Crossover Fanfic Rec: "Seeking Lethe" by Kathryn Andersen

[timepiececlock]

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about Time Lords:

The Time Lords may or may not have existed. Legend has it that they were the first race to discover time travel. Instead of doing something exciting, like conquering the universe, they stayed on their home planet, wearing elaborate and uncomfortable fashions, and writing treatises about peace, stability and mathematics.

Author: Kathryn Andersen
Ficathon: Multiverse 2006
Rating: PG
Fandoms: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Doctor Who
Summary: Some people go a long way for a drink.

Why You Should Read It: Because it's both funny and sad. Because it's got Nine and Zaphod Beeblebrox and because it hits every note just about perfectly.

Comments

[mswyrr]

He broke off again. "Why is there a Restaurant at the End of the Universe? I mean, I came all this way, because it was the End, the End of the Universe, some solitary desolation, and they go and build a Restaurant here. Why? Can't a fellow feel desolate in peace?"

*sniff* *wipes eyes* *reaches out and huggle the Doctor*

*huggles Rashaka for reccing fic*

Dear Doctor, he wrote,
Don't forget to save the Earth from the Vogons.
The Doctor

Awww!

'll go to Earth anyway. It always needs saving, if not from the Vogons, then from something else. It'll give me something to do.

Hits every note just about perfectly, indeed.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I have to say the description of Time Lords is so utterly perfect it made me laugh muchly.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The Time Lords may or may not have existed. ... ... ... These irreconcilable differences resulted in the Last Great Time War, which raged across the universe, the future and the past, until both sides ended up annihilating each other so thoroughly that they had never existed.

It's just precisely right. I can hear Adams's voice reciting it in my head. And the fact that they time-warred themselves out of ever existing in the first place is the exact kind of irony that The Guide collects.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The note was great. And you picked out my favorite line: "I mean, I came all this way, because it was the End, the End of the Universe, some solitary desolation, and they go and build a Restaurant here."

I can just see and hear that coming from Nine.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I may have to sit down and try to read this again. I've heard there's a lotta Adams' humor and Hitchhiker's references in some later Fourth Doctor stuff. I feel like I'm missing out on the joke. :/

[chase820.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous ficlet! Thanks so much for the rec. :)