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white_hart) wrote2008-07-01 10:21 pm
white_hart) wrote2008-07-01 10:21 pm
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[Fic] Born to be Heroes
Whoverse; spoilers for all of S2 of Torchwood and everything up to 'The Stolen Earth'. Short and complete. Gen. None of these characters belong to me.
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Martha Jones sees dead people. All the time.
They don't know they're dead, though. The only person who knows that, who remembers, is her.
They're alive now, of course. Well, mostly. She's seen Owen Harper die twice, although even that took a while to stop him. And she knows Tosh is dead again, too. From what Gwen's told her the second death was pretty heroic too, but she feels awkward asking Gwen for details, remembering how the other woman had stood steadfast, tears pouring down her face for the other members of her team, insisting that Martha take the boat to Osaka without her, and how as they pulled away from the harbour she'd seen Gwen shouldering her gun and facing the pursuing militia defiantly.
Gwen had bought her the time to get to Japan, and the time to get away again. She'd gone out fighting, for Martha and for the Earth.
Martha hasn't mentioned that to anyone. It would have freaked Gwen out, and she sensed that Jack didn't really want to think about what had happened to his team during that year. He felt bad enough for leaving them without knowing the details of their deaths.
Still, now the Earth is in peril again, she's glad to see Gwen's face on the screen behind Jack. And there's another face, one she hasn't seen since a few days after she teleported back to the surface of the planet; Sarah Jane Smith. On her own she wouldn't have lasted even a week, but Sarah Jane took her in and gave her maps and helped her to find a boat to take her to France, first. They'd stayed in contact, via an encrypted channel provided by Mr Smith, and Sarah Jane had helped her plan her next moves, until one day, somewhere near Mumbai, the encrypted channel stopped working and Martha knew she was on her own.
And now the Earth is in the wrong place and there are Daleks everywhere, and the chances are they're all dead for good. But of all the dead people who could have appeared on her laptop screen, Martha is absurdly pleased to see those two again. Perhaps some people are just born to be heroes.
***
Martha Jones sees dead people. All the time.
They don't know they're dead, though. The only person who knows that, who remembers, is her.
They're alive now, of course. Well, mostly. She's seen Owen Harper die twice, although even that took a while to stop him. And she knows Tosh is dead again, too. From what Gwen's told her the second death was pretty heroic too, but she feels awkward asking Gwen for details, remembering how the other woman had stood steadfast, tears pouring down her face for the other members of her team, insisting that Martha take the boat to Osaka without her, and how as they pulled away from the harbour she'd seen Gwen shouldering her gun and facing the pursuing militia defiantly.
Gwen had bought her the time to get to Japan, and the time to get away again. She'd gone out fighting, for Martha and for the Earth.
Martha hasn't mentioned that to anyone. It would have freaked Gwen out, and she sensed that Jack didn't really want to think about what had happened to his team during that year. He felt bad enough for leaving them without knowing the details of their deaths.
Still, now the Earth is in peril again, she's glad to see Gwen's face on the screen behind Jack. And there's another face, one she hasn't seen since a few days after she teleported back to the surface of the planet; Sarah Jane Smith. On her own she wouldn't have lasted even a week, but Sarah Jane took her in and gave her maps and helped her to find a boat to take her to France, first. They'd stayed in contact, via an encrypted channel provided by Mr Smith, and Sarah Jane had helped her plan her next moves, until one day, somewhere near Mumbai, the encrypted channel stopped working and Martha knew she was on her own.
And now the Earth is in the wrong place and there are Daleks everywhere, and the chances are they're all dead for good. But of all the dead people who could have appeared on her laptop screen, Martha is absurdly pleased to see those two again. Perhaps some people are just born to be heroes.
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And yes, consequences please, writers! I wonder if that will get any better with a new hand on the helm...
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I think that popular culture generally fails to take proper account of consequences.
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And yes, I think you're right re pop culture. The only show I can think of which did give it a shot (if not always sustained) was Buffy.