yours to play the part

[ladymercury_10]

Title: yours to play the part
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Eleven/River, peripheral Amy/Rory
Word Count: 1507
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I own no Who, as usual.
Summary:  River, the Doctor, time, and space.
A/N: A very belated entry in the spoiler_song 2010 Holiday Fic Exchange.  My anonymous requester asked for "River/Doctor, cliché," I believe.  My apologies for the

Comments

[lady_with_cats]

This was so lovely dude! I especially loved the dandelion comparison. Oh Eleven. Oh River. Standing on the empty planet was also a little perfect, but I can't quite tell you why. I think it was just the reliable comfort in their conversation. :D (the Amy/Rory bit is a bit odd considering, but you can put it down to timey-wimeyness I suppose?)

[ladymercury_10]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, the Amy/Rory bit is really odd after the mid-season finale, but since I actually wrote this more than six months ago I'm not too worried about it. And like you said, there's always timey-wimeyness to help sort things out. :)

[trialia]

This is a lovely fic. So sweet!

I have to ask, though, did you copy it from a word-wrapped text document? The formatting's gone a little funny in places, like what happens when I do that.

[ladymercury_10]

Thank you!

Um, yes, I pasted it from a Word 2007 text document. Thanks for catching the weird formatting. Could you point out any wonky places that I need to manually fix?

[trialia]

It looks like you've got it all, except for just the one typo in "paracetamol". :)

It's such a precious mental image, the Doctor with his arms around River's waist watching the launch. ♥

[ladymercury_10]

Ah, thanks! That one I can't blame on Word...in the US we call it Tylenol or acetaminophen, so I was rather guessing at the spelling.

Thank you! I'm very glad you enjoyed it. :)

[wethrowknives]

isn't it the most beautiful sky you've ever seen?

gah.

oh, and

they string along nights like Christmas lights on a strand and every morning the answer is yes

this was so. freaking. beautiful. honestly, I can't get over it.

[ladymercury_10]

*blushes* Thank you! I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[ladymercury_10]

Thank you!

And yes, of course you are correct. I suppose I thought that you could change an advanced degree the same way you could change a major, as long as you did it early enough. I think I've fixed it now.

[honeynoir]

Oh, yay! This is a wonderful, wonderful fic! Fabulous take on the prompt! (I’m pretty sure it was mine, uh, unless someone else requested the same thing I did. And yay for a h/c-ish fic!)

The different scenes are all wonderful, and together they paint a lovely, and perfectly bittersweet, picture of this ‘ship. And the dialogue is perfect.

Her message is better, she thinks, and so is the man she sends it to.

“Keeping an eye on the Daleks for you? Getting you a rope? Buying you paracetamol and jam?”

She has all of time and space at her disposal, and she’s in love with the good wizard to boot. No, she’s not a princess, and that’s just the way she likes it.

I love these lines; they’re so River.

And these say so much about the ship:

Dandelions don’t remind her of anything.

A half an hour later, he’s handcuffed to the dock railing and retching into the ocean below. River alternates between holding his head and shooting withering glances at the milquetoast policeman writing up their crime reports.

Once, that would have been her

[ladymercury_10]

Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! I'm very sorry it took me so long to get it posted. I'm happy it worked for you, even though it diverged from the prompt a bit. :)

Oh, dear, I've noticed a few typos now that I'm here again. I'll have to have a look at them later, when I have the original text file to compare them to.

[honeynoir]

I'm very sorry it took me so long to get it posted. I'm happy it worked for you, even though it diverged from the prompt a bit. :)
Oh, don't worry about that! It was a lovely gift to get now. I don't think it diverged, either -- it was hardly a specific prompt. :)

[ladymercury_10]

:) I'm glad.