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Title: "'Tis the Season"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 2636

(Blue Rain AU) Whoever said that the winter holiday season is relaxing?

Read it on AO3.

Author's Notes:

I'd noticed that recently, I've been maintaining a once-a-month story-posting cadence, which is a lot more than I have been for the past few years (though admittedly, two of them were 100-word drabbles), so I thought I would try to keep that up. I opened my pile of WIPs to look for a suitable candidate to finish, and the first one was not only a holiday story, but also nearly complete - like, missing only a couple of paragraphs.

I don't actually remember writing this (other than an inkling that I once wanted to try to write a holiday story) and as I read through it, I actually had no idea how it was going to end. Luckily the ending was written, so I didn't have to try to figure it out.

Also, I figured out from the document history that I wrote this last year, not the years ago that I had assumed. From the dates, it looks like I didn't get it done in time for Christmas so I figured I'd save it for the next year. And now it's the next year. It's weeks before the holiday and I've already spent the last week in editing and rewriting, so it's ready to post early! Woohoo!

"Genesis"

Jan. 29th, 2023 09:43 am
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Title: "Genesis"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Nerys
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: Adventure (Superhero)
Word Count: 8462

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) A retelling of the first and second chapters of Blue Rain, from a different point of view.

Read it on AO3.


I never actually planned to post this story. I wrote most of it years ago, probably in 2018, when I wondered to myself, "Why exactly was Jon in Chiswick, close enough to respond to Donna's screams within minutes?" After all, he lives in Acton and at the time, he hadn't become a superhero, so there was no reason for him to be wandering around London on a worknight. It was also an interesting exercise, to take the attack and rescue scene in chapter 2, strip out everything but the dialogue, and retell it from Jon's point of view, but it turned out to be not particularly useful - it still didn't tell me why - so I added the lead-up (chapter 1), and then the discussion long after the fact between Jon and Donna.

More recently, I've posted a couple of Blue Rain snippets, and the positive response to them made me think that I should post this. It was never meant to be anything but personal writing, but I thought people might find it fun. So, I finished it, then spent a couple of weeks polishing it, using it to practice improving style, and I think it's really benefited from the intense scrutiny. I probably rewrote a good tenth of it, maybe even a fifth of it, in bits and pieces as I found some pretty terrible writing and phrasing. I also caught all the misuses of the work "block" and corrected them. My Britglish is getting better.

I just really like this one, because it blends introspection and action. Also, I really like Jon, and he finally gets to speak here.
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Title: "Decorating Time"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 690

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) Jon insists he's not really a musician. No one really believes him.

Notes: Written for [community profile] tenminutesaday prompt: "Art is the way we decorate space. Music is the way we decorate time."

Read on AO3.
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Title: "Things That Go Bump in the Night"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: T
Genre: General
Word Count: 4286

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) It's Donna's first night in Jon's flat and she just can't sleep.

Author's Note: Omg, I wrote fluff. Please tell me if this should be rated M instead of T.

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Title: "The Opposition"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Braxiatel
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 10914

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) The evening Donna has dreaded for the past six months has arrived. It's time to meet Jon's parents.

Author's Notes: Okay, this one got away from me. I thought this would be a nice little fun fic of 3k words, but it's blown up into 10k words that's far more serious that I intended. It's also taken a lot longer than expected, because of the amount of research I had to do. I'd like to apologize up front about the cultural inaccuracies: even I can tell that I've gotten a lot wrong and this feels too American. At least I didn't refer to barristers as "lawyers".


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Title: "Tea and Revelations"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: (Blue Rain AU) Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: Sci-fi (superheroes)
Word Count: 4010

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) Sylvia has welcomed Jon into her family. Now it's time for him to invite her into his world.

Author's note: Takes place about two hours after the end of Blue Rain.
Author's ramblings: I actually had most of this done a while back, but RL got in the way. It took me the last two weeks to write the last page. Sigh.

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Title: "The First Battle"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Lance Bennett
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: Sci-fi / Superheroes
Word Count: 7627

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) A hero fights battles on many fronts.

Author's Note: As I wrote this (and planned future stories), I realized that I didn't have a good handle on when everything's been happening. The main story of Blue Rain took place around May, and then I had the last chapter occur about four months later, but this can't be right; it's a little too soon. I've moved it out to five months, and might change that to six. We'll see how it goes. (This story takes place about two months after the Saxon rally.)

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Title: "The Little Things"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1729

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) Jon's still figuring things out. It's kind of a common theme for him.

Author's Note: As I prepared to post my new Blue Rain story, I noticed two things: 1) I hadn't posted this story here on LJ, and 2) it's been a year since I posted anything for Blue Rain. Both issues are being rectified today.

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Title: "Hard Evidence"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, OCs
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: NC-17 (explicit)
Genre: General smut

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) Jon can be quite the stubborn bloke, especially when it comes to his powers. Luckily, Donna's even more obstinate.

Word count: 4438

Note 1: I suppose this really isn't a DVD Extra - it's actually a separate story, not an extension of a scene from Blue Rain.

Note 2: Yes, I actually wrote smut.

Note 3: I apologize in advance; this is just not my forte. My husband gave me that rather timid, "I liked it" after reading it, which really means, "It's not good, but I'm not going to say that out loud because I don't like sleeping outside in November. But it's not terrible enough for me to actually say it was bad." However, he did laugh at the right spots (and one wrong spot, dammit).

Note 4: I also apologize for the title, but I couldn't resist.

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Title: "Thirty Minutes"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, OCs
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: Fluff

Summary: (Blue Rain AU) Twenty-eight minutes of confusion and two minutes of bewilderment, and yet it's the best time of his life.

Word count: 1666

Notes: No, this isn't the promised DVD extra. I'm working on it. On the other hand, look at me, I actually wrote fluff!

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 18 (final)
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 1881

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 17
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 3425

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 16
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 2530

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 15
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 5369

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 14
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 3588

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 13
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 2239

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shivver: (Five with key)
Title: Blue Rain, chapter 12
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 5351

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 11
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 2813

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Title: Blue Rain, chapter 10
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 3734

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shivver: (Five with key)
Title: Blue Rain, chapter 9
Fandom(s): Doctor Who (modern)
Characters: AU - Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Lance Bennett, Nerys
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble
Rating: R (well, probably more PG-13)
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure

Summary: Original AU. A normal human in a world in which a handful of individuals have suddenly developed superpowers, Donna lives her mundane life whilst always keeping one eye to the skies to catch a glimpse of the city's new heroes.

Word count (chapter): 5886

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