a traveler from an antique land

She blinked, once, twice.

Raised a hand, cautiously.

Her dress rustled. Not unusual in itself, if she had an idea where she’d gotten it. Or why it was coated with dust, or why the room was dark and mouldy, and- oh yes- why it was, exactly, that there was a chap with his lips still over hers.

It’s the little things, she thought.

( After a little bit of scrabbling about, she managed to lay her hands on a rather large bit of rotting bedpost and hit him with it. )


Community: theatrical_muse
Prompt: 244 - "That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings."
Word Count: 401
Author's Note: I have no excuse, really. Except maybe one too many Disney movies.

Three TARDISes, occupying precisely the same space-time coordinates but one multiverse removed from each other... crashed.

Three Doctors, very different from each other yet very similar… collided.

“Not this again,” the first one spoke. “I’m sure I had the shields up!”

“Is this what it’s come to, old girl?” the second asked of the console. “A systems failure the first time I take you out for a spin? You’d think the Time Lords could have taken better care of you.”

“Well, that was exciting!” the third said in a cheery voice. “Let’s see what we’ve got here, hmm?”

( Doctor Who and the Curse of Etheric Beam Locators )


Community: theatrical_muse
Prompt: 216 - Impossible
Word Count: 352
Note: Unbeta'd crack guest-starring the Third Doctor from the Unbound audio "Exile" and Joanna Lumley as the Fourteenth Doctor from Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.