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I haven't been able to write much the past few days--not sleeping well. (Curse you, David Tennant! You haunt our dreams, then you leave us! Argh!). But here's another angsty 10/River poem:

‘Tis folly true that any man shouldst love,
Knowing lovers all must come to death.
Time hath no pity that a love mightst move,
And cruel years shall stop the sweetest breath.
Tho passions strong may fill a lover’s breast,
The light in dearest eyes alway’ grows dull.
The truest heart shall fall at last to dust,
The fairest lips still hang upon a skull.
What wise man would surrender to such pain,
And into ruthless love wittingly fall,
Knowing that in time naught shall remain
But memories, and bones, and bitt’rest gall?
‘Tis certain that a madman I must prove,
For knowing this I still give in to love. emo
(and don't you love the fact that the emo icon is wearing the brainy specs?)

I apologise if I've posted this elsewhere on Gaia before, but I don't think I have. BTW, Ceribri, you should check out Whatzit's cookout. He's just, um, degenerated. And I just got my human skin back, so my avi can cosplay River. Notice she's got his tie on? Wonder what he's wearing?

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Daleks seem to survive everything, apparently.

scream MORE STORY!!!

She's started writing another book. We must scream & yell to get our story here completed. scream wahmbulance scream

Hey, no screaming, pleeze? I gotz a headache! An the kids are sick! I'll get to it when I get to it! mrgreen
Wanna get to it. Love watching him put the smackdown on the Daleks!

In gratitude for the soup, I give you:
EXPLODING DALEKS!

“All right, campers, let’s make this snappy,” said RayQuan to the rest of the team as they jogged back into the dig site. “Ladies, you’re going to take the Rover around the perimeter, stopping to place a charge every ten meters or so. Gents, we’re going to walk straight across the site in rows, doing the same thing, and the girls will pick us up on the far side . . .”
“Wait a minute,” said Summer. “I can walk as fast as any of you guys. Faster than Po. Let Kitty, Megan and Sally take the Rover, and let me join you . . .”
“Let me walk, too,” said Sally. “I’m not short either.”
“Oh, pick on the short girls!” said Kitty.
“You’re the medic,” said RayQuan. “You have to stay with the Rover. Megan, you drive, Kitty, you place bombs. Then we’ll spread out: Summer, Juan, myself, Sally, and Po. Be careful with the charges–the plan is to set them off remotely, but they can be triggered manually, and we don’t want them going off by accident.” He displayed the controls to the rest of the team, and then they set off.
By the time RayQuan was halfway across the crater, the Rover was already nearly halfway around. Megan and Kitty had picked up Summer and were waiting for Juan as he made his way through the debris. RayQuan set another charge and tried to pick up his pace, noting the dust beginning to whip through the darkening sky as the sun set. You know, we just might pull this off, he thought. Then a blast from the left side of the crater caused him to freeze in his tracks.
It was Po. He’d made it to the edge of the crater and was firing his rifle into the ruins. RayQuan fought the urge to run towards the undergrad and hit his com button, shouting, “Stick to the plan, people, stick to the plan!” and hoping that the rest of the team heard him.
Sally obviously hadn’t. She’d abandoned her set path and was stumbling through the crater towards Po. Now RayQuan could see what the young man was shooting at: a mass of unarmored Daleks swarming out of the ruins. Po was managing to keep them at a distance, but only barely, and there were more crawling out of the ruins every moment. Ray Quan decided that being blown up by an ill-placed bomb would be no worse than having his spacesuit ripped off by Daleks and started running towards the opposite side of the crater, tossing charges about as he went.
The Rover picked him up on the far side. “I kinda forgot to set the last couple charges,” said Juan as RayQuan climbed on board.
“Hell with ‘em,” said RayQuan. “Let’s just give ‘em to the Daleks. Megan, punch it. Po’s about to get munched on!”
Megan steered as direct a course across the crater towards Po as she could. Sally was within a couple meters of him already, but halted as a cluster of Daleks blocked her path. RayQuan stood up in the Rover and began shooting. Once he’d cleared her path, Sally ran up to Po’s side and began lobbing her charges into the ruins, where they blasted rubble and Daleks into the air with equal violence.
In spite of everything, Sally and Po were borne down by the sheer numbers of Daleks attacking them. Megan gunned the Rover forward recklessly, crushing several Daleks with a series of squelching pops. Now everyone’s com circuits crackled with static, as the members of the party all cried out at once.
“Oh my God, my leg!” screamed Sally, waist deep in a seething pile of tentacles. “They’re inside my suit, they’ve got me!”
Kitty and Summer reached out to Sally as Juan and RayQuan kept shooting. Kitty managed to bludgeon a pair of Daleks off of Sally’s right leg with a heavy spanner, but Sally’s suit was shredded.
“Her suit’s compromised!” cried Kitty. “We’ve got to get her back to the ship!”
“Get Po on-board!” ordered RayQuan. “Po, where are you?”
The undergrad managed to stagger to his feet despite the half-dozen Daleks clinging to him. He turned towards the Rover, and took a step towards it, but before Juan could grasp his outstretched hand, a half dozen fully-armored Daleks rolled up out of the ruins. The leader opened fire, catching Po square in the back. His friends stood frozen as he screamed and died.