Rec: Cause and Effect by Selena

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Most of my recs this week will be crossovers; this one isn't, not exactly, although it includes elements of two shows from the Doctor Who universe:

Story: Cause and Effect
Author: Selena
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1956
Author's Summary: Luke isn’t quite sure of how to handle his rescue. How did the Doctor know when to save him?
Characters/Pairings: Clyde Langer, Luke Smith, Mr. Smith, Other Character(s), Rani Chandra, Sarah Jane Smith
Warnings: None

Spoilers for The End of Time and episodes of The Sarah-Jane Adventures

Recced because: Most people would just be grateful if the Doctor saved their lives. Luke worries about it, in a wonderful display of existential angst and dawning apprehension. The story is simply a beautiful character study in which Luke gradually realises that his rescue could be a very bad thing, compares his rescue to the many deaths that the Doctor didn't prevent, and tries to work out how he can still be alive without damaging the timeline.

Comments

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Poor Luke! Though I'm not familiar with 'Sarah Jane' canon I understood and enjoyed this completely. Thanks for pointing it out!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Luke has extra reasons to feel existential weirdness, since he's a constructed being, created by aliens as a "perfect" human. Unfortunately their reasons for creating him are suspect, to say the least...

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

The plot thickens. Poor kid!