#martheight

ok ok ok... human nature. the setting is the same: martha jones is under john smith’s employ as a servant — except in this she doesn’t work for the school, just for him. john smith doesnt fall for racist nurse joan but rather for martha (LIKE SHE DESERVES!!!)

john smith, rather than being aloof and terrible, is just forgetful, scatterbrained, and - Dare I Say It - romantic. This Au Is A Love Story

joan is still there, but she’s jealous of martha. i say this bc i still want the scene where martha lists off the bones in the hand to her (bc hello 👁👁). the only difference is john smith is looking at martha with literal heart eyes as she does so.

also the doctor refuses to teach gun class and isn’t silent when students are rude to martha like he isn’t a terrible person in this and is actually likable Thanks!!!!

anyway. john smith finds martha incredibly interesting - he doesn’t know if it’s bc she’s so incredibly smart and strong minded or if it’s because she always forgets to knock on the door before she comes in. either way, he does Anything to get her to visit him, including making a big mess that he ultimately ends up absentmindedly cleaning up while talking to martha, who’s sitting and drinking the tea she brought him. she doesn’t do a lick of work in this episode lol

he tells her about his dreams, about the fantastical blue box that can travel in space and time, about strange characters named romana, leela, sarah, ace, tegan, jamie & horrible creatures called daleks and cybermen and silurians. and she has to nod and pretend he isn’t describing his own life — which she knew nearly nothing of before hand

then in the scene where they’re going for a walk in the field, they’re talking and the doctor asks martha where she’s from. she responds and automatically, without thinking asks where he’s from back. he says gallifrey - of course - and she’s like UH!!! and maybe bc she’s curious about his life before her she asks what he remembers about it. and yes i AM shoehorning in that scene from the 1996 movie -_- it’s my favorite part.

anyway.. towards the end where they’re destroying the family of blood and there’s that scene where john smith pictures his life with martha & what could be & then he realizes that this could be his life with martha if he went back to being the doctor, bc :O!!! the doctor is also in love with her.

this is gonna be a LONG POST but a basically: third season of nuwho but the eighth doctor is there instead of ten

instead of crash landing in san francisco in 1999, the tardis lands near the hospital martha works at in 2007 (??? 2008? whenever 3rd season takes place).

seventh doctor still walks out of the tardis and gets shot, but it isn’t from a local gang, it’s from one of those leather guys that vampire alien with the straw had. (spoilers: later it’s revealed that the leather guy was hired by simm!master, who teams up with roberts!master to take over the world)

anyway. the doctor is taken to the hospital, dies, regenerates, kicks the door of the morgue down to see martha there like “o_O hello. who tf are you”

the doctor doesn’t know, obviously. so queue him rushing around a hospital (freshly moved to the moon), having to sort through his amnesia AND deal with the judoon at the same time.

Also He Falls Head Over Heels For Martha Jones

ultimately he saves the day & takes martha with him.

Fandom: Doctor Who Relationships: Eighth Doctor/Martha Jones Summary:

We all know what happens:

The Master is executed on Skaro with one request: for the Doctor to take his remains to Gallifrey. The Doctor obliges. En route, the Master manages to escape and infiltrate the TARDIS, causing her to land on Earth.

But - what if instead of landing in San Francisco in 1999, she landed in London in 2007?

Martha’s one step behind him, though they’re holding hands so she can’t lag too far, and her hand is warm in his palm, warm like a human.

That was the first thing he figured out: he wasn’t human. The double-time beat of his hearts told him that. It was quite unfortunate that that was the one criterion for being captured by the Judoon.

“John!” Martha gasped. She stopped running, and John, still tethered to her by the interlocking of their hands, stumbled to a halt as well. He looked where she was pointing.

“Oh dear,” he said, because there were about three of them just a few meters ahead. Simultaneously, they both turned to look back behind them, where three more were in pursuit. If only there was a distraction of sorts, so he could run and find the real culprit...

Oh.

John looked at Martha. “Martha,” he says, “Martha, I have a plan.”

He didn’t enact it. He just stared and stood still. Martha nodded desperately, expectantly. “Yeah?!” she said, slightly out of breath still.

“You might not like it,” he continued.

Martha Jones gave him a look that he read as “well it’s not like we have many options, at the moment!”

“Kiss me,” he said.

“What?” she exclaims. Obviously, that was the last thing she was expecting him to say.

“Or I could kiss you? Or not. It would probably work the same if I licked you, if you prefer that, but I figured that you wouldn’t. However, we are in a time crunch and it would help if you made a decision—“

Martha looked forward. And then back. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, and the only way out was to kiss—and she was not getting licked, thank you—a somewhat dashing not human amnesiac.

Whatever. She’s kissed worse.

Martha cuts John’s rambling off as she grabs him by the lapels of his frock coat and kisses him. He makes a surprised noise against her lips, before she pushes him away. He doesn’t move.

“Go!” she ushers.

oh hell yeah .... i’m always happy to talk about Them

their lives in don’t blink, for example - where they’re sent back to 1969. 8 actually gets a fucking job doing who knows what so martha isn’t the only one supporting them. if i’m honest it’s probably something like being a weird wonka-esque figure at a candy shop. maybe he works at an office without actually being hired, he just walked in wearing a Suit and everyone was like yeah Ok.

this episode is also a Romance. this whole season is about martha getting what she deserves (love and devotion) while following around this person who has pet bats and an infinite butterfly garden and is a little stupid but also really smart & will spend hours talking about the Majesty of macromolecules with martha.

anyway. martha feels bad that the doctor is doing all the science work to let them get back & so she sits with him while he tinkers and asks him to tell her about it and sometimes (most times) he veers completely off the topic of electronics and goes off on a tangent about something else and sometimes gets too enthusiastic & engrossed in his story he forgets what he’s working on entirely.

martha brings dinner back to their apartment most days & is overwhelmed with how domestic everything is when she walks in and he lights up at the sight of her. & they eat whatever takeout she got and eventually all their silverware disappears bc the doctor uses it in his machines. so at least there’s less dishes to wash afterward

& sure the people in 1969 are horribly racist and sexist and terrible & sometimes her heart races when she sees a police box on the corner but like.. her apartment with the doctor is kind of nice, she thinks, and she doesn’t mind it too bad bc the doctors there and he manages to make it ok.(and the doctor thinks the same way about her)