Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing:Eleven/Brigadier
Length: medium
Author on LJ:
copperbadge,
copperbadge, (personal) and
sam_storyteller for fic.
Author Website: Extribulum (
Extribulum)--not fannish, original writing
Why this must be read:The Brigadier was awesome, and I was sad he never got to show up in New Who before the actor who played him died. Here, in fic, it's never too late. Also, Sam is a wonderful author and you should read all of his stuff.
This fic takes advantage of timey-wimeyness to tell a non-timey-wimey story. You know at the end of the Big Bang, where the Doctor shows up at Amy and Rory's wedding reception and then goes to park his TARDIS and comes back? This fic happens in the time he was gone--a minute or two to Amy and Rory, rather longer for the Doctor. He goes back and visits the Brigadier. And the interaction between the two is wonderful.
The Brigadier was a man who was a good friend of the Doctor who
didn't end up traveling with him through time and space. This is a wonderful character study of him, and his relationship with the Doctor, and a chance for a meeting that could never have happened otherwise. There's nothing earth-shattering about this story, just a quiet time with an old friend.
( snippet of fic )In Geneva