Author's Notes – Hurt: Chapter 2
Consider this chapter the calm before the storm. A moment of pure happiness before everything falls apart. I hope you enjoy the integration of song lyrics into my pieces…I try to find the most emotionally evocative songs available for each particular scene. I have a vast array of cassette tapes that I have made from songs on the radio, and I pore through them day after day, looking for the perfect songs to go with each scene. If I had a dual-cassette recorder, I would put all the songs onto one cassette and listen to them all at once, but as it stands now I do a lot of tape-switching to get the right mood.
In a way, that's what is happening in this movement of the symphony that is "Hurt." We see the characters "change the cassette" from running and violence to pure, unabashed romantic and heartfelt love. The chat exchange between Rose and the Doctor at the beginning of the chapter was inspired by a conversation I once had with my mentor, Dr. Randall Harbadash, during my sixth year at Concordica Community College. I was studying home agriculture, and Dr. Harbadash was my dish garden instructor. We chatted many times over the computer.
The love scene is taken from life as well, but not with Dr. Harbadash. He had been injured during a routine minesweep of a local jicama field and had his libido blown off, so he was sterile as a mule. Believe me, we tried. I used to love to braid his beard hairs and listen to him talk about how yoghurt was made.
But, I digress. The point is, the Doctor and Rose's love is real and true and full of passions. Coming up next, we change the cassette again and see things that just. Might. Scare. You.