verdigrisvagabond:

So I was having a not great evening and Bonesey was talking to me and asking me about yw/dw headcanons and Dairine and Nine and I just

Dari post-DW feeling left out and annoyed that there’s this magnificent thing that her sister can do that she can’t (Because that’s completely contrary to how she’s lived her life thus far and Not Knowing is NOT OKAY) and she meets this man with a blue box who offers to take her through time and space.

Dari accepting because she wants to make a difference too, and maybe they can make a difference together. Because they’re just an 11-year old girl in an Admiral Ackbar shirt and an man with short hair and a leather jacket who’s kinda like her uncle. They’re snarky and sassy and innovative and traipsing through the universe with matching expressions of wonder, using what technology they have to help people.

Dari getting more familiar with the TARDIS than any other companion has, purely because it’s a computer. do you really expect her to keep her hands off it? (No. He doesn’t.)

Dari saving a whole moon once, almost by herself, and the Doctor being so proud of her for practically spitting in the face of fear and fixing things in a way that even he hadn’t considered.

Dari after that sitting on her roof and waving goodbye to the TARDIS on a Sunday night (her Doctor will uproot her from anything except her education because education is important, dammit) and deciding that yes, this is a life I want and deciding that as soon as he’ll let her she’ll join him for good because he’s her uncle and they save people and that’s enough, right?

And then Dari getting offered the Oath.

Dari doing her Ordeal on her own, and oh, this is the power Neets has. This is fantastic! think of what I could do with this! but still making it through because of certain tips and tricks that he taught her.

Dari waiting for the doctor to come back and him asking “Where to?” and her giving him and incredibly specific set of coordinates because “I wanna show you something.”

And the Doctor’s seen and met wizards before of course, but he tends to stay out of their way. Too many cooks in the kitchen, you see. He does his good with his box and his screwdriver. He does good where he can. And they do good everywhere else. There’s really just no reason for him to jump in when there’s already a wizard on the job. And vis versa. So, of course, he knows what they do and how they do it.

But Dari’s always been in a class of her own.

So she introduces him to the mobiles and he’s in awe.

“You made them?”

“Yeah. They’re pretty great, huh?”

“They’re fantastic.”

Then Dari asks where they’re gonna go next, and the Doctor replies, “Nowhere. I’m taking you home, and then you’re going to have lots of adventures without me.”

"Why?” she asks, hurt, “Don’t you need a companion?”

“Well, yes,” he replies, sadly, “But you don’t need me.”

They meet often, though, in the early years of Dari’s wizarding career, because she’s so bright and so brilliant and he just can’t stay away. Rose mocks, him, sometimes. “Lookit you, all beaming an’ proud.” she says, with a bit of jealousy. “Is she your daughter?” “Niece,” he always corrects.

Then, as she gets older they meet less often, but he always makes sure to visit her once every regeneration, so that if she ever goes looking for him, she’d recognize him. She always does, though, before he even introduces himself. He’s her Doctor, after all.

Then, millenia later, the Doctor finally dies. His last companion takes the TARDIS to the mobile homeworld. There, they meet Dari, who has been living as quicklife for a long, long time. Her memory is as long as her life. “Where is he?” she asks. “Where’s the Doctor?”

“He’s gone,” The last companion replies. “But he left you this.”

And so a new tale begins, of a being who travels through the universe, making a difference, building things, saving civilizations, righting wrongs. 

The Tale of the TARDIS and her Wizard.