Short trips and ficbit

[romanajo123]

I have been working on my entry for Big Finish's Short Trips competition that ends at the end of this month. ( https://www.bigfinish.com/pages/v/the-paul-spragg-memorial-short-trip-competition-rules-of-entry ). It's been kind of fascinating researching for it! Not going to give away my idea but here's a hint: it involves an important Queen. :)

So! Here's a ficbit thing I wrote today based on this OTPPrompt (Idea from a friend): 
Person A takes Person B on an adventure. During said adventure, something bad happens (e.g. imprisoned) and Person B asks for a divorce when this is all over. Person A is confused since they are not married or even in a romantic relationship.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME!" Tegan protested as one of the hulking, green-skinned armoured guards led her to the mouth of the cave in which the Doctor and Nyssa were currently imprisoned.

 

"You will be quiet!" Shouted the guard in response as he removed his helmet "By order of Her Eminence Jocaste, I, Ganymede of the Nixyces V Armoury, hereby place the three of you under arrest for the crime of thievery from Her Eminence's castle." He placed his helmet back on. "Your sentencing will be at dawn."

 

"If you would please give me a moment to explain-----" the Doctor began.

 

"Your sentencing will be at dawn!" Ganymede repeated, a bit louder than before as he began to walk away, slamming the door at the cave's entrance shut. "Only then can you explain to Her Eminence why you stole her sacred stones. And the punishment usually reserved for common thieves..." He gave a sideways glance to the imprisoned TARDIS crew, his yellow-orange eyes practically glistening evilly, "is death."

 

"Just great," said Tegan, surveying the interior of the cell. It had started off like any other day: the TARDIS had been sent off course for some reason she couldn't understand, they end up on some planet populated by giant talking lizards who now want to imprison them or worse all because the Doctor had to take a few gems from the castle to use to stabilize the TARDIS.

 

"It's not all that bad, Tegan" said Nyssa, trying to comfort her friend.

 

"Not that bad?" Tegan asked, looking down at her shoes, where something rather cold and wet was dripping onto them as the floor of the cave made a disgusting squelching noise, "Oh yeah it's great! Travel the universe! Have adventures! First that business in Amsterdam, then you get turned into a Dalek, and now this! When this is all over, I'm getting a divorce from both of you!"

 

Nyssa gave the Doctor a confused look. "What's a divorce?" She asked.

 

"I'll explain later," he answered, his eyes half-transfixed on the lock of the cave door. "If I could just unlock this door..." The Doctor began to rummage through his pockets, producing a yo-yo, a few miscellaneous bits of tin foil, a cricket ball, and a butterscotch hard candy. "You know," he lamented, "It's times like this when I wish I had the sonic screwdriver."

 

Tegan flinched at the sound of what could only be a small rodent crawling up her arm. This was going to be a long night.  

Comments

[circular_time]

Tegan is the longsuffering sidekick. This sounds very plausible and in character. (Although I'm not sure whether BF would go for the divorce line but you never know :-)

[romanajo123]

Yes, she is. It must come with being the only human of the team.

Glad it sounds in-character (I was worried about writing Tegan, but then realized she's kind of fun to write. I'd listened to part of Children of Seth earlier yesterday to help with her voice. )

You might be right about the 'divorce' line. This was mainly inspired by that prompt. I saw it on tumblr and linked it to my friend. He sparked this idea which kind of made me laugh and I couldn't help writing this. I know it says "OTP" but....I think these three are my OT3 now. :P

[thisbluespirit]

LOL, Tegan!

Good luck with the competition, too.


at the sound of what could only be a small rodent crawling up her arm.

Just a nitpicky note (since you're trying for a competition, even if this isn't the entry): Tegan might flinch at the sound of a rodent moving nearby, or she might flinch at feeling something crawling up her arm, but if something's crawling up her arm, it's definitely not going to be the sound of it she's flinching at. And I would humbly suggest that at that point she'd be doing more than flinching (probably to puzzled stares from the other two). ;-)

(I do like a bit of team Five! I hope you didn't mind my comment!)

[romanajo123]

Thanks!


(I don't mind! That actually does make more sense. I don't know why I didn't catch that. :) )


Team Five is great and kind of fun to write for.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, but it's flashfic, and it's an easy sort of thing to do - it's very nitpicky even to mention it! But I'm glad you didn't mind too much. :-)