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

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

While she's unquestionably brilliant (I may dislike her, but I'm not blind :) I really doubt she could fix something a Time Lord couldn't... so we could have heaps of fun with her insisting of mending it, thinking she's got it right... and finding out she hasn't when they end up on Planet Omigodwherearewenow????

Just about any of the Doctor's reaction to that would be even more fun :)

Alternately, one of the little souvenirs the Doctor picked up on his travels, somewhere in the bowels of the TARDIS, turns out to be a quantum mirror...

[kerravonsen]

True, you do have a point there. And it would be somewhat amusing.