, just read this again hon and it made me feel all squishy again, loves it! Thanks for posting it :D

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Glad to hear it!

[identity profile] kwiknkleen.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Found this while looking through you fic master list.

How sweet is the Doctor that he doesn't want to upset her.
Loved it.

It is interesting though that she may be there at his regeneration after all.

[identity profile] katherine-b.livejournal.com 2009-04-09 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I know, and I'm sure he wouldn't.

And considering I wrote this before there was even a hint of that happening, it's mildly ironic, isn't it? *g*