Beyond the Roundels

I managed to edit the Unconventional Courtship ficlets I wrote for john_amend_all, and here they are!

This one really could have been a whole thing, but now it isn't: 642) An Inconvenient Engagement by Joy Reed
Clara Oswald was furious when she saw her betrothed the Fourth Doctor waltzing with another. So she decides to make him jealous by flirting with the most beautiful woman at the ball, the Mistress, Countess of Stanford. The "wicked" noblewoman knew exactly what the enticing miss was up to — and she was only too happy to play along. But as Clara gazed into her magnificent eyes, her errant fiancé was soon utterly forgotten.

the simple things you see are all complicated (606 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Missy/Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Clara Oswin Oswald, Missy (Doctor Who), Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Echoes of Clara Oswin Oswald, Hypnotism
Summary: Clara's got to stick with the Doctor, even if she doesn't know quite why - but then she meets with someone else instead...


From: 162) There Goes the Bride by Judy Duarte
Stop that bride!
Instead of heading down the aisle toward a man she didn't love, ex-beauty queen Lucie Miller hightailed it out of the church, landing at the feet of brooding loner Graham O'Brien. When Graham begrudgingly helped Lucie flee Kane's Crossing and her powerful groom-not-to-be in his private plane, neither one of them expected passions to ignite. But once they did, both tried to deny it. But maybe Graham could make room for Lucie in his emotionally bereft life, and maybe Lucie would actually walk all the way down the aisle one of these days….

Getaway Bus (858 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eighth Doctor & Lucie Miller, Lucie Miller & Graham O'Brien
Characters: Lucie Miller, Graham O'Brien, Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Summary: Lucie's on the run from an unwanted wedding in Sheffield - and luckily, the right bus comes along at exactly the right time.


From: 432) BABY'S WATCH by Justine Davis
Bad boy turned undercover agent the Third Doctor had come home to Texas to bust a baby-smuggling ring – not deliver a baby! But he couldn’t turn his back on helpless pregnant charmer the Master. Especially when his only safe haven is in his arms.

Just Desserts (681 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor & The Master (Delgado)
Characters: Jo Grant, Third Doctor (Doctor Who), The Master (Delgado)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Crack, Humor, Mpreg, mild body horror, Unconventional Courtship Generator
Summary: The Master plots with an alien species in a diabolical criminal money-making scheme. And then it backfires, as usual...


Plus, for good, measure, these are some scenarios the generator gave me that I did not write:

Steel and Silver on possibly matching assigments?

88) WHISPERS IN THE NIGHT by DIANE PERSHING
Silhouette Sensation
It began with a noise in the night…
When strange things began happening at his isolated home, lonely widower the Eighth Doctor turned to handyman Steel for protection. But what a mistake? Steel was not only an ex-cop but also an ex-convict – though he swore he’d been framed. Yet if he was so eager to prove his innocence why was he spending his time fixing his house, instead?
Steel seemed intent on gaining his trust – and as the mysterious dangers escalated, Eight needed someone to keep him safe. Steel was the perfect protector, because he needed nothing from him… or did he? Suddenly Eight wondered just why Steel had come to him – and how close he meant to get…

177) Undercover Memories by Alice Sharpe
Reeling after being left at the altar, Leela seeks comfort in her secluded cabin. But there's someone sleeping in her bed—a sharp-eyed, sexy stranger who claims to have no memory. While a little digging reveals Silver's true identity, Leela knows there's more to his past…and more to her feelings.
He may have been told who he is, but bodyguard Silver isn't satisfied with the answers, especially when they place Leela in danger.With his protective instinct in high gear, Silver vows to uncover his true identity while keeping her safe. But what if recovering his memory means he is the one Leela should be afraid of?


403) THREE DAY NIGHT - TORI PHILLIPS
THE WHITE ROSE OF YORK WAS NO HOTHOUSE FLOWER
Nay, Sir the First Doctor was a long-stemmed charmer with a dangerous secret of royal proportions. But for a chance to claim him as her promised groom, Sara Kingdom would fight the hounds of hell... !
Though plots and plans and barking dogs seemed to pursue the Countess of Thornbury wherever she went, One knew he'd found a champion. Mayhap Sara Kingdom was not what people expected, but the gentle dame had become his heart's desire.

407) The Redemption of Darius Sterne - Carole Mortimer
So innocent. So tempting...
Having built a global empire synonymous with excellence, formidable tycoon Jack Harkness is a man who gets what he wants. Always. And right now he wants ex-ballet dancer Count Dracula... in his bed and sighing his name in pleasure.
Virginal Dracula can’t resist the allure of the brooding billionaire. But the closer he pulls him, the more Jack threatens the barriers he’s carefully constructed to conceal the scars of his past. And Dracula isn’t the only one with pain to hide...
Can his pure love dance into his heart and redeem the dark and damaged Jack Harkness?


It was busy shipping Martha/Baldrick that day as well (sorry, Martha):

517) From Ruin To Riches by Louise Allen
Ruined and on the run, Sodoff Baldrick is in desperate straits when he meets a lady with a shocking proposal. Certain she is close to death, Martha Jones, Lady Dereham, believes Baldrick to be the perfect man to care for her beloved estate when she is gone - if he will first become her husband...
Marriage is Baldrick's salvation - as Lord Dereham he can finally escape his sins. Until three years later, when the wife he believes is dead returns as beautiful and strong as ever and intent on claiming the wedding night they never had!

remixrevival has gone live and despite my defaulting, I have a remix written for me in the collection! (I also, despite my defaulting, eventually managed to get my original assignment written, which I was v relieved about. Inspiration has never struck so rapidly and typing up has never been so delayed.)

Anyway, someone has written this for me, which is an expansion of one of my prompt meme ficlets that so happened to have the Delgado Master and Liz Shaw stuck together in the past as pirates. I mean, who didn't want to see the full story behind that one? And now you may!

I Always Wanted To Be A Pirate Queen (The Hungover Remix) (1825 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), The Master (Delgado)
Additional Tags: Humor
Summary: Trust a Time Lord to get himself and Liz Shaw stranded in the 17th century. Luckily Liz is a woman of wide and varied competence.

I haven't read much else yet, but I really enjoyed the one SJA fic, so I can rec that: No. 36 Bannerman Road.

Anyway, the collection is live and there are 71 fandoms in there, so there should be plenty of other good stuff!

You will be so proud of me - I wrote all the prompts! (I mean, one per person, not actually all of them.) I haven't managed that in ages, save for those AU memes.

Anyway, the last four are on AO3, with relevant details under the cut:

( Randomised Ficlets. And cake )

My Yuletide letter is finally in a better state and only needing some very minor tweaks. Hurrah! And just in time - sign-ups are now open!

This week I managed two more crossover ficlets for the Crossover Meme (I am aiming to get them all done by the time Yuletide assignments go out; if not, I shall have to write them off):

Helping With Enquiries (581 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (TV 1965), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Watson, The Master (Delgado)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossover Meme, Ficlet
Summary: Dr Watson receives a highly unexpected visitor...

Interrogation (764 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7, The Shadow of the Tower
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jenna Stannis, Henry VII of England
Additional Tags: Crossover, Time Travel, Ficlet, Crossover Meme, Meme
Summary: Jenna's a prisoner again, only this time, she's not even in the right century...

Well, I am still not back on LJ, so forgive me if I'm ignoring you. (I can see people's comments on my posts via my email, but I have absolutely no way to reply or read anything on LJ until it deigns to let me back in.) If it's not back by this evening, I may need someone to put in a report for me, if anybody's willing, because it's getting silly now. In the meantime:


1. I have started watching Man at the Top (Thames, 1972), and the next two episodes should have James Maxwell in. I knew he was playing somebody called Bernard MacLaine, and throughout this ep, he hasn't appeared but everyone keeps talking about him. Apparently, he's a really mean millionnaire who goes round firing people and closing factories and also is very puritannical. The anti-hero may be going to steal his wife. I await his actual arrival with interest... (I am amused that the other week I watched him being someone called Peter Kane and this week it's Bernard MacLaine. If he plays any more rhyming people, I could write a poem. Simms could probably do an awful limerick.)

(I might have got the day muddled for my blood test, so now I am going on Thursday instead. This bit was entirely my ME muddled-ness, whoops. I usually double-check everything because I know I do things like that. /o\)


2. Also Remix has been revealed in the night! I wrote two fics, one for scripsi in the main collection, and one for Madness, for Redrikki. And I need to thank paranoidangel for her remix of my Ruth/Harry AU, All Russians Are Spies (The Retirement Remix), which I had strongly suspected. (We do have this tendency to get assigned to each other!) It's still awesome if you haven't read it yet.


First up, I remixed parts of Scripsi's A Little Less Than Kin series, which was huge fun to do:

Unrelated (The Loop the Loop to Affinity Remix) (2971 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Master (Delgado)/River Song, The Doctor/River Song, The Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who)
Characters: The Master (Delgado), River Song, Missy (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Remix, Death, Timey-Wimey
Summary:

It takes time to achieve perfection. Several times, in fact. Both the Master and River Song know this a little too well.

Then, when reading through the sign-ups for Madness, I found a wonderful Ats/Pushing Daisies ficlet that accidentally happy-ending-ed everything. I couldn't resist remixing it (and accidentally ruining things again, because once you start writing AtS-side, as opposed to the pie-and-dead-people side, something has to go wrong.)

Criss-Cross My Heart and Hope To Die (The Lattice-Top Rebake) (1327 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Angel: the Series, Pushing Daisies
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Angel (BtVS), Olive Snook, Ned (Pushing Daisies), Emerson Cod
Additional Tags: Remix, Crossover, Humor, Pie
Summary:

Angel has a seriously weird experience in a pie shop.

So, that was Remix, and I mustn't forget to post the DW to Teaspoon now that I'm free to own it. Otherwise, I am probably mostly proud of my terrible titles, really.

Title: Expert Opinion
Author: lost_spook
Rating: PG
Word Count: 738
Characters/Pairings: Servalan, The Master
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: They both leave a trail across the galaxies that the other can see only too clearly...

For liadtbunny in the 500 Prompts Meme: #81 Across the worlds (Servalan & The Master, B7/DW). This prompt is one of those that could so easily have been an epic, but I turned it into this. It's probably as well, really...


( Expert Opinion )

5. The Master / Roger Delgado (Doctor Who)



"In reminiscent mood, are you, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my deepest sympathies."

This is a very simple one. I love Roger Delgado as the Master. I have no rhyme or reason for it (although I know I'm far from alone!*) other than that he is quite, quite beautiful in his own way and the first Three-era story I saw was The Sea Devils, which sees him dressing in white, and claiming to be reformed, and watching The Clangers.** ("It seems to be a rather interesting extraterrestrial life-form.") Three himself never had a chance, no matter how many sandwiches he pilfered later on. My heart was irrevocably given to the villain (with a little room left over for the Brigadier). In fact, that bit in The Claws of Axos where the Brigadier and the Master wind up working together? If the Doctor had run away at that point and never come back, I wouldn't have minded. Well, not much. (And, his genuine dismay at what the Doctor has been doing to his TARDIS and the state it's in: "Overweight, underpowered museum-piece... might as well try to fly a second-hand gas stove." And on what the Brigadier might do if there's a nuclear explosion: "You could try the usual precautions... sticky tape on the windows, that sort of thing." ♥)

( Some more, and a pretty picture )

Title This Perilous Grace
Author lost_spook
Rating All Ages
Characters Third Doctor, Jo Grant, the Master
Summary Jo and the Doctor arrive in Camelot - but that was only ever a myth, wasn't it?

I've finally put my tardis_gen story onto Teaspoon (currently awaiting approval). I'm not sure my extra scene was worth waiting for, but it may at least point in the right direction a bit more. And three parts doesn't sit any more naturally than two, no matter what I do. It wants to stay as one long story, but I think over 12,000 words is a bit off-putting in one go.

I wrote this for starbells who gave me the prompt of Three, Jo and the Master in Camelot. Leaving me with a lovely prompt (as you'll remember me going on about. Possibly) but needing to somehow get our characters to a place that never existed. Clearly a 'historical' Arthur wasn't what was wanted and Battlefield covered the AU front and I always feel dream stories are such cheats. Therefore I came up with this. And if it hadn't been for it being for a challenge, who knows how long it might have got because, despite my shock at finding myself doing my own take on Arthur, I loved every minute of writing the thing.

Finally, I can finally share my glee at finding the perfect Arthurian alias for the Master: Sir Melegaunce. Isn't it so him?