REC: A Shift In Reality

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Story: A Shift In Reality
Author: Kesomon
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 5408
Author's summary: Since Farrinham, the Doctor's been restless. Splitting headaches, blackouts, and the same phantom memory, speaking the same unfinished request. Just what is going on? AU post Human Nature/The Family of Blood. No spoilers.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, The Master (Author Created)
Warnings: None that aren't already in the author's summary.

Recced because: Despite the unusual nature of this AU, it somehow seems to be uncannily plausible. Kesomon does a very good job of maintaining the tense mood of the first half of the fic and I find the interaction between Martha and the Master in the second half to be absolutely compelling. And while I'm not exactly a Master/Martha shipper normally--it's the whole Year That Never Was thing--there's a sort of fascinating chemistry between them in this AU where the Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords arc never happened.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Is this story finished or not?

[biichan.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell. The author didn't slap a completed tag on it, so she might end up coming back and adding more to it. I think it holds up as a completed story as is. In any case, if it's not, I wouldn't be the first reccer to rec an unfinished story.

[eve11]

Oh! That one made my short list for reccing next week, but you beat me to it :)

And hey, last time I read it there was only part 1 and it was still awesome (and still, also, very much a story in its own right). *heads off to read second part*

[kesomon.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know I'd made it onto here.

For informative purposes, I do, or did, have plans for other chapters, but I can't get happy with what I come up with. ...I should really work on that.