Part three,focusing on Nyssa, and the third fic I've written in as many days. Ever so slightly Adric/Nyssa (Nydric ftw).
Spoilers for Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Earthshock.
Disclaimer: If I owned Doctor Who, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction for it.
Nyssa hadn't been at all surprised when it happened.
After all, Adric was a part of her life. They'd been close. It stood to reason that she'd lose him. She was losing all the parts of her life.
Her mother had died, on Traken, not all that long ago. Everyone agreed that'd she'd been too young to die, but Kassia had been even younger.
Nyssa had been so happy at the wedding, for both of them, but before she knew it, Kassia was gone. And Seron, and Proctor Neman, and then her father, killed and taken over by the master.
But it had still been alright (just about). She'd met the Doctor, and Adric, and Tegan.
She'd seen the Doctor as immutable, wandering the universe in a ridiculously long scarf for eternity, and even though she'd only just met him, her heart skipped a beat when he fell.
He'd changed, right in front of her. She'd heard that Time Lords could regenerate, but she hadn't realised how much they changed. The new Doctor was younger, blond, so much more subdued... it was a while before she could see them as the same person.
Then there was Professor Kyle. She'd liked Professor Kyle. They'd both chosen to stay behind rather than go and fight, they were both scientists... she thought they could have been friends. But the Professor had died as well.
So when the freighter was crashing, and Tegan and the Doctor were working frantically to save him, she'd known there was no chance. Because Adric was part of her life, and it stood to reason that she'd lose him.