Fic: Goodbye (36/100)

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Thirty-sixth drabble for the doctorwho_100 challenge.

Fic Name: Goodbye
Rating: G
Prompt: Regret (#014)
Claim: Companions
Companion: Tegan Jovanka
Timeline: At the end of Revelation of the Daleks, and during the Big Finish audio The Gathering.
Spoilers: Some, for Revelation of the Daleks and The Gathering.


She didn't say goodbye, not properly. How can she leave him and not do it properly? She runs back, concrete footsteps echoing around her, the sound of the TARDIS dematerialising pushing her faster, even though she already knows that there’s no hope of reaching it in time. She rounds the corner, breathless, but it’s gone from her sight.

Twenty years later, she sees him again; same old cricket outfit and celery, same old awkward pauses, same old Doctor. She gets one last adventure. She tells him she doesn’t regret leaving. Twenty years after she left him, Tegan gets her goodbye.


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Comments

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

so pretty and special and full of extra unsaid-ness

fab. :)

[eeveekitty85.livejournal.com]

Awww...to use a cliche, short and sweet. As I said, Tegan's departure didn't really give me a lot of closure in the episode...so it's nice that she gets her goodbye in the audio.

And oh how I love that companion icon of yours. First time I saw it, I just sat there for a while, squinting like a moron, trying to read all the names...are they all there?

[kazzy.livejournal.com]

I like this reason for her leaving. I also like that she got her goodbye (I assume that was in the audio?)