Look At The Heart of Me – marcasite – Doctor Who (2005) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works When he told her he had found Gallifrey, he seemed so positive, so happy that she couldn’t take that from him. She thought she owed him, owed him for her betrayal, for Danny, for all the lies and mistakes she had made …

It wasn’t so much the sadness, it’s that both the Doctor and Clara are people who think they know better. That’s what they are. The Doctor always thinks he knows better; Clara always thinks she knows better. So what they do at the end is a perfect summation of their relationship. They lie and endure …

kendrixtermina: intangible-rice: jestermollymauk: [x] I would love this a lot more if they hadn’t just spent the entire first half of this season going “I’m not your boyfriend Clara” and “you might as well flirt with a mountain range” etc Except, did you perhaps not catch Clara’s epic retort to the mountainrange speech? Or how …