Crawling to the rescuse "Crawl" entry
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who_contestTitle: Crawling to the Rescue
Rating: G
Word Count: 469 words
Characters: The Twelfth Doctor
Spoilers: Heaven Sent, Season 9
Warnings: N/A
Episode Setting: End of Heaven Sent
Summary: It will be over soon, Clara. I will rescue you, I will save you.
As I sprinted through-out the castle I thought about everything I had encountered. All the clues I had found started to slowly make sense ... again. The hints to what was really going on seem familiar. As I put all the pieces together I realized something. I have done this before. I remember what I have to do. All those years. Thousands and thousands of years, more like billions now. Punching away. My fist hurts just thinking about it.
Do I have to be strong this time? Yes, I need to be strong. If not for myself, for you, Clara. I have to save you. I can do it for you.
I knew what was coming. I now knew the cycle that would be repeating itself. But for how long? As I approached the diamond wall I raised my fist, hoping to break through. Harder and harder, I forced myself to go on. The diamond wall cut my hand but I kept pushing forward.
"How many seconds in eternity?" I gasped, "and the shepherd’s boy says, ‘There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain."
I paused a brief moment to catch my breath. I knew I wouldn't have long but my body wouldn’t go on without it.
"And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.’ You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally-"
I was cut off by the Veil, sucking my life out of me. I wheezed for air as it laid its monstrous hands upon me. I felt empty and helpless.
Clara. Think of Clara.
Slowly, I made my dying body reach the door. Once opened I fell onto the sandy floor.
Clara. Clara.
Saying her name reminded me all I had to live for, even though I could no longer hear myself.
I am coming, I promised myself I will save her.
I slowly started crawling towards the teleport room, one inch at a time, never looking back. Even though my thoughts were no longer clear, I needed to finish. I made my lifeless hand form the word "Bird" I crawled over and I attached myself to the machine ready to make another copy.
Clara, I am coming this time. I will not forget, I am coming!
As a pulled the lever completing the copy I fell onto the sand and the pain was too much to comprehend.
It will be over soon, Clara. I will rescue you, I will save you.
I told myself before slipping into this short lived death. But I knew I would be back, everything restored, for another cycle. The last one I hope.
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Date: 2016-09-05 04:57 pm (UTC)Great job with the story and the descriptions. :)
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Date: 2016-09-20 02:24 am (UTC)*HUGS*