no wild bird fluttering in a bush (DW fic, Doctor/River)

[thinkatory]

Title: no wild bird fluttering in a bush
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing: River Song, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor; River/Ten, River/Eleven. Very shippy.
Rating: A hard PG-13.
Word count: 1403.
Notes: For the Write For Relief Charity Fundraiser for terryowen_lj, who prompted: "Ten or Eleven and River, Ten's reward, PG-13 to R." Title from Aeschylus's

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no wild bird fluttering in a bush (DW fic, Doctor/River)

[terryowen_lj]

Lovely. Totally worth the wait. ;-)

Terry

[betawho]

Cool. This explains how she new 10 on sight. Lovely. (I love her taking over a castle, that's so River.)

[tempusdominus10]

AWESOME. I enjoyed the title especially! What is it from?

[thinkatory]

Oh, thanks, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

Since you asked: the title is from Aeschylus's Agamemnon, where Cassandra prophesies her death and Agamemnon's:
So. I am going in, and mourning as I go
my death and Agamemnon's. Let my life be done.
Ah friends,
truly this is no wild bird fluttering in a bush,
nor vain my speech. Bear witness to me when I die,
when falls for me, a woman slain, another woman
and when a man dies for this wickedly mated man.
Here in my death I claim this stranger's grace of you.

I picked it because I couldn't shake an association between Cassandra and River (she basically exists as a self-fulfilling prophecy) and River depends on the people who will later be her most trusted allies to trust her, with no proof (thus "no wild bird fluttering... nor vain my speech", aka "trust me.") So... yeah!

[tempusdominus10]

OH, nice! okay!!

[shadowturquoise]

Very well done! I love stories that incorporate both Ten and Eleven with River.