WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE AUDIO STORY 'THE BOY THAT TIME FORGOT'. READ ON AT YOUR OWN RISK.
5th Doctor is italics
Tegan is normal text
I can't believe that Adric had to die. Surely you could have saved him!
The TARDIS console was too badly damaged. I tried, I really did, but there wasn't anything I could do.
But this is a time machine! Can't we go back to the same time and place now and get him out?
I'm sorry, but crossing into established timelines is strictly forbidden. Can you imagine what would happen if you saw yourself?
I'd think that the Mara was trying to take over my mind again. But please, we have to try!
I'm sorry, Tegan. He's dead. There's nothing we can do.
You don't even care, do you?
What am I supposed to do? I don't want him to be dead any more than you do. But he is, and it's my fault! Why did he have to stay on the ship? Why couldn't he just leave with the others?
We argued all the time. I didn't even like him that much. But now he's dead and I never even got to apologise.
He wasn't dead.
What?
Nyssa and I just met him. Apparently my subconscious interfered somehow and helped him break the last logic code, and he landed on Earth and ruled over a race of giant scorpions, creating the world through Block Transfer Computations.
Isn't that what the Master made him do on Castrovalva?
Basically, yes.
You said wasn't, not isn't.
The TARDIS began to self-destruct and he saved her and a boy called Thomas Brewster. He died again, and there wasn't anything I could do to stop it!
If you really cared, you wouldn't have let him die!
Tegan, no. I don't want excuses. I'm leaving.
AN: This was meant to be a 5/Tegan ship for Bloodlily16, but it didn't really work...
'The boy that time forgot' happened in an alternate universe. I think. I hope, because Adric not being dead kind of detracts from the power of his death scene.
Anyway, I will probably try another 5/Tegan one soon, because that was more angst than anything else. R&R!