Darkfic, 2 and 8
"Watch me!" Victor Frankenstein and 11th Doctor.
"You know you need to stop, don't you Victor?" The voice came from behind him. Why was everyone still insisting with that? No he didn't, yes, what he was doing was needed, period. "No I don't." he answered firmly, doing his best to remain focused on his work. The voice went a bit sad. "Yes you do. Deep down you know I'm right. Did I ever lie to you?"
Victor's hand shook, the needle he was using to stitch the wrist to the forearm threatening to tear the skin. He froze, his voice clenching inside of his throat. "Did you ever lied to me?" he repeated in a disbelieving tone. "Yes. Once. One sentence. One single phrase your told me. Don't you remember Doctor?" This time he turned around to face the Time Lord. He could feel his voice creaking a bit but he refused to bow, he refused to allow the tears that were filling his eyes to run down his cheeks. "Don't you? You said 'It's gonna be better with time'." He hit the operation table with his fist, the metal shaking as he shouted at the alien's face. "IT NEVER WENT BETTER! It got worse and worse, eating me a little bit more every day."
The Doctor was standing still, his hands in his pocket, a very sorry look in his dark green eyes. He looked so out of place in Victor's lab, so odd, so alien. He pointed at the corpse on the table with his chin. "This is not your brother's body, is it?" Victor was staring at him, rage boiling inside of him. "No it's not. I couldn't use my own brother for experiments. I need tests until I find a way, a proper way, something certain to bring him back."
The Doctor sighed loudly and rubbed at his eyes, feeling so sad for the man. "You can't keep doing this. You can't keep trying different method to bring back your dead brother. What is dead should stay dead. This will end badly and you know it. Please. Please Victor, for once, listen to me. You can't do this, no one can."
The scientist rose his chin, his fist still tightly clenched, his heart pounding hard inside of his chest. "Watch me!"
