DC COMICS/DR WHO (All Ages)
Title: A Better Life by Petra
Pairing: Tim Drake (Robin III), The Doctor (Ten)
Length: short
Author on LJ: petronelle
Author Website: Dignity. Always Dignity
Why this must be read:
This fic doesn't feel like a crossover. It's a perfect blending of the DCU and Who-verse with essential nods to both canons. "A Lonely Place of Dying" set after "The Runaway Bride", Petra takes Tim Drake's stalker and attachment tendencies and examines what happens when the Doctor needs a Companion. Tim and Ten are both not only in character, but their voices are clear and essentially themselves.
When Tim Drake was four years old, the man who would change his life gave him a hug, then set him on the ground and said, "Go on back to your mum, and mind you keep away from Autons from now on." Tim stared after him as he went back into his blue telephone booth.
He heard the sound in his dreams until he was nine and learned how to hack the UNIT database, when he found the soundfile for real and knew exactly who had snatched him away from the should-have-been-impossible GI Joes on the march.
Tim's parents were away when he took himself to New York to tour the United Nations headquarters, and he hid the signed copy of the Declaration of the Rights of Man when he got home. They wouldn't have known the name Lethbridge-Stewart anyway.
A Better Life
Pairing: Tim Drake (Robin III), The Doctor (Ten)
Length: short
Author on LJ: petronelle
Author Website: Dignity. Always Dignity
Why this must be read:
This fic doesn't feel like a crossover. It's a perfect blending of the DCU and Who-verse with essential nods to both canons. "A Lonely Place of Dying" set after "The Runaway Bride", Petra takes Tim Drake's stalker and attachment tendencies and examines what happens when the Doctor needs a Companion. Tim and Ten are both not only in character, but their voices are clear and essentially themselves.
When Tim Drake was four years old, the man who would change his life gave him a hug, then set him on the ground and said, "Go on back to your mum, and mind you keep away from Autons from now on." Tim stared after him as he went back into his blue telephone booth.
He heard the sound in his dreams until he was nine and learned how to hack the UNIT database, when he found the soundfile for real and knew exactly who had snatched him away from the should-have-been-impossible GI Joes on the march.
Tim's parents were away when he took himself to New York to tour the United Nations headquarters, and he hid the signed copy of the Declaration of the Rights of Man when he got home. They wouldn't have known the name Lethbridge-Stewart anyway.
A Better Life