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

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Terminal Decay Chapter 510

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It is revealed that the Doctor has broken his right femur with the neck of the femur fractured and twisted out of line. At the other end there was a fracture and close to the knee. The Doctor's femoral arteries are dangerously close to the sheared bone. Tom and Martha decide to place the Doctor in a traction brace. With help from Andy, Tom and Jack the doctor's is placed in the 48th century traction brace however the brace needed to have a secondary attachment instead of a top strap because of the Doctor's injury. Jack tries to find this in the TARDIS store with Donna's help looking for the attachment, Jack climbs up on a precarious ledge and manages to get his leg jammed through the hole in the brace.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Terminal Decay Chapter 509

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The Doctor suffers two violent seizures which lasted close to nine
minutes in duration. After being placed on the gurney the Doctor starts
to emit a eerily low wail that unnerves everyone. Luke discovers through
the TARDIS scan that the Doctor has broken his right femur which is worse
for a Time Lord than it is for a human to break. The break to his femur
is both proximal and distal in the shaft of his femur: shearing through
both ends. Jacko who wants to draw his Uncle Dad a picture is persuaded
to go the the TARDIS galley for biscuits. Wilf informs everyone that the
Doctor has hurt himself quite seriously. Sylvia and Wilf help Jackie take
the now very upset Jacko to the galley because he's heard and seen the
Doctor wailing and groaning.

Terminal Decay Chapter 523

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The TARDIS is pressed into service to get everyone who is injured their patient charts installed in the Torchwood hospital. Simon and Mickey meet again, Jacko is awake from his sedation. Martha meets Nelly and Simon. Sue tells Martha that the Torchwood hospital serves over 2000 employees and their families.

Terminal Decay Chapter 522

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Sue with the help of Andy and Lee start to get everyone out of the TARDIS and into the Torchwood hospital ward. Keith has a hard time reconciling the fact that the TARDIS has medical equipment that could save lives but is cautioned by both Donna and Sue that using the equipment out of time and duplicating the equipment could cause problems: the equipment not being created and lives lost and planets affected by going public with these medical advances. Donna worries if the TARDIS should be moved if she isn't in a safe environment. Sue assures her that the TARDIS is safe and apologizes for Keith's outbursts. Keith is unhappy that Sue left them with very little warning and rant about having to endure IVF due to being attacked by Rose in the past.

Terminal Decay Chapter 508

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Tom goes to the Doctor in the lab where he is feeling dizzy and sick again. Tom wants to put on a split but is advised by Luke who has looked at the Doctor’s scans that he will need a full reduction: his bones had fractured and had forced his hand backward. The scans reveal an anomaly that appears spongy and less dense at the ends of his bones which as the Doctor explains are like shock absorbers but now are looking decalcified and brittle. They believe this has been caused by the Doctor’s chemotherapy drugs which has leached his bone of magnesium. Rather than giving the Doctor milk of magnesia they will have to find another magnesium supplement after tests are run to confirm that is what is wrong with the Doctor’s bones. As they are moving the Doctor to sit up from the lab table, the Doctor’s vertigo comes back and he loses his tea he had drank and his more dizzy. Jack offers to carry the Doctor back to bed but the Doctor seems to throw himself background over tipping the stool and landing on the floor.

Terminal Decay Chapter 507

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Sue and Jackie are in the intensive care room with Rose. Jackie isn’t sure what she should do and how to really feel. Jackie loved her daughter despite what she had done and she questions how this could have happened and how she can face the people who trusted her and were extremely harmed by Rose’s actions. Grandma Rose and Jacko have a talk, Jackie, Tom and Sue are informed about the Doctor’s wrist. Tom goes off to fetch a splint and a sling for the Doctor. Martha is concerned about the stabilization ligaments may also be in his wrists and suggests to Tom to have finger traps ready just in case when Tom sorts out the Doctor’s wrist.

Terminal Decay Chapter 506

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Luke is flabbergasted in how the Doctor is so sick but he is excited to be able to fly the TARDIS. The Doctor admits to Luke and Donna that he had involuntarily gave himself an adrenaline surge. The adrenaline surge which the Doctor didn’t completely induce on his own is enabling him to get out of isolation rather than be physically miserable because he can focus on something outside of himself like help Rose and Ryan and Jack. Donna gives him a lecture on being an Out of Space Donut Hole. The Doctor wants to take a look at Ryan’s scans but breaks his wrist trying to move a microscope on the work bench, feeling defeated, the Doctor lets a tear escape his eye as he has his head down on the bench.