Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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Clara is just trying to get some marking done in her favourite coffee shop when she meets someone who can only be a future version of the Doctor, with new friends in toe.
Can stand alone. Post-The Woman Who Lived. Not canon-compliant... but not, not canon-compliant...?
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- Part 1 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 8 of Away From Prying Eyes
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It’s only a little while after getting their memories back that the Doctor stumbles across Clara in a random market.
Lot’s of fluff, a good bit of angst and many, many cuddles. Plus a QPR because we don’t need romance to have cuddles.
Stands alone, but is the basis for the whole series.Series
- Part 2 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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Clara has to say goodbye to her TARDIS for a while. Which is a big deal when you remember they’ve been traveling together for a thousand years.
Plus the Doctor helps her to see what it was like for them when they couldn’t remember her.Basically an excuse to explore a new TARDIS and have some feels.
A companion piece to Let Me Be Brave.
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- Part 3 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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How can such a short time feel so long? by Andnever_ever_eatpears
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
04 Jul 2021
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Clara has finally stopped lying to herself as to why she died. It’s taken over a thousand years to finally be honest with herself.
She wants to tell the Doctor, but she can’t. So she writes them a letter.Can stand alone.
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- Part 4 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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Clara finds herself stranded on Bowtie’s TARDIS – who’s in a sulk – all by herself and realises that she has to face herself – past, present and echoes – in order to fix the situation that she’s found herself in.
There’s a change in the relationship between Clara and the TARDIS by the beginning of The Day Of The Doctor, but we never really see it happen. So maybe this is what happened.
I was inspired by the quote ‘I am the one thing in life I can control’ from Wait For It (Hamilton) because when you can’t control anything else, you can still control yourself. Until you can’t.
Can stand alone.
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- Part 5 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 1 of Echoes
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“Isn’t it bad, having two of you in one place? Paradoxes and all that?” it’s more of a rhetorical question; paradoxes have never really stopped them in the past.
“But if I can – kind of – remember it happening and the universe hasn’t exploded by this point... Not because of that anyway.” The Doctor shrugs, “That’s all the encouragement I need. So, soufflé? Prepared by me? A few hundred years in my past?!”Can be read alone. Post Empress of Mars for 12 and Bill.
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- Part 6 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 17 of Away From Prying Eyes
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The process of Clara remembering one of her echo’s lives isn’t an easy thing, but the Doctor knows just what to do when it happens.
Also, the Doctor looking after a sprained ankle and lots of cuteness with a fair dash of angst.A sequel to An Unlikely Friendship although will just about make sense without reading that first if you just want angst and platonic cuddles.
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- Part 7 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 2 of Echoes
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A thousand moments in time and space by Andnever_ever_eatpears
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
20 Aug 2021
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A Thousand Echoes shows the routine that Clara and the Doctor have developed to help her when she remembers the lives of her echoes, but what happens if the Doctor isn’t around to help?
Or, Clara deals with memories from an echo of herself and the fam realise just how out of their depth they still are.
A sequel to both An Unlikely Friendship and A Thousand Echoes, probably won’t make sense without reading them.
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- Part 8 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 3 of Echoes
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“How did you get it into your ridiculously tiny brain that I like you, dearie?”
Clara smirks, refusing to look away, “Traps are your flirting."Or 5 times Missy finds (kidnaps) Clara and 1 time Clara goes looking for Missy.
Set between The Witch's Familiar and World Enough And Time.
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- Part 9 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 4 of Echoes
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The Doctor doesn’t expect to run into River and they certainly don’t expect it to be a River who’s been to the Library and survived.
Still, the most shocking part is the fact that River and Clara are apparently actually pretty good friends… odd when the last time they met Clara didn’t know who River was.I'd recommend reading Let Me Be Brave for context but it's not essential.
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- Part 10 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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Clara gets a message which prompts her to tell a story and say a goodbye.
Or the story of how Clara came to be known as Teacher.
Can stand alone, although makes a few references to The Soufflé Isn’t The Soufflé.
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- Part 11 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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Clara needs a better place to park her TARDIS, which prompts a visit to see some old friends.
All well and good until you remember that these friends think that Clara is dead, remember the Doctor as Eyebrows and haven’t met River, even though River has met them…Can stand alone although can have better context if you read All Stories In The End first.
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- Part 12 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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My – slightly crack-y – take on way Osgood is not seen past S9. Featuring pot noodles, tattoos and gay panic.
Happy birthday Em!
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- Part 13 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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River and Clara are having the time of their lives with a dramatic recreation of Much Ado About Nothing, the Doctor is in a state of despair and the fam are way beyond confused.
Stands alone. This is 100% crack.
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- Part 14 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
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Amy smiles, clearly remembering some adventure or other, then shakes herself, “But they aren’t here. They dropped us off and went to do…”
“Unspeakable things.” Rory shudders.
Clara chuckles while Amy finishes with an eye roll, “- In the vortex.”
“Oh, unspeakable!” a smirking voice agrees from behind them and they all turn to see River striding towards them, hair bouncing on her shoulders as she grins broadly, “Hello, Mother, Father, Grandpa.” She gives them all tight hugs then rolls her eyes, “This place is open for a few thousand years, and the Doctor picks the one day that we brought you to park the TARDIS.”Or Clara, River and the Doctor go Christmas shopping and run into the Ponds while they're there.
Reading 'Hello Sweetie' and 'Let Me Be Brave' for context is recommended but not essential to understand this story.Series
- Part 15 of Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over
- Part 5 of Pond Family Dynamics