Who Fic: Upside-Down II
No, I haven't suddenly started being able to write again. :\ This was sitting on my HDD waiting for the light of day. Er, your monitor.
When I wrote Upside-Down, I described it thusly:
Pointless happy fluff. It's very out-of-character for me, so I'm planning a sequel in which Martha and Ten angst over Gallifrey.
So I did.
Title: Upside-Down II
Characters/Pairing: Martha, Tenth Doctor
Rating: G for Everyone.
Spoilers: None. At all. Unless you were unaware that someone named Martha would be traveling with the Doctor at some point. And that Gallifrey went boom.
Length: 270 words. This goes beyond epic.
The sky of Sannott Prime was red and orange and white, lit by the sunset of a small main-sequence star, and the ground was the color of rust. There were steep mountains in the distance, jagged and dark against the sunset so that it almost seemed like the sky was poking down into the ground. The light of two bright citadels a few miles away from where the TARDIS had landed reflected off of the scattered clouds, giving them bright silver and golden linings.
"It feels like autumn," was all Martha had to say about it.
"Does it?" the Doctor said idly, and then, "It feels like...."
"Doctor?" Martha asked, when he didn't finish the sentence.
He began explaining to her about iron deposits and methane layers and reflective vapors.
Several hours and a narrowly escaped execution later, Martha found the Doctor lying on his back in the dust near where they'd landed, looking backwards and upside-down into the distance.
"Doctor? What are you doing down there?" she asked him.
"I fixed it," he said. "It's right-side-up now."
"I don't get it," and so she joined him and looked for herself. She saw red, white-tipped mountains of sky reaching up (down) into the burnt orange above (below) them. The round citadels seemed to hang in the sky like moons or suns now, and their light and that of the actual sun made the clouds look like patches of fire. "Oh," she breathed.
She rolled her head to the side and looked at him. He kept watching the upside-down world, but when she took his hand, he held hers tighly back.
When I wrote Upside-Down, I described it thusly:
Pointless happy fluff. It's very out-of-character for me, so I'm planning a sequel in which Martha and Ten angst over Gallifrey.
So I did.
Title: Upside-Down II
Characters/Pairing: Martha, Tenth Doctor
Rating: G for Everyone.
Spoilers: None. At all. Unless you were unaware that someone named Martha would be traveling with the Doctor at some point. And that Gallifrey went boom.
Length: 270 words. This goes beyond epic.
The sky of Sannott Prime was red and orange and white, lit by the sunset of a small main-sequence star, and the ground was the color of rust. There were steep mountains in the distance, jagged and dark against the sunset so that it almost seemed like the sky was poking down into the ground. The light of two bright citadels a few miles away from where the TARDIS had landed reflected off of the scattered clouds, giving them bright silver and golden linings.
"It feels like autumn," was all Martha had to say about it.
"Does it?" the Doctor said idly, and then, "It feels like...."
"Doctor?" Martha asked, when he didn't finish the sentence.
He began explaining to her about iron deposits and methane layers and reflective vapors.
Several hours and a narrowly escaped execution later, Martha found the Doctor lying on his back in the dust near where they'd landed, looking backwards and upside-down into the distance.
"Doctor? What are you doing down there?" she asked him.
"I fixed it," he said. "It's right-side-up now."
"I don't get it," and so she joined him and looked for herself. She saw red, white-tipped mountains of sky reaching up (down) into the burnt orange above (below) them. The round citadels seemed to hang in the sky like moons or suns now, and their light and that of the actual sun made the clouds look like patches of fire. "Oh," she breathed.
She rolled her head to the side and looked at him. He kept watching the upside-down world, but when she took his hand, he held hers tighly back.