Certain Rules 1/1; the Doctor, Henry Blake; PG

[scarfman]

Title: Certain Rules 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: the Doctor, Henry Blake
Rating: PG
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises as late as 2005
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Fox. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Prompt from billfl who won a drabble off me in the Stump The Author meme - "Henry Blake says something that genuinely surprises the Doctor (#9, if he fits into your M*A*S*H/DW storyline anywhere)". In either of the crossover chronlogy paradigms I use, Henry Blake is long gone by the Doctor's ninth personality, so only a spiritual meeting was going to be possible. And I'm not sure the criterion "surprises" is quite met. But I only had to write the first ninety-four words; in context, the last six are obvious.

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It was done. Now, it had always been done, couldn't be undone; it was a fixed point, a loadbearing wall of the Web of Time.

He'd let them down. As much as he despised them, and they him, he'd never wished this on them and they had expected better of him. He'd always pulled it off before, hadn't he? It's what he did. Why couldn't he this time?

Unbidden, from regeneration-stirred memories, came the voice of another man who'd fought in war and against war; a soft man who'd once had some hard words.

"Doctors can't change rule number one."

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