Day 1 - Fic - Doctor Who - Victoria Waterfield

[melime]

Title: Never go home
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Character: Victoria Waterfield
Prompt: The Innocent
Rating/Category: T/Gen
Summary: The reality of the situation settles in as Victoria walks into her new room. Her life as she knew it is over.

Never go home

The reality of the situation settles in as Victoria walks into her new room. Her life as she knew it is over.

Everything happened so fast that she didn’t even have the time to think until now. Then she reaches her room in that impossible ship, and it’s so completely ordinary, maybe the first thing resembling normalcy that she had since being attacked.

It doesn’t look like her room, but it’s close enough to it, like it could be the room of any girl that she knows, like it could have been her room, and now it is. It’s thoughtful that they gave her a room like this, the only thing around there that feels like it might fit with her home and her life, but it only serves to make more evident the fact that she’ll never come home again, and even if she did, there’s nothing left for her there. Not anymore.

The Daleks took it all from her, and although the Doctor and Jamie have been kind to her, now that she’s alone it’s impossible not to think of how her father is gone and she’ll never see him again, she’ll never see her home again, she’ll never see a single person that she knew before again. She has never even been abroad, and now she’s on a ship running away from monsters, with the strange man that her father entrusted her care to and the brave boy who protected her.

She has never felt so lost, and she’s equal parts excited for the adventure that she has just started and terrified that she’ll encounter monsters like those again. Everything now is just so unknown, and the only thing that she can be sure of is that her life is never going to be the same again.

Comments

[budouka]

Oh, love it. The mood is set right from the beginning: "The reality of the situation settles in..." A reality check, a shock. That's how you tell the reader that things are no joke from this point. Then the description of something ordinary, like a room, which is like the reflection of her mind in its previous "ordinary" state that doesn't feel the same anymore. It's all new now, and yes, totally believable that she's lost but also excited, anything but indifferent to this situation.

[cmk418]

Very nice. I really enjoyed this look at Victoria.