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Title: Silver Lining
Creator: lydiagwilt
Rating: T
Word Count/Length/Size: 14213 words
Creator's Summary: Romana, Leela and Narvin step through the portal into an alternate Gallifrey. Things start to go downhill from there.
Characters/Pairings: Romana II, Leela, Narvin
Warnings/Notes: canon-typical violence, torture & suffering

Reasons for reccing: It's a great day when you wake up to find someone has out of the blue posted a brand-new 10k+ story in your favorite small fandom. This is the author's first fic in the fandom, apparently, and what a debut! It's a story set during Gallifrey series 4, largely building on the aftermath of the spoilery thing that happens to Narvin in Reborn, but it does a fantastic job exploring the character of each member of the trio and strengthening the relationships between them. (Honestly, from the beginning of it I expected it to be mainly Narvin Must Suffer, and while he does indeed suffer I was blown away at how well-balanced among the three of them the fic felt.) The worldbuilding of the alternate Gallifrey is also fascinating, and plays on the symbolism and themes introduced in the show in some really interesting ways.

I'm also going to try to make it fit the TV Tropes Challenge theme "Decoy Getaway," in that there are both lookalikes and getaways, although the lookalikes do make the getaway harder, unfortunately for our heroes.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36651829/chapters/91423264