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Title: Perspective
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Summary: The Fifth and Second Doctors meet. Jamie, Zoe, Tegan and Turlough get to know each other a little.
Sometimes, Turlough thought that the Doctor didn’t take anything very seriously.
All right, they’d met incarnations of the Doctor before but that had been different. That had been a deliberate plot, a manipulation of time and space. And when they’d seen the other TARDIS on the opposite of the clearing they’d just landed in, Turlough had thought for a minute that they’d wandered into trouble. The Doctor however, had seemed quite unworried about it.
“I say, I’d forgotten you were coming here for a picnic!” he said. “That must be why it suddenly seemed like a good idea … ”
“Never mind old chap!” the other Doctor said merrily. “Do you want to stay? Jamie and Zoe have made us haggis! I’m very much looking forward to sampling them.”
“Oh yes!” the Doctor said happily. “Tegan’s been making us something, I’m not quite sure what, but it should be very nice! Turlough, Tegan, meet Jamie and Zoe … ”
Turlough and Tegan had stared and Jamie and Zoe had stared right back with confused expressions. Since Turlough hadn’t seen them in the Rassilon place, he assumed that this was before or after that. He’d tried to tell the Doctor that he wasn’t sure about this but both Doctors were too busy sorting out the picnic rugs (“Oh you’ve got a new one - I don’t like it!”) and ordered them to go off and have a wander before they ate.
Which was now Turlough was currently standing by a lake with a man in a kilt and hoping that this was a quiet planet where no one would see them.
“So, how long’ve ye been with the Doctor then?” Jamie asked him, sounding genuinely interested.
“Oh, a few months I suppose,” Turlough said. “I’m not sure.”
“Right,” Jamie said. He looked a little uncomfortable. Turlough got the impression that he hadn’t been prepared to meet more than one Doctor. Obviously, the regeneration thing was something he wasn’t used to.
“Did you know?” he asked, trying to keep the conversation going. “About regeneration?”
“Oh, aye,” Jamie said. “At least, Ben and Polly - they used to travel with us - told me that once, the Doctor was an old man. I thought they were pulling my leg but it looks like it was true.”
“Oh yes,” Turlough said. “There’s a lot more, you know. I met four of them.”
“Four?”
“Oh yes,” Turlough said, feeling a little smug at knowing more than Jamie. “I met the old man and a man with curly hair, as well as your Doctor. I think I met him after this though - at any rate, you and your friend weren’t there.”
Jamie turned away and stared at the lake. Turlough shrugged his shoulders and did so as well. He could see Tegan and the Zoe girl messing around near some reeds.
“Do ye know?” Jamie asked abruptly.
“Know what?”
“What happens to me?”
“Whyever would I know that?” Turlough said blankly.
“I just thought … I just … ”
“Why do you assume something happens to you anyway?” Turlough asked. “I should think you just get bored and go home.”
Jamie shook his head and looked out over the lake.
“I don’t have a home,” he said. “I mean, I guess that Scotland will always be my home but … but there’s no one there any more. Only Redcoats. And the Doctor … the Doctor’s my family now, I guess. I would never leave him, never. And since I’m not there … I guess get killed by something.”
Turlough stared at him. He couldn’t imagine being so casual about dying. Nor could he imagine that absolutely certainty that Jamie had. In Turlough’s experience, everything got ripped away from you sooner or later. He tended to avoid getting too fond of anything because sooner or later, he’d have to turn away from it and live a different way. Travelling the Doctor was one of the best things that had ever happened to him (not that he’d ever let the Doctor or Tegan know that!) but he knew it wouldn’t be forever.
“What if you fall in love?” he asked, trying to think of some comforting reason why Jamie might have stopped travelling with the Doctor.
“I couldn’t leave the Doctor,” Jamie said stubbornly. “That would be wrong.”
It was one the tip of Turlough’s tongue to ask if Jamie was gay but he eyed Jamie’s muscles and bit back the question. Humans didn’t tend to like discussion of homosexuality.
“I don’t mind,” Jamie said, sounding reassuring. “The Phantom Piper will come for me as he comes for all the McCrimmons. And now I can see that the Doctor will be okay without me, it won’t be so bad. Ye’ll look after him, won’t ye?”
“Of course,” Turlough said automatically, wondering what he was getting into even as he made the promise.
Jamie opened his mouth to say something else but then seemed to freeze.
“What’s that?” he said, pointing at something in the water.
Turlough turned, following the direction of Jamie’s finger. He was right. There was something in the water, something that looked a lot like -
*
“So, have you been with the Doctor long?” Tegan asked.
She wasn’t too worried about this new turn of events. Two Doctors was a bit much but it was nice to have another woman to talk to again. And Jamie McCrimmon was rather more her type than Turlough. It might be quite nice to have an excuse to flirt with someone again.
“Oh yes,” Zoe said merrily. “Some months now. It’s been ever such a lot of fun. I’ve learned a lot of things.”
“Oh right,” Tegan said. “About running away mostly!”
“Well, partly,” Zoe said, looking thoughtful. “But I’ve learned other things too. The Doctor’s nearly as clever as me you see, so he can tell me all sorts of things about some very interesting science.”
“Not really a science person, me,” Tegan said, crouching down by the side of the lake and prodding the reeds a bit.
“Why do you travel with the Doctor?” Zoe asked, joining her.
“It was an accident at first,” Tegan said slowly. “But I got … caught up in it, I suppose. I always wanted to travel, see the world … see everything. With the Doctor I see that … sometimes more than I want to.”
She tried to shake off a feeling of melancholy. It kept creeping up on her all of a sudden lately - sadness at all the death, all the suffering, all the fear she’d seen. She enjoyed the Doctor’s company, she even had grown to like Turlough - but it was so painful sometimes.
“What about you?” she asked, trying to shake off her mood.
“I wanted to learn,” Zoe said, suddenly sounding a little sad herself. “My life had been … I didn’t feel anything. I knew the Doctor could teach me best so I went with him.”
“Don’t you have any family?”
“Oh no,” Zoe said. “I don’t think I ever had a family. I grew up in the City with lots of other people like me.”
“Do you miss them?”
“No,” Zoe said at once. “I … we weren’t supposed to be friends. Not really. That’s why I wanted to travel with the Doctor. I wanted friends.”
Tegan looked at her. Zoe reminded her a little of Nyssa. She was more vibrant, more confident but still very similar. Lonely.
“Well, now you have the Doctor and Jamie,” she said bracingly. “Hey - is Jamie a special friend?”
Zoe giggled.
“Jamie!” she said. “Jamie’s too busy following the Doctor around!”
“No!”
“Oh yes!”
Tegan was about to question this remark further but as she opened her mouth, she heard a screech from the other side of the lake.
“What was that?” Zoe demanded.
“Turlough,” Tegan said grimly. Leaping to her feet, she tried to see where Turlough and Jamie had wandered off to. “I think they’re over there. Come on!”
The two of them set off running.
*
“Oh, my Giddy aunt!” the Second Doctor said, leaping up. “What’s happened to them now?”
“You can’t leave them for a minute,” the Fifth Doctor said with a sigh. “Honestly!”
“Companions,” they chorused, shaking their heads.
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Summary: The Fifth and Second Doctors meet. Jamie, Zoe, Tegan and Turlough get to know each other a little.
Sometimes, Turlough thought that the Doctor didn’t take anything very seriously.
All right, they’d met incarnations of the Doctor before but that had been different. That had been a deliberate plot, a manipulation of time and space. And when they’d seen the other TARDIS on the opposite of the clearing they’d just landed in, Turlough had thought for a minute that they’d wandered into trouble. The Doctor however, had seemed quite unworried about it.
“I say, I’d forgotten you were coming here for a picnic!” he said. “That must be why it suddenly seemed like a good idea … ”
“Never mind old chap!” the other Doctor said merrily. “Do you want to stay? Jamie and Zoe have made us haggis! I’m very much looking forward to sampling them.”
“Oh yes!” the Doctor said happily. “Tegan’s been making us something, I’m not quite sure what, but it should be very nice! Turlough, Tegan, meet Jamie and Zoe … ”
Turlough and Tegan had stared and Jamie and Zoe had stared right back with confused expressions. Since Turlough hadn’t seen them in the Rassilon place, he assumed that this was before or after that. He’d tried to tell the Doctor that he wasn’t sure about this but both Doctors were too busy sorting out the picnic rugs (“Oh you’ve got a new one - I don’t like it!”) and ordered them to go off and have a wander before they ate.
Which was now Turlough was currently standing by a lake with a man in a kilt and hoping that this was a quiet planet where no one would see them.
“So, how long’ve ye been with the Doctor then?” Jamie asked him, sounding genuinely interested.
“Oh, a few months I suppose,” Turlough said. “I’m not sure.”
“Right,” Jamie said. He looked a little uncomfortable. Turlough got the impression that he hadn’t been prepared to meet more than one Doctor. Obviously, the regeneration thing was something he wasn’t used to.
“Did you know?” he asked, trying to keep the conversation going. “About regeneration?”
“Oh, aye,” Jamie said. “At least, Ben and Polly - they used to travel with us - told me that once, the Doctor was an old man. I thought they were pulling my leg but it looks like it was true.”
“Oh yes,” Turlough said. “There’s a lot more, you know. I met four of them.”
“Four?”
“Oh yes,” Turlough said, feeling a little smug at knowing more than Jamie. “I met the old man and a man with curly hair, as well as your Doctor. I think I met him after this though - at any rate, you and your friend weren’t there.”
Jamie turned away and stared at the lake. Turlough shrugged his shoulders and did so as well. He could see Tegan and the Zoe girl messing around near some reeds.
“Do ye know?” Jamie asked abruptly.
“Know what?”
“What happens to me?”
“Whyever would I know that?” Turlough said blankly.
“I just thought … I just … ”
“Why do you assume something happens to you anyway?” Turlough asked. “I should think you just get bored and go home.”
Jamie shook his head and looked out over the lake.
“I don’t have a home,” he said. “I mean, I guess that Scotland will always be my home but … but there’s no one there any more. Only Redcoats. And the Doctor … the Doctor’s my family now, I guess. I would never leave him, never. And since I’m not there … I guess get killed by something.”
Turlough stared at him. He couldn’t imagine being so casual about dying. Nor could he imagine that absolutely certainty that Jamie had. In Turlough’s experience, everything got ripped away from you sooner or later. He tended to avoid getting too fond of anything because sooner or later, he’d have to turn away from it and live a different way. Travelling the Doctor was one of the best things that had ever happened to him (not that he’d ever let the Doctor or Tegan know that!) but he knew it wouldn’t be forever.
“What if you fall in love?” he asked, trying to think of some comforting reason why Jamie might have stopped travelling with the Doctor.
“I couldn’t leave the Doctor,” Jamie said stubbornly. “That would be wrong.”
It was one the tip of Turlough’s tongue to ask if Jamie was gay but he eyed Jamie’s muscles and bit back the question. Humans didn’t tend to like discussion of homosexuality.
“I don’t mind,” Jamie said, sounding reassuring. “The Phantom Piper will come for me as he comes for all the McCrimmons. And now I can see that the Doctor will be okay without me, it won’t be so bad. Ye’ll look after him, won’t ye?”
“Of course,” Turlough said automatically, wondering what he was getting into even as he made the promise.
Jamie opened his mouth to say something else but then seemed to freeze.
“What’s that?” he said, pointing at something in the water.
Turlough turned, following the direction of Jamie’s finger. He was right. There was something in the water, something that looked a lot like -
*
“So, have you been with the Doctor long?” Tegan asked.
She wasn’t too worried about this new turn of events. Two Doctors was a bit much but it was nice to have another woman to talk to again. And Jamie McCrimmon was rather more her type than Turlough. It might be quite nice to have an excuse to flirt with someone again.
“Oh yes,” Zoe said merrily. “Some months now. It’s been ever such a lot of fun. I’ve learned a lot of things.”
“Oh right,” Tegan said. “About running away mostly!”
“Well, partly,” Zoe said, looking thoughtful. “But I’ve learned other things too. The Doctor’s nearly as clever as me you see, so he can tell me all sorts of things about some very interesting science.”
“Not really a science person, me,” Tegan said, crouching down by the side of the lake and prodding the reeds a bit.
“Why do you travel with the Doctor?” Zoe asked, joining her.
“It was an accident at first,” Tegan said slowly. “But I got … caught up in it, I suppose. I always wanted to travel, see the world … see everything. With the Doctor I see that … sometimes more than I want to.”
She tried to shake off a feeling of melancholy. It kept creeping up on her all of a sudden lately - sadness at all the death, all the suffering, all the fear she’d seen. She enjoyed the Doctor’s company, she even had grown to like Turlough - but it was so painful sometimes.
“What about you?” she asked, trying to shake off her mood.
“I wanted to learn,” Zoe said, suddenly sounding a little sad herself. “My life had been … I didn’t feel anything. I knew the Doctor could teach me best so I went with him.”
“Don’t you have any family?”
“Oh no,” Zoe said. “I don’t think I ever had a family. I grew up in the City with lots of other people like me.”
“Do you miss them?”
“No,” Zoe said at once. “I … we weren’t supposed to be friends. Not really. That’s why I wanted to travel with the Doctor. I wanted friends.”
Tegan looked at her. Zoe reminded her a little of Nyssa. She was more vibrant, more confident but still very similar. Lonely.
“Well, now you have the Doctor and Jamie,” she said bracingly. “Hey - is Jamie a special friend?”
Zoe giggled.
“Jamie!” she said. “Jamie’s too busy following the Doctor around!”
“No!”
“Oh yes!”
Tegan was about to question this remark further but as she opened her mouth, she heard a screech from the other side of the lake.
“What was that?” Zoe demanded.
“Turlough,” Tegan said grimly. Leaping to her feet, she tried to see where Turlough and Jamie had wandered off to. “I think they’re over there. Come on!”
The two of them set off running.
*
“Oh, my Giddy aunt!” the Second Doctor said, leaping up. “What’s happened to them now?”
“You can’t leave them for a minute,” the Fifth Doctor said with a sigh. “Honestly!”
“Companions,” they chorused, shaking their heads.