Beyond the Roundels

Another fic for this round of no_true_pair, this time for the prompt "September Seven - the Brigadier & Thirteen are temporary neighbors."

weirdest side of the street (1314 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Characters: Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Doris Lethbridge-Stewart, Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Thirteenth Doctor's Fam (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Community: no_true_pair, Community: allbingo, Holidays, Humor, Explosions
Summary: The Brigadier and Doris are enjoying a peaceful holiday - and then they find out who's moved in next door.

Also written for lyricaltitles bingo square "Last line;" and allbingo (Valentine's Bingo 2023) square "The Lady of the Storm."

I have managed to write a few more ficlets for the writing meme this week! Plus, one from about a month ago that I wanted to wait & edit before posting to AO3 and the final effort for the AU Meme from last year. (I was saving till I had a batch and suddenly I have over a batch?)

AU Meme: Hugh Beringar (252 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cadfael Chronicles - Ellis Peters
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aline Beringar/Hugh Beringar, Hugh Beringar & Brother Cadfael
Characters: Hugh Beringar, Brother Cadfael, Aline Beringar
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Ficlet, Meme
Summary: 4 AU scenarios written for Hugh Beringar in a Dreamwidth meme.

Thwarted (787 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor & The Master (Delgado)
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, The Master (Delgado), Jo Grant
Additional Tags: Meme, Ficlet, Humor, Multi-Era, Flash Fic
Summary: “Before you decide to murder me, let me explain…”

Close Quarters (343 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who) & Silver (S&S)
Characters: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Silver (S&S)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Memes, Crossover, Flash Fic
Summary:“Looks like we’ll be trapped for a while.”

Fatal Swoon (100 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dracula/John Seward
Characters: Dracula, John Seward
Additional Tags: Memes, Drabble, Vampires, Fainting, Flash Fic
Summary: “You fainted…straight into my arms. You know, if you wanted my attention you didn’t have to go to such extremes.”

Unravelled, Unwrapped (473 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker & John Seward
Characters: Jonathan Harker, John Seward
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Memes, Victorian asylums, Nudity, Mental Instability, Mental Institutions, Flash Fic
Summary: “Is there a reason you’re naked in my bed?”

First three bits of fluff and nonsense for the prompts meme:

Ties That Bind (541 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire & Silver & Steel (S&S)
Characters: Sapphire (S&S), Silver (S&S), Steel (S&S)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Prompt Fic
Summary: "I'm not leaving you."

Every Silver Lining Has Its Cloud (204 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor & Graham O'Brien
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Humor, Prompt Fic, Imprisonment
Summary: “It could be worse.”

Hedging Your Bets (416 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Department S & Jason King
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annabelle Hurst & Jason King & Stewart Sullivan
Characters: Annabelle Hurst, Jason King, Stewart Sullivan (Department S)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Humor, Fluff, Prompt Fic
Summary: "This is without doubt the stupidest plan you’ve ever had. Of course I’m in.”

So, I keep having feelings I don't like about the finale and turned them into this double drabble in an attempt to offload them somewhere and hopefully move onto a more positive place. (I'm not sure this is exactly what I think as such, but it is a lot of why this hurt so much.) And it fitted a genprompt_bingo square, which is obviously the important thing.

(For the square "Memory Related" and also allbingo square "Rose (Dark Crimson) - Mourning".) Spoilers for the finale implicit.

Nothing at the End of the Lane (200 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: First Doctor, Third Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor
Additional Tags: Vignette, Introspection, Loss, Episode: s12e10 The Timeless Children, Double Drabble, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: allbingo, POV Second Person, Spoilers, Memory Loss, Ficlet
Summary: You were always the same. Everything else is a lie.

Chocolate Box author reveals have happened and I can now confess to my own fannish crimes (and know who was responsible for my lovely gifts, especially the main assignment - I don't think I've ever been quite so impatient to see who wrote my gift, which is cyphomandra, as it turns out. Do you suppose they'd mind if I camped outside their door and waited for them to Do It Again someday? Heh.)

It was good fun, and I'd like to do it again, although the closeness to Yuletide and fandom_stocking is a bit of a thing. OTOH, it genuinely is pretty laid back with a 300 word minimum, so... Still, I'm very glad I did it this time!

I was assigned to shopfront, who had requested three fandoms that I knew, although only one that I'd actually offered for that fandom/pairing. Ironically, then, I wrote a gift and a treat for those two other pairings and fell down on the matched one. Mainly because shopfront had requested Thirteen/Yaz and prompted Thirteen trying to manage some normal dates and I was immediately bunnied, because we all know how that would go. I did eventually, at the 11th hour, also manage to write out the tiny Bel/Lix ficlet (from The Hour) that I'd had planned for ages, because, well, Anna Chancellor and Romola Garai, really.)

Anyway, fic:

We'll Be Dating To the End of Time (1934 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan
Additional Tags: Humor, human-alien relations, Time Travel, Dating, The Doctor is hopeless at romance
Summary: The Doctor tries taking Yaz on some nice, calm, normal dates. It goes about exactly as well as you'd imagine.


Immoral Support (420 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hour (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bel Rowley/Lix Storm
Characters: Bel Rowley, Lix Storm
Additional Tags: Ficlet
Summary: Bel winds up where she always does after a bad day; in the safest place she knows...

(And, yes, the title and the line is a Press Gang reference. It's hard not to sometimes.)

And shopfront leaves very enthusiastic comments so between two treats, an amazing main gift and a very nice recip, that was a pretty good exchange experience.

(Also, I'd just been thinking that I missed clocketpatch and their fic, and then saw the name as a recip in the Doctor Who category, and then next fic I read in that section was clearly a Clocket Seven & Ace fic, and I was right. Anyway, it's Clocket Seven & Ace Whofic, you should read it if you haven't already.)