The Dreamtime Series: A handy roadmap
Here's a handy summary and links for the Dreamtime series. Thanks for reading! And as always, commenting is encouraged.
Flowers on Air
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11
Our Heroes find themselves in a cross-over fic with a movie no one has ever seen (Until the End of the World, a fine fine Wim Wenders epic that was both a critical and commercial flop--though it is one of my favorite films). You do not need to know anything about the movie to read this story, however. Basically, the Doctor is tempted with the opportunity to have everything he wants, in the most disturbing possible way. Can Rose save him from himself?
Ratings, warnings, etc: In theme it's fairly heavy and pretty depressing, but there's no sex or swearing.
Touching Time
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7
The Doctor takes Rose on the holiday promised at the end of Flowers on Air to make up for being such an arse, but then proceeds to be an arse some more. He has his reasons, however. Can Rose drag them out of him?
Ratings, warnings, etc: Less depressing, more talky, but with more sexual themes, though no explicit sex.
Touching and Time
An epilogue to Touching Time in which Alt!Ten discovers that there may be something that will make up for being a TARDISless hybrid-that-was-never-meant-to-be stranded in an alternate universe. This can be read as a stand-alone if you just want to mainline the good stuff, just be warned that there are some elements that may be unclear or confusing unless you've read the other stories.
Ratings, warnings, etc: Hello Smut! Adult, but not filthy, kinky or massively graphic (not that there's anything wrong with any of those things!).
And this is my journal, so I get to talk all I want about my writing. Whee!
Prior to the end of Series 4, I had always found it quite within the realm of possibility that mid-Series 2, Rose and the Doctor had finally gotten their acts together and become a proper couple. I'm certainly not the only one to see a progression happening after The Girl in the Fireplace to The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit. I always found their interaction in TIP/SP to be much more intimate than previous. However, the return to Bad Wolf Bay in Journey's End really changed the emotional landscape of Series 2 for me. At first in a bad way, and I was really upset by that. But the more I thought about it, the more I came to terms with the change. I began writing Flowers on Air during the week between The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, to keep myself from going utterly insane (though I think I did go slightly mental during that week anyway) and was gutted when JE pretty much invalidated the way I wanted to end it originally. My tag line for the journal may be that canon is over-rated, but I'm still a hopeless slave to its almighty power.
Anyway, my new interpretation of the Rose/Ten relationship is reflected in this series: They were completely aware of how they felt about each other in Series 2, it was on the table, but they never actually consummated. Why? When two people so clearly want to be together, what keeps them apart? So, that's what I wound up exploring in my fics.
And then of course there's Alt!Ten. I love UST, but sometimes you want to turn UST in to RST and Alt!Ten is every Who fic writer's dream come true for that purpose. I have to give mad props to my beta
jaradel for pointing out to me that I could get Teh Smut and the resolution to the tension and still remain totally canon by bringing in Alt!Ten and leaving Proper!Ten cold and homeless and alone, as per usual (and to be honest, that's just the way I like him, the poor sod).
And just in general I seem to enjoy stranding Our Heroes in various places and making them talk to each other a lo