rec a complicated event in time and space

[derekmetaltron.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome once more to another week of fan fiction picking here on Calufrax! I am James or ‘Derek Metaltron’, your guide for the next few days. It really doesn’t seem that long since the last time I took this awesome responsibility back in early September when Doctor Who and Torchwood were both rounding off and I was a lot freer than I am now, as since then I’ve started my rather extensive postgraduate degree. Still, can’t be so difficult to find some quality fics from all eras of Who, right?

Now to begin we’ll start with some episode tweaking within the still much loved Tenth Doctor era…

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Story: A Complicated Event In Time And Space
Author: Aldanon
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 53,493 Words
Author's Summary: It took almost twenty hours to tow the Earth back home after saving all of reality from the Daleks. Set during Journey's End, this story is a compilation of events that took place in the TARDIS and on the Earth in those hours.
Characters/Pairings: Ten II/Rose, Martha/Mickey, Tenth Doctor,  Donna Noble, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler, Rhys Williams, Sarah Jane Smith
Warnings:  A fair potion of Angst and Hurt/Comfort for certain characters and a mild case of Whump.

Recced because: As a fan boy and someone who came into Who in the days before the New Series and the suggestion of certain pairings and the like, I tend to view certain kinds of fan fiction warily. However, whilst I’ve always loved the idea of Martha and Mickey getting together I came to love Aldanon’s protrayal of setting up Rose with the duplicate Ten – here, she’s elected to suggest that rather than mere minutes it took many hours for the Earth to be dragged back to its rightful position, leading to the possibility of talks and interactions which Russell denied us. While Ten II/Rose and Mickey/Martha are the main focuses here all the TARDIS crew get a piece of the action. Better yet, this lengthy fic expands into two sequel works which focus on the lives of these two pairings afterwards. In short this is a big read but well worth it!

Comments

[aldanon.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec! This means so much to me! :)

And just to note
1) ACEiTaS is actually the second story in the series, the first, Never Give Up, is short and helps set some backstory between Rose and the Doctor(s). Here's a link to the entire series page: http://www.whofic.com/series.php?seriesid=3046

2) I'm working on the Martha/Mickey "The Complicated Lives of Smith and Jones" fic still, I'm finishing it for NaNoWriMo and have over 34k more words written it and I think I'll be finishing it up at right around 50k. SO no updates til December, then December will have a LOT of new words. :)

3) After TCLoS&J there will be another Rose/TenII focused fic, with a lot more Jake, Pete, Jackie, Alt!Donna and Alt!Martha involved.

4) Then one more big fic to wrap the series up with after that.

I have some plans for other short-ish fics to add in here and there afterwards, at least two.

Thank you again SO MUCH for the rec. You made my month! :)

[derekmetaltron.livejournal.com]

That's quite alright, it's a very good piece of fiction - I wish I had the will power and time to be able to write something as long and great. Glad to hear that your Martha/Mickey story is going well too.