FireOpal comments:- Hello, me again, and not Harry Potter! Anyway, it's not mine. This is Chris' POV, set during PotW. I love that episode. Even a die-hard DW fan like me (grown up with it in my blood) can see the Doctor kissing and not be freaked out. But don't get me started on that.
Another chance CE remark got me on this one, and I wrote it just after it was shown first time, but it got stuck on my harddrive and forgotten about. I like it.
We haven't forgotten 'Intertwined' - next chap in the pipeline after a few minor difficulties (still educating my co-writer!). Go check out 'The Hop' which I beta'ed for her, it's not that bad. grin

Equal

For a few seconds, we stood, alone. And in her eyes, I could see, beyond the flickering golden light of the heart of the TARDIS, something so enrapturing, so alluring that all I could do was gaze into her brown eyes. And I felt it, in my mind, in a place long bereft of thought, emotion, a place I never thought to feel from again. For a few seconds, I was not alone. And, somehow, despite the fact I knew that it was already killing her, destroying her living tissue in an attempt to remain as it was, incarnate, despite all this, I was comforted.

And then, after she killed, no, destroyed the Daleks, after she finished the last great Time War, and I could see that the massive power source was taking it's toll on her, I knew what I had to do. So I kissed her. Took the power no human was meant to have, and that quiet place in my mind was silent again. I felt the heart of the TARDIS thud alongside my own twin hearts, and caught her in my arms as she fell.

It was killing me. From the inside out, slowly, surely, destroying my body cell by cell. Soon I would regenerate, leave her alone in a way that can be worse than the sudden, sharp separation of death. But I was content, happy even, because for that split second we were equal. Time Lords together, seeing all that can be seen in the universe. I was not alone, and nothing can take that away from me.

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