As promised, here is Part 1 of the fic update - fics that have been added to existing lists since the last update.
Also, as I mentioned before, this update is large, and accordingly I’m breaking it into installments based on tumblr’s decision last time to strip all the links from the post (I’m guessing because it was too long ~ or a butterfly flapped its wings somewhere, or a blade of grass grew, or...).
Part 0 here (heh)
CLASSICS:
EIGHTxROSE:
Hanging By A Thread by semnai (Alt!Eight in Pete’s World)
NINExROSE:
Civil Twilight by @chiaroscuroverse (adult)
TENxROSE:
Beneficial Engagement by @rudennotgingr (Film AU, The Proposal)
Cup of Sugar by @lixabiz (adult, AU)
Distance by @lauraxxtennant (WIP, post-GitF, baby!fic, some chapters adult)
Accidental Pregnancy AU by @lixabiz (series of one-shots, human au)
TWELVExROSE:
Looking Back by @countessselena (Twelve & Ten, reunion!fic, all ages)
MULTIERAxROSE:
The Confessor by @unfolded73fics (oneshot)
28-3-08 by @andrastesgrace (oneshot, Nine, Ten)
Twist of Fate by surrexi (multichap)
MULTIERAxROSE in Rose’s Linear Timeline:
Breaking Even: a love story in three parts by @professorspork
Enjambment by @allegoricalrose
Evolution of Rose by LadyChi (adult, eventual family!fic)
Hawking Radiation by @deathlyfandoms
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding. by @mellaithwen
I Fall In Love With You Every Day by @hellostarlight20
Jump 137 by @veritascara
Threshold by Aibhinn (adult)
Fear This (Ten, adult) & Feel This (Tentoo, adult) by @unfolded73fics
Perchance to Dream by The_Bookkeeper
Reflections in Sifting Sand by @professorspork
something of the wolf by @megabadbunny
These Are The Sofas Of My Lives by Gowdie
We Write Our Tragedies in the Stars by @timelordthirteen
And the Stars Remember Us by @timelordthirteen
MULTIERAxROSE OT3:
*The New Stuff of Legend by @hawkerin (adult, series)
ALT!NINExROSE:
*As the Wolf Howls by websurffer (Alt!Nine, adult, series)
Coming Around by HonorH (Nine in Pete's World, adult)
Louder Than Words by @andrastesgrace (Ninetoo)
*Really Wild Things by Cavalorn (Alt!Nine, reunion!fic, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy crossover)
ALT!TENxROSE:
Alternate Meetings by @mariechambers (Ten x Rose, Alt!Ten x Alt!Rose)
Song of the Mirror Maker by tenandi
ALT!ROSE:
Alternate Meetings by @mariechambers (Ten x Rose, Alt!Ten x Alt!Rose)
Tea and Regeneration by @gallifreyburning (TenxMetacrisis!Rose)
Everyday Magic series by @perfectlyrose (NinexMagic!Rose, all ages)
From Forever to Eternity by @fantastiqueolicity (multiDoctor x parallel!Rose)
Repercussions by ThroughAnAmberFocus (alt!Ten x alt!Rose, spin off from series)
Summary: The memory is a fragile thing, easy to break bits or lose them. Rose and the Doctor find this out after an adventure gone wrong.
Part one of the “memories lost, love found” series
Pairing: Fem!Eight x Rose
Rating: All Ages // Word Count: 1231
Note: this fulfills the hurt/comfort memory prompt over at @doctorroseprompts (shhh i know this is stretching it a bit since this isn’t a memory but it’s about memory :) )
AO3
Rose’s first thought upon waking up to a strange woman’s face looming above her was something along the lines of oh my god, she’s gorgeous, followed closely by what am I doing on the floor and who is she?
“Ah, you’re awake. I was starting to worry.” The woman’s voice rolled over her like a velvet caress, soft as the fingers that were gently testing the edges of what felt like a wound around her temple.
“Feels like someone hit me with a frying pan,” Rose muttered, trying to sit up. She immediately regretted it as the pain in her head intensified.
“No, no, no, stay still, Rose. I haven’t quite figured out the extent of this injury yet and moving is not advisable.”
“Figured that out on my own, thanks,” she snarked. “And who are you then, some kind of doctor?”
The woman’s blue eyes flashed with something like exasperation and fondness as she shook her head. “Very funny, Rose. Never heard that one before.”
Rose narrowed her eyes. “What are you talking about? That was a serious question.” She moved to try and bat the woman’s hands away from her face. “Who are you and why do you seem to know who I am?”
The woman pulled back, eyebrows drawing together as she stared down at her. “This isn’t the time for a joke at my expense, not when you actually have a head wound.”
Rose wished that glaring while flat on her back was more effective but she was not risking moving again just to have an argument. “I’m not joking. I have no clue who the hell you are.”
The woman’s face paled. “You’re sure?”
Rose looked at her closely, taking in the blue eyes bright with worry and deeper than any ocean she’d ever seen, taking in the mussed chestnut curls that fell just past her shoulders. She stared at the woman’s delicate features, the slope of her nose and the delicate bow of her lips but nothing clicked. “Am I supposed to know who you are?”
She nodded mutely.
“Who are you?” Rose asked, voice gentle now in the face of the woman’s obvious distress.
“I’m the Doctor and I’m your best friend.”
“What kind of a name is ‘the Doctor?’”
“An accurate one. Can I get back to treating your head wound, now? We can figure out the amnesia once you’re not bleeding all over my ship.”
“Ship?”
“Yes, ship. We’ll talk about it later, now, may I?” The Doctor gestured towards her head.
“Yeah, go for it,” Rose said with a sigh, shutting her eyes as the Doctor reached for her face again.
“Just so you know, I’m going to tease you mercilessly about forgetting me once you know who I am again,” she said.
“Now that doesn’t seem very nice.” She looked up at the Doctor as she removed her hands from Rose’s face and started digging in the inside pocket of her velvet coat. She wasn’t entirely sure how it hadn’t registered that the other woman was wearing a velvet coat before but it had not struck her as odd until this moment.
“Ah, but you’ll remember eventually that I have a tendency to misplace memories occasionally. There was an incident about a year ago where I forgot who you were for a time and you’ve ribbed me about it ever since.” She grinned at Rose. “I’ll simply be getting my payback.”
Rose smiled back. “Turnabout’s fair play, then?”
“Oh, absolutely.” She pulled some sort of tool out of her pocket and showed it to Rose. “This is my sonic screwdriver. I’m going to use it to seal your wound and then we’ll work on your memories, alright?”
“That sounds mad but go ahead,” Rose said. She had no doubt that she and this woman were friends. It was just her style to befriend someone both gorgeous and mad as a hatter.
“Haven’t lost your sense of adventure then, Rose Tyler,” the Doctor quipped with a smile, holding the screwdriver close to her temple and activating it.
“Guess not.” She bit down on her lip as the odd sound vibrated through the room. “So, you think I’m going to get my memories back, yeah?”
The Doctor hesitated a moment too long before answering. “I hope you will, Rose. I will do everything I can to make sure that you regain them and I can assure you that I can do a lot.”
“But you can’t promise anything.” It wasn’t a question.
The Doctor’s lips were pressed into a thin, unhappy line. “I’m sorry. The human mind is a finicky thing.”
“S’okay. I’m sure we’ll work things out.” Rose felt weirdly calm. She knew she should be panicking about her lost memories but she wasn’t.
The sonic screwdriver shut off and Rose looked up to meet the Doctor’s eyes and found them bright and incredulous. “How can you trust me like that when you don’t even remember who I am?”
Rose considered for a moment. It felt almost instinctive, like trusting the Doctor was a part of her not something that sprung from her missing memories. “I don’t know, but I do. That alright?”
The Doctor cupped her cheek again, this time out of affection instead of medical necessity. “It is more than alright, Rose Tyler.”
Rose fought back a shiver at the emotion the Doctor packed into the three syllables of her name. “Can I sit up now?”
“Slowly,” the Doctor said, shifting to support Rose with a hand to the back as she sat up. “The wounds closed up. Shouldn’t even have a scar to show for all of this.”
“Bit of a headache, though,” she said. “You got any paracetamol or anything?”
“In the medbay, which is where we’re going as soon as you think you can stand,” she answered. “Considering how much the TARDIS likes you and has been humming worriedly at me this whole time, I would guess she’s moved it just outside of the console room.”
“You know you sound mad, right?”
The Doctor smiled but it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “That’s just because you don’t remember yet.”
“No, I have a feeling you always sound rather mad. It’s a bit charming though.” She aimed her own smile at the Doctor, letting her tongue peek out at the corner.
“Now I think you might be the mad one,” the Doctor shot back. “Up we go. Time to get you sorted and start answering all the questions I know you’ve got burning in that brain of yours.”
Rose let the Doctor help her to her feet, then slid her fingers into the spaces between the Doctor’s. It felt right, like it was something they did often. She let her lead her towards one of the doors leading out of the room they were in.
“Maybe if we can get my brain doing what it’s supposed to, I won’t have to pepper you with questions.”
“Rose, I can promise you that you are always peppering me with questions whether you have your memories or not.”
“Rude,” she chided.
The Doctor laughed and Rose felt something in her heart lighten. She didn’t know what was going to happen, didn’t even know what had happened at the moment, didn’t know much of anything really, but she knew that she and the Doctor were going to make it through this.
fic rec list masterpost | docxrose fanfic 101 masterlist
💘 = adult rating (Please note that for longer fics, this may mean only some chapters are adult.)
Note on subheads: We tried to use the major theme of each story to organize this big topic, but categories get fuzzy! If you feel like something is misplaced, please feel free to drop us a note. Thanks!
Rose as Eight's Companion/Eight in Pete's World
Ficlet:
Dancing by @deathlyfandoms
ice skating by @perfectlyrose
A Sleigh Ride Together by @paigenotblank
Short Story:
💘 Carry on my Wayward Son by allons y753 (pete's world run-in)
Hanging By A Thread by semnai (alt!eight in pete’s world)
Rosebud by aeonish (baby!fic)
An Unexpected Rescue by @mercwithamouth
Novella:
Across the Sky by Lizbetann (wip, alt!eight)
The Age of the Wolf by @paigenotblank
Fallen Angel by ponygirl (alt!Eight)
💘 Forgiveness by parttimefemmefatale
Nature of War by Letters_from_the_TARDIS (wip)
💘 Shades of Blue ~ Cerulean by @bluedawn0123 (part of series)
Silhouettes by @wordsintimeandspace
Novel:
💘 Forever Has No End But Has a Start by @menomonyfalls (wip)
Somewhere Only We Know by mltrefry
Series:
Celestial Love by bubblygal92
Doomsday Dimensions Verse by Dr Miracle (alt!Eight, Pete's World)
I Thought it Would Last Forever by JeopardyFriendly (post JE)
Interaction Locations Verse by whochick (alt!Eight) (see also: LJ | oneshots)
Dimension Hopping Rose
Short Story:
Lost and Found by yearn4themoon
Memories of DaVinci by @mercwithamouth
Mouth Full of White Lies by @perfectlyrose
💘 Sheherazade by @lixabiz
Sure on this Shining Night by @abadplanwellexecuted (part of series)
Trying it Out by @bluedawn0123
Novella:
💘 Borrowed Time by OrchisAilsa
MultiDoctor Featuring Eight
Short Story:
Message Received by Gargantua29 (Ten)
Novella:
Absolutely the Same Man by @bittie752 (Eleven, Ten, part of series)
De-generation by @allrightfine and @gallifreyburning (Tentoo)
💘 Non-Linear Love Story by bendingsignpost (rallalon) (Nine, Ten)
Tau Theta by @hellostarlight20 (Ten, part of series)
Novel:
All Roads Lead to You by moonmama (Tentoo)
💘 Battle in the Sky by bubblygal92 (Eleven, Twelve)
Run-Ins with Other Doctors
Short Story
Advent IV by @delightfuldanvers (Ten)
Of Fireworks and Timelines by @aimtoallonsy (Ten)
The Power of Two by lostwolf (Ten)
A Spark of Hope by bubblygal92 (Nine)
Tarantella by @vampiyaa (Ten)
💘 A Visit to Hyspero by parttimefemmefatale (Nine, ot3)
Warm This Winter by bubblygal92 (Ten)
Novella
Flip-Sided by beta-who (Ten)
Series
The Way Home by @goingtothetardis (Ten)
AU
Ficlet:
Count the Ways by @dryadalis (adult, collection includes multiple Eight ficlets)
Novella:
💘 A Case for Optimism by @mercwithamouth
💘 Drawing a Future Together by @bluedawn0123
Pretty Lies by @perfectlyrose
Series:
💘 Figure Eight Verse by @dryadalis
Made for Each Other by @chocolatequeennk (soulmates)
Wolf at the Door by Emery Board (alien/Time Lord AU, semi-alt, series)
This category will be updated as recs come in! ♥ If you know of something that should be here but isn’t, or we have any category errors, feel free to tell us!
a delightful line from yesterday’s eight/rose fic that i started:
“How are we going to find my you?” she asked him.
“Oh,” he said, “Should be a snap. I can always track down myself, though I never do.”
“Why not?” she asked.
He winced, hoping not to embarrass himself too much in front her by admitting this, “I tend to have great difficulty getting along with myself.”
She burst out laughing, and it took her a few moments to catch her breath. “Of course you don’t,” she said, “Even two of you is too much ego for one room to handle.”
for @devidlg. this is your askbox fic for reader appreciation, love! (your ask wasn’t open so i’m just posting it!)
eight/rose soulmate au
The Doctor always thought it was rather unlikely that he'd meet his soulmate, the one whose handwriting had been scrawled across his hip from regeneration to regeneration. The person could be anywhere in time in space after all. When he literally ran into a blonde in the middle of London on a trip for some authentic chips and the words on his hip started burning, he laughed aloud at the capriciousness of the universe before taking her hand and stroking his thumb over the Gallifreyan on her wrist
The girl...sparkled. It wasn't that he didn't enjoy a good sparkle now and again, or even that he was not, himself, an expert on then whys and wheretofores of sparkle etiquette. But really, there was a time and a place, and it was not now nor here, and oh he really did have a terrific headache. "My dear," said the Doctor to the woman who was mostly golden glitter. It tickled in the back of his mind, too, like the TARDIS was very excited about something related to this glitter-girl. He decided to try for politeness. It was always good to be polite, and she had not - at least he thought - given him the headache. "You are either a very lovely woman or a very small star - hello!" said the Doctor. "Hello," said the woman, and it looked like she might be trying to stifle a laugh.
Ooh, more of that Eight/Rose tutor and princess AU?
THIS IS NOT GONNA BE THREE SENTENCES***Rose’s hair was neatly pinned, her gown sparkling, her lips and eyes painted. Her hands were folded at her waist like a lady, and her back straight, her shoulders set. Her speech, on most days, so perfectly rehearsed that no-one would have ever believed she’d grown up outside the capital city, and she knew every town and province of the kingdom, by name, governor, and signature ale. (Little Hill was his personal favorite.)"I can’t do this." The Doctor placed his hands on Rose’s shoulders. “You can." "Doctor," Rose turned. "M’a kitchen slag from the outer territories. I can’t be -" "Rose Tyler," he cupped her cheek with one gloved hand. "I have taught you history, mathematics, and sciences. I have given you the clothes to wear, the words to say, furnished you with all the trappings of royalty." He took her by the chin and looked into her eyes. "And all these things mean nothing." Her brown eyes went wide and round."What?" "Rose Tyler, you are a queen in your stocking feet, and you would be a queen in rags, holding court in barns with street urchins and horses. And do you know? There’d be no more loyal army anywhere." Rose shook her head, fondness creeping into her gaze.
"You’re so full of rubbish." He nodded. “And rot! That doesn’t make it any less true.” Rose’s eyes fixed on the door to her chambers. Beyond it was a world very different from the one she was used to, and, stood he in her place he would be burying himself beneath his bedcovers and not coming out for at least a century. Her bravery at getting up, getting this far, was breathtaking.
Her mouth trembled.
"You’re sure I can do this?" "My dear, you were made for it." "All right, Doctor," she tried for a smile. "But if I much this up it’s off with your head." "Might be an improvement," he tapped her nose, and then brought her carefully to his side, pressing a kiss to the corner of her mouth. "Your coronation awaits," he took her gently by the arm, and swung the door open. "My Queen."
