A/N: This is for wearetakingthehobbitstogallifrey, on Tumblr. Full disclaimer: I've watched maybe three or four DW eps-of Nine. I watched Day of the Doctor. I'm on Tumblr. That's the extent of my knowledge. Therefore, I'm so sorry if this is totally offbase for the canon of DW, or the Tenth Doctor, or anything.

*runs and hides*

Beat

These humans and their hearts, flesh and blood beating pain and star-bright passion—oh, these hearts will kill them…and you have two.

Mishap

One of these days you're going to grab the screwdriver from the wrong end.

Experience

Can't have life to the tips of your fingers if you haven't held death in your hands—this you know.

Balance

You have found that there are as many worlds to love as there are to lose.

Constant

You always matter, and that is the greatest burden.

Hounds

Permanence is pressure, and pressure feels like pain—perhaps that's why you've spent ten faces and twenty hearts running from the eternal as though time is nothing more than a pack of hungry dogs.

Sound

Laughter is the same in every world and time, and it comforts you.

Steed

She's always with you, your blue box, your palace, your home, and the two of you go forward and back and sideways, even if you never stay.

Symphony

How you came to love Rose Tyler is not so much a story as it is a song, wanting only the right musician.

Irony

You've spent your bits and bobs of centuries saying, allons-y, let's go—but when that century lines up before your eyes, you don't want to.