Doctor Who: "Death in the Garden" (1/4)

[joking]

Title: Death in the Garden
Characters/Pairings: Ten/Jack/Rose, the TARDIS, OFC
Rating: Teen
Summary: A week after his regeneration, the Doctor takes Jack and Rose to a party. But he's been keeping secrets from them, and the truth will soon catch up to them in the worst way the Doctor could have imagined.
Notes: Set in my fem!Doctor series, but all you

Comments

[kaffy_r]

What a beginning! I'm loving/dreading a reappearance of the Weeping Angels, and it looks as if the Doctor, Rose and Jack are up against the Byzantium-style ones who are more actively violent and sadistic. EEurgh.

I love that it has a South African setting and am loving how much you are incorporating what you learned over there into this. Thorns ... yeah, that's one of the things I remember reading about, and all I can think is "Poor Rose!"

But even more ... poor Jack. Poor about-to-have-his-world-changed Jack.

Fantastic start!

[joking]

It looks as if the Doctor, Rose and Jack are up against the Byzantium-style ones who are more actively violent and sadistic.

I'm struggling with this problem, of how to square the Byzantium Angels with the Blink Angels. I try my best, in this story.

I love that it has a South African setting and am loving how much you are incorporating what you learned over there into this.

I've wanted to write fiction in this setting ever since! I've written a lot of memoir about my time there, but I thought it would be fun to set a story there. So glad you're enjoying it too!

Poor about-to-have-his-world-changed Jack.

It's a sign of my evil brain that when I watched the scene with Octavian and the Angel in "Flesh and Stone" I wanted nothing more than to write a scene with Jack in the same situation.

[kaffy_r]

It's a sign of my evil brain

Nah. It's a sign of your writerly instincts, methinks.

[joking]

I'm not sure "evil brain" and "writerly instincts" are distinguishable.

[spellweaver731]

Oo Angels! You can't stop there, I need to know what happens next.

[joking]

Oh, there's much more to come. Even three chapters may have been a conservative estimate.

[sahiya]

Oh man, this is really interesting! A long time ago I thought about writing OT3 with a Weeping Angels plot, but it never went anywhere. This is so much better than anything I came up with! I can't wait for the next part.

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Every time I watch a great Eleven episode, I want to rewrite it with the OT3. I got this idea way back when I watched Flesh and Stone - ideas can take such a long time to percolate, can't they?

Thanks for commenting, and tune in next week!

[dshael]

An intense start! The dynamic between Jack and the Doctor in this series has so intense in the earlier stories -- I'm eager to see how that carries over now that the Doctor is so different, and Jack as well! Really loving it so far; thanks for writing.

[joking]

This will definitely test the Doctor and Jack's relationship. I just love putting them through the wringer. It was very kind of you to comment.

[sensiblecat]

I love your realisation of the South African setting - it's so detailed, convincing and original. Such a refreshing change. Great work!

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I've noticed that hardly any Doctor Who fics set on Earth are outside of Britain, let alone outside the US and Europe. I wanted something different for a change, and I love South Africa dearly. I'm glad you enjoy that change of setting too.