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Who fic: Message in a Bottle

Oct 21, 2012 19:35

Message in a Bottle
by fannishliss
for wildwinterwitch
6800 words
Rating: Teen (PG13, not too explicit)
Pairing: Nine/Rose, with Ten2/Rose and hints of Ten/Rose
warning: angst! with happy ending :)

Summary: Rose tries to find the Doctor across the Void. When the Doctor finds her, who will he be, and where will they end up?

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the doctor, fic, who, tenii, ten, nine, rose

Comments 17

petnurser October 22 2012, 01:24:03 UTC

Beautiful!

fannishliss October 22 2012, 01:29:07 UTC

thank you!

kelkat9 October 22 2012, 02:01:53 UTC

Wow! I really loved that. Especially, the concept of the parallel Rose ascending and assuring a Rose would be in this Doctor's universe for him but still allowing her time with the metacrisis from her original universe. Very clever and enjoyable!

fannishliss October 22 2012, 14:30:44 UTC

this was the timey wimey story that wouldn't stop. So glad you liked it!!

I love the thought of Rose "ascending." It's almost mindblowing if you weave it into canon -- the idea that someone saves the Doctor and instead of dying, becomes Eternal. The idea that someone is out there, loving him eternally. That's a radical concept for the Doctor. :)

bloose09 October 22 2012, 03:31:54 UTC

This was wonderful. I really enjoyed the fact that Rose was able to have a full life with Ten2 as well as a parallel version of the Doctor. You gave the Doctor and Rose their forever. Your ability to weave canon with your original story is superb.

I love the fact that Rose remade the Universe and even though the Doctor remembers the destruction, he is happier for it. It is Rose that has to heal from the grief of losing Ten2 and the parallel!Doctor that has to help her this time around. Nice shout out to the Copacabana.

It was funny how the TARDIS showing Rose how to get them out of the gravito-temporal anomaly pushed the parallel!Doctor over the edge. Not much hotter than that!

This is an awesome concept:
“You ascended,” he says, and there’s a look of awe in his eyes Rose doesn’t quite know how to interpret. “Wove yourself into all of space and time - all the parts that have touched me, at least. Threaded yourself into the Vortex.”

Thank you for another incredible story!

fannishliss October 22 2012, 14:33:28 UTC

I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks so much for your lovely comment.

The canon parts and the au that spun off from Rose's ascension are like the harder SF parts of the story that kind of have to ring true, so I'm really glad to hear it worked for you.

I love the thought of Rose, Ascended, out there looking out for the Doctor, throughout out of Time and Space. It's a groovy concept and makes for a much more cheerful Doctor. :)

wildwinterwitch October 22 2012, 17:47:18 UTC

I knew it'd be a good idea to wait until I had the time to read it in peace and quiet and enjoy the intricacies and the clever ideas of Rose's many lives. What breaks my heart is that she loves TenII as well and has to really mourn him before she can move on -- I have read fics where she dismisses him a tad readily to go back to be with the Doctor. And I think it's a stroke of genius that she remade the universe and the Doctor she remembers was erased along with the Daleks. It's very fitting, because they made him into the man he was, the man she fell in love with.

Thank you for such a wonderful story.

fannishliss October 22 2012, 19:57:48 UTC

Thanks for your lovely comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

I wrote this fic in stages, because Rose kept revealing that she wasn't satisfied yet, so I had to keep writing. The fic doubled in length twice! I'm glad it made sense to you and that the mourning wasn't too rough.

I often think about what the Bad Wolf should have been able to do, given that she wiped out all the Daleks with a thought. So in this AU, Nine's ascended Rose just made them never turn into Daleks. I guess Davros became some great Kaleditarian. :P

The ramifications are HUGE, but I'm not figuring on writing House Rosenineades or anything. :)

fogsblue October 25 2012, 19:27:25 UTC

This is wonderful, the way you've got the threads of the story weaving through the Doctor(s) and Rose's lives so perfectly. And the perfect way you've got the Doctor healing Rose this time around. It's gorgeous.

fannishliss October 25 2012, 21:50:20 UTC

thanks for reading! I am glad to hear that it worked for you. This story is not exactly burning down LJ as people scramble to comment... so I really appreciate your words.

It was fun trying to write a story that crossed universes and that exploits the concept of Bad Wolf a little more than usual. :)