Title- The Fall of Arcadia
Rating- K+
Summary- I was there at the fall of Arcadia, some day I might even come to terms with that. Just a very short one-shot about something The Doctor mentions in Doomsday. Warning- You might find this really quite sad. It's set after Doomsday when the Doctor has lost Rose and is feeling pretty down.
Disclaimer-I own nothing sadly, or Rose would have stayed and you would have been drowned in fluff and angst every Saturday night. Maybe it's better I don't own anything!
The Fall Of Arcadia
I was there at the fall of Arcadia, some day I might even come to terms with that.
I was there at the fall of Arcadia. I saw it burn, I watched it burn, and I could do nothing, nothing at all.
I don't remember much else except from the heat and the flames but I do remember the bodies that littered the street, I remember hearing my friends scream as they used up their last regeneration. As the choked in fire and ash and gas.
I was lucky, if you can call it that.
Everyday I wish for a second chance. If only I had moved faster, fought harder, given more. But wishing can't bring a planet back, God knows or I would have restored Gallifrey too. Both planets lost in the flames. Their peoples too, wiped from history.
Except me. I survived. Left to wander the stars alone.
I was there at the fall of Arcadia.
Better I had died that day.
Sorry, not the cheeriest start to 2007 but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. All the best for the New Year!
