Fics: Stubborn (16/100), Texture (17/100) and Watching (18/100)

[purple_bug]

Three fics today! I've been waiting to hit a multiple-of-five 'milestone' that didn't coincide with a holiday, so I could post these. They go together, like a little story from three perspectives - also kinda sense-themed (see prompts). I know a few people who read these are fans of the characters, so I'm hoping they're well-received. Bear in mind that I've seen 100,000 BC but not The Daleks, so I have no idea what Skaro looks like in that particular story, nor what happens at the very beginning of it. I'm making it up to suit me :o)

Fic Name: Stubborn
Rating: G
Prompt: Sound (#037)
Claim: Companions
Companion: Ian Chesterton
Timeline: At the beginning of The Daleks.
Spoilers: None, unless you’ve been living in a cupboard for the last 43 years.


Haunting cries echo across the land, sending shivers down his spine. He fights the urge to look up and gape at what will probably be very odd-looking birds; he doesn’t want to give the old man the satisfaction. Even if he’s right - and Ian definitely believes now; if the prehistoric cavemen didn’t convince him, this does - he doesn’t want to let him acknowledge it.

He is on an alien world, listening to the cries of strange birds; just like the old man said. Will they get home soon, or is this something he’ll have to get used to?


Fic Name: Texture
Rating: G
Prompt: Touch (#038)
Claim: Companions
Companion: Barbara Wright
Timeline: At the beginning of The Daleks.
Spoilers: None (see above)


Barbara sifts the grey sand through her fingers, rubbing a pinch of it between finger and thumb. It’s different to Earth sand; it’s fine and gritty at the same time, with a slight tackiness to it, as though the particles were threaded together with spider’s web. It’s very strange indeed, and it both intrigues and frightens her. Suddenly, it hits her for the first time that she’s not on Earth. She’s on a completely different planet, far from home, with a crotchety old man and his strange granddaughter, lost in time and space. The enormity of it renders her speechless.


Fic Name: Watching
Rating: G
Prompt: Sight (#040)
Claim: Companions
Companion: Susan Foreman
Timeline: At the beginning of The Daleks.
Spoilers: None (see above)


The two teachers show very different responses, she notes with interest. Mr Chesterton is trying to keep his eyebrows at a sensible level and appear composed, and Ms Wright is visibly shocked. Susan offers her a reassuring smile, but only the faintest echo of it is returned.

Looking around the barren wasteland, she can see the reason for their reactions. They’re only a primitive species, she reminds herself. They’ve never even left their own planet before, it’s no wonder they’re having difficulty adjusting. She hopes they’ll get used to it in time; there’s so much more for them to see.


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Comments

[bibliophile1887.livejournal.com]

These are really good, great characterization. However, Skaro was a completely dead planet, no living creatures at all, it was the main point of the first episode.

Good drabbles, though. Well done.

[kazzy.livejournal.com]

*Dances* Ian! Barbara! Susan! Yay! I have much love! (note exclamation marks!) I love the confusion you've given them (Ian and Barbara) at seeing an alien world, because it fits with them at that time. And I love Susan because she sort of became a guide, at least very early on, someone that could be between Ian and Barbara and her grandfather and the universe. That shows there.

Oh, and I love the spoiler note! ;)

Damn, I need a first Doctor icon. (you'll just have to make do with Martha)

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well... Like I said, haven't seen it. I will endeavour to do so, though, I'd really like to see the first Daleks properly. I'll leave the drabble as is, I think - it's rather difficult to rewrite something with a word limit :o) Actually, re-reading Ian's one... He might be imagining those bird cries *crafty grin* He could just be freaked out by the dead planet and his mind is inventing sounds (y'know, in that fun way minds do when it's all quiet and you're in the perfect state to be freaked out). Yeah. I'll go with that. Ian's hearing imaginary birds on the dead planet :o)

But thanks - glad to know I got the characterisation right after only seeing the first story :o) And thanks for the concrit.

[bibliophile1887.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't re-write it, it's very good, and believable. It is certainly possible he *thinks* he's hearing birds. ;)

And yes, you really should see The Daleks. It is very good.

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

*grins* I thought you in particular would like them. I'm glad the characters and the timeline fit well - with characters I don't know so well, it's difficult to place them sometimes. I have a list of ones I've written and ones I haven't, and the majority of unwritten ones are in the Hartnell and Troughton eras :o( But I'm trying to change that - currently watching a few reconstructed Troughtons :oD (It's quite saddening to note how excited I get when I come across a surviving episode - I don't think there's a lower point in a new Whovian's fandom experience than when they first find out that the BBC burned the stories.) But I've already got a Polly and am attempting a Victoria. Need to see more of One's companions... Speaking of companions, do you think I should include the UNIT lot in my list? They weren't really companions in the strictest sense of the word (made the decision - at whatever stage of their journey - to travel with the Doctor, and actually went places - for which reason I don't include Sara Kingdom), but they're great characters...

Anyway, yes. The spoiler note was inspired by yours, by the way :o) And thanks, I'm glad you caught this one this time - you don't have any distracting tv programmes, I'm guessing? ;o)

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

I shall redouble my efforts to get hold of it - and other Hartnells. *nods decisively* I've seen a clip of Ian getting inside a Dalek casing - would be nice to see it in context :o) Also interesting to see how relatively vulnerable Daleks used to be compared to the practically indestructible ones we have now, that can only be killed with a deus ex TARDIS.