The Other Futures: Doctor Who What If Stories
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The Retirement Problem - A Doctor Who What If story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Downtime (Reeltime 1995)
19 Jun 2026
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The universe where the Brigadier was made to retire, Sarah Jane was offended, and Mawdryn Undead never happened.
Whitehall retires Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.
Sarah Jane Smith objects.
The consequences are far-reaching.
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The Man Who Came Home - A Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005)
22 Jun 2026
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What if the Brigadier woke up young again — inside himself?
When a temporal incident merges the consciousness of the Brigadier with his parallel universe counterpart — a younger Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart in 2025 — the result is one man carrying two lifetimes in a thirty-five year old body. He has a daughter who needs him present, a Liz Shaw already asking dangerous questions, and a Sarah Jane Smith who is frighteningly good at recognising when someone is pretending to be fine.
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Miss Smith Can Sing - A Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963), K9 and Company
23 Jun 2026
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It starts with a fundraiser, a briefing room, and Sergeant Benton saying three words he probably shouldn't have. It ends somewhere else entirely.
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The People Beyond the Wall - A Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963), K9 and Company, Downtime (Reeltime 1995)
28 Jun 2026
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Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart joins humanity's newest colony looking for one last adventure.
Sarah Jane Smith follows for reasons she isn't entirely ready to admit.
When he vanishes without explanation, the colony insists he's gone.
Sarah has spent too much of her life travelling with the Doctor to believe impossible things simply disappear.
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The Brigadier at Bannerman Road - A Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane Smith (Big Finish Audio), Downtime (Reeltime 1995)
30 Jun 2026
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Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has faced alien invasions, impossible odds, and things that didn't follow the rules. He has always known when to stay.
He has also, for several years now, been quietly monitoring Bannerman Road.
This is the story of what happens when a man who never acts without certainty finally becomes certain — and what it means to show up unannounced with good tea and something important to say.Sarah Jane Smith is not expecting him. Her children, however, are not surprised at all.
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Deep Roots - A Doctor Who What If story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Sarah Jane Adventures, K9 and Company
08 Jul 2026
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What if Sarah Jane’s parents had never died—and Fox Grove never became a place of loss?
A missed turn. A road diversion. A village that should have been passed by.
When a diversion on the A3 brings Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart to Fox Grove, he discovers far more than a way to his UNIT base. He finds a woman whose life has taken an entirely different course, a family that quietly welcomes him, and a future he never imagined for himself.
But some destinies have deep roots, and when an alien threat emerges from the Antarctic ice, Sarah Jane's knowledge of plants—and the life they've built together—will be tested in ways neither of them could have foreseen.
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (And My Dad Married My Mum in an Alien Ceremony) - A Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
13 Jul 2026
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An alien ceremony accidentally declares Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Sarah Jane Smith husband and wife.
Undoing it should be easy.
Unfortunately, first they have to travel halfway across the galaxy and ask 117 other women whether they'd like their marriages annulled.
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The Long Way Around - a Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963)
23 Jul 2026
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Sarah Jane Smith was never supposed to spend the rest of her life in fourteenth-century Scotland.
The Doctor can't bring her home.
So someone else chooses to stay.
Sometimes the longest journey isn't through time.
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At Last - A Doctor Who What If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963), K9 and Company
30 Jul 2026
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Thirteen-year-old Kate Stewart is tired of losing time with her father.
Then Sarah Jane Smith offers her a summer job.
What begins as a little filing and photography soon gives Kate something she hadn’t expected: work that matters, people who listen, and a place where she belongs.
A story about journalism, friendship, found family—and two stubborn adults who may be slower than everyone else to notice what is happening.
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The Mother of Dinosaurs - A Doctor Who What-If Story by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963), K9 and Company
06 Aug 2026
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The Silurians won.
Humanity's armies have fallen. Cities lie abandoned beneath a world that is becoming prehistoric once more. Those who remain cling to isolated refuges, hoping only to survive another day.
At Morton Harwood, Sarah Jane Smith refuses to accept that survival is enough.
Somewhere beyond the jungle, the Brigadier is still out there.
If she can find him.
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A Place Among the Stars - A Doctor Who What-If Story by Lilahkat for Persiflage
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, K9 and Company, Downtime (Reeltime 1995), Doctor Who (1963)
29 Aug 2026
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Moonbase has a problem.
It isn't the air, the gravity, the isolation, or even the occasional attempt by something extraterrestrial to kill everyone.
It's funding.
Dr Elizabeth Shaw, Director of Moonbase Operations, needs the people of Earth to understand why humanity belongs on the Moon. Sarah Jane Smith knows how to tell them.
Sarah comes to Moonbase intending to write a series of articles. Instead, she finds a story worth staying for, a woman worth falling in love with, and eventually an old Brigadier who has somehow managed to lose his way.
What begins as an attempt to save Moonbase becomes something much larger: old friends found again, new worlds encountered, families expanded, and three people discovering that home doesn't have to be a place you stop exploring from.
Sometimes you have to leave home to discover what home means.
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A Place Among the Stars - A Doctor Who What-If Story - Adult Chapters by Lilahkat
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963)
28 Aug 2026
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These are the adult-content chapters of A Place Among the Stars.
I've separated them from the main story so that readers who don't want the explicit content can skip them without missing the story.
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