The Winter of Our Discontent, Part I: This Sun of York (1/3)

[lareinenoire]

Not actually for the Ficathon, but it's Doctor Who (albeit with a dash of Torchwood) and it is very, very historical.

Title: The Winter of Our Discontent, Part I: This Sun of York
Authors: lareinenoire and rosamund
Summary: Something is rotten in the state of England...and it's not just the heads mounted above the gates of York. Can the Doctor and Jack solve the

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[tree_and_leaf]

Hurrah! You've written it!

"It's the end of the world! There were three suns! Three!"

"I always said it wasn't a parhelion."10 *g*

"Medicus quondam, medicus futurus," Ned said under his breath. "Although I would have pegged him as Merlin first."

Jack smiled to himself, thinking that the Doctor could actually have been the famous wizard.

<3 <3 <3

[lareinenoire]

The parhelion was actually one of the first ideas we had for this story, mostly because it's just so weird and coincidental and too much fun not to tweak.

And I hadn't really thought about it before, but when rosamund wrote that line, I really had to wonder if there was a reality where the Doctor (in some incarnation) was Merlin.

[tree_and_leaf]

Canonically, he apparently will be - see Battlefield. Though ISTR that was indeed in another universe.

[lareinenoire]

Ah, nice! I will have to see that.

[tree_and_leaf]

*admits shamefacedly* I still haven't. I keep meaning to get hold of a DVD of it, because it has Arthurian myth and the Brigadier and is generally agreed to be a good episode, and I really can't work out why I don't own it....