Fic: End of Days (21/100)

[purple_bug]

Having trouble with my internet again, so I may get later with my updates, though I'll try my best. I like this one, I think I did well.

Fic Name: End of Days
Rating: G
Prompt: Autumn (#064)
Claim: Companions
Companion: Romana II
Timeline: After the Gallifrey series, during the Time War.
Spoilers: General but not major for Gallifrey series 2.


Leela once said that regeneration was like autumn trees burning the leaves from their branches, for the green leaves of spring to create a shape that is both new and old. Romana agrees, but it’s not something she’ll be able to experience again. She has regenerated just once, and that was her seemingly wasteful but ultimately necessary choice.

Now she gives him the order, demands that he save the entire universe, and she waits. She waits for a finality that she has never experienced before, one that means she’ll never again see the spring, with all its leaves and colours.


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Comments

[kazzy.livejournal.com]

Wow, such a short fic and it still made me sad. :(

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Thanks :o) Yes, I'm particularly proud of this one for some reason. Glad you like :o)

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :o) No, definitely need more of the Romana love. I once met someone who knew her, actually. Lalla Ward, that is. Charlie Ross, who played some guy whose name I can't remember in series 3. He said she's "absolutely tiny" and "swears like a sailor". And that someone once played a prank on her when Tom Baker was doing the voice for the BT voice-text service :oD

I couldn't resist the Leela mention. It was Leela's line about regeneration and seasons that inspired this. It linked very strongly in my mind with the 'punting on the Cam' bit from Shada/The Five Doctors, which is where the phrase in the last line comes from.

And I believe if you look back a few posts on the comm, you'll find what you're looking for...