DOCTOR WHO

• general
  • Father's Day ┊ SnubNosedSilhouette ┊ chaptered
    • “Do-“ Rory seemed to reconsider, then barreled ahead with his question. “This is a silly question, but, do you have a dad, River?”
  • Home For Christmas ┊ RiversOfMars ┊ chaptered
    • Christmas is around the corner and since 2020 has been stressful for everyone, the Doctor is determined to make it a special Christmas for the Fam. It's never JUST a simple Christmas with the Doctor though. Particularly not when a trip to the Doctor's favourite Christmas world results in a chance meeting with the woman she has long presumed dead.
• the doctor x river song
  • 5 Times The Doctor Talked About River Song With Graham (+1 Time The Fam Finally Met Her) ┊ Terapsina ┊ oneshot
    • His eyes follow the small golden object as its slide down the floor stops in the middle of TARDIS, and finally focuses on the last thing he’d have ever expected to find here if he’d ever thought to consider it.
    • It’s a ring.
    • /or/
    • Graham finds the Doctor's wedding ring and it leads to her gradually opening up about their lost wife.
  • but she prefers two lumps of sugar and tea ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ oneshot
    • “What, no non-fat latte with a caramel drizzle or triple venti soy latte with no foam? Half sweet non-fat macchiato with an extra shot? Two percent foam? Three pumps? Upside down or some other rubbish?”
    • Stifling a smile at his harassed and suspicious expression, River shakes her head and says simply, “No. Just tea.”
  • Heartbeats in Measures to a Familiar Tune ┊ KrystinaSky ┊ chaptered
    • He said goodbye like he was going to come back, but neither one of them really believed him, and River has someone important counting on her to get out alive, and survive what's waiting for her on the other side. In which River escapes from the Library and tries to escape from the Doctor, but it's hard to run away when you don't really want to.
  • i use the stars to find you ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ oneshot
    • For all of his searching and dreaming and hoping, for every sleepless night and every failed attempt, the Doctor never actually thought he would find home again. And he certainly never thought he would step out onto the red dust of his planet with his wife standing at his side, her hand small and steady in his.
  • like turning wolves into lambs ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ chaptered
    • From the stories she has heard about the Doctor since she was a little girl, he’s a hard and ruthless man. He knows nothing of love or kindness. He’s a killer – heartless and cold. River doubts a shivering woman on a miserable night will do much to change that, but it isn’t her job to question Kovarian, only to do what she’s told.
  • love looks not with the eyes ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ chaptered
    • Still holding onto his wrist, River turns slowly and comes face to face with her pickpocket. He’s older than she’d expected – fluffy gray curls peeking out from beneath a battered top hat. Tall and thin, he wears a shabby black coat and leans heavily on a walking stick. He’s staring right at her but his eyes are oddly blank and she realizes with a jolt that he’s blind.
    • “Well no wonder I caught you,” she mutters, watching him frown in her direction. “You can’t even see what you’re doing.”
  • River's Doctor ┊ LittlePageAndBird ┊ chaptered
    • River falls right into his life again without warning; fresh from Berlin and more lost than he's ever seen her. After a millennium the Doctor discovers that their story is far from over, and there are things he's yet to learn about her as their timelines coalesce once again. When she appears to seek out his latest incarnation, he realises that he's only now becoming her Doctor.
  • she was trying to show me how a life can move from the darkness ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ oneshot
    • Studying him appraisingly for a moment, she takes in the relaxed set of his shoulders and the softness around his eyes that definitely hadn’t been there the first time she encountered this regeneration of his. Finally, she murmurs, “Learned a few tricks on Darillium, did you?”
    • The Doctor looks away and the light in his eyes dims just a bit.
    • Or: five times Missy asks about River Song and one time she doesn’t have to.
  • the playwright and his muse ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ series
    • John looks down at the last letter, ready to toss it in along with the others. The unfamiliar handwriting gives him pause.
    • Melody Pond
    • 46 St. Giles Street, West End
    • London
    • Odd name. Probably just another critic.
  • we get old and get used to each other ┊ mygalfriday (BrinneyFriday) ┊ chaptered
    • River Song made it perfectly clear she wanted nothing to do with him when she’d thrown his own guitar at his head and walked out, taking her lovely voice and his heart with her. Whatever she wants now, it isn’t him.