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The Short Revolution of Time by Nostalgia (PG-13)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Ten/Reinette
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nostalgia_lj
Author Website: nostalgia for an age yet to come
Why this must be read:
Series Two's episode The Girl in the Fireplace (coming up on the 20th, US viewers!) was one of those episode that has a huge effect on fandom. Love it or hate it - and I personally have it as my all time favourite Doctor Who episode - it played a big part in defining the Tenth Doctor's characterisation.
It also gave the opportunity for some very interesting AU fic to be written. In this fic,nostalgia_lj takes one of the more obvious AUs - what if the fireplace hadn't been fixed - and runs with it, showing snippets of the Doctor living "on the slow path" with Reinette back in the 18th century. It's eloquent, and beautiful, full of historical and past canon references, and like any Ten/Reinette fic, filled with an inevitable tragedy.
Because he has nowhere else to go, the Doctor stays.
Reinette uses her charms (and, he suspects, other things) to get him employed as King's Physician, telling him that he might as well be a doctor if he is to stay here. It annoys him to be at someone else's beck and call, and his deference is weak enough that it is only covered for by the fact that his medical knowledge is far in advance of everyone else's.
He has a room full of clockwork apparatus, technology salvaged from the stranded service droids and the few useful bits and pieces he had in his pockets when he came through the looking-glass. It is not enough.
The rift in Cardiff is still open. There is a similar tear near Lilongwe and another in Hangzhou. All of them must stay open so that he can close them in his own past at a later date. He has no memory of encountering himself here, and there is no Gallifrey to summon. If he had thought, he would have set the recall on the TARDIS, but he did not think and now he is not sure if there are enough thoughts in his head to help him.
He has his mind, some inadequate Enlightenment science, and all the time in the world.
And he has Reinette.
The Short Revolution of Time
Pairing: Ten/Reinette
Author on LJ:
nostalgia_ljAuthor Website: nostalgia for an age yet to come
Why this must be read:
Series Two's episode The Girl in the Fireplace (coming up on the 20th, US viewers!) was one of those episode that has a huge effect on fandom. Love it or hate it - and I personally have it as my all time favourite Doctor Who episode - it played a big part in defining the Tenth Doctor's characterisation.
It also gave the opportunity for some very interesting AU fic to be written. In this fic,
nostalgia_lj takes one of the more obvious AUs - what if the fireplace hadn't been fixed - and runs with it, showing snippets of the Doctor living "on the slow path" with Reinette back in the 18th century. It's eloquent, and beautiful, full of historical and past canon references, and like any Ten/Reinette fic, filled with an inevitable tragedy. Because he has nowhere else to go, the Doctor stays.
Reinette uses her charms (and, he suspects, other things) to get him employed as King's Physician, telling him that he might as well be a doctor if he is to stay here. It annoys him to be at someone else's beck and call, and his deference is weak enough that it is only covered for by the fact that his medical knowledge is far in advance of everyone else's.
He has a room full of clockwork apparatus, technology salvaged from the stranded service droids and the few useful bits and pieces he had in his pockets when he came through the looking-glass. It is not enough.
The rift in Cardiff is still open. There is a similar tear near Lilongwe and another in Hangzhou. All of them must stay open so that he can close them in his own past at a later date. He has no memory of encountering himself here, and there is no Gallifrey to summon. If he had thought, he would have set the recall on the TARDIS, but he did not think and now he is not sure if there are enough thoughts in his head to help him.
He has his mind, some inadequate Enlightenment science, and all the time in the world.
And he has Reinette.
The Short Revolution of Time