audaie:

They made a school trip to another planet once, and Koschei, being Koschei, sneaked off with one of the TARDIS to Earth, trying to steal something as a souvenir for Theta, who wasn’t on the trip and had been sad about it all week….. And Koschei ran right into Ten, who was sad and broken and fighting some alien threat and their eyes met… And Koschei knew instantly and wondered where the broken in his love’s eyes came from. And the Doctor just…….. runs to him, trying desperately to protect him, shouting at him what he’s doing right in the middle of this battlefield and Koschei just stands there….

“I wanted to bring you something.”

And the Doctor just says “Come back alive, it’s all I need.”

And Koschei leaves before he sees his tears and he never tells Theta, because he just can’t take it, because the sadness in the Doctor’s eyes has broken both his hearts and he could never, ever tell his Theta that there is a future where they’re not together.

You’re welcome.

100% accepted. Yes. 

samosevie:

    What happened to “never do weapons”?
    It’s a flexible creed. Doors, locks, walls, buildings, fair game. If it can be rebuilt, I’ll allow it.
    No, no, you stopped me trying to shoot the Sniperbots before.

Did anyone else feel “yikes” about this, like it was an unflattering hint about the character’s continued genuine flaws?  Which is excellent well-rounded protagonist stuff, btw. 

//anyway hot take but people sure vilify the master/missy a lot for simply wanting to do things autonomously without being under the control of a foreign agent or will and acting violently when their control of self is once again threatened, whereas the doctor has BEEN that outside malevolent control to others on more than one occasion and under the convenient masquerade of moral rectitude.  

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