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Title: Fragment from Canary Wharf
Character(s): Ten. Mentions throughout of Rose.
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: 12 (UK) / PG (US)
Disclaimer: Not mine
A/N: A Doomsday piece this time, for a change of pace; still a tad on the angsty side though.
Spoilers: If Doomsday’s still a spoiler!
Summary: Why did he do it? Why?

( Love, and fear, and panic. But, mainly, love. )

Title: Starting Over
Rating: PG-13
Setting: 2X13
Character(s): Ten. Rose (off-camera).
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Disclaimer: Not Mine
A/N: Yet more Doomsday fic! principia_coh gave me the original germ of an idea that led to this (and two, maybe three, other mini-ficlets). This follows on immediately from the end of Looking For A Way.
Summary: It's not enough.

( But he’ll take what he can get. )

Title: Pansies, for Thoughts
Rating: PG-13
Setting: 2X13 (Doomsday)
Character(s): Ten. Rose.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Disclaimer: Not mine (dammit)
Spoilers: If you know what happens in Doomsday (and who doesn’t?), you're golden.
A/N: The title, and the quote at the beginning of the fic, are both from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. All italicised dialogue is from the episode. Unbeta-ed; all errors therefore my own.
Summary: “I’m still just an image. No touch.”

( He couldn’t get her out of his thoughts if he tried, and he doesn’t want to try. )

Title: You Cannot Live As I Have Lived (And Not Turn Out Like This)
Rating: PG-13
Beta(s): principia_coh
Setting: post-Voyage of the Damned
Character(s): Ten. Rose (off-camera). Mention of Pete Tyler.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Spoilers: Mentions of events in Doomsday
A/N: A series of ficlets that looks at how a member of a people "peaceful to the point of indolence" could turn into the Valeyard. The title comes from the book of the same name by Terence Blacker.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Summary: There's nothing worth having that doesn't hurt in the losing

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( Three: (You're) All I Had )

Title: By Thy Great Mercy?
Character(s): Ten. Rose mentioned throughout.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Beta(s): karenor and requialexa
Spoilers: Doomsday
Setting: After the wall scene, but just before the beach scene.
A/N: The title, and inspiration, for this ficlet comes from the Anglican service of Evensong (The Third Collect, for Aid against all Perils: “Lighten our Darkness”); the text of the cut is dialogue from Doomsday. The quote at the beginning of the fic is the Doctor, from School Reunion.
Posted: dwfiction, oh_she_knows, and time_and_chips
Summary: He knew he couldn't do it.

( 'The whole thing would fracture. Two Universes would collapse.' )

Title: In my end is my beginning
Character(s): Ten, Rose, mentions of Jackie and alt!Pete
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Setting: Doomsday
A/N: Set post-Doomsday but looking back at events therein, this ficlet examines the Doctor's motivation for sending Rose into the parallel universe. The title is from the motto (translated into English) of Mary, Queen of Scots: En ma fin est ma commencement. The italicised dialogue is all from the episode.
Disclaimer: Borrowed, without permission.
Summary: It had almost killed him to let her go.

( But to keep her safe, which is what he needed to do above all things, what other choice did he have? )

Title: Tested, and Not Found Wanting
Character(s): Rose. Ten mentioned passim
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Rating: PG
A/N: Rose's thoughts on why the Doctor has sent her into the parallel universe. A companion piece to The Proof's in the Testing. The summary is an amended line from The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot.
Setting: Doomsday
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, without permission, what will never be mine.
Summary: She's his perpetual star.

( The ties that bind can choke you, in the end. )