DW Fic: River Song and the Lost Tomb of Ardûn

[nancybrown]

Title: River Song and the Lost Tomb of Ardûn
Author: nancybrown
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: River, Jack, OCs
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some violence and torture (think Indiana Jones films level of gore)
Spoilers: up through "DW: The Angels Take Manhattan"
Words: 5000
Beta: fide_et_spe, who also helped with those fiddly little details of time-travelling British people

Comments

[rabecka]

Oh wow. This is brilliant. Love the timey-wimey, and got Jack from the start (well, it was my bonus request after all...). His pushing her cause he needed her to be the best. You know what really smacked me upside the head though, was the references to the screaming. I kept taking that as hyperbole, you know, part of the legend, and probably something like wind thru the rock. I even guessed that she was going to be rescuing Jack, and it still didn't register. Slam.

Loved the whole tomb section in fact, from Alon and the Trill-Bears, to River's initial dismissal and then respect for the traps, to, well... yeah... Oh Jack...

I was reading a story by prochytes a couple of days ago, and she had a line in there that I loved. "We’re riding a predestination paradox. Hold on tight, and try not to throw up." Strikes me that it fits this story just as well. Must say that it's wonderful to get several top-notch TW stories. (Hey, if it has Jack, I consider it at least partly TW. Not to mention that the Dr Jones is more than a little ambivalent.) They're getting few and far between these days.

[nancybrown]

Oh wow. This is brilliant. Love the timey-wimey, and got Jack from the start (well, it was my bonus request after all...).

It was and thank you! Pretty much once I read your prompt, the story was set, and it was just a matter of finding time to get it all down. :D

You know what really smacked me upside the head though, was the references to the screaming. I kept taking that as hyperbole, you know, part of the legend, and probably something like wind thru the rock. I even guessed that she was going to be rescuing Jack, and it still didn't register.

Oh, I'm so glad that worked. I wanted to tease it out, because you know, tombs and legends and weird, but also, I loved playing with the idea that they cause some of the myths they themselves have learned. Because time travel.

Loved the whole tomb section in fact, from Alon and the Trill-Bears, to River's initial dismissal and then respect for the traps, to, well... yeah... Oh Jack...

Yay! It's been a while since I've seen any Indiana Jones movies, but I did get to see some recreations of old Egyptian tombs recently, and I was kinda hoping the ideas would mesh believably. Very glad you liked the sequence. (I really liked playing with Alon Spet and the whole forest thing, too, so double yay for those working for you!)

Ooo, I really like that quote. I should go track the fic down. I am only following a couple of comms right now because of work, but yeah, I treasure what's left, too. :D

Thanks for reading, and thanks for being there when otherwise I think I'm talking to myself.

[rabecka]

Ooo, I really like that quote. I should go track the fic down.
It's Merlyn Sickness, and it's a TW/Arrow crossover. I've never seen the latter, but after a little initial confusion it made perfect timey-wimey sense. If you don't know anything about Arrow either, google the main character in the story (Malcolm Merlyn).

>> thanks for being there when otherwise I think I'm talking to myself <<
I tend to follow people more than comms, and you're one I follow. I just haven't always been good about commenting, something I'm trying very hard to improve...

[nancybrown]

Thanks for the link! (I've watched Arrow, but I kinda got bored and stopped. May have to fix that.)

You have been lovely, let no one tell you otherwise. :D