The Shirt, by Bex

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Story: The Shirt
Author: Bex
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 2,807
Author's Summary: Sam comes face-to-face with her limitations.
Characters/Pairings: Sam Jones
Warnings: none

Recced because: Sam Jones was pretty much prototypical teen idealism on legs. Her concept of the truth was sometimes a bit too pure and/or simple (albeit for, ahem, reasons that later became clear), but there are worse things to unleash on the spacetime continuum.

This fic is more about the world getting unleashed on Sam. Bex captures her perspective excellently: Colors seem bright, emotions seem pure, the Doctor's mood swings seem beautiful, and the odd position of being, essentially, the Doctor's ward is clear in Sam's mind yet borne easily. Sam has to assimilate the fact that good intentions aren't always enough, but learns the value of hope in the process. A lovely little snapshot from the idealistic side of Who.

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It's Getting Boring by the Sea, by Netgirl_y2k

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Story: It's Getting Boring by the Sea
Author: Netgirl_y2k
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 400
Author's Summary: “If you told me what room the giant bees were in, I'd know not to open that door.”
Characters/Pairings: Peri Brown/the Rani
Warnings: AU

Recced because: It's just a brilliantly fun romp. In an alternate universe somewhere, Peri Brown isn't romantically saved from drowning by Vislor Turlough—she's romantically saved by the Rani, instead. All for the cause of science, of course.

Netgirl combines the Rani's wryness with Peri's naïve abrasiveness to get great chemistry, and then proceeds to give a series of swift peeks at a magnificent show we never got but that I'd watch in a heartbeat. And there are, most importantly, giant bees.

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