but_can_i_be_trusted: from the Wayne & Shuster sketch, 'Rinse the Blood off My Toga' (Bill)
Echo Invictus ([personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted) wrote in [community profile] 100prompts2019-04-17 08:05 pm

[Table #6/Prompt #5: Choose] Doctor Who: 'Hero'

Title: 'Hero'
Fandom: Doctor Who
Prompt: Table #6/Prompt #5: Choose
Character/Pairing: The Doctor
Rating: G
Summary: I'm just a traveler, passing through.
Authors Notes: Fic = Mine. Characters = Not Mine. Crossposted to [community profile] ficlet_zone for Challenge #3: Jimmy Buffett Song Titles.

I never set out to be the hero, or whatever anybody wants to call me. I didn't want to be the champion of the universe, the one to whom thousands of civilizations owe their very existences.

That's not who I am; anyway, it's not who I want to be. I never signed on for that sort of thing. I'm just a traveler, passing through. Trying to learn, to experience, to see the cosmos for the wonder that it ultimately is.

But a hero? No. That is not the way that I choose to define myself. I'm just a Time Lord with a TARDIS, doing the best I can.

I never intended to save anybody. But I suppose that, if it's necessary that somebody be saved, and no one else is making an effort to do so, then maybe the person to do it should be me.