Title: Confidence Man
Rating: Teen
Wordcount: 2025

Summary: The thing nobody ever mentioned about standing on a hillside in rural Wales on a drizzly April morning while waiting for past versions of yourself and your wife to appear so you could wave at them and keep the timeline intact was that it was both mind-numbingly boring and completely nerve ( Read more... )

Title: Where Are You From?
Rating: G
Wordcount: 783

Summary: Sometimes the easiest questions also have the hardest answers.

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Title: The Question Hidden in Plain Sight
Rating: K+
Wordcount: 1648

Summary: “Doctor... how exactly did you first meet River?  I mean, what happened when you met her for the first time?”

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Title: Of Mothers and Daughters
Rating: K+
Wordcount: 4477
Summary:

“When we were kids - when you were Mels and we were so close - was any of that true?”

River looked at her mother quizzically.  “What do you mean?”

“Our friendship.  All of it.  Were you-“ Amy broke off, unsure if she wanted to finish the thought.

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A funny thing happened while I was in the middle of writing a 20-page final paper for one of the more difficult (but enjoyable!  I love graduate school!) classes I've ever taken.  My trusty laptop, which had lately been having screen problems, suddenly started to click in a rather ominious fashion before my paper--due Tuesday--dissolved into a grey ( Read more... )

Title: Assumed Identities Ch. 5/5
Wordcount: 3,857
Rating: PG

Summary:

The Doctor heard the first screams from terrified citizens as soon as they left the Duchess’s home, and a deep, resounding roar followed.

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Title: Assumed Identities Ch. 4/5
Wordcount: 3,476
Rating: PG

Summary:

“Be careful,” the Doctor hissed as River crept closer through the underbrush, pulling herself forward on her elbows and forearms.

"Where's the fun in that?" she whispered back with a grin.

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Title: Assumed Identities Ch. 3/5
Wordcount: 2,431
Rating: PG

Summary:

“Good.  Don’t exactly need an audience for this,” the Doctor murmured to River.  “Now, where’s your trowel?”

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Title: Assumed Identities Ch. 2/5
Wordcount: 2,192
Rating: PG

Summary: "I don’t deal in secrets,” he felt rather than saw River’s reaction.  Well, Rule One.  “And I don’t do business with those who do, so I suggest you tell me the complete truth about the bone meadows immediately.”

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Title: Assumed Identities Chapter 1/5
Wordcount: 1541
Rating: PG

Summary: “Doesn’t it just sound like our kind of adventure?  Bone meadows.  Sends a thrill up my spine to say it.”

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