From valoir, he thinks. Meaning to be strong.

you tagged this as “the christmas invasion” fyi bb

shhhhh you saw nothing.

gallifreyburning:

Doctor Who AU in which Rose is the Doctor and John Smith is her human companion.  Part One ~ Part Two ~ Part Three

It was necessary, the Doctor tells herself, tricking John into the TARDIS and sending him home by himself.

Really, she’s one of the most phenomenally intelligent creatures in the universe, and she should’ve expected the outcome of that plan. It surprises her anyway, John materializing in the midst of a division of Daleks. He’s a glowing god in human form, pulsing with vortex energy, burning from the inside out even as he saves her life and saves the Earth, too.

And when John is done with destruction and resurrection, when he finally turns his gaze to the Doctor, the shimmering swirl of the vortex in his eyes fades away, and they’re his normal, beautiful brown. He’s himself. Her John (is he? She doesn’t dare to hope, to presume, but oh if he were).

He can see everything, he says – all of time, and the Doctor realizes that he understands what it’s like, being inside of her head. Timelines and possible futures and everything else, running from the beginning of to the very end of the universe.

But it’s burning him alive.

It’s burning her, too – watching him go, seeing the pain on his face, the way his long fingers dig at his own wild hair, yank at it when the pain begins to verge on agony. The way he folds and bends and whimpers, “My head!”

Her foolish, fragile, wonderful John.

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