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Fandom: Supernatural, spoilers for the end of most recent episode (3.15, "Time Is On My Side")
Title: 2. Don't Look Back
Everything's falling away from her now, everything she's struggled for over the past ten years, everything she's become, as though none of it ever happened; as though Bela Talbot was just another desperate daydream of revenge, escape, survival. Just another hopeless fantasy in the mind of a little girl too frightened to do anything to save herself, even to cry out for help.
She's worked hard all this time not to look back, but there's no more forward to look anymore. Ten years became nine years, and five years, two years, nine months, three months, weeks days hours minutes --
And here she is, little Abby sitting alone on a bed trembling and crying, knowing exactly who's about to come into her room and exactly what they'll do to her, and the real horror is that in ten years nothing has changed. Nothing at all.
It's Abby who's crying, but it's Bela who grips the phone and tells Dean Winchester the demon's name.
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Fandom: Doctor Who (revival), spoilers for the end of 4.5, "The Poison Sky"
Title: 16. Unexpected
The one thing he's never been good at figuring out is other people's motivations. It never crossed his mind to ask why the aliens would spare him and the others and give them a new planet of their own; it never crossed his mind to suspect that his people, his hand-picked elite, wouldn't want to come with him. Would rather stay and die with the cattle.
The truth's so obvious after the fact. It shouldn't have been unexpected. He should have seen this coming.
What's truly unexpected, though, is the compassion that shows beneath the Doctor's exasperation, the sympathy, the respect, when he says do something clever with your life.
He's been stupid. Stupid. He hasn't earned that respect.
But by god he's about to.
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Fandom: Supernatural, spoilers for the end of most recent episode (3.15, "Time Is On My Side")
Title: 2. Don't Look Back
Everything's falling away from her now, everything she's struggled for over the past ten years, everything she's become, as though none of it ever happened; as though Bela Talbot was just another desperate daydream of revenge, escape, survival. Just another hopeless fantasy in the mind of a little girl too frightened to do anything to save herself, even to cry out for help.
She's worked hard all this time not to look back, but there's no more forward to look anymore. Ten years became nine years, and five years, two years, nine months, three months, weeks days hours minutes --
And here she is, little Abby sitting alone on a bed trembling and crying, knowing exactly who's about to come into her room and exactly what they'll do to her, and the real horror is that in ten years nothing has changed. Nothing at all.
It's Abby who's crying, but it's Bela who grips the phone and tells Dean Winchester the demon's name.
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Fandom: Doctor Who (revival), spoilers for the end of 4.5, "The Poison Sky"
Title: 16. Unexpected
The one thing he's never been good at figuring out is other people's motivations. It never crossed his mind to ask why the aliens would spare him and the others and give them a new planet of their own; it never crossed his mind to suspect that his people, his hand-picked elite, wouldn't want to come with him. Would rather stay and die with the cattle.
The truth's so obvious after the fact. It shouldn't have been unexpected. He should have seen this coming.
What's truly unexpected, though, is the compassion that shows beneath the Doctor's exasperation, the sympathy, the respect, when he says do something clever with your life.
He's been stupid. Stupid. He hasn't earned that respect.
But by god he's about to.