Hello
Title: Hello
Author: Persiflage_1
Characters/Pairings: Martha Jones
Rating: G
Spoilers: The Last of the Time Lords, The Sontaran Stratagem, Reset
Summary: Martha reflects that her reunion with the Doctor wasn't quite as she'd hoped.
Disclaimer: I don't even own my brain any more, never mind Doctor Who!
Author Notes: This is the second of several stories that the Bunny!Muses presented to me overnight after I watched The Sontaran Stratagem. This time it's an introspective from Martha's PoV.
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As Martha followed Harris and Gray, her mind went back to her earlier conversation with the Doctor; he'd had no right to have a go at her over how 'at home' she was in UNIT, not when he'd got her the job there in the first place. She hadn't asked for it, hadn't really even thought about what she was going to do once she was qualified. Passing her exams and helping her family to cope were all that she'd thought about once he'd left; she'd been frantic with worry about her mum and Tish, both of whom had suffered much from the Master and his soldiers through their almost constant presence in the Valiant's conference room. Her dad had been far luckier, and his anger at his inability to look after his wife and daughter was clearly expressed, and she knew that was psychologically good for him (crockery could be replaced after all). But Francine and Tish had both been withdrawn and disinclined to talk about their experiences. It had taken Martha weeks, in between longs hours spent revising for her imminent exams, to coax them to talk to her and dealing with the emotional fallout had taken almost all her energy. It still surprised her that she'd managed to ace her exams, given the circumstances.
As she'd told Jack when he'd brought it up, the phone call from UNIT had come as a complete surprise, and the hint that she'd been recommended by an 'impeccable source' had been an even bigger surprise. But given the skills she'd learnt 'in the field', surviving the Master, his soldiers and the Toclafane, it would have been silly to turn the job down. The pay was better than the NHS could offer and she'd been sure the work as an MO, would be interesting too.
The brief conversation she'd had with Jack about UNIT's methods had caused her some concern, but she was convinced that Colonel Mace, at least, was a good man - just as she'd told the Doctor - and if there were others who were less trustworthy, well she'd keep her eyes and ears open, and be wary about trusting others too easily.
Martha was so lost in her thoughts that it took her a moment to realise that Harris and Gray had brought her down into the basement of the ATMOS factory, which was puzzling; she wondered what Mace had discovered down here.
Then she saw the tank and her survival instincts kicked in, but it was a little too late as she discovered when she ran to the doors and the privates prevented her from leaving.
Well done Martha, you're stuffed now...
Author: Persiflage_1
Characters/Pairings: Martha Jones
Rating: G
Spoilers: The Last of the Time Lords, The Sontaran Stratagem, Reset
Summary: Martha reflects that her reunion with the Doctor wasn't quite as she'd hoped.
Disclaimer: I don't even own my brain any more, never mind Doctor Who!
Author Notes: This is the second of several stories that the Bunny!Muses presented to me overnight after I watched The Sontaran Stratagem. This time it's an introspective from Martha's PoV.
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As Martha followed Harris and Gray, her mind went back to her earlier conversation with the Doctor; he'd had no right to have a go at her over how 'at home' she was in UNIT, not when he'd got her the job there in the first place. She hadn't asked for it, hadn't really even thought about what she was going to do once she was qualified. Passing her exams and helping her family to cope were all that she'd thought about once he'd left; she'd been frantic with worry about her mum and Tish, both of whom had suffered much from the Master and his soldiers through their almost constant presence in the Valiant's conference room. Her dad had been far luckier, and his anger at his inability to look after his wife and daughter was clearly expressed, and she knew that was psychologically good for him (crockery could be replaced after all). But Francine and Tish had both been withdrawn and disinclined to talk about their experiences. It had taken Martha weeks, in between longs hours spent revising for her imminent exams, to coax them to talk to her and dealing with the emotional fallout had taken almost all her energy. It still surprised her that she'd managed to ace her exams, given the circumstances.
As she'd told Jack when he'd brought it up, the phone call from UNIT had come as a complete surprise, and the hint that she'd been recommended by an 'impeccable source' had been an even bigger surprise. But given the skills she'd learnt 'in the field', surviving the Master, his soldiers and the Toclafane, it would have been silly to turn the job down. The pay was better than the NHS could offer and she'd been sure the work as an MO, would be interesting too.
The brief conversation she'd had with Jack about UNIT's methods had caused her some concern, but she was convinced that Colonel Mace, at least, was a good man - just as she'd told the Doctor - and if there were others who were less trustworthy, well she'd keep her eyes and ears open, and be wary about trusting others too easily.
Martha was so lost in her thoughts that it took her a moment to realise that Harris and Gray had brought her down into the basement of the ATMOS factory, which was puzzling; she wondered what Mace had discovered down here.
Then she saw the tank and her survival instincts kicked in, but it was a little too late as she discovered when she ran to the doors and the privates prevented her from leaving.
Well done Martha, you're stuffed now...