|
Tags: Replaced 2017 source edit |
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| === Life after the Doctor ===
| | {{Delete|Was created to write information down as I awaited ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'' being validated.}} |
| Tegan was left on Earth with no money, no possessions and no explanations of where she had been for three years. She half-hoped that she would be able to just start-over, but would that it was much more difficult than that.
| |
| | |
| After settling back on Earth, Tegan began to call old friends from before her time with the Doctor. However, when her friends would ask what had happened in her life since [[1981]], Tegan found that she was unable to provide an answer. Her friends soon lost interest, and without a job bills began to collect which Tegan was unable to pay.
| |
| | |
| For a few weeks after leaving the Doctor, Tegan drifted travelled. She travelled the continent of [[Europe]], which she hadn't seen much of outside of airports. Tegan was disappointed to find that Earth locations just no longer amazed her, and that people living uneventful and normal lives would never be anything more than "humdrum."
| |
| | |
| Tegan eventually decided that she needed to get her old job back. When no responses came from her letters and phone calls, she went to the offices of the airline in question and demanded to speak to the personnel director.
| |
| | |
| During her time on Earth, Tegan couldn't shake the sinking feeling that the Doctor would one day reenter her life for a third time. For a time, she was extremely nervous in public and would carry extra hygienic just-in-case she was somehow sent to an alien planet or the distant past. After some time, this feeling began to pass. She found that she could enjoy the weekends and was no longer nervous about a spontaneous unwarranted trip to see the universe.
| |
| | |
| On her first morning back at the airport as a stewardess, Tegan made sure to arrive early; no to impress anyone, but rather out of pure excitement. Entering the terminal, Tegan considered again if the Doctor would suddenly walk back into her life; but she insisted to herself that it had been months, and that she was finally going to be able to leave that chapter in her life behind. Exactly at this moment, Tegan was teleported into the TARDIS.
| |
| | |
| Onboard the ship was the Sixth Doctor, who was under attack from a group of [[Sontaran]]s. The adventure, as Tegan recalled it, was either cinematic and terrifying or comedic and silly; depending on how she looked at it. It involved someone named [[Gareth Jenkins (A Fix with Sontarans)|Gareth Jenkings]] joining the team and bickering with the Doctor in a way that Tegan compared to a sit-com.
| |
| | |
| After the adventure, the Doctor returned Tegan to [[Heathrow Airport]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'')
| |
| | |
| Tegan continued to work as an air stewardess for some time before returning to Brisbane to take over her father's animal-feed company. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')
| |
| | |
| At some point, Tegan was taken to the [[Black Archive]] by [[UNIT]] to have her record as a [[companion]] of the Doctor taken. Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
| |
| [[File:Old_Tegan.JPG|thumb|left|An older Tegan with the Doctor. ([[DWM]] illustration of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')]]
| |
| On [[22 September]] [[2006]], Tegan was briefly reunited with the [[Fifth Doctor]], who discovered that she had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour and had at most a year to live. Despite the Doctor's entreaty, Tegan chose to forgo his assistance in treating the tumour. She stated that she wished to remain on Earth, because she was happy with the life that she had. She rekindled her relationship with [[Michael Tanaka]]. She had previously ended the relationship because of her tumour. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')
| |
| | |
| According to research conducted by [[Sarah Jane Smith]], Tegan was, as of [[2010]], campaigning for Aboriginal rights. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
| |
| | |
| Tegan eventually [[Marriage|married]] [[William Haybourne]], who died when they were both elderly. Tegan had by this point come to believe that her time with the Doctor was just her imagination. She came across a version of [[The Doctor (Good Companions)|the Doctor]] that she didn't recognise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Companions (short story)|Good Companions]]'')
| |
