DOCTOR X ROSE FIC REC GAME
list any number of your favourite underrated doctor x rose fics (any pairing!)—au included, and tag others! because I’ve run out of what seems like every single popular fic and i NEED MORE so if you have some super obscure masterpieces in mind…
MY RECS-
Some of them are on livejournal/tumblr itself, but the majority are on ao3
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The Quiet Life by marylane23
Summary: The obligatory "The Doctor loses the TARDIS" story, sort of.
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose
This fic is just. Breathtaking. The wording is so simple but it conveys SO MUCH, effortlessly, and it’s one of the best fics I’ve ever read.
Worlds in Conjunction by marylane23
Summary: The Doctor makes a slight miscalculation. Written for Wendymr for the Rose Tyler Ficathon. She wanted Rose making hard choices; the Doctor getting something disastrously wrong - with consequences; & Doctor/Rose romance of some sort.
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose
Same author; honestly op is SO talented and I maintain that this fic is actually better than a lot of episodes on the show. Rose is so, so brave in this, and it’s a must read for anyone who loves the character.
Rest of a Life by misscam
Summary: There is no happily ever after with him. She's learned it. She just wishes she hadn't, that she could live in an illusion of the two of them, for the rest of their lives.
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose
MCD warning. Heartbreaking and gorgeous.
A Cage by @tripwirealarm
Summary: A vignette. "Lust is his vestigial tail."
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose, Tentoo/Rose
I’ve seen this author’s other brilliant works on rec lists several times, and i think this particular one-shot is super underrated. If i had to describe it one word…haunting.
Dodged Bullets (Or The Lives We Didnt Live) by weezly14
Summary: "He wants to say: I would've been a good dad."
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose, Mickey POV
OP is famous for their incredible time loop series, but this brilliant, brilliant fic is almost never recommended anywhere and it deserves so much love.
Only If For A Moment by @mariechambers
Summary: It was then that Rose realized the full extent of the power she had over this man. All she had to do was say the word and he’d risk his job, his reputation, his everything for her. Because, dare she even think it, but he wasn’t just lusting after her. He was in love with her.
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose, Jimmy Stone, Donna Noble
One of my favourite human AU fics—deals with sensitive topics like domestic abuse with absolute finesse.
the world ends eventually so come with me by hippiebanana132
Summary: "There were golden tears running down her cheeks. He should have known. But he’d barely slept since she was here, had no idea even what day it was, what was real and what wasn’t. It was beautifully, wonderfully easy to deny it all as just a dream in those early days. He would never have to stop a dream." What if Rose left a small part of herself behind when she looked into the heart of the TARDIS?
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose, Martha Jones
So, so, so beautifully written—you can absolutely visualise this story and it is also, in my opinion, better than a whole lot of episodes on the show. It’s also quite recent, so you should totally check out OP’s other works!
like this by @weezlywrites
Summary: Time loop. Post Doomsday. “For a Time Lord he’s always had terrible timing.” Except that was pretty much perfect timing. Almost like they’d done it before.
Pairing/Characters: Ten/Rose, Pete Tyler, Mickey Smith
Another time loop fic, and it is as good as OP’s human AU! Definitely give this one a try.
The Devil You Know* by rosa_acicularis
Summary: Better the devil you know. Rose and the Doctor after Journey's End.
Pairing/Characters: Tentoo/Rose
A really famous author in this fandom, and this fic is by no means underrated, but it deserves all the love because of how GOOD it is.
And after all; you’re my... by sapphire_child
Summary: In the boiling steam and underneath the rushing sound of water he finally allows himself to weep – with terror, with rage. With the utter despair of a mortal man faced for the very first time with his own mortality.
Pairing/Characters: Tentoo/Rose
I’ve rec’d this before, but it deserves a second mention because it is one of the fics that i think about ALL THE TIME. It’s really stuck with me, and I think it deserves so much more love. Content Warning: terminal illness (but there’s no actual death in the fic)
Epitaph by rosa_acicularis
Summary: When she is in Paris, she sleeps in the catacombs.
Pairing/Character: Ten/Rose, Eleven/Rose, Jack Harkness
Again, not really underrated, but I almost never see it on rec lists!! A brilliant take on the turning-into-a-vampire trope that hits all the right spots and another fic that I think about all the time.
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