Awesome!

As always, love the characterization and how you show just how loved the Doctor is by having his friends and family banding together for him and the number ever growing. And while I'd initially hoped for the woman to be the Doctor's mum, I am quite happy it's Susan. I like her and the Doctor deserved her back so much. She even regenerated in front of everyone.

I really loved the references to the classics and especially the Doctor's gift of Susan's old shoe back to her. I rather hope she decides to wear mismatched shoes outside, too. Yeah, might not be fashionable but tbh, I love the Doctor's crazy sense of fashion.

The backgroung time war story and the Warden was interesting if often heartbreaking and very sad. And even though it led to the Doctor's reunion with Susan, which I AM very grateful for, I am still very cross with the Architect and her people for what they put everyone and especially the Doctor through, only to announce that from the start, they were going to acquit the Doctor anyway (I mean I love the acquitting part, of course but really, that was mean, making the Doctor go through all that). Even if I also think it was a sort of blessing in disguise, as the Doctor might've never talked about it- which wouldn''t have been healthy at all.

And even though I'd have loved to see more of him, I am so glad you at least mentioned Craig.

It's so heartwarming to see the TRADIS full with the Doctor's family and best friend Donna.

Thank you so much for this wonderful, fantastic story, gripping story and the trilogy as a whole. Heart-breaking and heartwarming and so much love for the Doctor...I love it and will certainly re-read it and recommend it.

Whoa, amazing!

Terrifying and incredibly sad, yes, but terrific writing! And what a solution you found about the moment and the fact it was necessary for the Doctor to forget he had acrually saved Hallifrey and what the Moment itself was...god, this is somehow worse than actually remembering the burning...not remembering what led to it, knowing he did do it, fearing that maybe, just maybe, his Time War damaged self enjoyed it a little too much, or more happened than he found out. Destroying his people without remembering the fact, what a horrible fate.

And that book, A History of The Time War...I didn't even think of that one, wow. Of course, that one needs to be hidden, because the Doctor's name needs to be hidden. Although...how was this book...how did...just how could or can it hold an apparently frighteningly accurate account of what happened in the Time War? Who wrote it? Was it the Doctor himself, or maybe the Tardis, in an effort to help ease the Doctor's mind at least a little. She would know to keep the actual events of the end from the Doctor, as much as it would have pained her.
Come to think of it...couldn't she have hidden it? Or did the Doctor not want her to have to do it? Thought it would be less of a burden to her and River if he took care of it?

Loved the Pensieve-esque memory trip, even though the memory itself was harrowing and heartbreaking.

Whoa, harrowing account of the war. Gosh, poor Doctor. I mean of course I knew he participated and unwillingly, suffering all the time from it and certainly suffering a lot after the fact, but you spelling it out here (regardless whether it's all complete canon or not) made it more tangible. It's so sad. The Doctor was a victim, being forced into participation by his own people and his desperate need to help. Even the Sisterhood of Caarn and the Daleks, time itself forced him into it. And still, he is so compassionate. It is a true miracle he did not die.

So Brian finally knows...kudos to the poor guy, I think if it had been me, I'd have fainted from shock. Learning his grandson-in law is on trial, his granddaughter is an adult and he even has a sort of great-granddaughter...whoa, that's quite the pill to swallow.

I wonder how Amy's family would react? The parents, at least? Still also a bit pissed at all those who laughed about poor Amy all those years and hoping they feel quite sorry now...

I'm curious as to how this all will unfold.

And that woman...is that "The Woman"? From "The End of Time"? The Doctor's mother? The one Wilf seemed to know suspiciously well? (I admit, my personal headcannon there is Wilf actually being the Doctor's biological father. I absolutely love the idea). Whether her bond with Wilf is deeper or not, I hope it is her... (though how?) And why would she think the Doctor doesn't want to see her, wouldn't draw comfort from her? She obviously seems to care for him. Love him, if she's who I hope she is.

Omg!

Ian and Barbara! I love those two. There are too few stories featuring them and I myself feel unable to write one myself with them at the moment. So thank you for this.

...of course. This is so Doctor. Dammit. Time and Space were disintegrating, that war was destroying everything. Yes, it was horrible, what he had to do- THINKS he did- but he had no other choice.
Oh Doctor. *cry* I get his reasoning, I do and it's in line with his guilt issues and it's in line with his desperate wish to be aqcuitted (sort of)- either through being forgiven, or being imprisoned.
But truly. He's paid enough...is still paying. Compassionate and loving as he is, he will pay for the rest of his life, just by living. Every day, he is in pain, forcing himself to smile through it all. Forcing himself to live on, because the moment sentenced him to it. ("If you do this, if you kill them all, you live.")

...so in hindsight, it might be a good thing for this all to be dragged out into the open...maybe being acquitted by the Shadow Proclamation itself - and hopefully in a way that doesn't make him feel as if it's just because his friends obstructed something- will allow him a bit of peace. Because he has got to be acquitted. After all this suffering, after everything, it is wrong to imprison him. He saved so many, he is of such importance to the whole universe. He should not be imprisoned.

Oh if only they knew that he didn't even go through with those plans, that Gallifrey was not burned at all. In his desperation to end the war, he might have been planning it, hating himself all the while for it, but he did not even do it in the end.

Also, he had no choice. The war had to be ended. It was threatening every universe. Everything. So he did it (remembers doing it), to save the rest. Of course killing is never right, but that was a decision that had to be made for the sake of the whole of creation, one that saved so many (the Shadow Proclamation included)- and made him suffer so much. He's been punished enough for this. For ending a war that threatened everything.
Even his mom, the woman in "The end of time", agreed it had to be done.
As did the Caarn Sistherhood.

Sorry, rambling. Again. But it's really bothering me. Hurts so much. Wish there was a survivor of that war, a Time Lord/Lady (not the Master, Salyavin, maybe?) that could explain. Absolve the Doctor, without making it feel like just brushing everything under the carpet.

After all, in the end, the Doctor is already bearing the hardest sentence of all, the one given to him by the Moment- live. Live with the memory of Gallifrey burning. That's harsh enough. (Especially since he didn't even do it)

Oh dear...I am now rather positive this prisoner is, or used to be the Doctor...
So either it's the Doctor right after using the moment in the Time War (of course not remembering he actually saved his people to preserve time) or Charlene, that monster, hurt him far worse than originally planned.
As for the children...obviously the prison is sort of telepathic, tapping into a weak point, someone who the victim lost...and since it was the Doctor's prison, it seems to remember his ghosts...probably recorded or something.
Or the Doctor brought them with him...he kind of is like that, feeling all the blame and stuff... Probably a bit of both. Cause the Doctor having been that prisoner makes a lot of sense, considering his reaction to seeing the thing and the promise between him and the TARDIS. Even the TARDIS reluctance despite the Doctor actually WANTING to go back there for his friends makes a lot of sense...she loves him first and of course she doesn't want him to retraumatize himself- or get caught in that prison again. In a way, he still is kinda fragile, with the Time War and his guilt complex. Always was, sometimes more sometimes less. Even though he is also strong.

Ok rambling...sorry. But I am curious whether one of those (nightmare) theories will prove true.

Either way, poor Doctor. I hate it when he suffers...It's so heartbreaking (and yet I keep reading Doctor whump...)

GAH, I can't believe it's over! I read the first two parts of the series very quick, then waited a while before coming back to this, but my god it was worth it! I know that this has been done for a while, but I'm so glad I found it! I was browsing doctor-whump when I found this part, and went back to the beginning. This is one of the best series/single fics I have EVER READ, no joke, in any fandom. And trust me, I've read quite a few. Hundred. You are an AMAZING AUTHOR. It would be my wildest hopes and dreams to even get close to this level! Thank you so much for helping my life in even such a small way, by just doing what you love. I've just started on a rough time lately, and this, as silly and irrelevant as it sounds, has just been confusing and weird and wonderful. Helping or not. So, seriously, this is so sappy and long, but even just you're writing can help anyone, and it has helping me in a way I didn't think possible.
So for gods sake,
THANK YOU FOR STICKING WITH THIS!
Anna

Just great. I often forgot I was reading a story and was just drawn into the Doctor Who world. You write these characters very well.

This was amazing in so many ways!

I thought it might have been the Doctor who was the prisoner, and although I thought the old woman (who turned out to be Susan) was somehow the Woman from End of Time, I still completely and utterly lost it when I read that she was Susan.

Why can't this universe be canon? I swear, it's perfect and well-written and basically one of the best DW series I've ever read.

All your stories are just so amazing.

I really thought they were weeping angels for some reason, but daleks, seriously, are you that evil?

Oh my god that was amazing! I just read all three back to back to back and I couldn't put my phone down for a second! All three are wonderfully written, gloriously funny, tragic, and elating at the same time! I fell in love with the concept at the first chapter. You wrote the characters flawlessly and I just love to see Eleven with old companions. This truly is a work of art and you are an amazing writer! Thank you for this wonderful piece of art!

This was beautiful. And a perfect, perfect ending to a perfect trilogy...thank you for this. I will be saving to read again and again and again!

*HUGS*

Mandy

i fond this a few days ago. it's a broken heart, and a tale of love forever. love, death, heart, and all you can never, ever, know.

life.

free.

death.

forgoten.

gone.

love.

peace.

in "it can come back" he forgot so river could live, remebered so donna could live would for no one could take it, but river saved him. not like CAL did. he met Molly, Ron, and Aaron. Aaron was looking the doctor up. i have more but not the time to type it.

i read every sigel line, all that you rote, and... i love it. I Do.

I love this triology xx