[The Ten Spot] Triumphs
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his_sarah_jane013. TEN (best/biggest) triumphs or victories
As a preface, there are quite a lot of ‘triumphs’ that I feel like I can chose from. This comes especially after travelling with the Doctor for as long as I have, and well, not to be arrogant, helping to save Earth and other worlds countless times. We’re still travelling together, and I’m sure if you ask me this again in ten years, the list will change. Until then, I’m presenting those triumphs that stand out most in my memory to date:
1. Scoring the winning goal during my second year of secondary school that got my team into the county finals. I was rather in to field hockey at that time, and even today that goal still means a lot to me. It proved that despite my height, or lack thereof, I was just as good a player as all the other girls on the team.
2. Being named editor of my university’s magazine for my final year there. I worked hard to achieve that post, and it was wonderful to see that the years of dedication meant something to the professors at Nottingham. Especially when I beat out Benjamin Basil for the post, that prat!
3. Scooping Arthur Gold. It was a short little article on a controversy involving a local drug dealing by a formerly respectable politician. Gold was convinced that he had stolen my lead after snooping about the files on my desk, but I showed him a thing or two. That article also earned me my column in Metropolitan.
4. Helping Sir Edward defeat Irongron and Linx, the Sontaran. Oh, all right. The Doctor did have a lot to do with that victory, but it was my first time travelling to the past and I did manage to convince Sir Edward of a thing or two before the Doctor ever showed up.
5. Watching Thalira, queen of Peladon, take my words on women’s lib to heart. I’ve been a staunch feminist for years and written many articles on the topic, but I had never actually seen the effects my words could have before. It was quite an accomplishment, for Peladon and myself.
6. The first time I got to rescue the Doctor, for a change. It wasn’t much, I suppose, but I still savour the look on his face when I marched him right out of prison. We were on Antari 7 and he had gotten confused for a serial murderer after attempting to help the latest victim. I managed to talk the judge and jury into seeing that the Doctor wasn’t the dangerous criminal they all thought him to be. And of course, it helped that a local and I managed to find the real villain instead.
7. This one will seem rather pale in comparison to some of the other triumphs I’ve previously listed, but I was rather smug the day that I finally managed to beat Harry Sullivan in a game of poker. It took weeks and months of practice, but it was worth it when Sergeant Benson started laughing loudly as Harry stared in disbelief. I made quite a bit of money that night.
8. I don’t know if this truly fits on this list, but I consider it a rather important victory that I helped to participate in no matter what anyone else might think. We were on Skaros – Harry, the Doctor, and I – sent back by the Timelords to prevent the Daleks from ever evolving. And he did get that opportunity, to destroy the Dalek embryos and achieve genocide all at the same time. I reminded him of all the horrors the Daleks would commit, practically trying to convince him to connect the wires on purpose. It felt horrible, even if they were Daleks, but in the end he decided to argue with me like always. And he didn’t. I couldn’t have been prouder.
9. Finding a home for those poor children that Dr Ross had altered and Mr Beckinridge enslaved in setting up his underwater telephone lines. Even in the 19th century, it turned out, people could be such monsters! But we helped put a stop to Dr Ross’s barbaric experimentations in the end. More than that, though, was the look of pure joy on the merchildren’s faces when we brought them to the oceans of Florana. It was a complete triumph over a madman’s horrid and careless view on life.
10. Hearing the Doctor call me his best friend for the first time.
As a preface, there are quite a lot of ‘triumphs’ that I feel like I can chose from. This comes especially after travelling with the Doctor for as long as I have, and well, not to be arrogant, helping to save Earth and other worlds countless times. We’re still travelling together, and I’m sure if you ask me this again in ten years, the list will change. Until then, I’m presenting those triumphs that stand out most in my memory to date:
1. Scoring the winning goal during my second year of secondary school that got my team into the county finals. I was rather in to field hockey at that time, and even today that goal still means a lot to me. It proved that despite my height, or lack thereof, I was just as good a player as all the other girls on the team.
2. Being named editor of my university’s magazine for my final year there. I worked hard to achieve that post, and it was wonderful to see that the years of dedication meant something to the professors at Nottingham. Especially when I beat out Benjamin Basil for the post, that prat!
3. Scooping Arthur Gold. It was a short little article on a controversy involving a local drug dealing by a formerly respectable politician. Gold was convinced that he had stolen my lead after snooping about the files on my desk, but I showed him a thing or two. That article also earned me my column in Metropolitan.
4. Helping Sir Edward defeat Irongron and Linx, the Sontaran. Oh, all right. The Doctor did have a lot to do with that victory, but it was my first time travelling to the past and I did manage to convince Sir Edward of a thing or two before the Doctor ever showed up.
5. Watching Thalira, queen of Peladon, take my words on women’s lib to heart. I’ve been a staunch feminist for years and written many articles on the topic, but I had never actually seen the effects my words could have before. It was quite an accomplishment, for Peladon and myself.
6. The first time I got to rescue the Doctor, for a change. It wasn’t much, I suppose, but I still savour the look on his face when I marched him right out of prison. We were on Antari 7 and he had gotten confused for a serial murderer after attempting to help the latest victim. I managed to talk the judge and jury into seeing that the Doctor wasn’t the dangerous criminal they all thought him to be. And of course, it helped that a local and I managed to find the real villain instead.
7. This one will seem rather pale in comparison to some of the other triumphs I’ve previously listed, but I was rather smug the day that I finally managed to beat Harry Sullivan in a game of poker. It took weeks and months of practice, but it was worth it when Sergeant Benson started laughing loudly as Harry stared in disbelief. I made quite a bit of money that night.
8. I don’t know if this truly fits on this list, but I consider it a rather important victory that I helped to participate in no matter what anyone else might think. We were on Skaros – Harry, the Doctor, and I – sent back by the Timelords to prevent the Daleks from ever evolving. And he did get that opportunity, to destroy the Dalek embryos and achieve genocide all at the same time. I reminded him of all the horrors the Daleks would commit, practically trying to convince him to connect the wires on purpose. It felt horrible, even if they were Daleks, but in the end he decided to argue with me like always. And he didn’t. I couldn’t have been prouder.
9. Finding a home for those poor children that Dr Ross had altered and Mr Beckinridge enslaved in setting up his underwater telephone lines. Even in the 19th century, it turned out, people could be such monsters! But we helped put a stop to Dr Ross’s barbaric experimentations in the end. More than that, though, was the look of pure joy on the merchildren’s faces when we brought them to the oceans of Florana. It was a complete triumph over a madman’s horrid and careless view on life.
10. Hearing the Doctor call me his best friend for the first time.
