FIC: Missed Connections

[orbythesea]

Title: Missed Connections
Rating: PG
Characters: Four and Lavinia.
Summary: Sarah Jane's like a butterfly, always on the go.

Comments

[paranoidangel42]

Go Aunt Lavinia! They're both great in this - the Doctor's perfectly Doctorish, especially trying to deliver her Christmas present in February. I love how you've fitted that in with K9 and Company.

It's actually quite sad to think about in the future when she thinks he forgot about her (apart from K9), whereas actually he's been trying to see her all this time, she's just always off chasing stories.

[swallowedbysky]

Yay! I've wanted to write something with both Four and Lavinia for ages but could never think of what, until it occurred to me that I could put them together and see what happened. I mentioned the insane idea of attempting to write Four/Lavinia (as a pairing) to a friend who insisted that I had to do it. Then I realized I had absolutely no desire to ship them and probably shouldn't attempt to do so on my first time writing either of them. I'm glad it worked:)

It is sort of tragic, though not in a strictly classical sense. The thing about School Reunion (one of them, at least) that's always fallen a bit flat to me is Ten's statement to Sarah that "you were getting on with your life." Well, yeah, that's what people do, but it begs the question of how did he know that to be the case. Now I can blame Lavinia and stop being irritated by that line. (And of course, in my head, late-seventies, early-eighties travels so much because it's too hard to stay in one place after the whole exploring all of time and space thing

[paranoidangel42]

Four/Lavinia does sound insane :)

I always just thought that when Ten says Sarah was getting on with her life he was basing it on what people do, and what he knew of Sarah. And possibly he never thought about how their lives with him affected his companions, and he just assumed they went back to their lives as if nothing ever happened.

I can totally see that she wouldn't stay put long after she came back to Earth.

[swallowedbysky]

I sort of totally want to write it now, just to see if I can.

Well, yes, and I think one of the big Hit You Over The Head With It points of NewWho is that The Doctor (and Ten especially) doesn't really have a solid grasp of consequence and, um, he probably needs to get one at some point. (One could argue that every Big Major Thing he's faced in the new series has been his own fault.) It's a brilliant thing when it's done well, and necessary, I think. Oh, and it makes sense-- why should a man who can travel through time and space, effectively changing the course of events if he chooses (and now without anyone to answer to when he does) have to worry about the consequences of his actions? He can always escape them, change them, etc. I'm not putting it very well because my brain is sort of a giant pile of mush right now, but suffice it to say I could write pages on consequences and The Doctor. I'll spare you:)

[paranoidangel42]

I quite like the running theme of the Doctor not having to deal with consequences, but I think it does need to come back and bite him in a really big way at some point.

[swallowedbysky]

I think it has, to an extent, he just hasn't noticed it. Nine's regeneration into Ten was a consequence of his leaving someone else to clean up after the Jagrafes, Doomsday was a result of leaving someone else to clean up the alternate universe, The Master's rise to power would never have happened if he hadn't taken down Harriet Jones. The list goes on of all the ways his ass got bitten, the problem is he doesn't seem to have learned anything from this. Then again, if he did it would be a pretty boring show.

[paranoidangel42]

Oh, yes, that's true. I knew there had been things, I just couldn't think of any.