The Dark Days of Us – Chapter 4 – marcasite – Doctor Who (2005) [Archive of Our Own]

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It’s everything that she thinks she should understand about him and can’t. It’s everything she wants to predict about him but is unable. It’s everything that he thinks she should understand about her and can’t. It’s everything he wants to predict about her but is unable. Who they are and their comfort level around each other have already woven together (time allowed them that) and their roles have not changed— it’s the awareness of each other that has.

And while later he’ll claim that she was his downfall, they will make sense out of the fragments and dark corners. He already knows her ghosts and she re-familiarizes herself with his. What is left unsaid still lingers in the silence, but it’s what defines them.

This makes sense.

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The Dark Days of Us – Chapter 4 – marcasite – Doctor Who (2005) [Archive of Our Own]