Fic: White Tie

[stick_poker]

Title: White Tie
Author: stick_poker
Rating: Adult, yep, back to the smut again
Characters: Eleven / younger River and someone else offscreen
Spoilers: For the finale of S5.
Note: This is what the previous thing was originally the backstory to. It was written for the same kinkmeme prompt, and so originally it was mainly a cheap excuse to think of

Comments

[stick_poker]

Incidentally, internet and cookies to anyone who can tell me the secret in this that the Doctor hasn't noticed and River doesn't yet know she ought to keep.

[ms_prue]

Is it cohabitation?
(Brilliant fic, btw. Excellent use of suiting and accessories!)

[stick_poker]

*bounces* Hello again!
Cohabitation is certainly implied, or at least that she's spending a bunch of continuous time with future!Doctor anyway. That's not what I had in mind, though. (It's not the point of this, or anything, just a possiblity I found sitting in the conversation and couldn't get out of my head.)

[ms_prue]

*beams* Hello again to you, too! XD
Hmm, guess again. Does the secret live in this bit?
“Even when there's something else that might take over... And it’s ironic that you had to, of course.”
Alas I am not clever enough to figure it out. Drat!

[promethia_tenk]

Oooh . . . you write excellent smut, you really do. You avoid that . . . mechanical-ness that too much smut falls into, load it up with character and intrigue, and keep it hot at the same time. The shirt as restraint is a personal favorite.

And I looooooove the idea of the older Doctor and River, haunting the background, plotting and laughing against their younger selves.

Sadly, I don't think I'm clever enough to ferret out the secret. Is older him just refusing to talk?

[stick_poker]

The shirt as restraint is a personal favorite.
Look at him like that, honestly, the way you end up pulling against a shirt like that makes anyone look like they've got shoulders, bunching his fists, arms flexing, mouth in a line trying to fight it... But I wanted it to be his POV, to feel her being a bit off, to see how much of the trap is self-imposed, which means not being able to watch him look like that from the outside properly. Bah.

I think the secret's probably not really there. Or it's in the line but I haven't made the key to it, which is spread out over elsewhere, obvious enough. This is still interesting to know.

[promethia_tenk]

which means not being able to watch him look like that from the outside properly. Bah.
Ah, but it leads to bonus comment description, so it's all good. I see your point though, it was definitely more important to get the Doc's perspective. (I did have a friend in another fandom who would would occasionally write companion pieces to her smut, from the other person's perspective, just to get around this problem. I don't think she ever wrote anything so lengthy though.)

[stick_poker]

The double-ender, if you'll forgive the expression, is a wonderful thing.

[owlsie]

I read this on the kinkmeme a while ago and it has to be my single favourite fic from there. I had a feeling you wrote it, you have quite a distinctive style :]

[stick_poker]

Oooh, thank you. It feels like a very long time since I wrote this, now, but the style does seem to be obvious, doesn't it...

[owlsie]

yes, and that style is awesome style.

[tardis_coral]

I've never been much of a fan of the idea of a female Doctor, but you have CONVINCED ME IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN, and without even explicitly bringing it up.

So yeah.

Oh, and this fic is incredibly hot, as you are well aware, and I have now read it four times.

That is all.

[stick_poker]

Oooh, thank you!

I reckon a female Doctor should be basically very similar, to be honest, and while you could have an episode of 1970s Life-On-Mars-esque attitude problems about it, it wouldn't make much difference across most things. It should be done by mostly not addressing it, in short.

[tasty_kate]

Okay, so I went ahead and read it. So much for studying...

She laughed at him again. “Oh, sweetie. Has it been a while?"

"Yes," he hissed, even then unable to just ask, ask for what he wanted.

HOTTEST. LINE. EVER.

And that last one, ngh. This is my first legit 11/River smut and I'm starting to really take to it. Thank you for giving me something so... so... wonderful. :)

[stick_poker]

This is my first legit 11/River smut
It's not, is it? Crikey. There's a whole world of quality smut out there for those two.

[tasty_kate]

But I've only recently come around to 11/River. I've been an 11/Amy OTPer up until recently.

[stick_poker]

I think I've been both all along... For different times, in different ways, but both of them anyway.