Ever After by S_Star (PG)

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Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Nine/Rose/Jack
Auhor on LJ: astra_argentea
Author Website: Stories in Memories
Why this story must be read:

This is a lyrical and disjointed piece, Nine/Rose/Jack in all its messy glory. Jack is figuring things out and fitting in, and it's just so perfectly him. It's sharp, mathematics and a fairy tale.

You start to think outside the box, stepping out of the TARDIS on to the ground of places you've never seen before and times you’d rather forget, and you consider going down the romance novel route: every star looks more radiant, every alien more extraordinary, every item of period dress more exquisite when the three of you are together. Beautiful people in dreamlike settings, too cheesy and fake even for you, so you try another tactic. A planet with black and white checkerboard fields reminds you of Alice Through the Looking Glass, and there are only seven plots anyway, so why not take Wonderland? Typecast -- the Doctor with a grin, always eluding you, must be the Cheshire Cat; Rose Alice, all wide-eyes and wonderment; you... the Mad Hatter, at this rate, because none of this would make sense if you wrote it down, anyway. (But in the end, wasn’t Wonderland just a dream, a drug-induced hallucination, a children’s movie? The fantastical Carroll really the mathematician Dodgson? Perhaps you’re going about this the wrong way.)


Ever After