#groovykat

(very loosely inspired by Just a Human by GroovyKat)

For those that don’t know, GroovyKat is a fan fic user on both Fanfiction.net and AO3. Now I say this because their story idea for an alternate life for The Doctor is amazing. Like “What if Rose ended up on the wrong TARDIS and ended up slightly changing the lives of both the Doctor and his friends on the planet Gallifrey.” And it’s amazing. Like I’ve enjoyed a series that has done some canon alterations over the years, but this is amazing.

So I recommend their series Gallifrey. Start with “Speaking His Language” and go from there. (Note: Assume that the Doctor that Rose ends up with unexpectedly is his 8th Regeneration with the long hair, Victorian clothing, and modern shoes)

And there is a sequel that is ongoing at the time of writing this, but my brain had a merging of ideas that combine their world of Doctor Who with the main one. And it involves the stories of Big Finish.

FOR CONTEXT: Big Finish is an audio-drama series telling continued stories after some of them went off air, like The Prisoner, Space: 1999, and for our sake, Doctor Who. Currently, Doctor Who has revitalized the cast from their original run, giving them adventures that they’ve never been able to do with a limited budget and sometimes careless production sometimes. Like the ability for the 10th Doctor to cross over with one of his past selves (see, “Out of Time”). But for this idea, I’m pulling from the Doctor Who’s recent series, Once and Future

The Idea

During a final battle with Rassilon on Gallifrey, where a battle is insured, The Doctor is shot, just as Romana, Braxiel, Jackie, and Rose come in. They get the weapon out of Rassilon’s hands and knock him unconscious, but the Doctor has been shot with the weapon. They grab his body and carry it back to a location where they plan on patching him up, when he starts to regenerate. But before, it was typical that just the body changed, not the clothes as well.

Soon, Rose and Jackie witness the Doctor flipping between bodies and personalities, as the regeneration is revealed to be a De-generation. Braxiel had seen this before and thought the weapon was locked in the Archives. Romana reminds him that Rassilon would do anything for Gallifrey.

Realizing what’s happening, as more soldiers loyal to Rassilon attack, the gang give a tactical retreat as Rose helps her The Doctor, witnessing him shift between bodies. Ones she’s never encountered before as they head to the TARDIS, and escape.

Now, The Doctor, Rose, and Jackie soon find themselves traveling to the past and future, and figuring out what’s causing the Doctor to de-generate, while Rose experiences The Doctor like never before.

TL;DR: The Doctor (within GroovyKat’s Gallifrey series) is hit with a Degerenation weapon and Rose and Jackie experiences his past through these events, all while trying to find a way to save the Doctor, and prevent that from happening again.

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He was getting it, and he certainly appreciated her taking the humourful approach rather than weigh the both of them down with the emotional reaction. He grinned as she stumbled to finish her thought.

“Like what?” he queried cheekily.

She levered him with a glare to accept the challenge. “Oh, you know. Like sex and all the fun stuff that comes along with it.” She narrowed her eyes in question as a smile stretched wide across her face. She gestured toward his groin. “Are you even equipped for that kind’ve thing, Doctor?”

“And on that note,” he sang somewhat uncomfortably as he spun her around and pressed his hand into her lower back to lead her toward the TARDIS doors. “Let’s head outside and see just what it is that the people of Haprietograwa have in store for us today.”»

- The Highwayman, by #GroovyKat (Chap.1)

“Share your farewells with your love and let’s be off.” He extended a gloved hand curled to a pointed finger that indicated the horizon. “Night patrol will be out shortly, and we need to be sure that we’ve safely passed before they venture into the darkness.”

“Oh, we aren’t lovers,” Rose corrected at the same time that the Doctor cheekily held his hand to his heart and theatrically spoke a poetic farewell to a lover.

Rose thumped him on the thigh. “You daft git.”

“Oh,” he coughed out as though wounded. “My bonny sweetheart pierces a hole into my hearts with her vicious and violent attack upon my thigh.”

“Stop it.”

“It might ease my pain if you could give me but one kiss, my fair and gentle maiden.”

“I mean it, Doctor.”

He rose up high in his stirrups and then leaned to one side toward his amused companion. There was a wink in his eye. “Just one kiss, my Bonny Sweetheart,” he cooed. “And then look for me by the moonlight. Watch for me by the moonlight. I’ll come to thee by the moonlight”

“Through hell should bar the way,” she droned flatly.»

- The Highwayman, by #GroovyKat (Chap.2)

The Doctor actually laughed. “No. I won’t,” he challenged. “But. But I’ll tell you what I will do.”

“And what’s that?” Ewan asked with a huff of boredom.

“Well,” he sang. “I’ll finish this story once and for all.”

Ewan tilted his head to one side in confusion, much like a curious dog. “What story is that?”

The Doctor pursed his lips and swallowed before answering. He let his thumb and finger shift along the shaft of his screwdriver in a very purposeful manner.

“The story of the evil tyrant Lord George and his unending fight against alien invasions, of course,” he muttered with a roll of his eyes. “Nothing but a twisted fairy tale from a maniacal man.” He looked up at the moons above him. “Really,” he remarked as he lifted his sonic and pointed it toward Ewan. “I have to give you credit where it’s due. This really is a remarkable set up you have here. And I’d almost be happy to let you go on and continue this fanciful – and egoistic – tale of absolute domination and power…”

He depressed the button on his sonic. The blue light shone against the purple darkness and it’s buzz rang out across the plains. There was a tick and a click, and then a whirring sound that sped up and up and up….

“But you made a fatal mistake,” the Doctor said with a growl through a darkened and dangerous tone as he directed his wroddosk to stomp and turn in a tight circle in place at the centre of the ring. “You threatened someone I care about very, very deeply….”

Around him. One, by one, the heads of the riders began to shimmy and shudder. Their shoulders rocked backward and then forward, side to side. Finally, after what seemed to be an eternity, each one of them lifted up and high in their saddles with their heads held back and their mouths open in a silent cry toward the sky.

The Doctor looked toward the moons with a sneer. “…You shouldn’t have done that.”»

- The Highwayman, by #GroovyKat (Chap.4)

“Knowin’ you,” she sang with a chuckle as she pulled open the door and skipped outside. “Probably mayhem and chaos.”

“Oh don’t be like that,” he countered with a long-suffering sigh. “Oh yee of little faith, I’ve landed us on many wonderful and peaceful planets before…”

He stepped out behind her; walking directly into the barrel of a shot-gun. “Right,” he purred long. He lifted a finger to Rose when he saw her smile split to say something smart. “Don’t. Just. Don’t.”»