Comments | azriona: Fic: Water Music (11/17)

azriona

Fic: Water Music (11/17)

Dec 02, 2009 06:23

Title: Water Music
Author: azriona
Characters: The Doctor, River Song
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Big ones for Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead. Takes place prior to Water of Mars; if you haven’t seen it, you won’t be spoiled.
Betas: runriggers and jlrpuck

Summary: The Doctor never expects to meet anyone in a linear fashion. How he meets River Song is slightly more ( Read more... )

water music, fanfiction, doctor who

Comments 11

syien_island December 2 2009, 12:36:58 UTC

Jeez, whenever the Doc and River are arguing I feel like shouting, "Oh, just make-out already!"

Love this bit right here:

Alice fumbled to hold on to both the cover and the tape. “What are you doing?”

“Nothing at all,” said River cheerfully. “Bit of the tape, please, if you could, Alice?”

“With what, my third hand?”

azriona December 3 2009, 00:44:02 UTC

Thanks!

whenever the Doc and River are arguing I feel like shouting, "Oh, just make-out already!"

I feel like that guy on the TV show, going "....wait for it!....."

Alice's crack about her third hand is one of my favorites - I'm glad the joke came across! :)

earlgreytea68 December 2 2009, 13:11:55 UTC

I love lemon and sugar crepes, too!

Lovely as usual. Your characterization is always spot-on, for both the Doctor and River.

azriona December 3 2009, 00:45:00 UTC

Thanks!

Lemon and sugar are excellent. I could never understand why people stuff them with other things. Waste of a perfectly yummy crepe, if you ask me.

quean_of_swords December 3 2009, 19:22:18 UTC

Lemon and sugar on crepes is the best this ever, full stop.

Great chapter, as always. ^^

azriona December 4 2009, 01:48:07 UTC

Thanks! :)

maypanic December 6 2009, 00:20:15 UTC

River stole Dr Horrible's Freeze Ray! Hee.

*ahem* Sorry. Yes, I greatly enjoyed this. The relationship between River and Alice, the ways in which their interaction changes at different encounters, is fascinating. River's comment on the Doctor seeing her and Rose as the objects they are named for was very intriguing.

Mostly I love how even in all the bickering and tension and drama, you still bring the fun.

mewiet April 22 2010, 07:42:09 UTC

I really liked this chapter, as with every chapter before hand, but I guess the only thing I wasn't overly fond of was all the Rose talk. I really hated Rose. Found her so immature, egocentric, bratty, etc... And RTD wrote The Doctor as if he thought she was the most perfect thing around, when in reality, I couldn't stand for a micro second. River and The Doctor's relationship has always transcended that of Rose and The Doctor's. I hope that soon, River replaces Rose. I can't wait to find out how The Doctor ends up telling her his name in this. Maybe that'll be The Moment.

azriona April 22 2010, 11:57:35 UTC

I'm glad you liked the chapter.

As for Rose...I'll admit, I'm a Rose/Doctor shipper. That's how I came in, that's how I started writing DW fanfic. I won't argue about Rose's character or RTD's treatment of her here; she doesn't figure largely into this story, though her "ghost" is a small part of it, and besides, I don't mind that you don't like her, as long as you don't mind that I do.

That said: one of the things that intrigues me about River is that the Doctor can love again, even after losing Rose. I said earlier that I wrote Water Music to better understand their relationship - and that figures into it. I wanted to explain why the Doctor does love someone other than Rose. Because heck, I hate to think that having lost Rose, he would never love again. That's just ridiculous ( ... )