preserved_ginger | Entries tagged with martha

Title: The One Who Came After
Characters: Ten. Rose (off-camera). Martha.
Setting: Season Three
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Beta(s):

sensiblecat saw this in its early stages, and

requialexa has also done a brilliant job with it.
Disclaimer: Not mine (sadly).
Spoilers: So long as you know who the companion was in Season Three, you’re fine.
A/N: Angst again, ’m afraid.
Summary: “Not that you’re replacing her.”

( In which the Doctor reflects: when is a replacement not really a replacement? )

Current Mood: calm

Title: Questions and Answers
Characters: Ten. Martha.
Setting: Between Gridlock and Daleks in Manhattan
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine (sadly).
Spoilers: Oblique ones for Smith and Jones, more obvious ones for The Shakespeare Code and Gridlock
A/N: Angst again, ’m afraid. Another story in the To Days To Come ’verse.
Summary: “Do you want to talk about it?”

( In which Martha attempts to ask the Doctor about Rose. )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: BBC Radio 4

Title: Reminiscent
Rating: PG-13
Setting: 4X04
Character(s): Ten. Martha (off-camera). Mentions of Rose.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Spoilers: 4X04, 2X13 and oblique reference to the entirety of Season Three.
Disclaimer: Not Mine (Dammit!)
A/N: Unbeta-ed; all errors therefore my own.
Summary: He'd not expected her ever to use it.

( The Doctor feels guilty. )

Current Mood: full
Current Music: Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)

Title: From Where He Stands
Rating: PG-13
Setting: 3X13 (Last of the Time Lords)
Character(s): Ten. Martha (off-camera). Rose (off-camera).
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Beta(s):

requialexa
Disclaimer: Not mine (dammit)
Spoilers: General Season Three
A/N: The title is from an amended line in Where I Stand by Máire Brennan.
Summary: Martha says he's ruined her for anyone else.

( But he can't find it in himself to care. )

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Doctor Who Theme (Season Four Re-Mix)

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). Mentions of Donna (obliquely), Martha, and others.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose
Spoilers: Mentions of events and people in The Runaway Bride, Smith & Jones, The Shakespeare Code and the very beginning of Gridlock.
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. The soubriquet "Stormcrow" is borrowed from the book The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (it's used as a nickname for Gandalf in the book, and the context made me think of the Doctor).
Summary: Was losing Rose the tipping-point?

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( Four: The Power Of A Name )

Current Mood: cheerful

Title: Miles to Go
Character(s): Jack, Ten, Martha (briefly), mentions of Rose throughout
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose, implied Nine/Rose
Rating: PG-13
Setting: Last of the Time Lords
Spoilers: Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
A/N: The title (and the quote below the cut) is from the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.
Disclaimer: Borrowed, without permission.
Summary: Why did Jack decide not to travel with the Doctor when he was asked at the end of Last of the Time Lords?

( Did it have anything to do with what happened on the Game Station, years in the future but a lifetime ago? )

Title: If You Ever
Characters: Martha; Ten is mentioned throughout, Rose mentions too.
Spoilers: assumes you've watched all Season Three (particularly the Dalek two-parter and the season finale)
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, sans permission, what will never be mine.
Rating: G
Author Note: Ten/Rose, through a Martha prism.
Summary: Even she can see he's incomplete without her.

( She's done her best; it's not her fault that best isn't good enough. )

Title: Bittersweet
Setting: Utopia
Character(s): Ten. Mentions of Jack, Rose and Martha.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose, implied Nine/Rose
Rating: PG
A/N: Inspired by the Doctor's reactions to Jack at the beginning of Utopia when they land on Malcassiro.
Disclaimer: Borrowed, without permission.
Summary: He's desperate to talk about Rose to anyone who'll listen; even Jack.

( But how can he do that, when Jack reminds him so much of everything he's lost? )

Title: The Road Not Taken
Rating: PG
Character(s): Jack. Cameos from Ten and Martha.
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Spoilers: Last of the Time Lords
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, without permission, what will never be mine.
A/N: I swear this fic has a life of its own, because what's here is certainly not what I intended writing! A double-drabble, inspired by

catsfiction. The title is from the poem of the same name by Robert Frost.
Summary: Jack still doesn't know if he made the right decision, but it's too late to change it now.

( So he has to hope he hasn't damaged the Doctor even more. )

Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: Listening to the rain, again

Title: The Reasons Why
Character(s): Martha. Mention of Ten, Rose, Jack and others.
Pairing(s): Ten/Rose (implied); one-sided Martha/Ten
Rating: PG
A/N: A quintuple-drabble, inspired by Losing Salvation by ThroughanAmberFocus on Teaspoon.
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, without permission, what will never be mine.
Summary: Martha learns the truth.

( She wished she had known about all this before; it made the Doctor's behaviour make so much more *sense*. )

Current Music: Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day)

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Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: Explosive (Bond)

Title: Have You Forgotten Yet?
Rating: PG-13
Character(s): Jack. Cameos from Ten, Rose and others
Pairing: Ten/Rose (implied)
Spoilers: Doomsday, Utopia, Family of Blood
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, without permission, what will never be mine.
A/N: Inspired by the poem Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon. The text of the summary is from A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas. Also referenced are Absolution (Sassoon), Do not go gentle into that good night (Thomas), Anthem for Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen), The Hollow Men (T. S. Eliot), and the Kohima Memorial. In the language of flowers, white roses mean "eternal love" and tea-roses mean "I'll always remember".
Summary: Every year without fail, on 11 November, Jack is here.

( For after the first death, there is no other. )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Only the Brave (Runrig)

Title: Haiku for the Journey
Rating: G
Character(s): Ten. Cameos from Nine and others
Pairing: Ten/Rose (implied)
Spoilers: Nothing past Family of Blood
Disclaimer: I am borrowing, without permission, what will never be mine.
A/N: Haiku, using the traditional 5-7-5 syllable pattern, for the Tenth Doctor. They are (in order) from Parting of the Ways, New Earth, Tooth & Claw, The Satan Pit, Doomsday, The Shakespeare Code and Human Nature/Family of Blood.
Summary: He loves her.

( He'll always love her. )