I have begun seeing Romana everywhere. Extreme case of wishful thinking, I suspect. Anyway, here is an extremely weird and pointless drabble, born of LotTL anger at the Davies ex Machina.
By rights it should be Sarah Jane or somebody, but I felt like sticking in my favorite Time Lady.
"-and the Doctor told me, we have to use the countdown. On Launching Day. At zero, we all have to chant, at the same time, Doctor. Then he'll turn back with special powers and stuff and save us all." Martha Jones looked out at the faces of the assembled people. "Any questions?"
One hand went up.
Martha sighed. "Yes?"
The owner of the hand was a young blonde woman in a pink coat with a long white scarf. "Excuse me," she said, "but since this paradox machine is what's changing everything, if we destroy it then everything will change back. So why don't we just chant, 'Destroy the Paradox' or something? I mean, wouldn't that, like, make sure of it? The Doctor may be a superhero but I doubt he can withstand determined men with machine guns."
Martha frowned. " 'Destroy the Paradox'? Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue."
The blonde woman shrugged.
Martha sighed. "Okay, sounds reasonable I guess. Change of plan, everybody. What was your name again?" she asked the woman.
"…Fred."
"Isn't that a boy's-"
"Shut up."
Okay. Go and read The-Chibi's-Are-Stalking-Me's fic 'Keeping Time', and then imagine that Romana changed herself on purpose, and then imagine that Rose-as-Bad-Wolf has discovered this during PotW, and do all this while listening to Within Temptation's 'The Truth Beneath the Rose' and then you'll know my current state of madness.
Reviews welcome but not required.