Please tell me about marthaeight Human Nature if you can? I’m honestly hooked on anything that treats Martha with Respect^tm. She deserves it
ok ok ok... human nature. the setting is the same: martha jones is under john smith’s employ as a servant — except in this she doesn’t work for the school, just for him. john smith doesnt fall for racist nurse joan but rather for martha (LIKE SHE DESERVES!!!)
john smith, rather than being aloof and terrible, is just forgetful, scatterbrained, and - Dare I Say It - romantic. This Au Is A Love Story
joan is still there, but she’s jealous of martha. i say this bc i still want the scene where martha lists off the bones in the hand to her (bc hello 👁👁). the only difference is john smith is looking at martha with literal heart eyes as she does so.
also the doctor refuses to teach gun class and isn’t silent when students are rude to martha like he isn’t a terrible person in this and is actually likable Thanks!!!!
anyway. john smith finds martha incredibly interesting - he doesn’t know if it’s bc she’s so incredibly smart and strong minded or if it’s because she always forgets to knock on the door before she comes in. either way, he does Anything to get her to visit him, including making a big mess that he ultimately ends up absentmindedly cleaning up while talking to martha, who’s sitting and drinking the tea she brought him. she doesn’t do a lick of work in this episode lol
he tells her about his dreams, about the fantastical blue box that can travel in space and time, about strange characters named romana, leela, sarah, ace, tegan, jamie & horrible creatures called daleks and cybermen and silurians. and she has to nod and pretend he isn’t describing his own life — which she knew nearly nothing of before hand
then in the scene where they’re going for a walk in the field, they’re talking and the doctor asks martha where she’s from. she responds and automatically, without thinking asks where he’s from back. he says gallifrey - of course - and she’s like UH!!! and maybe bc she’s curious about his life before her she asks what he remembers about it. and yes i AM shoehorning in that scene from the 1996 movie -_- it’s my favorite part.
anyway.. towards the end where they’re destroying the family of blood and there’s that scene where john smith pictures his life with martha & what could be & then he realizes that this could be his life with martha if he went back to being the doctor, bc :O!!! the doctor is also in love with her.
then LATER when the doctors back & they’ve won and he’s all happy and filled with stopwatch energy he kisses her out of excitement (u know how he is) and she’s like “was that john smith or the doctor kissing me” and he pontificates for a while and then says “does it matter?” and she smiles at him and THATS IT!!! end of the episode