[Table #6/Prompt #46: Writer's Choice] Doctor Who: 'A Fool To Try'

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Title: 'A Fool To Try'
Fandom: Doctor Who
Prompt: Table #6/Prompt #46: Writer's Choice (using the line, 'And love is not a victory march' from 'Hallelujah')
Character/Pairing: Missy
Rating: G
Summary: The intent to help was there, but she's lost the chance to act on it.
Authors Notes: Fic = Mine. Characters = Not Mine. Spoilers for 'The Doctor Falls'. Crossposted to ficlets for Prompt #6: Epitaph.

Missy has always considered herself to be the Doctor's personal lesson in tough love. She's always harbored a strong, if antagonistic, affection for her fellow renegade. And she knows that, despite his resentment, he's always felt the same fondness for her.

But she never expected, in all of her reprobate lives, to see the day when she would willingly try to put her dark past behind her. To improve; to be the sort of person the Doctor can respect for reasons other than simply being dangerous.

And she certainly never thought that she'd be lying here, breathing her last breaths, all for him. She'd like to believe that the Doctor's experiment in reforming her was a success; but that's a hard notion to have faith in, now. What good did she do him? The intent to help was there, but she's lost the chance to act on it.

Perhaps that's enough. She wanted to be good makes a better epitaph than She was a fool to try.