Beyond the Roundels

So, in other writing news, both my treat recip and the rainbowfic mod turned up to comment and make my day at exactly the same time a couple of days ago. (Why do things all come together when they weren't at all connected?) So then I was happy.

But justmarriedexchange has now had author reveals and so here is what I wrote - a gift and a treat, both in Doctor Who.

I got senmut as my recip, which was good fun - a whole bunch of relationship tags that I liked to choose from and also they were dizzyingly rash enough to request Any Tag. (You will not be surprised to learn that given the choice of any tag in the tagset, they therefore immediately got a variant of Accidental Marriage off me, ahem, ahem.)

Anyway, I had a nice, manageable idea for Three/Brig/Liz and I do love s7 so much... and then it just grew! How did it grow? But it was also a really lovely fic to have living in my head and I'm still really pleased with how it came out and I liked the idea of the alien world involved as well.

Farewell Tour (11974 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor/Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart/Liz Shaw
Characters: Third Doctor (Doctor Who), Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton
Additional Tags: Accidental Marriage, Post-Serial: s054 Inferno, Blood and Injury, Aliens - Think They're Married, Aliens - Artifact Creates Marriage, Marriage of Convenience
Summary: “Doctor,” said the Brigadier, “you’re not saying you’ve stranded all three of us on an alien planet, with no way back home – and we’re married?”

I was also determined to write a Five/Tegan treat for ceruleantactician who had requested it as well, and one of their tags gave me a fun idea, so I did this. (I could have done Five/Tegan for the gift, but this way in theory I could have both worlds. And also my idea for my gift was really not that long or anything... lol) Which means I would have liked to maybe have added a little more to this one, but hopefully it's fine and fun(ny) and sweet as it is, and omg, people not me requested Five/Tegan. More than one even! 0_o

Legal Requirement (2627 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka
Characters: Fifth Doctor (Doctor Who), Tegan Jovanka, Original Alien Character(s)
Additional Tags: Betrothal - Marriage Contract Between Ancestor And Long-Lived/Immortal Being Enforced On Descendant, Treat, Fake Marriage, (but with a lot of feelings)
Summary: The Doctor and Tegan need vital information to save a planetary system, but there’s one small legal requirement they must fulfil first...

Anyway, that was fun, and I seem to have read most of my flist's stories while we were all undercover! (I guessed lurking_latinist - thank you for the treat!! - and astrogirl, and at least suspected senmut, but I'm now laughing that I completely failed to recognise paranoidangel. Because I should always suspect paranoidangel by this time...)

But it was fun, even with that long wait in the middle! (Let's not do that part again.) And thanks as ever to persiflage_1 who beta-ed them both for me. <3