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Finally, my ficathon story! In my defence, I've been hung up on the organisation side and was going to use my litgeek!Doctor fic as my fic, because it does fit the challenge. But then I had to go and decide that I love my litgeek!Doctor and I want that story to be all my own, so I needed another fic in a hurry. And that was how I ended up writing 5000 words in TWO DAYS.

Anyway! For taraljc as part of my Ninth Doctor ficathon, and she wanted a sense of humour, a bit of drama, and a bit of sexual tension, but no grand gestures or declarations of love (in English or Gallifreyan) following mutual climax (and upon hearing that last thing, I decided to make it a ficathon-wide no-no). With thanks to ancalemon for a quick and efficient beta.

Fic:: Effects
by Raven
R, Doctor Who, the Doctor, Rose and Jack, gen UST

( Under the bed there is a box. )

Bad wolf

Because I suspect many people will have been googling for it, the full text of the poem:

The Sick Rose
by William Blake

O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

I am severely creepified by this. Badwolf.org.uk terrifies me the moment it loads, because of the extremely creepy music (it sounds like a child vacantly singing "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" blended with the noise of the TARDIS landing), but once you get into the site it's not bad. There are no spoilers beyond The Doctor Dances, and there's a useful page collates bad wolf references. Interestingly, it doesn't mention the one in the pilot, but all the others are there. The theories section seems to borrow something from new_who and, more likely, Outpost Gallifrey, postulating everything and the kitchen sink as the bad wolf.

It's the disclaimer that begins to creep me out. The site begins by saying: "This website exists purely to speculate on the Bad Wolf phenomenon in the new series of Doctor Who, which is a fictional television programme made by BBC Wales in Cardiff for the British Broadcasting Corporation." But then ( in case you don't want to know )

Eeeep. And then the poem, the poem is scary. His dark secret love... that's suggestive. To be blunt, it sounds like the Doctor kills Rose. Having said that, if you listen to it carefully (difficult, considering the distortion, but bear with me), it almost sounds like those two lines have been purposely removed.

Creepy, yes?

And to be perfectly honest, whatever or whoever the bad wolf is, it can't be as scary and/or interesting as this. The whole set of websites set up by the BBC are fantastically detailed and a brilliant idea, but maybe it's the fact it's dark and I'm alone in the house, or the curiously vacant quality to the child's singing, or the way the poem sounds so sinister and grainy - but I'm actually scared. I can't go downstairs to eat dinner, the bad wolf's gonna eat me.

[The significant features of the Maxwell Boltzman energy curve are the peak, where the most particles have a particular energy, the origin at (0,0) because no particles have no energy, the area under the curve being proportional to the number of particles present and the fact the curve is an asymptote, as there is no upper limit on the energy the particles can have, only it doesn't matter 'cause I am terrified]