Chapter Six - The Best of Times

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

God, she hated herself right now, thought Rose. How could she do that to him?

She could hardly bear to watch, yet she hadn’t been able to tear her eyes away ( Read more... )

"Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide ( Read more... )

Chapter Four - Not Just For Christmas

Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God. to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!

Charles ( Read more... )

“Look to see me no more; and look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed between us!"

Marley’s Ghost - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

It was snowing, thick wet slushy flakes of it that would soon soak through his coat. The Doctor didn’t care. He wanted this to be it, the last time ever. He could hear bells ringing and ( Read more... )

AUTHOR:sensiblecat

WORD COUNT: 3825

SPOILERS: None, really. It's AU after Doomsday.

CHARACTERS: Ten, Rose, Jack

RATING - Teen to be on the safe side (sexual refs, one profanity)

Thanks todave7  for the story that inspired this one, and to my wonderfully patient beta reader, wendymr

Burning Bridges (prequel by dave7 )
Chapter One
Chapter Two

She stood there for a moment, waiting for ( Read more... )

AUTHOR: sensiblecat

WORD COUNT: 3825

SPOILERS: None, really. It's AU after Doomsday.

CHARACTERS: Ten, Rose, Jack

RATING - Teen to be on the safe side (sexual refs)

Thanks to dave7  for the story that inspired this one, and to my wonderfully patient beta reader, wendymr

She might be a silly little human, she may be young, but no matter what he’d done, the Doctor was her ( Read more... )

AUTHOR:    sensiblecat

WORD COUNT: 4967

SPOILERS: None, really. It's AU after Doomsday.

CHARACTERS: Ten, Rose, Jack

RATING - Teen to be on the safe side (sexual refs)

This fic has a complicated history. It's a reply to the following OT3 Ficathon prompt from
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