FIC POST: "The Watchmaker" (Doctor Who, PG-13)

[lizbee]

aka The Long And Surprisingly Plotty Romana Fic. At last.

Title: The Watchmaker
Summary: Romana, after the Time War.
Characters: Romana, Mickey, UNIT, Harriet Jones, Ten, Rose, others
Spoilers: Specifically through to "The Christmas Invasion", vaguely for season 2.
Rating: PG-13
Length: approx 20,000 words

At almost 70 pages, it's a bit long for an LJ post, so it's on my website:

( Fake cut! )

Comments

[ladyrazorsharp.livejournal.com]

Just finished. You know that I don't know anything (much) about the Doctor and Co., but I loved every word.

This may just be me...but the opening scene, with Romana as prisoner, getting ready to endure more mistreatment...sounded vaguely familiar. ~_^

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

*shifty look*

I assure you it was unintentional. But I'm really pleased you liked it.

[ladyrazorsharp.livejournal.com]

*g* I meant it purely as a compliment. It's a powerful passage. Romana's stubbornness to survive--maybe not bodily, but a mental assertion of do what you will but you can't have what makes me me--is very clear.

From the little I know of her, Romana sounds like someone Russell might find a sort of kinship with. They both have to depend on themselves--and are fiercely independent, and assume too much of the blame--but care deeply for those who matter to them. Unfortunately, Romana is lonely, while Russell has found her soulmate. I think the Doctor could be (and at times it seems like he's saying "I'm here if you want me") her soulmate, but she never takes him up on it. Sounds like she doesn't(or won't allow herself to) believe in such things...

When she remembered, oh, that was a great moment. And hee hee, I like how the Doctor finds all her hiding places. I don't know what it is about him, but I love how he's so...he's like an overgrown kid. Unapologetic for what needs to be done but never harsh. Hard to describe, really...

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

*grin* Russell and Romana would get on like a house on fire, except when they competed to see who was smarter.

The Doctor is Romana's soulmate, in a way (beyond the fact that they're the last two members of their species), but I don't think they could spend more than a couple of years together before they both had to move on. But when you're practically immortal, that's not a bad way to be.