#spooky space

✨My Spooky Space✨

I never really knew what home was until I found it in you.

Send ❗ and a question for an honest answer (accepting)!

"I think you've lost way too many people that you've loved for way too many reasons, and you're scared that it was your fault, and you're scared you'll do something to lose me, too, so you over-exert yerself trying to cover every base and check every box that says, 'supportive hubby.'"

O_o  When we peer deep into space, we don't expect to find something staring back at us...

This galactic ghoul, captured by our Hubble Space Telescope, is actually a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies. Each "eye" is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another. The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth.

Although galaxy collisions are common most of them are not head-on smashups like this Arp-Madore system. Get spooked & find out what lies inside this ghostly apparition, here. 

Omg ok let me see if I can limit it to four, LOL. For those who don't know, my mainverse on this blog is actually a delightful three-way crossover with Misfits and Doctor Who, and Klaus is married to the Ninth Doctor as portrayed by @mostincrediblechange. Their ship name is Spooky Space if you have no taste and wish to blacklist it LOL.

Klaus and the Doctor initially bonded over their shared experience of wartime trauma and deep personal loss, as well as their unorthodox relationship to death: the Doctor as someone forced to exterminate his entire home planet, Klaus as a medium for whom death is never a clear and finite boundary of existence. The Doctor picked Klaus up almost directly after the events of S2 (a detail which may change depending on S3), and their first actual date was on a planet almost entirely covered in mirror like crystal water with firefly like creatures floating in the air. Klaus would live in water if he could, so this is his favorite place in all the universe to visit. It's also prompted him to think of himself as a mermaid and of the Doctor as his sexy sailor boy, lol.

When the Doctor found out about the first time Klaus was sexually assaulted (at fifteen), he went back in time to prevent the occurrence and to give Klaus the big furry black jacket that we see Klaus wearing in S1, and he also went back in time a second time to meet Klaus "for the first time" in Klaus's twenties, affording him several days stay, food, and bath at a hotel with no strings attached. This was maybe Klaus's first experience of a love outside his family that wasn't in some way transactional. They spent their first night together just snuggling in bed in big fuzzy white hotel robes watching the Home Shopping Network. Klaus, who was at least aware that the Doctor was a time traveler, started fantasizing about their future together and said he wanted tanzanite jewelry. After erasing Klaus's memory, the Doctor went forward in time to their current timeline and bought him some tanzanite. Somehow, it enabled Klaus to remember their actual first time together. Yes, it's really fucking romantic and I'm about to cry remembering it.

They have been married for 2 years now, although they intend to have another ceremony with the family they've accrued since. The fundament of their entire relationship is complete trust and mutual full disclosure, and that has never been violated by either party.

Where they do struggle is in their ironically similar need to please and provide, to "earn" the right, somehow, to be loved. Both tend to "run" from conflict; Klaus by feigning nonchalance and cheer (or using, though he's been mostly sober during their relationship), the Doctor by avoiding discussing what upsets him and by keeping busy with menial tasks. Eventually one breaks down and tells the other they need to talk; this is easy to do because ever since the Doctor gave Klaus some of his Regeneration energy, to prolong Klaus's life expectancy, they can "talk" telepathically. This is easier for the Doctor, who is still training Klaus how to shut out ambient "noise."

The Doctor built Klaus a whole little resting oasis in the TARDIS "Zero Room," where somehow his powers as a medium are muted completely, and he can rest ghost-free.

The siblings who have met the Doctor: Five, Ben (in an AU where Klaus resurrected him), Viktor (so far, off-screen). Five initially was suspicious of the Doctor and protective of Klaus, but has very gradually begun to approve of and even like him.

While with his husband, Klaus's powers have flourished. He can levitate with ease, conjure in a controlled way (he even has a meditation group for the ghosts who hang around the mansion, lol) and draw life force from the surrounding environment (this one is terrifying and he seems to only do it when really distraught).

They accidentally genetically engineered a daughter LOL, which led them down the rabbit’s hole of realizing they both wanted to be parents, and now they have 2 adopted adult children too, and a fourth biologically engineered kid, a boy, on the way. 

The Doctor stands still, transfixed, as Klaus waxes poetic about him. The old soldier. The Oncoming Storm. The enemy of the Daleks. The renegade. The madman with a box.

It isn't until his husband falls silent that he realizes there are tears in his eyes. With a quick swipe of his hand, he banishes them and swallows thickly, Adam's apple bobbing in his throat. It's tight, and difficult to form words.

"You--" His voice cracks, and so does his resolve.

The Doctor surges forward and pulls Klaus into a tight embrace, burying his face in his neck.