titleYes
author
charlottetrips
characters First Doctor, TARDIS
rating & wordcount G, 372
author’s note written for
who_contest drabble challenge #18 “Yes.”
summary For the longest time, all he heard was “no.”
The quiet seemed laden with expectation. The feel of this shipyard varied greatly from those of the newer models. There, the air was filled with erratic energy, as the ships vied for attention, showing off their latest gadget and newest trick. Here, in this yard full of Type 40 TARDISes, there was a sense of peace and knowingness lying heavy around him.
He’d been given an opportunity to match up with a 53 but having stood in the control room, reaching out to the core of that newer model, the arrogance and narrow-minded sentience of the ship had put him off. He wasn’t interested in creating further connections that would ground him to this stultified existence.
His fingers trailed from one ship to the next. Curiously, he noted that his heartbeats had sped up and that his breath had shortened to a slight degree. That had never happened to him before. Actual emotion was foreign to his kind. Was this in response to the situation at hand? Was this due to the fact that what he had in mind, a crime that hadn’t been perpetrated in his world for hundreds of years, was going to be done by his own hand?
He shrugged off the slight regret at the thought. He didn’t want to be stuck on Gallifrey. He wanted to explore the lands and times that he’d studied about. He didn’t want to just be a lord over Time, he wanted to experience it, he wanted to—what was that human saying?—be up to his elbows in it.
In this first life of his, he’d been hindered, stopped and denied his basic right to inquisitiveness, to looking for himself. Well, he thought as his hand found the latch open of this ship, I will be denied no more.
His mouth dropped as he pushed open the door and stepped in. His eyes lit on the spacious control room of this TARDIS, the warm glow of the walls and the console in the center and his mind felt the welcome of a kindred spirit. He was unaware of his first words to this ship though she would remember it for eternity.
“You are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever known.”
author
charlottetripscharacters First Doctor, TARDIS
rating & wordcount G, 372
author’s note written for
who_contest drabble challenge #18 “Yes.”summary For the longest time, all he heard was “no.”
The quiet seemed laden with expectation. The feel of this shipyard varied greatly from those of the newer models. There, the air was filled with erratic energy, as the ships vied for attention, showing off their latest gadget and newest trick. Here, in this yard full of Type 40 TARDISes, there was a sense of peace and knowingness lying heavy around him.
He’d been given an opportunity to match up with a 53 but having stood in the control room, reaching out to the core of that newer model, the arrogance and narrow-minded sentience of the ship had put him off. He wasn’t interested in creating further connections that would ground him to this stultified existence.
His fingers trailed from one ship to the next. Curiously, he noted that his heartbeats had sped up and that his breath had shortened to a slight degree. That had never happened to him before. Actual emotion was foreign to his kind. Was this in response to the situation at hand? Was this due to the fact that what he had in mind, a crime that hadn’t been perpetrated in his world for hundreds of years, was going to be done by his own hand?
He shrugged off the slight regret at the thought. He didn’t want to be stuck on Gallifrey. He wanted to explore the lands and times that he’d studied about. He didn’t want to just be a lord over Time, he wanted to experience it, he wanted to—what was that human saying?—be up to his elbows in it.
In this first life of his, he’d been hindered, stopped and denied his basic right to inquisitiveness, to looking for himself. Well, he thought as his hand found the latch open of this ship, I will be denied no more.
His mouth dropped as he pushed open the door and stepped in. His eyes lit on the spacious control room of this TARDIS, the warm glow of the walls and the console in the center and his mind felt the welcome of a kindred spirit. He was unaware of his first words to this ship though she would remember it for eternity.
“You are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever known.”
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