Fic: First Steps

[lindenharp]

Title: First Steps
Characters: Unspecified Doctor, OC
Genre: gen, drabble
Length: 100 words
Rating: All ages
Spoilers: none
Summary: It's what they all ask to see.
Disclaimer: The sandbox belongs to RTD and the BBC. I'm just playing here, in the corner, making little sand-TARDISes. Not making any money, not asserting any claims.
A/N: Thanks to wendymr  and dark_aegis  for beta-reading.


It is the destination most requested by his human companions.  Doesn't matter what century they're from.  It used to annoy him.  Idiot humans!   Offer them the Universe, and what do they want to see?  Two blokes bouncing around for a bit.

It was Wilf who made him understand.  "'It's like watching a home movie of a baby walking for the first time.  And you think, 'That was me.  That was when I started to grow up.'"

So here he is once more, and seeing the wonder in Bethany's eyes makes it all new again.

"... a giant leap for mankind."

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Aw nice. :)

I bet the moon is a bit of a tourist trap. The kind of place they go for school trips in the Academy.

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

LOL. Could well be. Have you read any of Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" books? The protagonists avoid Tranquility Base whenever they visit the Moon. They don't want to leave footprints there, because they know it will be a tourist attraction later.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

I think I did? Sounds familiar...although I seemed to have skipped over the young adult genre.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

wonderful celebration of the moon landing Apollo 11(?)

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes, it's the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

I posted on my blog a link to appropriate music for today: Hope Eyrie
I also posted a link to a great video accompaniment to the song.

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Hope Eyrie is a wonderful and powerful song. A friend reminded me about it yesterday. I hadn't heard it in a long time, so searched for it online. And then I was crying all over my keyboard.

I watched the video you posted, but also another one. Same music, but different images, and some of the NASA audio mixed in.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Aaaaahhhh - Wilf, as always, puts his hand right on it.

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Considering how passionate he is about astrononomy and space travel, the Moon landing would have made a big impression on Wilf.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

He probably threw the biggest block party ever seen in that neighborhood.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Trust Wilf to make the Doctor realise what he's missing...

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Wilf is a perceptive guy.