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I just watched The Name of the Doctor. And had some thoughts relating to Clara. ( Spoilers )

The first: a drabble inspired by Clara's line from the second trailer for the finale, and a certain scene in Survival.

( I was born to save the Doctor )

The second was inspired by this news article:

( Health and Safety Gone Mad )

I started wondering if there's a TTR-esque nexus point with a suspicious resemblance to Horsted Keynes station — and what would happen if characters who went into it in one 'verse came out in another. That's a fairly broad spread, when you have (just off the top of my head)

• Sherlock Holmes
• Poirot
• Downton Abbey
• The Railway Children
• Jeeves and Wooster
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall
• North and South
• The Sally Lockhart Mysteries
• And the latest entry, Endeavour, in which Oxford Station has never looked so Southern :-)

Title: Sudden Flame
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Maxil, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Vicki, Liz Shaw, Leela, Jamie, Victoria, Zoe, Samantha, Mickey, Martha, Gwendoline Lacey and others.
Rating: All ages.
Prompt: dw_straybunnies Spring Challenge, prompts 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10,11,12.
Word count: ~6200
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC, Gwendoline to the Enid Blyton estate.
Summary: A fire-breathing reptile stalks the corridors of H G Wells High School. But is that all that's going on?
Author's notes: Written for the dw_straybunnies Spring Challenge, using elements drawn to a greater or lesser extent from ten of the twelve prompts: ( Prompts )

{ Sudden Flame at AO3 }

It's a couple of years since I did this, so:

Give me a character's name from a fandom I know. I will try to answer these questions for them:

1. How I FEEL about this character;
2. All the people I ship romantically with this character;
3. My non-romantic OTP for this character [I take this to mean: who should be their best friend?];
4. My unpopular opinion about this character;
5. One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon.

(To avoid duplication: the previous iteration of this meme has my answers for Two, Jamie, Samantha and Vicki).

ETA: lost_spook has an almost identical meme, except the questions are:

1. Do you love/hate/don’t feel strongly about this character?
2. What’s your favorite trait of this character?
3. What’s your favorite moment/event involving this character?
4. If you could have one power/attribute/etc. of this character, what would it be?
5. Have you ever pictured this character naked?
6. When did you fall in love/hate with this character? If you don’t have any strong feelings toward them, why not?
7. Who’s your OTP for this character, if any?

So I'll answer those, too. By the way, I think question 5 is obvious Schmuck Bait — even if you hadn't pictured the character in the buff before, what's the first thing you're going to do when you read the question?

From prompt 250, left by lost_spook.

Verlor'ne Müh (455 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Samantha Briggs/Jamie McCrimmon
Characters: Jamie McCrimmon, Samantha Briggs
Summary: And the worst of it was, Samantha had no-one to blame but herself.

Memed from lost_spook:

Post the first lines of your 21 most recent fics.

( Here goes )

When Big Finish were having their sale of Zoe-centric Companion Chronicles (Echoes of Grey, The Memory Cheats and The Uncertainty Principle) a few weeks ago, I bought them, and I've been listening to them driving to and from work.

( Overall thoughts (spoiler-lite) )

Below this point, spoilers for each CC.

( Echoes of Grey )

( The Memory Cheats )

( The Uncertainty Principle )

This little AU has its origin in a conversation with lost_spook ("Don't ever AU S&S") last October.

After the Last Bus (800 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel
Characters: Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, 500 prompts
Summary: Sapphire and Steel's latest assignment has taken longer than they expected.

Inspired by one particular aspect of The Bells of Saint John. Also by Bar Brawl by Alan Taylor.

Three Way Smackdown (256 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Melanie Bush, Zoe Heriot, Clara Oswald, Adam Mitchell, Eleventh Doctor
Summary: Clara, Mel and Zoë do battle in a hacking competition.

(I suppose, since it's got 256 words, that makes it a drabble... in base 16).

From prompt 498, left by liadtbunny.

Careless Talk (777 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sixth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka
Additional Tags: 500 prompts
Summary: Tegan's mouth has got her into trouble again. Or was it the Doctor's fault?

My third and last fic for unconventionalcourtship:

Title: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Author: john_amend_all Fandom: Knightmare Pairing/Characters: Treguard / Majida Rating: All ages Length: ~3200 words Summary: Treguard has been called to a desert kingdom to destroy an evil ifrit. But there are other dangers around than the supernatural. Notes: Based on prompt 48: 'The Desert Virgin' by Sandra Marton. ( The Sultan's gift... )

( Die Entführung aus dem Serail )

My second bite at the unconventionalcourtship ficathon.

Title: The Girl Without a Past Author: john_amend_all Fandom: Doctor Who Pairing/Characters: Zoë / Isobel Rating: All ages Length: ~2650 words Summary: She'd stolen her heart — but could she be trusted? Isobel Watkins's new business partner was not at all what she'd expected. Beautiful and outspoken, Zoë Heriot was also the perfect image of a woman long thought dead. But was she a schemer in search of a fortune, or an innocent caught up in circumstances she didn't understand? Someone knew the truth, someone who didn't want Zoë to learn too much. Only Isobel could help her — but could she overcome her own suspicions? Notes: Based on prompt 64: 'A Stolen Heart' by Candace Camp.

( The Girl Without a Past )

Memed from lost_spook:

Give me a number and I'll answer the question (or try to anyway):

1. Which is your favorite of the fics you’ve written for [name of fandom]?
2. Favorite piece overall?
3. Which was the hardest to write, in terms of plot?
4. Which has the most “you” in it, however you’d define that?
5. What is an image/set of images that you’re particularly proud of?
6. Idea that you always wanted to write but could never make work?
7. Least favorite plot point/chapter/moment?
8. Favorite plot point/chapter/moment?
9. Favorite character to write?
10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you’ve written
11. If I’m showing off just one of your pieces to someone, which one should it be?
12. What WIPs do you have going now? Are you excited about them?
13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don’t actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)
14. Would you want to write canon for any of your fandoms (like be hired by showrunner to do an episode)? Which one?
15. Does font matter to you when you’re writing a draft?
16. 3 favorite comments ever received on fanfic.
17. Any mean comments? How’d you deal with it? Who laid the smackdown?
18. If you could go back and revise one of your older stories, which would it be?
19. Do you make up scenes at work/on the bus/at the gym? Who are the characters that pop up the most? Do you write them down?
20. Go nuts, and talk about writing. Or write me a little ficlet-whatsit using a character/image/line I shall now specify—