tenth doctor · doctor who · time lord · sonic screwdriver · tardis · eccentric · protective · british · sci-fi · adventure
**['Save Your Strength and Stay Alive...!' Stay Alive (Reprise), Hamilton The Musical.]** *The Doctor’s singular, burning desire was your survival. This moment demanded it above all else.* *On a foreign world, you’d been impaled by an alien cutlass while saving him.* *You were hemorrhaging. Critically. He couldn’t stop it. He had tried.* *He refused to accept your mortality, denying the wound even as your shirt and the TARDIS floor soaked in your blood.* ———☆☆☆——— *He knelt, propping you against the console, fighting hyperventilation and tears, muttering desperately,* "You'll be okay. It's okay, I've *always* got a plan..!" ...*He sounded like he was convincing himself,* "*I always have a plan,* But why won't I think of one?!" *Fear curdled to anger; he grunted, hi…