An Eternity of Unspoken Things

by catlike

“Everything you’re about to say I already know,” Clara tells him on trap street. “Don’t say it now.”

So the Doctor doesn’t, and the words he never says get buried like a seed deep down in his chest, and they blossom there, blooming against his ribcage like roses, their thorns piercing his skin, and it hurts and it hurts and it hurts.

Which is why, in all those billions of years he’s trapped in his confession dial, sometimes, (when the stars change or when her painted portrait weathers yet again with age or he finds himself drowning with grief and rage), he’ll try to say those words to the Clara in the TARDIS in his mind.

Words: 2497, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

• Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
• Rating: General Audiences
• Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
• Categories: F/M
• Characters: Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Clara Oswin Oswald
• Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald, Twelfth Doctor & Clara Oswin Oswald, The Doctor (Doctor Who)/Clara Oswin Oswald, The Doctor & Clara Oswin Oswald
• Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, whouffle, whouffaldi, Heaven Sent was half a decade ago and I’m still not over it