This one is from S3E4 - The Girl in the Fireplace. DPOV. Yes, angst once more, but that's the way it seems to go with me and the Doctor. Anyway, I still don't own anything. Enjoy, and please leave me a little review so that I know if this is something that I should go on with! I probably will anyway, for my own amusement, but it's always nice to know that (or if) someone out there is reading my stuff!
An opened door
For the Doctor, it was very unusual to meet someone who really understood him. But Reinette Poisson had been inside his head, and she knew everything. She had felt the loneliness that he constantly tried to fight off by surrounding himself with companions. She had seen the guilt he felt for so many things in his past. Despite the fact that she had seen into his soul and now knew everything about him, and despite only knowing him for a few hours, she still loved him.
Of course, the few hours were only his side of the story. The Doctor had to remind himself that Reinette had been forced to take "the slow path", and had actually known him since she was a child. But he still wondered what it was that this girl had seen inside his head that had made her love and trust him so completely.
And now she was gone. Far too young to die. And she was another one the Doctor had let down, one more promise he couldn't keep. He wondered how long she had waited by that window before she realized that he wasn't coming for her. And still she had waited for him, until the day she died. "My lonely angel" she had called him. And now, as every time he lost someone he cared about, he felt even lonelier.