My Soul Hath Elbow Room!

Title: First Steps (Epilogue)
Rating: PG-13
Trigger warnings: Everything but Chapter Three is clean. Chapter Three: Miscarriage/infant death. Also, severe burning and dehydration.
Genre: Babyfic! No, wait. Action/Horror.
Characters/Pairings: Snail, Flabbaduckarusa and Tagalong. Or, in adult-speak: the Doctor, Braxiatel, and the Master.
Wordcount: Chapter: 578. Fic:

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Summary: There's being born, and then there's being born into a world with no adults, no clothes, no food and a terrifying alien Thing upstairs. When their Looms birth them straight into the middle of an emergency, can Our Heroes muddle through?

Beta'ed by the amazing in_lighter_ink and finished thanks to the brilliant people over at writethisfanfic.

Parts: One | Two | Three | Four | Epilogue | PDF

( I'm bored. Are you bored? )/\/\/\

Parts: One | Two | Three | Four | Epilogue | PDF

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Title: First Steps (3/5)
Rating: PG-13
Trigger warnings: Everything but Chapter Three is clean. Chapter Three: Miscarriage/infant death. Also, severe burning and dehydration.
Genre: Babyfic! No, wait. Action/Horror.
Characters/Pairings: Snail, Flabbaduckarusa and Tagalong. Or, in adult-speak: the Doctor, Braxiatel, and the Master.
Wordcount: Chapter: 6,209. Fic: 21,925
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Summary: There's being born, and then there's being born into a world with no adults, no clothes, no food and a terrifying alien Thing upstairs. When their Looms birth them straight into the middle of an emergency, can Our Heroes muddle through?

Beta'ed by the amazing in_lighter_ink and finished thanks to the brilliant people over at writethisfanfic.

Parts: One | Two | Three | Four | Epilogue | PDF

( You're born cold, naked and hungry. And then things get worse. )

Parts: One | Two | Three | Four | Epilogue | PDF

Title: First Steps (1/5)
Rating: PG-13
Trigger warnings: Everything but Chapter Three is clean. Chapter Three: Miscarriage/infant death. Also, severe burning and dehydration.
Genre: Babyfic! No, wait. Action/Horror.
Characters/Pairings: Snail, Flabbaduckarusa and Tagalong. Or, in adult-speak: the Doctor, Braxiatel, and the Master.
Wordcount: Chapter: 2,161. Fic: 21,925
Continuity: Both uses and discards varying elements of Lungbarrow. Should stand alone, though; don't be put off if you haven't read it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Summary: There's being born, and then there's being born into a world with no adults, no clothes, no food and a terrifying alien Thing upstairs. When their Looms birth them straight into the middle of an emergency, can Our Heroes muddle through?

Beta'ed by the amazing in_lighter_ink and finished thanks to the brilliant people over at writethisfanfic. Reviews are always appreciated; leave concrit, and I will love you forever.

Parts: One | Two | Three | Four | Epilogue | PDF

( Even more than there should have been someone to welcome them into the world, there should be someone here. A technician, a carer – anybody. )/\/\/\

Parts: One | Two | Three | Four | Epilogue | PDF

Title: Courage
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Susan
Wordcount: 425
Continuity: Gallifrey, post-Time War, in the void.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Summary: There are many kinds of courage. Some of them don't involve starting revolutions.

( That's usually where they call her a coward. )

Happy new year, everyone using the Gregorian calendar!

You know what, this one's so short I can't be bothered writing out the metatext:

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"I'm a temp from Chiswick!"

The Doctor shrugs. "I'm a clerk from Gallifrey."

Title: Until Such Time
Rating: PG
Genre: Drabble
Characters/Pairings: Rassilon
Wordcount: 100 exactly
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Summary: Gallifrey needs a leader, and Rassilon stirs himself... a bit too slowly.

( Rassilon, they say, sleeps. )

Title: A Timely Proposal
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance, Angst
Characters/Pairings: Eight/Romana II
Wordcount: 1341
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Author's Note: Due to, well, the Time War, this sort of assumes backstory rather than attempting to build it. Bring your own, or use mine.

Summary: The Daleks are coming, and the Doctor chooses the worst moment possible to ask a very important question.

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( The silence stretched, and stretched, and the more it did so, the more he began to feel that it was stretching towards *him*. )

Title: Class Five Planet
Rating: PG
Genre: Humour
Characters/Pairings: A much put-upon captain, a guy named Greb, and some other random alien. Cameos from Mr Smith, Torchwood, UNIT and the Doctor.
Wordcount: 309
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.

Summary: Entering the Earth's orbit is a risky business.

( Class Five planet, my left tentacle...! )
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Title: The Tale of One-Heart
Rating: PG to PG-13: fairy-tale violence on the level of Grimm's.
Genre: Fairy-tale
Characters/Pairings: One, Susan, a young man, a beautiful priestess, a mischievous sprite
Wordcount: 3088
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.
Summary: The Doctor tells Susan a bedtime story.

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( One-Heart, One-Heart, what have you done? )

Title: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Rating: PG
Genre: Humour
Characters/Pairings: Three, Delgado!Master, One, Two, Brigadier, Sgt. Benton, Jo
Continuity: Takes place before The Three Doctors (well, for Three, anyway), and while the Master is still stuck on Earth.
Wordcount: 2289
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who; I'm just playing in the BBC's sandbox for fun and practice.
Author's Note: After the angst of the last two, here's some good old-fashioned Christmas crack from Three.

Summary: The Master comes up with his own unique version of The Twelve Days of Christmas... and enacts it.

[01] The Doctor's First Noel
[03] The Twelve Days Of Christmas
[08]A Very Gallifreyan Occasion
[09]Recovery
( Four Sontar clones, three Cybermen, two former lives, and a... )

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