Doctor Who poem!fic: Three (1/2)

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Title: Three
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Characters: Eleven, Amy, Rory, a narrator
Pairings: Eleven/Amy/Rory, sort of
Summary: The TARDIS trio land on a ruined planet. Somebody observes them.

Three

It was not a castle, just a box
It was a safe that had no locks
Three people dwelt inside that place
A man on his eleventh face
A girl with hair a burning red
And last a boy who’d once been dead.

Friends together were those three
Or they were when they came to me
This bitter heart beneath my breast
Thought it would put them to the test
For though the girl and boy were wed
There was a third one in their bed.

The girl cared not, to tell the truth
She had the freedom of her youth
And though she’d seen the whole world end
Still to her will it seemed to bend

The boy cared, but his love was true
He loved her deeply, and him too
And though he listened to his fears
For her he’d waited all those years

There were those two- and then the third
He had a name of just one word
He was called ‘Doctor’ by his foes
And now, I fear, I’m one of those.

*

They landed here when it was night
A blue box with a flash of light
They’d heard the signal, heard my call
But were too late to stop the fall
They looked and saw what I did see
Only one survivor. Me.

They tried to help me, they did well
They tried to catch me as I fell
But my mind, it’d left my head
I’d seen the blank eyes of the dead
I looked up to the void of space,
But didn’t tell them what took place.

*

I had a best friend, and a wife
I had the perfect married life
(As I watched the Doctor’s boy and girl,
I hoped that they had that as well)
We lived in this great land we’d made
But we were soon to be betrayed

My friend, you see, his heart was stone
I’d loved him, but I’d never known
He knew of horrors out in space
That would, perhaps, destroy our race
He planned to sell us out, you see
But first he’d take one thing from me

He found my wife, told vicious lies
Showed forged papers, feigned surprise
He held her tightly, kissed her head
They were together, on a bed-
My love, he whispered in her ear,
I’ll save you from the thing you fear.

The bad things came, I didn’t fight
I nursed my hatred, died that night
But yet that morning I awoke
I rose up screaming through the smoke
I wandered through the blackened land
And came upon the Doctor’s band.

*

I watched them and they broke my heart
I’d had all that, it fell apart
Love had faltered at the last
(and man and girl, they had a past)
Her husband rested on the ground,
and Amy’s eyes wandered around.

The boy awoke, reached out a hand,
They both lay down on burnt-out land
As they slept, the Doctor watched
I heard his hearts, a thousand clocks
Her so pretty, him so good
And no-one’s doing what they should.

They wouldn’t stay with him, he knew
She thought they would, this was true
But they’d move on, they’d move away
The girl who waited wouldn’t stay
He saw what all old men do see
They all grow up eventually.

I watched the Doctor, watched them all
If I pushed them to the brink, they’d fall.
I could push them, I could see
If all was lost, or only me.
My wife had sent me into hell
Time to send them in as well.

Onward to part two