Doctor Who | History Repeating

[eponymous_rose]

Title: History Repeating
Author: eponymous_rose
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Characters: Fifth Doctor, Borusa
Spoilers: "The Five Doctors"
Author's Note: elliptic_eye requested something like this a while back. Watching "The Five Doctors" with commentary has reminded me!



It's an old sort of betrayal, ancient, the kind that makes up significant portions of the lore on any of a billion nameless planets: the corruption that comes with power, a cautionary tale that passes into myth and obscurity. It's history repeating in the realm of Time Lords, an absurd notion.

And he is disappointed, but only because he expected something more original, more clever from his old teacher. This betrayal is cold, unimaginative, reeks of a tired fatalism, and he wonders just how much Borusa's changed with this latest regeneration.

He remembers wondering the same of the Master, once.

Comments

[rapunzelita.livejournal.com]

Yay yay yay made of awesome yay!

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

I hereby anoint you most awesome fangirl on the internet for contributing to the sum of Borusa!fic in existence. Do you feel properly honored? Because you should.

Liked the repetition angle, like the Time Lords are caught in a sort of time-loop even they can't cut off. It gave the well-worn "power corrupts" idea new life. And that the Doctor is disappointed only because he expected more originality—says something about the Doctor, right there…

Thank you for this! :D