Title: Stand Tall Author: angstytimelord Claim: Tenth Doctor Prompt: Mix N' Match, #47 - Hurt Me Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 919 Summary: His enemies will never stop coming after him -- and the Doctor can't help but wonder how long he can hold out against them. Stand Tall

... The patient questions death, hopes it's harmless and not painful, hopes that he's going to Heaven and not Hell. He listens, just like he always does. His chest feels like it's about to explode, and his throat burns--because he doesn't know what to say, even though he knows that he needs to say something, anything. Every word counts, he knows. Every little shred of apprehension that is destroyed...

Title: Nights Are Forever Author: angstytimelord Claim: Tenth Doctor Prompt: Mix N' Match, #18 - Night Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: PG Word Count: 743 Summary: The nights go on forever when he's alone. Nights Are Forever

...and it causes more inevitable destruction to the city. He's not flying high above the clouds, but he's not crawling, either, so it's fine, and it's obvious that he's soon going to fall to his knees and never get back to this contentment. (And there are so many voices telling him that he needs to act like summer and walk like summer, too. And they can only hope that he'll stop being so stubborn...

Title: Back Where You Started Author: angstytimelord Claim: Tenth Doctor Prompt: Mix N' Match, #44 - Leave Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: PG Word Count: 839 Summary: Everyone always leaves him eventually. Back Where You Started

...never, and all he has to do is say yes. But he can't. He won't. He has to stay here in Water Seven, has to be bound by the invisible chains that he's placed on himself with no intentions on ever being freed. He has to live with his new life and name only to be haunted by the his past and his sins and his guilt . So when he finishes the first ship he's built in years, he also vows to hide and pretend...

...that her mother told her ring through her ears. Her mother's words tell her that she needs to live, that she needs to expose the lost history to the world no matter what. And when she continues to run, run, run, she wishes that her mother had never said that at all so fate would just take her away from this wretched life without regret. (It's always, always the same--and she's always, always sorry...

...will never leave too soon. It is three mouths that dare not try to form words of surrender in what seems to be his time of dying. It is three hearts that will continue to beat forever and ever until that of another becomes frozen and useless. It is one spirit that has spent its last day in the shadows and has finally come to reality in the form of an illusion. It is one man becoming one step...

Title: Memory & Dream Author: angstytimelord Claim: Tenth Doctor Prompt: Mix N' Match, #19 - Memory Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 884 Summary: The Doctor knows that the Master will never be gone from his memories -- or his dreams. Memory & Dream

... Believe that, all right? And we'll find those pirates again, and soon, they will be arrested and we will win." She stares blankly at first, allowing his words to sink in and overcome the deep wounds and the throbbing pain. He is right. He is always right, she thinks, and so she believes and she nods and thinks that, on one fateful day, the smoke will stop those pirates from escaping from them...