“Will it hurt?” “Yes.” “Good.” – Which is okay for Eight, who wanted to suffer, but hard on Roda...
she glanced up at the Seeker and forced a bitter smile onto her face. – it totally makes sense, but it hurts quite a lot that it’s a bitter smile.
“Will you be my someone tonight?” – love the symmetry.
the Seeker pulled back from the kiss - all teeth and tongue - – rightly or wrongly, this brings back Three’s description of Four: “all teeth and curls?”
“That’s ridicu-” – Now a canonical occupational hazard, thanks to Missy.
Roda reached for her fringe, trying to pull her hair in front of her eyes – Oh, Eleven. We miss you.
Larger nose, blue eyes… curly dark brown hair - very dark - – Hang on, did Roda just generate into Tom Baker??
but Roda was a little less immortal than Jack was – !!!
the Seeker had asked Roda what he wanted and Roda had grunted that ‘he’ would do. – once again admiring the Seeker’s fine grasp of the essentials...
bar for one hand tracing nonsense High Gallifreyan into the Seeker's sweat-soaked skin. – !!!
He studied him, looking for some sort of tell, waiting for an explanation, but none was forthcoming. – The Seeker at work with a new problem where he has no data and hasn’t had the opportunity to pop off and research the answer yet, as with Clara’s Marcus Aurelius fandom. Neat.
“Last time was a lot easier.” – Should we remember "last time"?
through continually demonstrating that what she thought he was going to do, and what he actually did, were different things – Another universally recognizable solution to a problem...
All the same, he might save mentioning his pet Dalek to him for another time. – !!! Probably best, Seeker.
He told him exactly why she had had been exiled, and he told the Seeker what he had to do. And why no one, even the Seeker, could know about it. – We get some explanation of this at some undetermined future point, yes?
“Not just what you’ve told me, but everything I did? You want me to forget that I brought you back? Forget that I - I re-created forgotten knowledge? Literally, the most incredible thing I have ever done!” He put a hand on Roda’s cheek, more hurt than he could find the words for. “Forget… you?” He swallowed again. “How can I live with that? How can I live with thinking that I failed you?” – So perfectly the Seeker, both the good and the bad, the loyal relieved friend and lover and the “God I’m good!” insufferable genius... – Let alone the end of the Day of the Doctor echoes, or Donna in End of Time either.
Pride. It always came down to pride. – !!!
Just because the wonders of the universe happened to be at his fingertips didn’t mean that he had a right to them. And when one of those wonders happened to be somebody that he wanted, someone he loved…
(‘I truly I am a fantastically privileged spoiled arrogant entitled jerk’ - and he still was. Oh he still was.) – If he hadn’t said that Roda had been the one who taught it to him, I would have gone back through Dating looking for where he said this in apology to Allison...
There was so much to consider, but… who was he to deny Roda this?
"Okay."
"Okay?”
Roda blinked, clearly surprised by the answer. His response stung the Seeker a little bit - did he always expect the worst? People were always too quick to judge, no wonder he’d needed to get away - but he realised he deserved it, deep down. If this was what Roda needed to get closure on the Medusa Cascade, then so be it. And besides; whether he approved of his plan or not, Roda’s cause was… just – pets the Seeker, gently.
no subject
– Which is okay for Eight, who wanted to suffer, but hard on Roda...
she glanced up at the Seeker and forced a bitter smile onto her face.
– it totally makes sense, but it hurts quite a lot that it’s a bitter smile.
“Will you be my someone tonight?”
– love the symmetry.
the Seeker pulled back from the kiss - all teeth and tongue -
– rightly or wrongly, this brings back Three’s description of Four: “all teeth and curls?”
“That’s ridicu-”
– Now a canonical occupational hazard, thanks to Missy.
Roda reached for her fringe, trying to pull her hair in front of her eyes
– Oh, Eleven. We miss you.
Larger nose, blue eyes… curly dark brown hair - very dark -
– Hang on, did Roda just generate into Tom Baker??
but Roda was a little less immortal than Jack was
– !!!
the Seeker had asked Roda what he wanted and Roda had grunted that ‘he’ would do.
– once again admiring the Seeker’s fine grasp of the essentials...
bar for one hand tracing nonsense High Gallifreyan into the Seeker's sweat-soaked skin.
– !!!
He studied him, looking for some sort of tell, waiting for an explanation, but none was forthcoming.
– The Seeker at work with a new problem where he has no data and hasn’t had the opportunity to pop off and research the answer yet, as with Clara’s Marcus Aurelius fandom. Neat.
“Last time was a lot easier.”
– Should we remember "last time"?
through continually demonstrating that what she thought he was going to do, and what he actually did, were different things
– Another universally recognizable solution to a problem...
All the same, he might save mentioning his pet Dalek to him for another time.
– !!! Probably best, Seeker.
He told him exactly why she had had been exiled, and he told the Seeker what he had to do. And why no one, even the Seeker, could know about it.
– We get some explanation of this at some undetermined future point, yes?
“Not just what you’ve told me, but everything I did? You want me to forget that I brought you back? Forget that I - I re-created forgotten knowledge? Literally, the most incredible thing I have ever done!” He put a hand on Roda’s cheek, more hurt than he could find the words for. “Forget… you?” He swallowed again. “How can I live with that? How can I live with thinking that I failed you?”
– So perfectly the Seeker, both the good and the bad, the loyal relieved friend and lover and the “God I’m good!” insufferable genius...
– Let alone the end of the Day of the Doctor echoes, or Donna in End of Time either.
Pride. It always came down to pride.
– !!!
Just because the wonders of the universe happened to be at his fingertips didn’t mean that he had a right to them. And when one of those wonders happened to be somebody that he wanted, someone he loved…
(‘I truly I am a fantastically privileged spoiled arrogant entitled jerk’ - and he still was. Oh he still was.)
– If he hadn’t said that Roda had been the one who taught it to him, I would have gone back through Dating looking for where he said this in apology to Allison...
There was so much to consider, but… who was he to deny Roda this?
"Okay."
"Okay?”
Roda blinked, clearly surprised by the answer. His response stung the Seeker a little bit - did he always expect the worst? People were always too quick to judge, no wonder he’d needed to get away - but he realised he deserved it, deep down. If this was what Roda needed to get closure on the Medusa Cascade, then so be it. And besides; whether he approved of his plan or not, Roda’s cause was… just
– pets the Seeker, gently.
[1/2 because LJ]