Fic: Confessions and Crocodiles

[thisbluespirit]

Story: Confessions and Crocodiles
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All Ages/PG
Word Count: 2143
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor, Lynda Day
Warnings: MAJOR spoilers for the final episode of Press Gang (also spoilers for S1 eps 'Monday-Tuesday' and 'Shouldn't I Be Taller?'). (Post Waters of Mars for Ten.)

Summary: Either the Doctor is having a nightmare featuring an odd girl in pyjamas, or Lynda Day is having yet another weird dream, this one involving a chatty, skinny guy... or something even stranger is going on this time.

This one was brought about by a suggestion from pitry. However, I am an evil person, who then wrote a spoilerish fic. Plus, it was going to be very bleak and dark, and then ended up... not. (As ever with me!) However, I wrote it anyway. (It's been okayed onto Teaspoon already.)

Comments

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Will it be not-terribly-inappropriate if I use this opportunity to SCREAM?... I hate Teaspoon's DNS problems. I really would like not to write my essay now but do something else and this sounds fantastic. But no Teaspoon for me. :(

Luckily thing I guessed this would happen and saved a bunch of links for my calufrax reccing week on one of the (now ever growing) moments of grace Teaspoon did exist, or otherwise there would have been no reccing from me this week. :|

*screams in frustration*
*goes back to finish her essay*
*doesn't want to*

*frustrated Pitry is frustrated*
erm, sorry for the spamming. :|

[thisbluespirit]

Aw. Yes, scream all you like, I've just put my earplugs in. Teaspoon chucked me out for a day last week, and I was very, very frustrated, but you've had it for longer. Have you contacted the mods? Can anything be done? It seems very odd! :-(

And, um, considering that this story contains an evil spoiler of doom, it may be as well.

Good luck with your essay. If you want to read it, despite the spoilery-ness, I'll post it on lj for you (I have a secret fic journal - only secret because I haven't finished putting fic on it - and I'll pop it on there and give you the link.)

Computers/internet = marvellous things! When they work. When they don't, they are tools of the devil, or something... Poor you!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

There's a whole thread about it in whofic. The problem is that because this is a) on and off and b) it's only specific users, it seems like the mods think the problem is on the specific users' end rather than on Teaspoon.I think this isn't the case, as I had a very similar thing last year with Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who Forum Gallifrey Base. And it turned out to be on their end. But no one knows :(

Annoying bit is it's been going on for a couple of months now. :( And I had Teaspoon running fine all of last week... so I had a feeling Murphy will come back to bite me and it will be down this week! So I saved about 5 stories, hoped to be able to go there and catch the last 2... it seems there will be no Torchwood recs from me this week :| (and yes! You should rec. They keep on running out of people.... )

Erm, erm, erm, if it won't be too much of a trouble, I'd love you to post this on the other journal! :D This story sounds so much fun. (if it is I can just be patient and wait for Teaspoon to come back, it probably will in a week or so).

[thisbluespirit]

Hmm. Strange indeed. I got thrown off the other day, and it is a lot of other users - I'd think it must be the website, although I suppose if they can't find anything different with it lately, it would be enough to make them scratch their heads and go "Huh?". :-(

Posted it HERE for you. You should bear in mind, regarding the spoiler that will make no sense, that this is my take on the ending... and there are alternative readings of it.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Wooooooooooooow! That was all shades of wonderful.

It was a bit dark. I liked the way it kept on creeping towards darkness, with all the conversation of hell and guilt... and then Lynda dismissing it all as nonsense whenever it was getting to close. And the Doctor was wonderfully nonsensical and in character. Did I mention you should write more Ten? He was so wonderfully spot-on, and despite the popularity, not that many people manage to get his behaviour right and his voice right and make it all so brilliant!

And now I want to see Lynda Day as companion. BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE WILL IMPLODE.

(Teaspoon issues, well I don't blame them for thinking the problem is on the users' end, I thought it as well last year til they fixed the problem and I could see the "sorry for this" post - even technical support websites I posted on said the problem is probably my ISP. IT apparently looks like my ISP is blocking their server while what actually happens is their server blocking my ISP. I think. *is confused*)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks!!! :-)

Yep, but most of the darkness comes straight out of There Are Crocodiles the final episode, the outcome of which is left to the viewers' discretion. Btw, apologies - I posted it so quickly, and then went out I didn't notice till later I'd lost the first two sentences with a bit of careless formatting. Whoops...

I've seen you're back on Teaspoon - fingers crossed it stays that way!! (And thanks for pointing me to whofic, too. I hadn't realised it existed, and I now realise why it chucked me out this week...

Oh, and just to warn you - I hadn't let on that I was doing a fic journal because it's still a WIP - therefore some days I will post loads on to it. I'm saying this because you friended it, which is lovely. But maybe not so much if you're watching it, and I spam your flist every now and then. ;-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me. There are days I'm dying for a spamming of my flist. Especially by lovely fic. If I ever start watching too many people/ comms and it becomes a problem I'll probably turn it off, but I friended it exactly for the possibility of being flooded by interesting things to read when Mongolian becomes too much of a disaster! :) Unless you'd rather it be kept off the radar and people's flist?

Hmmm... darkness-wise, I accept that there's darkness in that episode - it definitely sounds like it! Just like there's a lot of darkness in Waters of Mars. I think it's the connection between these two events that works and gives it the hints of darkness though. It's like Lynda says, she automatically assumes she's going to hell and so does the Doctor - which tells you quite a disturbing thing (and I admit not to know about Lynda but definitely IC and making complete sense with the Doctor) about the characters - and then Lynda's complete rational attitude about the whole thing! :)

(GAH. I should never have said a word. Teaspoon is already off again :( )

[thisbluespirit]

Okay, then. Just thought I'd warn you, as currently I either forget about it, or spam it, and, of course, it's pretty much all old things. No, I don't mind people reading it; I was just waiting till I'd got more of the backlog of stuff on there before letting people know of its existence. :-)

Thanks again for your compliments there. I'm glad the point I wanted to make still came across, because that was really it, but I thought I'd kind of missed the mood somehow, but I got the fic to the point where I liked it anyway...

Oh no!! :-( Bad, bad Teaspoon. Or bad internets, whatever is behind it. You know, it sounds like the Evil Plot of the Master.

[thisbluespirit]

PS Saw you were on calufrax. I must check out your recs!

Actually, I have a growing list of recs again. I must volunteer again (it's been four months... not too bad!)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

*flails incoherently*

Re spoiler, lols I'm pretty sure I missed those two episodes because I think I'd remember a plot point like that! AHHHHH LYNDA NO.

I love this, the voices are fantastic, I love how it's pretty much all dialogue and so snappy and Ten in all his over-the-top glory and YAY, I will read this again when I am actually awake.

♥ ♥ ♥

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. Aw, thanks. :-)

The ending is, er, open to interpretation. I choose not to interpret it the worst way. :-(