Fic: The Things are also People (42/100)

[purple_bug]

Forty-second drabble for the doctorwho_100 challenge. This one is at #42 because the title is Adams-inspired :o)

Fic Name: The Things are also People
Rating: G
Prompt: Too Much (#034)
Claim: Companions
Companion: Rose Tyler
Timeline: During The End of the World.
Spoilers: Some for The End of the World.


People. Aliens. Blue aliens, creepy robed aliens, bird-people, tree-people, diminutive spitting aliens on hover chairs - so many different aliens! The only claim to humanity in the room besides herself is a piece of skin stretched so thin that she's all but transparent.

The Doctor says they’re people, just like he and she are. But he’s alien too. Sure, he looks human, but he’s not - in some way that she’s yet to identify. Maybe his insides are green.

All these aliens. It’s too much, it’s overwhelming. Panic claws at her and she runs away; lost, scared and too far from home.


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Comments

[kazzy.livejournal.com]

Wow. What a great look at what Rose must have been feeling on board Platform One. All this strangeness, so far from home - no wonder she freaked out.

I'm going to use this for my rec table for rec50!

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yay, rec :o) And yeah, the title had been bugging at me for a while, so I had to write someone being alienated like that (pun not really intended) :o) I still can't listen to the original 'Tainted Love' without thinking of that scene.

[bagatellery.livejournal.com]

Very evocative- I loved this.