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calufraxStory: The One Adventure He'll Never Have
Author: Aibhinn
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 62906
Author's Summary: In "Doomsday," the Doctor references "the one adventure I'll never have." What if he does have it? Reunion fic.
Characters/Pairings: 10/Rose, Martha, OCs, Jackie, Pete, Jack/Gwen, Team Torchwood, Mickey, Jake
Warnings: Graphic Sex
Recced because: I have a huge weakness for reunion!fic and baby!fic. Wouldn't you know it? This fic is both! Aibhinn does an excellent job with the characters and their interactions. The Martha in this story is a bit AU, as it was written before we knew very much about her, but it's an interesting look at what might have been. My husband told me about this one, and I give him many thanks, as I have come back to re-read this story several times. (And if you like this one, there are a couple of other stories that take place in the same Universe.)
"Then where are we going?"
The TARDIS began her rhythmic music as she changed course. It sounded as though she were singing. Well, it always sounded as though she were singing, at least to him, but for so long, her song had been one of loneliness and grief. Now there was hope. He grinned, full of that hope himself. "We're going to Sector 4.4/Gamma/Mu," he told her, delighted.
She shifted, folding her arms and leaning her hip against the railing. "And what's there?"
"I don't know!" he said enthusiastically, flipping and spinning and pumping controls with abandon. "Could be nothing. Well, not nothing," he amended. "The only place you can really get nothing is the Void, and we can't get into the Void. Or through it. Or anywhere near it, really, thanks to–" He paused, feeling the familiar flicker of loss. "Well, thanks to me, actually," he finished a bit lamely, then the grin was back. Really, this was well worth grinning about. Hope! Who'd've thought it? "But it might not be what I expect. Though it could be. It could be a planet, or a ship, or a largish asteroid, even. We won't know 'til we get there."
"And why," Martha asked in the tone he'd come to associate with her feeling rather put upon, "do we want to go to a sector where we don't know what we're looking for?"
"Not what, who. I know who I'm looking for. Well, not exactly who, but more or less. I just don't know where to find him."
"Him? Who's him?"
The Doctor turned fully to face her, and she blinked in the glow of his best, full-on my-God-isn't-the-universe-wonderful smile. "We're going to see whether I've just gone completely nutters," he announced, "or whether I really did feel the presence of another Time Lord."
Author: Aibhinn
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 62906
Author's Summary: In "Doomsday," the Doctor references "the one adventure I'll never have." What if he does have it? Reunion fic.
Characters/Pairings: 10/Rose, Martha, OCs, Jackie, Pete, Jack/Gwen, Team Torchwood, Mickey, Jake
Warnings: Graphic Sex
Recced because: I have a huge weakness for reunion!fic and baby!fic. Wouldn't you know it? This fic is both! Aibhinn does an excellent job with the characters and their interactions. The Martha in this story is a bit AU, as it was written before we knew very much about her, but it's an interesting look at what might have been. My husband told me about this one, and I give him many thanks, as I have come back to re-read this story several times. (And if you like this one, there are a couple of other stories that take place in the same Universe.)
"Then where are we going?"
The TARDIS began her rhythmic music as she changed course. It sounded as though she were singing. Well, it always sounded as though she were singing, at least to him, but for so long, her song had been one of loneliness and grief. Now there was hope. He grinned, full of that hope himself. "We're going to Sector 4.4/Gamma/Mu," he told her, delighted.
She shifted, folding her arms and leaning her hip against the railing. "And what's there?"
"I don't know!" he said enthusiastically, flipping and spinning and pumping controls with abandon. "Could be nothing. Well, not nothing," he amended. "The only place you can really get nothing is the Void, and we can't get into the Void. Or through it. Or anywhere near it, really, thanks to–" He paused, feeling the familiar flicker of loss. "Well, thanks to me, actually," he finished a bit lamely, then the grin was back. Really, this was well worth grinning about. Hope! Who'd've thought it? "But it might not be what I expect. Though it could be. It could be a planet, or a ship, or a largish asteroid, even. We won't know 'til we get there."
"And why," Martha asked in the tone he'd come to associate with her feeling rather put upon, "do we want to go to a sector where we don't know what we're looking for?"
"Not what, who. I know who I'm looking for. Well, not exactly who, but more or less. I just don't know where to find him."
"Him? Who's him?"
The Doctor turned fully to face her, and she blinked in the glow of his best, full-on my-God-isn't-the-universe-wonderful smile. "We're going to see whether I've just gone completely nutters," he announced, "or whether I really did feel the presence of another Time Lord."
