STARS IN YOUR EYES
─── tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway

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❝AND IN THE END
WE WERE ALL
JUST HUMANS...
DRUNK ON THE
IDEA THAT LOVE,
ONLY LOVE,
COULD HEAL OUR
BROKENNESS.❞

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Meilin Ren is sure that she's going crazy. For months now, she's been having strange dreams that don't feel quite like dreams, more like forgotten memories, and all of them feature one man. For she's sure it's just one man even though sometimes he has a different face. And that might just be the most confusing part of it all when she always recognizes him in her dreams as one man, but he doesn't always look the same.

The dreams that might not be dreams are beginning to make her feel like she's losing it. She can barely sleep, haunted by the faces of the man she feels like she should remember, but craving each subsequent dream, hoping that it'll be the final piece she needs to figure out what's going on with her and why she can't get the dreams to stop.

Finally, she succumbs to the pressure, the looming insanity, the exhaustion. Finally, it's too much to bear on her own and she gets herself a therapist. And she tells them everything. Every dream, every bizarre image that feels like a memory. Every person she met along the way, every star and every planet and every alien. Every time she cried, danced, smiled and especially every time she ran.

Meilin made sure she didn't leave out a single detail in her recollections to her therapist. And maybe, slowly, she'll be able to figure out if they're dreams or memories she's forgotten. Maybe, if she's lucky, she'll remember the Doctor.

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❝HOME IS NOT
WHERE YOU
ARE FROM,
IT IS WHERE
YOU BELONG.
SOME OF US
TRAVEL THE
WHOLE WORLD
TO FIND IT.
OTHERS, FIND
IT IN A PERSON.❞

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❝ 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐄 ❞
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

☾ ✧ ☽

MEILIN REN
the one in love with stars

THE NINTH DOCTOR
the alien from the north

and...

ROSE TYLER ─ billie piper
MICKEY SMITH ─ noel clark
JACK HARKNESS ─ john barrowman
DOCTOR WHO CHARACTERS — their actors

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❝I WILL SPEND
AN ETERNITY
LOVING YOU,
CARING FOR YOU,
RESPECTING YOU,
SHOWING YOU
EVERY DAY
THAT I HOLD
YOU AS HIGH
AS THE STARS.❞

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disclaimer
I do not own Doctor Who. It's shocking, I know, take your time to process that. All I own are my original characters, scenes, lines and dialogue. Everything else goes to the rightful owners.

dedication
this story is dedicated firstly to my lovely friends dash-of-clarity and liminal_faces for their help with some of the details of this book and then also do my other amazing friends void-daniella dunbonnet  capnbarnes -beewrites- KookieANDLeo xonceuponatimex justanillusion mithranidel indirys

note
this book is the first in the Forget Me Not Series. Each book will be divided based on each regeneration just to keep things neat and give me a little freedom when it comes to how many chapters I get. There will also be a book just for the anniversary specials, but that isn't going to be a problem until I reach the third book and the fiftieth anniversary specials come up so those here at time of publishing have nothing to worry about yet but those joining us later now you know. I will, of course, leave notices in that book so don't worry that you'll forget by the time we get there.

important notice
just wanted to remind everyone at the beginning of the fic that I want to hear each and every thought you have and I especially want you to leave them in comments. Seriously, I don't care if you are referencing something off of something I wrote, because there's a chance I might have been thinking it as I wrote the line! I want people to comment on it! And I don't care if it's nonsensical "asdfghjkl"'s or anything similar. I am a person that thrives on people responding to my work. It's part of why I write, I want to touch people with my writing. It also lets me know better than a vote that you're enjoying my work. Which is important to me!

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