rec: grounds for annulment

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

Story: Grounds for Annulment
Author: Sub Rosa
Rating: not given, but I'm going to say Teen.
Author's summary: Peri marries an alien and deals with wedding-night expectations.
Characters: Sixth Doctor, Peri
Warnings: none

Recced because: It's hilarious. Sometimes you just want to read something fun. First, though, despite the summary, this story is gen. Also, the Doctor and Peri don't really get married. Not exactly, anyway. What happens is that Peri commits a cultural faux pas, and she and the Doctor end up as "guests" of the planet's high priest, who has certain expectations of them. Peri and the Doctor, less than pleased with the situation, plot an escape. There's a lot of amusing banter along the way, plus some sweet bonding between Six and Peri. When well written, they make a great team.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Yay! I regretted having to cut this from my final recs list last week, I'm glad someone else ran with it.

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to get in a good variety of stories, and this one came to the top of my Sixth Doctor short list. It helps that anything I don't use here can go on my new list at rec50.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I was going to thank you for pointing me to "Wither and Die," BTW, but now I'm all sad. Sniff.

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

There's a Leela drabble that makes me react the exact same way as this story does. It's not on Teaspoon, though, so I think you've already seen the saddest thing I'll be reccing all week.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

The author seriously owes me a new keyboard, because I had tea coming out my nose at this one. :) I could so hear Peri's voice on this.

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

I also thought she did an excellent Peri! I'm glad you liked it so much.

[eve11]

This was hilarious. Thanks for recc-ing!

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it. :)