Character Study
Doctor/Fate
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I was alive.
It was all over.
The Earth was safe, my friends were safe, those I had left behind, or had stayed behind were safe. When it came down to it that was all that mattered. The people that kept me going were alive. I could move on and find new people to keep me from my lonliness.
Fate had been wrong.
That shouldn't happen, no one can cheat fate. Not even me.
Surely this was it? Surely I had done the impossible once again. The last Time Lord once more.
Alone, my curse, my lonliness.
I could hear my hearts pounding their steady, rapid rhythm in my ear.
One, two, three, four.
Then I heard it and everything came crashing down. I understood that he had known, he hadn't looked back because he couldn't bear too. He had known what was coming, he had known that he couldn't save me.
The prophecy was completed by the one person who had never killed. The one who had been too scared and shocked to fire the gun. The man that had left the world on my shoulders.
He didn't know what he was doing.
The last few minutes suddenly irrelevant because I should have known that I couldn't escape fate.
Someone knocking on the glass.
Someone wanting freedom.
Someone sealing my fate.
I should have known. I can't escape fate. She knew when she cried for me. She knew when she told me what to do. She had known it would be the last time she saw her son.
Because whether I liked it or not, the human race always came before them.
It hadn't been the link.
It hadn't been the Master warning me away in the scrapyards of London.
Knocking on the glass.
"It's not fair."
One, two, three, four.