Author’s Note: Written right after “Leviathan” aired and before we found out any real details of Pinocchio’s past, so this was my theory. *g* I haven’t lied to him, damn it. Everything I told him was true. I just didn’t … Continue reading
Author’s Note: This story was inspired by Megan’s query about what Pinocchio would be like if he were in love, although the original character in this story is in no way intended to be seen as a love interest for … Continue reading
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Jo for the beta! She can’t stay here. Not when she could turn a corner one day and see him with her, the other, the one she had to give him up to. Besides, if she was … Continue reading
Author’s Note: It occurred to me several months ago that you can’t really show Abby the future without touching on this particular future (for her) event and its aftermath. Dedicated to the people of New Orleans, and to Pauley Perrette … Continue reading
It was three weeks before Friga would even contemplate the idea of Tegan leaving. Tegan complained the whole time, of course. “It’s nothing personal,” she’d reassured Nyssa unnecessarily, more than once. “I like having the chance to spend time with … Continue reading
The TARDIS knew him too well, she did. Knew he handled enforced inactivity about as well as he did solitude. More often than not, she indulged that particular quirk: taking him where there were worlds to save and wrongs to … Continue reading
Tegan had never much bought into the idea that being close to death made one appreciate life more. Honestly, she’d considered it so much rot for the better part of her life. Travelling with the Doctor, they’d come close to … Continue reading
They fell into a routine in the days that followed. Mornings would see them go their separate ways, Nyssa to tend to her usual duties around the station while the Doctor continued tinkering with the TARDIS. When she was done, … Continue reading
Saving herself or saving him: was that what she was doing, then? Truthfully, Nyssa wasn’t sure what she’d been thinking, to take the Doctor of all people into her bed. Thought likely hadn’t entered into it at all–hers or the … Continue reading
He was burning. Burning from the inside out, just as the world had burned around him, exploding in a flash of fire. He could feel his hearts sizzling inside him as the flames licked his face, devoured his hair, consumed … Continue reading