"Triumph"

[shivver]

Title: "Triumph"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Lindy Pepper-Bean
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 200

Summary:
Lindy: "What do you mean, the Great Beyond?"
Hoochy: "The Wild Wood."
Brewster: "And further than that. The river leads down to the sea, and there's a whole world out there, untamed... Now we can go out there, to this planet, and we can fight it and tame it and own it. We'll be pioneers, just like our ancestors."

Read it on AO3.

Author's Notes: This is the follow-up to "Dot and Bubble" that no one wanted.

Well, that's not quite true. My husband has always wanted the boat to leave the dock and immediately sink or fall off a cliff or explode... and he wanted me to write it. Thus, this story, but it is not what he wanted. (He thinks this story is awful. Good-awful.)

On the bright side, I'm still writing a fic a month.

Comments

[romanajo123]

I think I’ve read this twice now, and YES. I remember on social media people wanted an episode where the Doctor goes back to Finetime. But honestly, I didn’t see the point in him returning.

This fic is 100 percent accepted. Given how Lindy acted in the episode, it’s completely believable she’d do something like this

[shivver]

Thanks! You know how much I love exploring characters before or after their episodes, and I really felt that Lindy (or any of the other Finetime refugees) would not change their way of thinking even in the face of overwhelming hardship or truth (meaning, seeing that the Doctor's predictions that they would all die out there come true) - after all, people don't change their opinions in such circumstances in real life, either. If anything, they cling to their opinions even harder and convince themselves that they're right, even as they die.