FIC: All That Spirits Desire [Doctor Who]

[atraphoenix]

Title: All That Spirits Desire
Author: atraphoenix
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Braxiatel/Romana II, Leela/Narvin and Leela/Romana II
Rating: PG
Summary: “This is more than just having a place at your side, Romana! This is a place inside you.”

Author's Note: Written for janeturenne as part of the morepolitics Gallifreyathon.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.-- Khalil

Comments

[agapi42]

Leela and Romana having after-dreams is one of the wonderful ideas that make so much sense it must have happened.
The switching was brilliant, and it's great to see it again, and put to such good use.
Every bit of this is convincing. It's like a missing bit that you've just found and slotted in, and it fits perfectly.

[atraphoenix]

I can't believe that it didn't occur to me sooner, really. And not just because of femmeslash potential.

Thank you!

[janeturenne]

This is wonderful! I think the Romana/Brax section at the beginning was my favorite--perfectly characterized, perfectly balanced, not too much, just right. And I absolutely adored the ending: Romana's conclusion that the planet comes first, that they haven't got time for themselves, rings so very, very true. I'm a sucker for basically every pairing Gallifrey has to offer (as was probably obvious from my prompts), and I don't think ANY of them get written often enough, so getting three for the price of one, and all of them wonderfully written, is a bit like Christmas on my birthday :) Thank you so much!

[atraphoenix]

Oh, likewise. I ship any combination of the Gallifrey four, really, and I'm very glad you liked it. (Especially since I ended up mutating your original prompt somewhat.)

[neveralarch]

This is really great! I think I liked the Leela/Narvin section the best, but they all work really well.

[atraphoenix]

I always love writing Leela, so that was probably my favourite part to write. I'm glad you liked it!

[aralias]

really lie this - great idea as a result of the prompt, and really well done. let's just get this part over with - the leela section made me think of this:

[atraphoenix]

... I don't know about you, but I would definitely read that book.

Thank you very much! I'm glad it made sense and that you enjoyed it.

(It makes me sad as well. Usually I write around it, but, for some reason, I didn't do that this time.)

[eloralouistra]

Today is “comment on all the fics I love but for some reason didn’t comment on at the time for some reason” day.

The best word I can think of to describe this fic is “beautiful”.

I love it, despite not shipping any of the pairings in it and paradoxically, my favourite part is the Leela/Narvin, which I ship least.

[atraphoenix]

I'm very grateful to you for taking the time to comment at all! I'm really glad you enjoyed it so much. (And I ship every combination of the OT4, so the pairings just ... happened.)