Thank you. It ended up being a little more gut wrenching than I intended when I sat down to write it.
I'd be sorely tempted myself to take him up on that too.
I don't think Martha would ever try and pass off his child as someone else's. She's got too defined a sense of ethics to deceive Tom like that. But the child is a little piece of Martha in a way, and also a way of communicating indirectly with Martha, and Ten is sort of a Peter Pan figure so it's like in the end of that story when Peter sees Wendy's daughter. At least those were my ideas about it.
I would not rule out that, but I sort of feel like Sadie must have instinctively known the heartbreak her mother lived with all those years, which is why she stops traveling with the Doctor and probably never let herself get terribly attached.
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Date: 2008-07-28 11:47 pm (UTC)I'd be sorely tempted myself to take him up on that too.
I don't think Martha would ever try and pass off his child as someone else's. She's got too defined a sense of ethics to deceive Tom like that. But the child is a little piece of Martha in a way, and also a way of communicating indirectly with Martha, and Ten is sort of a Peter Pan figure so it's like in the end of that story when Peter sees Wendy's daughter. At least those were my ideas about it.
I would not rule out that, but I sort of feel like Sadie must have instinctively known the heartbreak her mother lived with all those years, which is why she stops traveling with the Doctor and probably never let herself get terribly attached.