tardis_library | Entries tagged with ch: fourth doctor

Title: Famous Last Words
Creator: castrovalva9
Rating: Adult
Word Count/Length/Size: 3355 words
Creator's Summary: Cliche!fic. The TARDIS deliberately takes the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith to a planet where aliens force them to have sex. Yes, it's the classic "aliens make them do it" plot.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith
Warnings/Notes: Explicit sex, non-con

Reasons for reccing: I love an aliens make them do it and it's interesting as to how the aliens make them do it and what the Doctor and Sarah Jane's reactions are to it.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=7542

romanajo123

Title: Beyond the Veil
Creator: AceOnGallifrey
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1827
Creator's Summary: The Tenth Doctor discovers that his song isn't ending: it's just leaving to join in a greater melody, above and beyond death itself. Oneshot of various pairings and much joy.
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Donna Noble, Grace Holloway, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Peri Brown, River Song, Romana II, Rose Tyler, Susan Foreman, The Doctor (10th), The Doctor (11th), The Doctor (1st), The Doctor (2nd), The Doctor (3rd), The Doctor (4th), The Doctor (5th), The Doct
Warnings/Notes: None (though this is a sort-of Crossover with Young Wizards by Diane Duane)

Reasons for reccing: I recently remembered this fic, and reread it. And it is one of the most stunning, beautiful things. Everything is very vivid and detailed and a nice ending for Ten. With a bunch of little cameos.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

romanajo123

Title: Sam's New Year
Creator:

Shivver
Rating: General Audience
Word Count/Length/Size: 10013
Creator's Summary: Sam sits on a doorstep, watching the celebrants heading for the ball drop in Times Square. He isn't joining them. He has more important things to do, like figure out where his next meal is coming from.
Characters/Pairings:
First Doctor
Second Doctor
Fourth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
Eighth Doctor
Ninth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
Susan Foreman
Jamie McCrimmon
Victoria Waterfield
Leela (Doctor Who)
Nyssa of Traken
Ace McShane
Charley Pollard
Rose Tyler

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
Happy New Year! This is a wonderful read. Sometimes it's nice to see the Doctors helping in small ways: like here just making sure someone in need can make it through the night. Everyone is IC and it has just that right bit of heartwarming (and bittersweetness)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13169499/chapters/30121200

Current Mood: calm

lurking_latinist

Title: Remembrance
Creator:

BiJane
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3415 words
Creator's Summary:

The TARDIS on the Doctor.

Stitch it together. Weave a narrative from all the moments. That happened before that, which would have prevented that… It’s not simultaneous, not to them.

Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (multiple regenerations)/The Doctor's TARDIS, mentioned Romana and River Song
Warnings/Notes: (none)

Reasons for reccing: For the Claim a Ship challenge. This is a narrative of the Doctor's relationship with his TARDIS told from the TARDIS's perspective, and it's splendidly nonlinear, using the idea that the TARDIS experiences all her adventures with the Doctor simultaneously. It tells her perspective on various stories from Classic and New Who, synthesizing them into a big arc of their journey together, and it does some really fun things with tenses and nonlinear storytelling.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13623612

paranoidangel

Title: Competent Observations
Creator:

Sharpest_Asp
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 608 words
Creator's Summary: Being a journalist gives advantages, even when you've been kidnapped.
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Jane Smith, Fourth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1976, the year Sarah Jane Smith left the TARDIS. This fic really showcases how useful Sarah's journalism skills can be with her adventures with the Doctor. And the Doctor is his usual self, of course.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50740375

paranoidangel

Title: I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek
Creator:

touchdownpossum
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2:42
Creator's Summary: 10 Doctors, 30+ companions, and the special-est special effects you'll see this holiday season.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara WrightIan Chesterton, Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, Ben Jackson Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton, Mike Yates, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Romana II, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown, Ace McShane, Rose Tyler, Adam Mitchell, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song, Sara Kingdom, Davros, Jack Harkness

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1975, the year Davros, the Dalek creator was introduced. This is a fun vid to a fun song, with the images matching the words. And the addition of some fun hashtags.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/579189

felis

Title: Save the Date
Creator:

astrogirl
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1,811 words
Creator's Summary: The Brigadier has quite a few messages on his answering machine today. And all of them are from the same person. Well, more or less.
Characters/Pairings: Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Doris Lethbridge-Stewart, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: The Brigadier, retired and just returned from a holiday, finds a lot of messages from the Doctor on his answering machine. This was written for the "Unsent Letters" exchange in 2022 and the concept is just great, super well executed, and so much fun to read. Lovely and hilarious.

(It is set sometime after the Seventh Doctor episode "Battlefield" - from the Brigadier's point of view, anyway! - which means it technically takes place in 1989, BUT, since that year is already covered, I'm submitting it for 1968, the year when one Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared. Also fits this month's multi-era theme!)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38299363

valoise

Title: Short Skirt/Long Jacket
Creator

purplefringe
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 3:26 minutes
Creator's Summary: She is touring the facilities and picking up slack
Characters/Pairings: Romana I, Fourth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1978 what could be better than this excellent tribute to Romana I?

Links: Dreamwidth

lurking_latinist

Title: The Knots that Bind
Creator:

glompcat
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 2134 words
Creator's Summary: Getting tied up was an occupational hazard, but this was knot how Romana expected her day to go...
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Romana II, followed by Eighth Doctor/Romana II
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: For the "Accidental Marriage" square in my Reccers' Bingo. It's a cute and pretty fluffy story where some guards tie up the Doctor and Romana (as usual) but accidentally use a ceremonial knot used in Gallifreyan weddings. They decide it doesn't have to count... but then, on the other hand, it could... Lots of very in-character banter and fun Gallifreyan worldbuilding.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34919116/chapters/86954761

Title: Renewal
Creator:

CeruleanTactician
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 3657 words
Creator's Summary:

The Doctor and Charley accidentally get married after a misunderstanding on an alien planet.

It doesn’t have to mean anything. Not unless they want it to.

Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Also for the "Accidental Marriage" square. Eight and Charley were made for this trope, with their spectacularly ambiguous will-they-won't-they-are-they-aren't-they relationship, and this fic hits all the right notes, with the Doctor hilariously blasé about their accidental marriage and Charley unsure what to make of any of it. The alien planet is beautifully described, too. And the epilogue is adorable!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40875777

Title: Hitch in the Proceedings
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 530 words
Creator's Summary: Seven, Ace, a mysterious alien rite, and sadly no explosions.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: If Seven and Ace meet a trope, the trope is likely to end up in flaming bits all over the place... A cute and hilarious platonic subversion of the accidental marriage trope. I especially appreciated the punchline.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5669533

felis

Manifesto Title: Mini-Manifesto: Identity, Continuity, and Change
Creator:

felis
Notes/warnings/spoilers: Stays pretty vague, but contains a few details regarding the Tenth and Twelfth Doctors in the recs section.

( Identity, Continuity, and Change )

paranoidangel

Title: The First Time
Creator: RivendellRose /

rivendellrose
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1272 words
Creator's Summary: It was definitely not the best time for a marriage proposal.
Characters/Pairings: Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Fourth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's sweet story from Harry's POV which has his character voice spot-on. It's a typical sort of adventure for this TARDIS crew and includes an interesting, and spot-on, observation from Harry about the Doctor.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=26427

lurking_latinist

A rec! And on theme and all!

Title: Emergency Powers
Creator: Pete Galey
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 74,123 words
Creator's Summary: Following his seventh regeneration, the Doctor's previous persona finds himself in the mental realm where his six predecessors live. Soon, the discovery of a body sows the seeds of suspicion and mistrust - with grave consequences for the world outside.
Characters/Pairings: The versions of One through Seven that live inside Eight's mind (Seven is the main character); Eight and Sam
Warnings/Notes: I was jarred by one moment in which a dark appearance is associated with evil in the context of a folkloric devil figure. Unrelatedly, if you're a Third Doctor fan, you may feel he's not really in character in this.

Reasons for reccing: It's a twisty, adventurous, novel-length plot that really makes use of several classic versions of the Doctor, each as a character in his own right--especially Seven and Four and one other whose form of intervention in the plot is a spoiler. The worldbuilding of the mindscape in which the ex-Doctors dwell is fascinating--it feels Gallifreyan and appropriately weird without vanishing up itself--especially in the context of The Power of the Doctor (despite this being written in 2009). It's fun to spot all the references, but the story is far more than just a vehicle for references--it explores what makes the Doctor the Doctor. Angsty, funny, uplifting? I found it uplifting.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=32683

thisbluespirit

Title: Regeneration
Creator: Andriy Griffin
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: 4.48 mins
Creator's Summary: This October sees the next great change in Doctor Who, so this is to remember all the times we've said a tearful farewell to our beloved Doctors. In tribute to all the amazing people who've worked on this show on & off for the last 60 years, and in memory to Bill, Pat and Jon, the three who started it all. Hope you enjoy.
Characters/Pairings: Doctors 1-13, plus various other companions and villains.
Warnings/Notes: Regeneration stories, so (temporary) death etc, some guns & gunfire.

Reasons for reccing: It's Doctor Who's anniversary - 59 years old today! So I had to rec a multi-Doctor vid, and this one fitted the bill perfectly. It focuses on the goodbyes (and hellos) of regeneration stories over the decades, featuring all the Doctors and a good many companions and adversaries (especially those in the Regeneration episodes), and at the end brings us right up to date with Thirteen. And isn't one of the greatest strengths of this old show of ours, the notion of regeneration - the ability to continually change and grow that's let it carry on for decades, and even regenerate itself after what looked like the end? This is a beautiful exploration of that, in loss and grief - and the joy of renewal.

Happy birthday, Doctor Who! ♥

Link: https://youtu.be/9Kh1hlYajZ4

paranoidangel

For the doubles/duplicates square on my bingo card

Title: The Android Evasion
Creator:

maxkowarth
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 467 words
Creator's Summary: After a pleasant evening out, Harry Sullivan realises inviting Sarah Jane in for coffee has a complication or two.
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Fourth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is a short amusing fic that deals with what happens to the android after The Android Invasion.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18849889

romanajo123

Title: Eleven Secret Rooms
Creator: ninewood
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 3409
Creator's Summary: Ever wonder what's in some of the rooms in the TARDIS?
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Adric, Donna Noble, Grace Holloway, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Peri Brown, Rose Tyler, Susan Foreman, Tegan Jovanka, The Doctor (10th), The Doctor (11th), The Doctor (1st), The Doctor (2nd), The Doctor (3rd), The Doctor (4th), The Doctor (5th), The Docto

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
For the box "Secrets" on my Bingo card. This is lovely and delightful. The details of each room are nice and each little moment paints a great picture of each Doctor.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

paranoidangel

Title: 'Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry
Creator:

cosmic_llin
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1:38
Creator's Summary: Sarah reflects on her relationship with Harry.
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Jane Smith/Harry Sullivan, The Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's short and funny. The song is all about Harry and how the singer is going to marry him - in the vid that's Sarah. It's just amusing the way it portrays Harry.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/265959

lurking_latinist

Title: untitled (Fourth and Sixth Doctor portraits)
Creator:

doccywhomst
Rating: unrated (G)
Word Count/Length/Size: two art pages
Creator's Summary: two adorable yet highly unnerving clowns named ‘baker’ that i will henceforth continue to draw until the sun burns out
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: As soon as I saw this month's theme, I thought of Doccywhomst's version of Six's blue coat. It's so chaotic and vivid and glowing and fun, and unlike the simplified animation in Real Time, it's just as ridiculous as the TV costume--just in shades of blue. In this portrait piece, he's back-to-back with an equally chaotic and gorgeous portrait of Four. It's a very Doctorish piece of art.

Also, his lapel pin is a cat with a knife.

Link: https://doccywhomst.tumblr.com/post/660053262075101184/two-adorable-yet-highly-unnerving-clowns-named
and for a closeup of the cat-with-a-knife pin: https://doccywhomst.tumblr.com/post/660085086389207040/i-did-the-thing

paranoidangel

Title: Carried Too Far
Creator:

Andraste
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 6400 words
Creator's Summary: Forced intimacy clichés are no match for the Doctor. (Most of the time.)
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Third Doctor/The Master, Jo Grant, Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Fifth Doctor, Vislor Turlough, Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair, Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's all the intimacy tropes, but involving the Doctor, who can be guaranteed to make them not at all intimate. It's fun all the situations the Doctor and his companions find themselves in.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17714207

lurking_latinist

Title: The Bits with Daleks
Creator:

ninamazing
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 860 words
Creator's Summary: She built four different kinds of vortex manipulator, then took the circuits apart and turned it all into a device for producing perfectly browned toast — which, if she thought about it, really seemed like something the Doctor might do.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Romana II
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: I love TARDIS domesticity, and this fic combines that with emotional seriousness: the author has a great insight into what makes both characters tick. (Which takes place as Romana is trying to work out what, in fact, does make her tick in her new body.) I always say that what I like about this pairing is how they think very differently and yet are so much on each other's wavelength; they're complementary. This is really a case study in that complementarity.

And on the less intellectual side of shipping, they are so goshdarned cute.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/197656

lurking_latinist

Title: Hearts and FLowers
Creator: JJPOR
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 973 words
Creator's Summary: Love triangles can be a terrible thing, especially when one of the corners is a tin dog.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Romana I
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing:
There are surprisingly few actual straight-up Fourth Doctor/Romana I fics. I'm not entirely surprised--I used to headcanon that they didn't get together until between Destiny of the Daleks and City of Death--but, well, *gestures at icon*. But my goal is to rec fics for as many different versions of this pairing as possible, so I wanted to start here.

This fic hits a lot of the notes I love: it's funny, it's sweet, it's restful in the way this pairing can only be when Romana doesn't have the weight of a world on her shoulders yet, it's got K9 in it, there's that hilarious quasi-culture-clash between a Time Lord who's crazy about Earth and a Time Lady who thinks he must be crazy full stop. They're both shy about their feelings in their very different ways but they end up managing to communicate. Partially via poetry.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=35588

paranoidangel

Title: Fanvid: When I Grow Up
Creator:

cosmic_llin
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2:38
Creator's Summary: Nobody really grows up all the way.
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Jane Smith, Jo Grant, The Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a fun, uplifting vid of Sarah and Jo how they were and how they are now.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/257043

paranoidangel

Title: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons)
Creator:

eponymous_rose
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 2179 words
Creator's Summary: A year is a complicated thing, beginnings and endings and lives and deaths stretching on and on into infinity. Travelling through time has a tendency to complicate matters still further.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, K-9, Romana II
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's beautifully written, so you can feel the season. And each part has a theme that goes with that season, each of which is beautiful and sad.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11876

paranoidangel

Title: Fallacy Somewhere (Or: If You Can't Steal a Coat from Gilbert and Sullivan, Then From Which 19th Century Librettists and Composers Can You Steal a Coat?)
Creator:

dbskyler
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 3144 words
Creator's Summary: You know, I acquired that ulster from Gilbert and Sullivan. -- The First Doctor, "Edge of Destruction."
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor, Susan Foreman, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Romana II, K9, Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Ace McShane, Grace Holloway, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Donna Noble
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Because it's funny. It has a trending theme, which leads to the reveal of how the First Doctor ended up with that ulster. Despite it all being from Gilbert or Sullivan's point of view, you can still tell which Doctors and companions are which from what they do and how their clothing is described.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/583372

paranoidangel

Title: Ten Times Trouble
Creator:

TigerKat
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 7856 words
Creator's Summary: Ian and Barbara are getting married. All ten Doctors go to their wedding. Chaos ensues.
Characters/Pairings: Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ace McShane, Fitz Kreiner, Evelyn Smythe, Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Romana II, Jack Harkness
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's clever how all the Doctors are in here, causing chaos as only they can. And amusing, with everyone's reactions to the Doctors. And the OCs - Ian and Barbara's family - are believable and interesting with their opinions on their two year disappearance and marriage.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4426001

paranoidangel

Title: The Price of Victory
Creator:

JohnAmendAll
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2795 words
Creator's Summary: Sarah Jane takes matters into her own hands, and pays the ultimate price.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan/Bettan
Warnings/Notes: Major Character Death

Reasons for reccing: It's an interesting idea, where the Doctor is mulling over whether he has the right to destroy the Daleks in Genesis and Sarah makes her own decision. And things go downhill from there. It's a harsh AU that leaves me wondering what was the right choice, just as the Doctor does.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1682705

paranoidangel

Title: The Giraffe Convolution of Doom
Creator:

primsong
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 6192 words
Creator's Summary: There are vampire giraffes at the London Zoo. The Doctor really ought to do something about that, seeing as he's been there before.
Characters/Pairings: Rani Chandra, Evelyn Smythe, Frobisher, Sarah Jane Smith, Jamie McCrimmon, Martha Jones, Ace McShane, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Second Doctor, Fourth Doctor, The Meddling Monk, Eleventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Because it's delightfully silly. It's about vampire giraffes, includes Frobisher in the penguin enclosure in the zoo and Ace unable to remember his species name properly. The Sixth Doctor being his imperious self and Evelyn having to keep him in check. And a whole lot of characters and silliness.

Link: https://www.archiveofourown.org/works/310028

paranoidangel

Title: Dr Harry Sullivan in... Another Exciting Adventure! (The ‘You Had To Be There’ Remix)
Creator:

aralias
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1389 words
Creator's Summary: Watch Out, Opponents of Women’s Rights! Doctor Harry Sullivan is on your tail!
Characters/Pairings: Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Fourth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's just hilarious. Most of the story is written from an outsider's POV and it's an outsider who has decided that Harry is a hero who knows everything. It's not an unreasonable spin on events from someone who might only have some of the facts, but it makes for a fun one. And then at the end we get to see Sarah and the Doctor's opinion of it, which are just what you might think.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1035590

felis

For both parts of the monthly theme.

Title: It's Not What's In Front
Creator:

darkangeldtb
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: Its the 4th Doctor with Harry and Sarah in quite a sticky situation. Stuck in a sewer they are confronted with not one but two problems. If they think the Cronk worm in front of them is a problem then if only they looked behind them...
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Action and monsters! The Doctor, Harry, and Sarah are caught between a rock and a hard place here and their faces express their feelings about that very clearly.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/darkangeldtb/art/Its-not-whats-in-front-70864984

thisbluespirit

Title: Long Leggity Beasty
Creator:

Singe_Addams (Singe)
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4804 words
Creator's Summary: A Halloween story! This is set the October after the Doctor abruptly and mysteriously leaves Sarah Jane. His return leaves her feeling somewhat drained. (Yes, vampire AU.)
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith, the Brigadier, Harry Sullivan, Drax, Romana II
Warnings/Notes: As it says, a vampire AU - mind the tags.

Reasons for reccing: This is a wonderfully dark, creepy and funny fic that meets both of this month's themes in one excellent work. I love the energy and humour of it (particularly Singe's capturing of Sarah's voice), as well as the sinister weirdness of the concept. It's a really unusual and entertaining read, and I highly recommend it even if maybe you're not always into AUs. It also fits the seasonal challenge as well.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/200408

paranoidangel

For the monsters square on my bingo card.

Title: Du Liebes Kind, Komm, Geh Mit Mir
Creator:

lyricwritesprose
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 11,979 words
Creator's Summary: Some time after she moves to America, Maria Jackson gets wrapped up in mysterious temporal events and Sarah Jane's past.
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Alan Jackson, Maria Jackson, Sarah Jane Smith
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a story long enough to get into. A typical sort of Doctor Who story with aliens and monsters and weird time things. But it's all told from Maria's perspective, with the added interest of her meeting Sarah Jane when she's still travelling with the Doctor.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11092464