Fic: It Started With a Mask (1/1)

[eljay_earthgirl]

Title: It Started With a Mask
Author: eljay_earthgirl 
Rating: PG
Characters: Tenth Doctor/Donna
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Belongs to BBC
Words: Right under 9k
Summary: The Doctor has a surprise for Donna, but we all know a masked ball changes everything.
A/N: Slipping right under the deadline here, but this is a birthday present for the ever-lovely sykira that once upon a

Comments

[sykira]

For not the first time today I wrote a long comment and then LJ ate it and in the theme of fool me once I feel stoopid for not copying and pasting it before I hit post, argh!

When I try to reconstitute my thoughts they end up half-formed and garbled so my apologies in advance, love ♥

Right from the start your writing sparkles. So full of creative ideas and evocative images: I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions of the (mis)adventures and all the ways he discounted various different places to attend a ball! This whole thing is so much more than an ingenious way to work in all those prompts, it's also a great story and EXACTLY what I love!

(There's more in the middle I'll come back to but skipping ahead so I can hit post in case I lose this comment too!)

When he thought she was afraid of him...you played that beautifully because as a reader I knew she wasn't but yet I could totally see why he could believe that, given who he is. It was elegant how this is the point you remind the reader of who the Doctor is--that he is no stranger to people looking at him in fear, and usually he's not even uncomfortable with it. But when it's Donna, he wibbles so gorgeously ♥ be still my heart!

And when he's heartbroken MEEP

And those exquisite kisses *sighsssss*