A/N: Next lot, as promised. The first three here are linked, and I'd like to point out that I hadn't seen The Daleks before I wrote them, so since Skaro's suposed to be a dead planet, just pretend Ian's imagining the bird noises.
16) Stubborn
Prompt: Sound (#037)
Companion: Ian Chesterton
Timeline: At the beginning of The Daleks.
Spoilers: None, unless you've been living in a cupboard for the last 43 years.
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Haunting cries echo across the land, sending shivers down his spine. He fights the urge to look up and gape at what will probably be very odd-looking birds; he doesn't want to give the old man the satisfaction. Even if he's right - and Ian definitely believes now; if the prehistoric cavemen didn't convince him, this does - he doesn't want to let him acknowledge it.
He is on an alien world, listening to the cries of strange birds; just like the old man said. Will they get home soon, or is this something he'll have to get used to?
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17) Texture
Prompt: Touch (#038)
Companion: Barbara Wright
Timeline: At the beginning of The Daleks.
Spoilers: None (see above)
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Barbara sifts the grey sand through her fingers, rubbing a pinch of it between finger and thumb. It's different to Earth sand; it's fine and gritty at the same time, with a slight tackiness to it, as though the particles were threaded together with spider's web. It's very strange indeed, and it both intrigues and frightens her. Suddenly, it hits her for the first time that she's not on Earth. She's on a completely different planet, far from home, with a crotchety old man and his strange granddaughter, lost in time and space. The enormity of it renders her speechless.
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18) Watching
Prompt: Sight (#040)
Companion: Susan Foreman
Timeline: At the beginning of The Daleks.
Spoilers: None (see above)
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The two teachers show very different responses, she notes with interest. Mr Chesterton is trying to keep his eyebrows at a sensible level and appear composed, and Ms Wright is visibly shocked. Susan offers her a reassuring smile, but only the faintest echo of it is returned.
Looking around the barren wasteland, she can see the reason for their reactions. They're only a primitive species, she reminds herself. They've never even left their own planet before, it's no wonder they're having difficulty adjusting. She hopes they'll get used to it in time; there's so much more for them to see.
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19) Darkest Before
Prompt: Sunrise (#032)
Companion: Martha Jones
Timeline: She has no canonical timeline as of yet, so I'd say anytime during series 3. Oh, and I'm going with a version of Martha that I find more interesting than just the generally assumed '21st century London medical student' - blank slate companions are fun!
Spoilers: None
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"Show me a proper sunrise," she asks of him, and he does. He takes her to 18th century Earth, in the days when the sky flares pink and orange in the mornings, instead of the deep, smoky purples and reds of the only sunrises she's ever seen; the colours warped by an irreversibly poisoned atmosphere.
"I always thought they did this with computers in the old movies," Martha says, mesmerised by the myriad colours.
"Nah. They can do a lot with CGI; monsters, dragons, people - even chickens - but not this. Shame you missed out."
"I'm seeing it now, aren't I?"
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20) Uploading
Prompt: Lightning (#068)
Companion: Adam Mitchell
Timeline: During The Long Game.
Spoilers: The Long Game.
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It doesn't look like she's in pain. If anything, she's just nervous, probably because she thinks the Doctor's conducting a 'management inspection'. Cathica acts as though she's done this a thousand times, which she probably has.
Later, when he sits in the chair and the bright light lances down like a bolt of lightning, he finds out it really doesn't hurt at all. Until it all goes wrong. The light starts streaming out of his head instead of in, thoughts and secrets escaping, stolen, gone, and it hurts, it burns white hot inside his mind, something's gone wrong, what's happening?