I will finish writing something longer than a drabble eventually.
First part of 'Seasons' is called 'Matter of Opinion'. It's about 30-40% done. Can't see it being longer than 2000 words, but it just takes me ages to have any conviction to write it despite the fact I enjoy it when I do.
In the meantime... drabbles... (and for the weekend, as I'm going away again...)
Title: Mystery
Rating: T
Characters: Ace
Prompts: Night, Panic
Mystery
The stars twinkled, like distant diamonds trying to convey their message amidst the panic and the smoke. Screams of pain echoed around her, but she stood calm, contemplating her next move, almost breathing in the fear of those surrounding her.
Picking up her backpack, and rustling through it, she soon found what she was looking for and headed towards a small girl with a tear-stricken face. The child smiled weakly and accepted the small chocolate bar warily.
She smiled in return and turned and ran. It reminded her of the Cheetah people. She liked the night too, for its mystery.
Title: Rewiring
Rating: K+
Characters: Romana, Four, K9
Prompts: Nerves, Please don’t
Rewiring
Her hands were shaking violently, she had to stop. One false move and it would set her back to square one. The amount of times K9 had had to undergo a complete overhaul was astonishing as it was. Swallowing her nerves, and brushing back the wisps of blonde hair that had fallen from behind her ear, she picked back up her sonic screwdriver and returned to work.
“How’s it going Romana?”
The Doctor grinned goofily at the laboratory door.
“Doctor, how many times have I told you,” Romana positively snarled. “Please don’t disturb me when I’m rewiring K9!”
Title: Affection
Rating: K+
Characters: Four/Romana
Prompts: Ache
Affection
Sometimes, he felt, with Romana, it was a little like redefining reality. Having left Gallifrey so young, he’d thought it impossible for him to care so deeply for another one of his kind. It was a gentle relief to have her fingers entwined with his and a like mind to experiment with the boundaries of infinity.
The randomizer seemed like the perfect excuse for them never to return home. He only disposed of it when he was certain she didn’t want to leave him.
And when she did eventually go, he hadn’t thought it possible for his hearts to ache quite so much.
Title: God Complex
Characters: Romana/Ten
Rating: T
God Complex
Romana had gotten to know many of the Doctors. The gentle romantic, the brash rainbow-coated one, and of course, the bohemian with the long scarf. However, this new Doctor, youthful, pinstriped and woefully blind intrigued her. Why, he still hadn’t realised who she was yet!
Not so innocently, she pointed out a dilemma. An easy enough question for anyone with a modicum of intelligence to ask: “Why interfere? How do you know this isn’t what’s meant to happen?” And then he hit her with it. The whole ‘last of the Time Lords’ spiel. She would have laughed if he hadn’t meant it genuinely and continued rambling.
So she slapped him instead.
“What was that for?” He moaned, nursing his jaw.
“Oh, Doctor.” She sighed.
”Romana?”
She merely arched her eyebrows as the realisation finally dawned.
Title: Phantoms
Rating: K+
Characters: Four, Leela
Prompts: Phantoms
Phantoms
She awoke suddenly and was immediately on her feet, unsheathing her knife. All eyes and ears, she crept out of the room the Doctor had given her on the TARDIS. The machine was alien, uncomfortable and now, obviously filled with phantoms. Carefully, with all the stealth she’d honed throughout the years, she approached the console room, before almost attacking the Doctor.
“Leela?”
”I heard… phantoms. Your machine, there are phantoms aboard. We need to strike them down.”
A rumbling noise echoed down the corridor they stood in.
“There, see!”
”Put your knife away, Leela.”
”No.”
”It’s just the TARDIS.”
“But… I…”
”There’s no such thing as phantoms, Leela.”
Simply scowling at the Doctor, she turned on her heels and returned to her room, still not entirely convinced at the lack of phantoms aboard the TARDIS.
Title: Mutual Agreement
Author: tromana
Rating: K+
Characters: Donna Noble, OC
Prompt: Two Kittens
Mutual Agreement
Donna Noble absolutely was not a cat person. Waste of space they were. And they smelled quite a bit too. Not to mention the fur that got everywhere because of them. In fact she was positively grimacing whilst knocking on the door of her friend, Louise’s, house, because her cat had had kittens. And she still hadn’t got rid of them all.
As expected, a black and white ball of fluff bounded up to her. Pushing it away with her foot, she walked into the kitchen where the ginger kitten was sunning itself. Intrigued at this stranger, it lifted its head and yawned at her. Despite herself, Donna scratched it behind the ear. It got up and stalked to the near-empty food bowl.
“I’ll take the ginger one.” She spluttered as Louise joined her.
“But the black and white one is so much friendlier.”
“We have a mutual… agreement.” Donna muttered. “It has its priorities right.”
Title: Unhygienic Methods
Author: tromana
Rating: K+
Characters: 10, Martha Jones
Prompt: Licked
Unhygienic Methods
First, he daubed his fingers in the gooey substance and rubbed it between his fingertips, carefully testing the texture, the elasticity. Then, he gave it a tentative sniff, and wrinkled his nose whilst trying to analyse the contents purely from scent. Giving up, he stuck out his tongue and promptly licked it; Martha Jones grimaced beside him.
“That’s terribly unhygienic!” She implored. “How d’you know where it’s been? It could be toxic.”
The Doctor frowned, and licked his fingers clean.
“It was only marmite.” He muttered. “Getting on a bit, but still.”
Martha slapped his arm, angrily.
“Not the point.” She grumbled. “Still could’ve killed you. Where’s your aseptic technique?”
Title: Catfood and Tea
Rating: A
Characters: Donna, Martha, Ten
Prompts: Martha meets Donna's Ginger cat
“The cat food’s under the sink, Martha.”
Donna instructed her from across the kitchen whilst precariously balancing three mugs for tea. At the sound of the specific cupboard door being open, a large mass of ginger fur bolted in and began to entwine itself around Martha’s legs.
“Woah.” Martha grinned. “Hello, you’re… huge.”
“Grandad always feeds him scraps. He needs to diet.” Donna muttered, placing down the mugs.
The Doctor sauntered in, all smiles until he saw the cat, when it faltered. Said cat was purring voraciously at the amount of fuss being lavished upon him by Martha Jones. He backed slowly towards the door; even the offer of tea couldn’t tempt him towards that monster of an orange cat.
“Well you two would be cat people wouldn’t you?”
In the meantime... drabbles... (and for the weekend, as I'm going away again...)
Title: Mystery
Rating: T
Characters: Ace
Prompts: Night, Panic
Mystery
The stars twinkled, like distant diamonds trying to convey their message amidst the panic and the smoke. Screams of pain echoed around her, but she stood calm, contemplating her next move, almost breathing in the fear of those surrounding her.
Picking up her backpack, and rustling through it, she soon found what she was looking for and headed towards a small girl with a tear-stricken face. The child smiled weakly and accepted the small chocolate bar warily.
She smiled in return and turned and ran. It reminded her of the Cheetah people. She liked the night too, for its mystery.
Title: Rewiring
Rating: K+
Characters: Romana, Four, K9
Prompts: Nerves, Please don’t
Rewiring
Her hands were shaking violently, she had to stop. One false move and it would set her back to square one. The amount of times K9 had had to undergo a complete overhaul was astonishing as it was. Swallowing her nerves, and brushing back the wisps of blonde hair that had fallen from behind her ear, she picked back up her sonic screwdriver and returned to work.
“How’s it going Romana?”
The Doctor grinned goofily at the laboratory door.
“Doctor, how many times have I told you,” Romana positively snarled. “Please don’t disturb me when I’m rewiring K9!”
Title: Affection
Rating: K+
Characters: Four/Romana
Prompts: Ache
Affection
Sometimes, he felt, with Romana, it was a little like redefining reality. Having left Gallifrey so young, he’d thought it impossible for him to care so deeply for another one of his kind. It was a gentle relief to have her fingers entwined with his and a like mind to experiment with the boundaries of infinity.
The randomizer seemed like the perfect excuse for them never to return home. He only disposed of it when he was certain she didn’t want to leave him.
And when she did eventually go, he hadn’t thought it possible for his hearts to ache quite so much.
Title: God Complex
Characters: Romana/Ten
Rating: T
God Complex
Romana had gotten to know many of the Doctors. The gentle romantic, the brash rainbow-coated one, and of course, the bohemian with the long scarf. However, this new Doctor, youthful, pinstriped and woefully blind intrigued her. Why, he still hadn’t realised who she was yet!
Not so innocently, she pointed out a dilemma. An easy enough question for anyone with a modicum of intelligence to ask: “Why interfere? How do you know this isn’t what’s meant to happen?” And then he hit her with it. The whole ‘last of the Time Lords’ spiel. She would have laughed if he hadn’t meant it genuinely and continued rambling.
So she slapped him instead.
“What was that for?” He moaned, nursing his jaw.
“Oh, Doctor.” She sighed.
”Romana?”
She merely arched her eyebrows as the realisation finally dawned.
Title: Phantoms
Rating: K+
Characters: Four, Leela
Prompts: Phantoms
Phantoms
She awoke suddenly and was immediately on her feet, unsheathing her knife. All eyes and ears, she crept out of the room the Doctor had given her on the TARDIS. The machine was alien, uncomfortable and now, obviously filled with phantoms. Carefully, with all the stealth she’d honed throughout the years, she approached the console room, before almost attacking the Doctor.
“Leela?”
”I heard… phantoms. Your machine, there are phantoms aboard. We need to strike them down.”
A rumbling noise echoed down the corridor they stood in.
“There, see!”
”Put your knife away, Leela.”
”No.”
”It’s just the TARDIS.”
“But… I…”
”There’s no such thing as phantoms, Leela.”
Simply scowling at the Doctor, she turned on her heels and returned to her room, still not entirely convinced at the lack of phantoms aboard the TARDIS.
Title: Mutual Agreement
Author: tromana
Rating: K+
Characters: Donna Noble, OC
Prompt: Two Kittens
Mutual Agreement
Donna Noble absolutely was not a cat person. Waste of space they were. And they smelled quite a bit too. Not to mention the fur that got everywhere because of them. In fact she was positively grimacing whilst knocking on the door of her friend, Louise’s, house, because her cat had had kittens. And she still hadn’t got rid of them all.
As expected, a black and white ball of fluff bounded up to her. Pushing it away with her foot, she walked into the kitchen where the ginger kitten was sunning itself. Intrigued at this stranger, it lifted its head and yawned at her. Despite herself, Donna scratched it behind the ear. It got up and stalked to the near-empty food bowl.
“I’ll take the ginger one.” She spluttered as Louise joined her.
“But the black and white one is so much friendlier.”
“We have a mutual… agreement.” Donna muttered. “It has its priorities right.”
Title: Unhygienic Methods
Author: tromana
Rating: K+
Characters: 10, Martha Jones
Prompt: Licked
Unhygienic Methods
First, he daubed his fingers in the gooey substance and rubbed it between his fingertips, carefully testing the texture, the elasticity. Then, he gave it a tentative sniff, and wrinkled his nose whilst trying to analyse the contents purely from scent. Giving up, he stuck out his tongue and promptly licked it; Martha Jones grimaced beside him.
“That’s terribly unhygienic!” She implored. “How d’you know where it’s been? It could be toxic.”
The Doctor frowned, and licked his fingers clean.
“It was only marmite.” He muttered. “Getting on a bit, but still.”
Martha slapped his arm, angrily.
“Not the point.” She grumbled. “Still could’ve killed you. Where’s your aseptic technique?”
Title: Catfood and Tea
Rating: A
Characters: Donna, Martha, Ten
Prompts: Martha meets Donna's Ginger cat
“The cat food’s under the sink, Martha.”
Donna instructed her from across the kitchen whilst precariously balancing three mugs for tea. At the sound of the specific cupboard door being open, a large mass of ginger fur bolted in and began to entwine itself around Martha’s legs.
“Woah.” Martha grinned. “Hello, you’re… huge.”
“Grandad always feeds him scraps. He needs to diet.” Donna muttered, placing down the mugs.
The Doctor sauntered in, all smiles until he saw the cat, when it faltered. Said cat was purring voraciously at the amount of fuss being lavished upon him by Martha Jones. He backed slowly towards the door; even the offer of tea couldn’t tempt him towards that monster of an orange cat.
“Well you two would be cat people wouldn’t you?”