Comments | sonic_tea: fic: distractions (doctor who/firefly) ten/rose, ten/inara, inara/mal

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fic: distractions (doctor who/firefly) ten/rose, ten/inara, inara/mal

Jun 18, 2007 21:38

Title: Distractions
Author: lily_268
Summary: My idea of where the Doctor went in the brief span of time between leaving Martha in The Lazarus Experiment and reappearing in her bedroom. Post BDM in the Firefly-verse
Disclaimer: Firefly and Doctor Who belong to BBC and Fox *shakes fist*.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5000+ (yikes!)
Prompt: "Even after all ( Read more... )

Comments 8

jazzfic June 19 2007, 08:42:53 UTC

Ooh, I really liked that. Your Ten was spot on, and there were some great lines.

They’re expecting this party to blow into dust and here they’ll all come prancing back, mad as a murderous moose

See? Like that :D

noblealice June 19 2007, 14:33:31 UTC

Thanks so much! I was really worried about my Ten voice since I normally write the Ninth doctor. Glad you liked it!!!

imaginary_iby June 19 2007, 23:12:10 UTC

Well, for someone who normally writes Nine, you have Ten pegged brilliantly in this.

Firefly and Doctor Who, two of my favourite things. I never got over its cancellation. :(

Even though I'm usually in denial about Wash and Doomsday, this was a really good read. Lovely!

noblealice June 21 2007, 00:23:05 UTC

Thank you so much! That means alot!

I know what you mean, I'm still in the depression stage in my grief process.

ninamazing June 20 2007, 21:20:54 UTC

HAHAHAHAHA. I'm barely into this and already I'm in love. YOU HAD A PIERRE TRUDEAU REFERENCE. Also I laughed VERY loudly at this:

Inara hoped he wasn’t having a heart attack.

I love what happens when we smush Ten and Inara together. This ficathon is the greatest. The way you had them talking in the TARDIS at the end, the way Inara thought she instantly understood his not being able to go back for Rose -- marvelous stuff.

And don't worry about your Ten voice -- it was fantastic. He was manic, solemn, talked too much ... great work. It was lovely to see not only Ten and Inara, but the rest of the Firefly crew as well ... especially Kaylee. :DDDD

Thank you so much for writing! This was an absolute pleasure.

noblealice June 21 2007, 00:26:31 UTC

Whew! I was hoping some Canadian's would pick up on that!

I think that Inara is so accustomed to a world that she comprehends and clients that she reads, that when confronted with the Doctor, it is inevitable that you have to make your own assumptions, because he is such a big mystery that bottles up his pain.

Thank you so much! That means so much to me to know that I didn't fail! I had a very hard time weeding out the human insults and 'Fantastic!'s. And although I love Firefly, I've never been confident enough to try my hand at writing them, so I'm relieved that it didn't interrupt the flow.

Thanks so much for hosting this!

goldy_dollar June 21 2007, 04:30:17 UTC

You already know how much I love this. :D But I love that you took the time to work in a slow character arc for both Ten and Inara AND you even put in a plot behind it all. Your Inara is so tranquil and beautiful, just perfect in a situation like this. Ten is psychotic, but completely adorable, as usual. I think he always comes across as his most alien when we're seeing him from someone else's point of view and you did that so well in the first bit.

“Oo, bit of a Debbie Downer today, aren’t I? Not to worry!” The Doctor straightened up again.

Ha! It would be like him to prattle off a long list of how things could go terribly wrong before declaring he could fix all of it. Oh, Ten.

“I don’t….wait, you think that I’m….well I’ve never been more insulted in my lives, you know except that one time that Jack said he liked her bottom better than mine, but honestly, how was I to compete?”

LOL. I've been convinced ever since Fear Her that Ten is completely self-obsessed, so it makes sense to me that he'd stay bitter about that kind of ( ... )

ohvienna June 25 2007, 18:05:41 UTC

I really loved this! You're Inara and Ten were great, and the plot was exciting and so well-written.

Some absolutely fantastic dialogue in this fic. This exchange is so perfect:

She found herself scoffing. “They won’t leave until they’ve got everything.”
“Even under the threat of nuclear explosion? How very stubborn.”
“More like ‘how very stupid’.”

And then her switching pronouns and really expressing her worry over Mal. Perfect.

And I love their conversation in the TARDIS, Ten telling Inara to "tell him." Oh. *dies* And I loved the imagery at the end, of the TARDIS in the cargo bay with everyone pointing their guns at the door. Nice. Really great work!