The Terminal Decay Concordance

Terminal Decay by unslinky is a fan fiction novel that takes place shortly after the episode "The Planet of the Dead"in the series Doctor Who. The story is Alternate Universe to everything Doctor Who and Torchwood after that. Unslinky started posting this amazing story in May 2010 and here it is March 2011 and the story is far from being completed. The story is on the website A Teaspoon and an Open Mind.

I am such a big fan of this novel and it's amazing complexities, I decided to write a
concordance for Terminal Decay.
The labels in this blog can be used to track of who's who and what's what in the novel. For instance if you scroll down to "seizures" you'll find that it has (3). When you click on that label you'll come up with the Chapters that has someone having a seizure: Chapter 410, 509, 555.
The summaries are just to jog your memory and sometimes I'll write something pertaining to that Chapter that is a bit of TD trivia. The Blog Entries themselves are listed below the rather long (and bound to be even longer) Labels section. Summary inconsistencies should be directed to me and I'll make corrections.
Writing this is a long process so I'm far from being caught up but I'm trying! One final thing: I am American so my phrasing and spelling may look a little "off" to you in the UK
Allons-y, Donnaj

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Terminal Decay Chapter 559

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Returning to the ward John learns that Jacko slipped out of his bed and bumped his head and his arm. Jacko will have to be sedated so that they can scan his arm for any further injuries. Donna talks to John about his attitude and snapping at people. She takes John out of the ward and into isolation room B up to the bed where Rose lies in an Artron energy sustained brain death.

Terminal Decay Chapter 558

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Sue returns to the ward, having gotten a few hours of sleep and a shower. Pete will be operated on by Sue and Phil. John explains that he will show Donna and Tom how to set and use the tissue regenerator. Ryan is moved to a side treatment room where the tissue regenerator will be used on him by John. John explains the procedure and that they will be using STOGS (splinty things of Gallifrey) to set his legs (as he nor Donna can remember the real name of the instrument) which fires laser pins into the bone. John and the Donna get into a bit of a dust up about how the STOGs should be explained to Ryan. John becomes agitated with Ryan and snaps at him about wanting to delay the tissue regenerator treatment so that he can rest. John has an outburst that everyone will be fixed up and healed but his life will never be the same. Donna cautions John that if his sons see him so upset they could be further traumatized.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Terminal Decay Chapter 557

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Jack returns to the ward and is advised by John that the Doctor is in a lot of pain but will be able to use the energy and cautions that he will have to continue to be monitored with the fractured bones. John is frustrated that everyone wants him to sleep when he doesn’t want to be asleep. Angela, Lee and Andy visit the ward. John helps Jacko draw pictures. John asks Andy and Lee to do a bit of shopping for him and to also buy clothing that they need as well as clothing for Ryan and DVD’s that they might like to watch while Ryan recouperates and to buy Legos using his credit card trusting them to be sensible with the card and that his pin number is 5646. It is also discovered that John loves expensive designer jeans , which Jackie confirms that he once spent 650 quid on a pair of limited edition jeans. John asks Jackie if she remembered to bring his chair, which Jackie “forgot” as asked by Sue to try and get John to rest in bed.

Terminal Decay Chapter 556

Chapter 556 link

Chapter 556

John explains to Martha the reason the painkillers are not very affective to relieve the Doctor’s pain from his broken femur: it is the way his nerves are wired in his body. A fractured femur causes intense physical pain as well as neurological pain. The Doctor’s nerve and pain receptors are overtaxed causing him to go into respiratory bypass, a very scary thing when you’re conscious. John tells Martha and Gwen and Phil that the Doctor told him in Gallifreyan that it hurts and he couldn’t (perhaps withstand the pain). The other term, Garanschidt is the “little bit of shock absorbing bone at the end of his long bones.”
John explains the reason why he can’t talk in Gallifrey the way the Doctor can is because his throat is that of a human’s and that he may teach Jacko how to write and read Gallifreyan when he’s older. There’s also discussion of getting Legos for Jacko and the adults, and having a taller walker made for Michael to build his legs up. Jacko’s birthday is in June and will starting infant school in September, Jacko’s reading level is that of a child of seven or eight years old.
John and Rose are financially secure. He earns £475,000 a year at Torchwood. £300,000 a year for consulting. He receives about about a million a year from Vitex . He earns about £25,000 more a year teaching the piano, and has three albums recorded he receives around £50,000 a year royalties on the royalties for recordings. Rose receives her salary plus about 3 million a year in shares from Vitex. John’s three piano recordings have made the top ten in Classical Music. Talking about his finances, John realizes that Rose took care of mundane tasks like bill paying and has to leave the ward.