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The Watchmaker by Liz Bee (PG-13)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: None, gen.
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizbee
Author Website: Mirror Dance
Why this must be read: This is a lovely, plotty examination of Romana and how she might have survived the Time War. As an added bonus, it has interaction with Mickey, UNIT, and Harriet Jones. The dialogue is wonderful, as are the senses of time and place.
Her name was not Mary-Ann Nichols. Nor was it Anna Chapman, which was the name currently gracing her driver's license and passport. She called herself Anna because she liked the sound of it, and because she had once known a girl by that name. The original Anna had been the youngest nurse at the Charitable Asylum. She had been kind, in an unthinking way, and only the Director and Matron called her 'Sister'. She served as a nurse in France, and died in 1918 of the Spanish 'flu.
Chapman came from the page of newspaper she had found a few days after being admitted to the Charitable Hospital. Little of it had made sense at the time, aside from the date – September 8, 1888 – but she had remembered the name. 'Anna Chapman' had existed for nearly ten years, now. Soon, she decided, she would have to find the money to create a new alias. They didn't come cheap anymore. It was a shame, but that was progress for you.
The Watchmaker
Pairing: None, gen.
Author on LJ:
lizbeeAuthor Website: Mirror Dance
Why this must be read: This is a lovely, plotty examination of Romana and how she might have survived the Time War. As an added bonus, it has interaction with Mickey, UNIT, and Harriet Jones. The dialogue is wonderful, as are the senses of time and place.
Her name was not Mary-Ann Nichols. Nor was it Anna Chapman, which was the name currently gracing her driver's license and passport. She called herself Anna because she liked the sound of it, and because she had once known a girl by that name. The original Anna had been the youngest nurse at the Charitable Asylum. She had been kind, in an unthinking way, and only the Director and Matron called her 'Sister'. She served as a nurse in France, and died in 1918 of the Spanish 'flu.
Chapman came from the page of newspaper she had found a few days after being admitted to the Charitable Hospital. Little of it had made sense at the time, aside from the date – September 8, 1888 – but she had remembered the name. 'Anna Chapman' had existed for nearly ten years, now. Soon, she decided, she would have to find the money to create a new alias. They didn't come cheap anymore. It was a shame, but that was progress for you.
The Watchmaker