Ghosties and Ghoulies

[kerravonsen]

Had a strange Dr Who dream last night. There was a ball, or a wedding reception (or both) and the 5th Doctor was dressed in a coat of midnight blue, spangled with stars, with white lace at his wrists and throat (was that what Jareth was wearing in the ballroom scene?). There were paradoxes, and ghosts of the future and tragedy, and when I try to pin it down, it vanishes like smoke and makes no sense.


Part the first:
ball/reception, people discussing strange events, half-drunkenly, unsure whether they happened or not. A spectre was appearing and dissappearing. The groom walked in, dressed in white, most distressed, saying his bride was dead. A vision of the Doctor from (a couple of hours in) the future appeared, saying "She's not dead --" (and about to say "yet") when the groom grabbed its arm it became solid, the Doctor having been pulled into the past. Time-travel paradox things happened, but I don't recall what.

Part the second:
The bride is still alive, wearing a painful and twisty-looking hairdo. She's not dressed as a bride, but in more ordinary clothes. She is insane, driven mad by visions of the future full of spiders and wierd, impssible things (because the future she sees is as one of the Doctor's companions). She murders her fiance/husband (who looks like it's a different man to the groom in Part the First, but I'm not sure) by snapping his neck, in an attempt to change the future, to block out the visions, and either it does, or it doesn't. The Doctor stands over her. Someone nearly breaks his neck, a large man in the shadows, wearing a black leather vest. The Doctor either takes her away from all this (thus making it a self-fulfilling prophecy) or the man in the leather vest then breaks her neck, making it a Romeo and Julette-like tragedy.

Part the third:
The bride is lying on a bench, mortally wounded. The Doctor heals her with a poultice of herbs from the 12th century (the effecatiousness thereof demonstrated by a scar on the Doctor's hand, which was healed the same way). He uses this rather than advanced technology so as not to be accused of witchcraft.

At some point, he's got to say, "Time is out of joint", because it is.

I know that some of you are going to say, "write this", but I need my plots to make sense.

Comments

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I know that some of you are going to say, "write this", but I need my plots to make sense.

Even when it's a Doctor Who plot? I should have thought that, at a generous estimate, 75% of all broadcast Doctor Who stories would fail that test. :)

I hope that you can find a way of getting it to make sense, as it's certainly highly intriguing.

[kerravonsen]

Even when it's a Doctor Who plot? I should have thought that, at a generous estimate, 75% of all broadcast Doctor Who stories would fail that test.

They weren't written by me.

I hope that you can find a way of getting it to make sense, as it's certainly highly intriguing.

Thanks.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Interesting... and more interesting that you had it on Halloween. :) IIRC, Jareth was wearing a dark coat, which I think may have been blue, with lace at sleeves and throat, but I don't think there were stars.

[kerravonsen]

Ah.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

...I think you could easily make this make sense.... and it would make a FANTASTIC story.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks for the confidence.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Grab the bits that make sense (and that lovely coat) and run with it :)

[kerravonsen]

It is a lovely coat, isn't it?