Beyond the Roundels

I managed to edit the Unconventional Courtship ficlets I wrote for john_amend_all, and here they are!

This one really could have been a whole thing, but now it isn't: 642) An Inconvenient Engagement by Joy Reed
Clara Oswald was furious when she saw her betrothed the Fourth Doctor waltzing with another. So she decides to make him jealous by flirting with the most beautiful woman at the ball, the Mistress, Countess of Stanford. The "wicked" noblewoman knew exactly what the enticing miss was up to — and she was only too happy to play along. But as Clara gazed into her magnificent eyes, her errant fiancé was soon utterly forgotten.

the simple things you see are all complicated (606 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Missy/Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Clara Oswin Oswald, Missy (Doctor Who), Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Echoes of Clara Oswin Oswald, Hypnotism
Summary: Clara's got to stick with the Doctor, even if she doesn't know quite why - but then she meets with someone else instead...


From: 162) There Goes the Bride by Judy Duarte
Stop that bride!
Instead of heading down the aisle toward a man she didn't love, ex-beauty queen Lucie Miller hightailed it out of the church, landing at the feet of brooding loner Graham O'Brien. When Graham begrudgingly helped Lucie flee Kane's Crossing and her powerful groom-not-to-be in his private plane, neither one of them expected passions to ignite. But once they did, both tried to deny it. But maybe Graham could make room for Lucie in his emotionally bereft life, and maybe Lucie would actually walk all the way down the aisle one of these days….

Getaway Bus (858 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eighth Doctor & Lucie Miller, Lucie Miller & Graham O'Brien
Characters: Lucie Miller, Graham O'Brien, Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Summary: Lucie's on the run from an unwanted wedding in Sheffield - and luckily, the right bus comes along at exactly the right time.


From: 432) BABY'S WATCH by Justine Davis
Bad boy turned undercover agent the Third Doctor had come home to Texas to bust a baby-smuggling ring – not deliver a baby! But he couldn’t turn his back on helpless pregnant charmer the Master. Especially when his only safe haven is in his arms.

Just Desserts (681 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor & The Master (Delgado)
Characters: Jo Grant, Third Doctor (Doctor Who), The Master (Delgado)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Crack, Humor, Mpreg, mild body horror, Unconventional Courtship Generator
Summary: The Master plots with an alien species in a diabolical criminal money-making scheme. And then it backfires, as usual...


Plus, for good, measure, these are some scenarios the generator gave me that I did not write:

Steel and Silver on possibly matching assigments?

88) WHISPERS IN THE NIGHT by DIANE PERSHING
Silhouette Sensation
It began with a noise in the night…
When strange things began happening at his isolated home, lonely widower the Eighth Doctor turned to handyman Steel for protection. But what a mistake? Steel was not only an ex-cop but also an ex-convict – though he swore he’d been framed. Yet if he was so eager to prove his innocence why was he spending his time fixing his house, instead?
Steel seemed intent on gaining his trust – and as the mysterious dangers escalated, Eight needed someone to keep him safe. Steel was the perfect protector, because he needed nothing from him… or did he? Suddenly Eight wondered just why Steel had come to him – and how close he meant to get…

177) Undercover Memories by Alice Sharpe
Reeling after being left at the altar, Leela seeks comfort in her secluded cabin. But there's someone sleeping in her bed—a sharp-eyed, sexy stranger who claims to have no memory. While a little digging reveals Silver's true identity, Leela knows there's more to his past…and more to her feelings.
He may have been told who he is, but bodyguard Silver isn't satisfied with the answers, especially when they place Leela in danger.With his protective instinct in high gear, Silver vows to uncover his true identity while keeping her safe. But what if recovering his memory means he is the one Leela should be afraid of?


403) THREE DAY NIGHT - TORI PHILLIPS
THE WHITE ROSE OF YORK WAS NO HOTHOUSE FLOWER
Nay, Sir the First Doctor was a long-stemmed charmer with a dangerous secret of royal proportions. But for a chance to claim him as her promised groom, Sara Kingdom would fight the hounds of hell... !
Though plots and plans and barking dogs seemed to pursue the Countess of Thornbury wherever she went, One knew he'd found a champion. Mayhap Sara Kingdom was not what people expected, but the gentle dame had become his heart's desire.

407) The Redemption of Darius Sterne - Carole Mortimer
So innocent. So tempting...
Having built a global empire synonymous with excellence, formidable tycoon Jack Harkness is a man who gets what he wants. Always. And right now he wants ex-ballet dancer Count Dracula... in his bed and sighing his name in pleasure.
Virginal Dracula can’t resist the allure of the brooding billionaire. But the closer he pulls him, the more Jack threatens the barriers he’s carefully constructed to conceal the scars of his past. And Dracula isn’t the only one with pain to hide...
Can his pure love dance into his heart and redeem the dark and damaged Jack Harkness?


It was busy shipping Martha/Baldrick that day as well (sorry, Martha):

517) From Ruin To Riches by Louise Allen
Ruined and on the run, Sodoff Baldrick is in desperate straits when he meets a lady with a shocking proposal. Certain she is close to death, Martha Jones, Lady Dereham, believes Baldrick to be the perfect man to care for her beloved estate when she is gone - if he will first become her husband...
Marriage is Baldrick's salvation - as Lord Dereham he can finally escape his sins. Until three years later, when the wife he believes is dead returns as beautiful and strong as ever and intent on claiming the wedding night they never had!

So, I keep having feelings I don't like about the finale and turned them into this double drabble in an attempt to offload them somewhere and hopefully move onto a more positive place. (I'm not sure this is exactly what I think as such, but it is a lot of why this hurt so much.) And it fitted a genprompt_bingo square, which is obviously the important thing.

(For the square "Memory Related" and also allbingo square "Rose (Dark Crimson) - Mourning".) Spoilers for the finale implicit.

Nothing at the End of the Lane (200 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: First Doctor, Third Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor
Additional Tags: Vignette, Introspection, Loss, Episode: s12e10 The Timeless Children, Double Drabble, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: allbingo, POV Second Person, Spoilers, Memory Loss, Ficlet
Summary: You were always the same. Everything else is a lie.

So fandom_stocking went live and I will need to share with you presently the contents of mine, because it was glorious!

But I also managed to write four things, as well as making some icon sets for various people, and here are my efforts in the meantime, plus at long last, my belated AU Meme fill for Servalan:

One Night Stand (3759 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Silver/Steel (S&S), Silver (S&S)/Everyone, Copper & Silver (S&S)
Characters: Silver (S&S), Steel (S&S), Ruby (S&S), Lead (S&S), Cerium (S&S), Jet (S&S), Copper (S&S), Mercury (S&S), Emerald (S&S), Sapphire (S&S)
Additional Tags: Community: fandom_stocking, Elemental Weirdness, 20th Century, Pre-Canon
Summary: There’s an odd little break-to-be that means a yearly appointment to keep. As far as Silver’s concerned, it’s a date.


A Cold Day in Autumn (1050 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, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Additional Tags: 4 Things, Dubious Consent, one particular alien told them to do it, Crack, Humor, For Science!
Summary: Funnily enough, there's always only this one way of saving the world...


another spark for the fire (790 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barry Allen/Caitlin Snow
Characters: Barry Allen, Caitlin Snow, Killer Frost
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Multiverse, 4 Things, Vignette
Summary: Whether or not they’re together here, there’s a multiverse of possibilities out there.


Confectionary Crimes (904 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones & William E. Simms
Characters: Adam Adamant, Georgina Jones, William E. Simms
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Humor, Cake
Summary: One of these cakes is primed and ready to blow...


AU Meme: Servalan (988 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kerr Avon/Servalan
Characters: Servalan (Blake's 7), Travis (Blake's 7), Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Kasabi (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Memes, Ficlet, Dark, Villains, Alternate Universe - His Dark Materials Fusion, Harm to Daemons
Summary: 9 AU scenarios for Servalan written for a Dreamwidth meme.

For reasons, I find myself very short of brain again (replies to posts and comments coming whenever as a result) but I also found I'd completed two 500 Prompts ficlets a few weeks ago, so here's one of them. You might even get the other later, too...

Title: The Last Time
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 303
Characters/Pairings: Jo Grant, Third Doctor
Notes/Warnings: None. Fluff.
Summary: Jo’s had enough, absolutely, definitely, for real this time.

For romanajo123 in the 500 Prompts Meme: 015 – Last time – Jo Grant.

( The Last Time )

So, fic happened for the 500 Prompts:

Title: Jo Grant, Assassin For Hire
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1146
Characters/Pairings: Jo Grant, the Brigadier, Third Doctor.
Notes/Warnings: AU. Frequent, frivolous refs to death and murder.
Summary: A girl’s got to keep herself in platform boots and plastic daffodils, after all.

For john_amend_all's prompt in the 500 Prompts Meme – #258. Assassin For Hire (Jo Grant).

( Assassin for Hire )

From pitry One of our "recast Eleven episodes as classical Doctors" ideas! (The likelihood of me actually writing an epic Pertwee six-parter version of ‘Victory of the Daleks’ gets ever less, so have a very silly ficlet of a prologue for it instead).

Title: Victory Prelude
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 531
Characters/Pairings: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Third Doctor, Jo Grant
Notes/Warnings: AU UNIT-era version of Victory of the Daleks.

Summary: The Brigadier isn’t impressed by the Doctor’s latest reason for absconding from UNIT.

( Victory Prelude )

It's amazing what grows slowly on your hard-drive, like some sort of 70s DW themed invasion of pixels... And maybe count it as my tribute to Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen. And belatedly to Barry Letts.

Teasers:

Total Icon Count: 80

( All praise to the Great One! )

The usual: want, take, have, credit. Comments are ♥

Credits: V few textures (other than mine/the program's) but some textures by:
leilax @ the preamble
livvielocke
how_we_fade @ fade_art.

Story: Til We Meet Again (Don't Make It Anytime Soon)
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 2237
Characters/Pairings: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw, Doris, Fiona Lethbridge-Stewart, Third Doctor.
Warnings: None. Except for my random speculations about Doris that are totally non-canonical.

Summary: The Brigadier returns to find three women waiting in his office. This is probably the most unlikely thing that's happened at UNIT yet, barring aliens.

primsong left this idea lying about on dw_straybunnies and before I knew where I was there was fic before breakfast.

Title Ego Clash
Author lost_spook
Rating All ages
Word Count 567
Characters Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Hercule Poirot
Warnings None

One of my dw100 drabbles got a bit out of hand last weekend. So I ended up with this little bit of nonsense. "My purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse!" With some reflection on moustaches.

As usual, wait for okaying onto Teaspoon.

Title This Perilous Grace
Author lost_spook
Rating All Ages
Characters Third Doctor, Jo Grant, the Master
Summary Jo and the Doctor arrive in Camelot - but that was only ever a myth, wasn't it?

I've finally put my tardis_gen story onto Teaspoon (currently awaiting approval). I'm not sure my extra scene was worth waiting for, but it may at least point in the right direction a bit more. And three parts doesn't sit any more naturally than two, no matter what I do. It wants to stay as one long story, but I think over 12,000 words is a bit off-putting in one go.

I wrote this for starbells who gave me the prompt of Three, Jo and the Master in Camelot. Leaving me with a lovely prompt (as you'll remember me going on about. Possibly) but needing to somehow get our characters to a place that never existed. Clearly a 'historical' Arthur wasn't what was wanted and Battlefield covered the AU front and I always feel dream stories are such cheats. Therefore I came up with this. And if it hadn't been for it being for a challenge, who knows how long it might have got because, despite my shock at finding myself doing my own take on Arthur, I loved every minute of writing the thing.

Finally, I can finally share my glee at finding the perfect Arthurian alias for the Master: Sir Melegaunce. Isn't it so him?

I shouldn't have waited all this time to find LiveJournal and set up an account.  I've got probably about 50-60 fics between Teaspoon and TTR to go back over...

So, because I've been through quite a lot of them already, I thought I might try and think about a 'top 5'.  (Doing my top 20 of other people's will definitely be fun for another day).  Let's start somewhere...

So:
1. Home?
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=22374
Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant Benton, Captain Yates, The Master, plus Ten and Donna.  (All ages)

( Blurb )
( Extract )