Time Eternal thoughts

[amberfocus]

You know how everyone's always worried about that if Ten ever had kids with Rose, and he was responsible for being in charge of them or one of them, he'd probably forget about them or misplace them or simply lose them because he saw something shiny and went to look at it?  Well, I've been thinking about that a lot.  And I've gotten an idea for a Time Eternal story.  This one would be time-jumped to when Cassi is six and Dare is eight.  So I'm writing the idea down now so I don't forget it.

Everyone always wants to know why the relationship between Cassi and the Doctor is so strained when she's an older teen and an adult.  Aside from the fact that the child regenerated before she was born and was in a chaotic environment during the first several hours before Rose was moved into the Zero Room until the fetal regeneration sickness was over and that skewed her personality.  Of course, there's lots of little reasons over time, but the big one was always how the Doctor stood between her and Daniel Harper and hurt Cassi's TARDIS (on accident) trying to prevent an elopement.

So I thought, why not start building up the why, starting with Ten taking Cassi out for the day because Rose thinks they need daddy/daughter time and Cassi not wanting to go because she doesn't want daddy/daughter time she wants to stay with Dare because he always pays attention to her, but everyone's insisting, and then the Doctor loses Cassi on an alien planet.  Completely and utterly loses her.  She doesn't wander off, she doesn't do anything wrong.  One minute her father is standing next to her, and the next minute he's gone.


   Cassi Tyler at 6

 And she waits for him in one place like she's been taught by her mum for two hours before thinking she sees Donna and dashing off after the woman.  Who isn't Donna. (Because it doesn't matter how many anvils they drop on her head in canon, in my universe Donna stays with them for as long as I want her there.  {And Owen is still alive, so there.})  But the woman is rather sympathetic to the little girl and rather lonely herself...

I've got even more ideas for the story than that, but I don't want to spoil it too much.  Just wanted to get the basic gist down before I let it fade, lost in the random roar of plot bunnies.

Comments

[foalen.livejournal.com]

If your thinking of future stories I would to see a story with Cassi and an older Doctor where he has a go at trying to patch things up with her. Because while he can be down right dim for such a brillant man I do think he really does care for all of his family. And dispite the events that happen to cause stress between them I think he would want her to know that he loves her. Seeing the devision between them is so sad.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

There is some of that in Andromeda Rising and will be quite a bit more. It's only half written, though. He does love her no matter how difficult their relationship is. And she loves him, too. It's just not ever going to be easy for them. But it will be better.