I have been recced!

[kerravonsen]

Whee! I was wondering why I was getting comments for Tempus Fugit (see also on my fic site) when it was posted a couple of years ago, and apparently it has been recced as one of a series of recs celebrating awesome female characters: http://siljamus.dreamwidth.org/113098.html

Yay!

It makes me want to write more about those two, except for this BIG problem: Carter would NEVER agree to travel with the Doctor, because she would consider it a dereliction of duty, an absence-without-leave. And it's no good saying "oh, make it like with Tegan and have him pick her up and then find it impossible to get her back to the right place-and-time" because she's so tech that she'd insist on helping to mend the TARDIS to fix whatever the flaw was that was preventing her return.

So I can't think of any GOOD reasons for Carter to stay, and that means I can't make her a companion, and that means I can't write any more.

So do any of you have workable ideas to get around this problem?

Comments

[kaffy_r]

My first thought was similar to everyone else's: have her seconded, for a (linear) 12-month period of time; that could be plenty of time for adventure.

As for the whole military/ewww thing with the Doctor, perhaps the Doctor's distaste for the military doesn't need to be quite as pronounced as it might seem to outsiders. Despite everything he said, and no matter how loudly he said it, he appreciated many UNIT officers and enlisted folks during his time as Three. He might drive the bargain that Carter's secondment would be for purposes of cultural and political observation, *not* for the purposes of figuring out time travel. (I'd imagine that Jack might snort and say "no, we'll figure out time travel on our own, thanks; if we want that kind of trouble, let it be our own fault, what do you think of that?" And Ten might appreciate that.)

You could also do a bit of business in which the Doctor does manage to bring Carter back to two minutes after she leaves ... only she's not impressed, having already been with him for six months of the 12 month period, and pretty much echoes Jack's "Oh, no, I want nothin' to do with travel!" attitude.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Ooo, yes, this. Because it's the SGC, it's just plausible, given a good initial reason, to have Carter sent along, I think.

Anyway, it wouldn't take too much handwaving for me to buy it, were I reading the fic. :)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I see we all had the same idea. Sam would have no problems at all if she was ordered to go. And a person who knows she's travelled in time clearly needs investigating.