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Title: harmony seldom makes a headline
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 119 words
Prompt: 3 Sentence Ficathon: Doctor Who, 4 & Sarah Jane Smith, running in your own footsteps
Pairing: Four and Sarah gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "We've been this way before, Doctor!" Sarah exclaims, grabbing his arm and pointing, "--See, there's our footsteps, this has to be the wrong way!"

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Title: a sweet orange is as scripture
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 341 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for tessercat
Pairing: Ten & Donna gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "I'm not asking you to cook," she said, hands on hips, "because you'd probably make some other kind of terrifying spaceman food. What do Time Lords eat, anyway?"

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Title: every atom of you
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 666 words
Prompt: daemon multifandom ficathon: Doctor Who: Humans are the only race in the universe without daemons.
Pairing: Rose and Nine gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Ah, well," he says, with a careful smile and deadened eyes, "we tend to keep our souls on the inside, Time Lords. Saves on travel costs."

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Title: showdown at the hypercattle corral
Fandom: Doctor Who/Thrilling Adventure Hour
Length: 652 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Doctor Who/Thrilling Adventure Hour, 11th Doctor + Sparks Nevada (+ any), bonding over bowties and robot rogues
Pairing: Sparks, Croach, and Eleven gen
Other: Uses the widely popular fanon that Sparks Nevada wears a bowtie, just like Marc Evan Jackson.

Excerpt: "The mysterious stranger from the blue box is incorrect, Sparks Nevada," Croach breaks in. "Bow ties are not cool."

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Title: hope sees a star
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who
Length: 627 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who, Donna Noble/Sarah Jane Smith, She had the universe in her eyes, and it hurt to see it
Pairing: Sarah Jane & Donna gen
Other: Set post Journey's End.

Excerpt: She was interviewing Chiswick residents for a story when she met Donna Noble, and although the woman was short-tempered and opinionated, Sarah recognized eternity in her. Sarah Jane liked her immediately. She seemed like just the person to keep the Doctor in line, whichever one she had traveled with.

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Title: need to be needed
Fandom: Doctor Who/Elementary
Length: 126 words
Prompt: Doctor Who & Elementary, Joan Watson and Martha Jones, I need a saving grace/ you need to be needed
Pairing: Joan & Martha gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Aren't you curious?" she asks finally, after they've worked in professional, desperate-but-precise silence for a while.

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Title: a world in us
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 181 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Doctor Who, Nine/Rose/Jack, until the stars burn out
Pairing: slight Nine/Rose/Jack, mostly gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt:He's been running alone for so long that it's awkward, at first, having someone to hold his hand.

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Title: her story
Fandom: Elementary/Doctor Who
Length: 611 words
Prompt: Joan meets the TARDIS and they commiserate for Jansen
Pairing: Joan gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Sherlock and the Doctor are arguing again, something about the laws of thermodynamics, and Joan, personally, knows a lost cause when she sees one. She's perfectly willing to accept that modern science doesn't know everything about the universe. Sherlock wants an explanation.

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Title: keeps me from falling off the Earth
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 1819 words
Prompt: Title from "Resignation" by Nikki Giovanni. Prompt: poetry_fiction: with hope we learn that man is more / than the sum of what he does / we also are what we wish we did / and age teaches us / that even that doesn't matter; also written for fic_promptly: Doctor Who, author's choice, centuries after the Doctor's final death, the records of the Doctor's many adventures are slowly uncovered
Pairing: original character gen
Other: Also archived here.

Summary/Excerpt: An archaeologist discovers a strange blue box, and keeps digging. The Doctor had always had a cantankerous relationship with archaeologists. They tended to dig up things that had been buried for important reasons, or try to murder him, or try to marry him, or disagree with this theories and assessments.

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Title: childish sometimes
Fandom: Doctor Who/Firestarter - Stephen King
Length: 451 words
Prompt: Charlie/Nine, PS3 for jellybabyoftheneutronflow
Pairing: Charlie & Nine gen
Other: AU in which Charlie is Nine's companion.

Excerpt: The third problem was that he rarely slept, which was why Charlie was unsurprised to hear the cheery game music coming from down the hall when she got up to use the bathroom at (her mental reckoning of) three a.m.

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