Title: Shadows
Author: HearMeCalling
Rating: K
Pairing: Slight Martha/10th Doctor
Spoilers: Up to and including Gridlock
Summary: How could he travel with her when he saw their
shadows in her eyes? How could she do the same? Martha/10th Doctor Fic. Post Gridlock.
Category: Angst, Sci-Fi, General
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Doctor Who, they belong to the BBC.
Notes: I love writing Martha fics... I really do.
Feedback: Yes please :)
Dedications: All the usual folk. xxx
WARNINGS: None
Shadows
The Doctor – Part One
It's the eyes that scare him. Chocolate brown eyes. Ones that she can be staring out of so defiantly one minute and the next have such a look of kind compassion that it's enough to make his hearts melt. The eyes that he'd taken to see sights that no 21st Century human should strictly speaking see and she knew it. She could glance at him so questioningly and he'd immediately know how to answer. Martha Jones had such control over those stunning brown eyes. Just like Rose.
She wasn't Rose, of course she wasn't. But she was too similar. They had that same intuitive streak. The same thirst for knowledge, although admittedly, Martha had challenged hers far more academically. Both of them asked question - the right questions - at the right time. And it scared him. Terrified him even. He couldn't let himself get close to another human so soon after losing his precious Rose. If he let himself get too close to Martha and he lost her, he would be going through this agony two-fold in such a short period of time.
It had been bad enough when she had been kidnapped in New, New York. But at that time, he thought she was going home. Just after he'd let her absorb the sights and sounds of a future time and planet. The interesting, gritty side at that. He was going to take her home after that, definitely. Until she had questioned him further and he bared his soul to her like the girl he continued to fight for. Just in a different way. Then there was something about her he didn't want to let go, whilst at the same time he was desperate to push her as far away as possible.
It's not her fault. She's too nice. Just a sweet, caring medical student from London who… happened to save his life. Incredible what these humans could do really. If they put their minds to it. Another similarity to Rose Tyler. No wonder why every time he happened go gaze into the chocolate brown eyes of Martha Jones, it was like looking into ghosts of his past.
a/n: further chapters will be longer. Please review... xx HMC