tardis_library | Entries tagged with ch: fifth doctor

Title: Mistletoe at Midnight
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: General Audience
Word Count/Length/Size: 2389
Creator's Summary: The Doctor and Tegan have walked into a trap - and there may be only one rather unconventional way out..
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Seasonal Challenge! Starting with M. :)

This is a delightful story. It's in character and has good world building and atmosphere.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/43675422

paranoidangel

Title: Family Resemblance
Creator:

Monarchetype
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1696 words
Creator's Summary: Due to her chronic inability to give any personal details to her companions, the Thirteenth Doctor tries to pass off the Fifth Doctor as a family member during a chance run-in at a deadly spa. It goes as well as you'd expect.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Yasmin Khan, Vislor Turlough
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a silly story of two Doctors meeting. And of Tegan and Turlough at a spa, both of whom are really great at relaxing.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47254381

romanajo123

Title: Before and After
Creator:

auronlu (TrakeniteTourist )
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 4458
Creator's Summary: After the Big Finish "Five Companions" Audio, the Doctor has to see his friends back to their proper places and times. Saying goodbye to one of them is more pleasant than expected, and more painful than the Doctor lets on.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken, Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, cameos by Polly Wright, Sara Kingdom, and Steven Taylor
Warnings/Notes: Sexual content , WAFF (warm and fuzzy feeling). (Might want to listen to or find a summary of the aforementioned audio if you want context, but there's not much spoiler content)

Reasons for reccing: (Wait, have I not rec'd this yet? Wow) For the Romance box on Rec Bingo. This is a beautifully done work. You can hear everyone's voices and all the little details are incredible. It really shows the Doctor and Nyssa's bond.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/2644940

romanajo123

Title: May Contain Multitudes
Creator: [Bad username or unknown identity:  ]
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1358
Creator's Summary: Three's a crowd, but it could be worse, as the Doctor finds out...
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka, several companion cameos
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Companions theme. This is an interesting idea. And it's fun trying to figure out who everyone is. :P This feels like something out of Big Finish

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/17905190

Current Mood: amused

romanajo123

Title: Beyond the Veil
Creator: AceOnGallifrey
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1827
Creator's Summary: The Tenth Doctor discovers that his song isn't ending: it's just leaving to join in a greater melody, above and beyond death itself. Oneshot of various pairings and much joy.
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Donna Noble, Grace Holloway, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Peri Brown, River Song, Romana II, Rose Tyler, Susan Foreman, The Doctor (10th), The Doctor (11th), The Doctor (1st), The Doctor (2nd), The Doctor (3rd), The Doctor (4th), The Doctor (5th), The Doct
Warnings/Notes: None (though this is a sort-of Crossover with Young Wizards by Diane Duane)

Reasons for reccing: I recently remembered this fic, and reread it. And it is one of the most stunning, beautiful things. Everything is very vivid and detailed and a nice ending for Ten. With a bunch of little cameos.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

romanajo123

Title: Chameleon Arch of Infinity
Creator:

SpaceTimeConundrum
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 24429
Creator's Summary: Why kill the Doctor to save the universe when you can simply reprogram his DNA?
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken, Irving Braxiatel, Leela, Omega, Damon,Tegan Jovanka, Hedin, The Castellan, Andred, Maxil, Borusa
Warnings/Notes: Sexual Content , "Time Lords Being Stupid"

Reasons for reccing: Monthly theme. This is a very well-done fix it for Arc of Infinity. It's a creative solution and everyone I believe is in character. The Doctor in this AU is still himself (but seems to have less inhibitions).

(Note- It helps if you have seen or at least found a recap of Arc of Infinity)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/3555143/chapters/7828652

paranoidangel

Title: Retirement
Creator:

lurking_latinist
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 98 words
Creator's Summary: For the anonymous prompt: "Doctor Who, any Doctor & any companion, what if the Doctor had stayed behind on Earth with a different companion?"
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a short, but interesting and amusing look at the Fifth Doctor staying on Earth with Tegan.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53166772

romanajo123

Title: Can't Take Them Anywhere
Creator: Lissy Strata
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 642
Creator's Summary:Can the TARDIS crew manage at least one trip without getting into trouble?
Characters/Pairings: Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, The Doctor (5th)
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Monthly Theme. This is funny and adorable. Considering Five during s19 feels a lot like a harried dad, this works.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

romanajo123

Title: This Bird Has Flown
Creator: TrakeniteTourist (

auronlu )
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 6666
Creator's Summary: A series of vignettes roughly parallelling the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa’s later Big Finish adventures, when their partnership is as natural as Four’s had been with Romana. And in much the same way, there’s a certain frisson going on that neither of them, especially the Doctor, is willing to acknowledge.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: References to sex, violence/assault, ummm... the vastness of space? Also Spoilers to: Castle of Fear, Eternal Summer, *Plague of the Daleks, Spare Parts, Renaissance of the Daleks, Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Demons of Red Lodge, *Creatures of Beauty, *1001 Nights, Fanfare for the Common Men, and *Masquerade. (* = major spoilers giving away plot twists; the rest are references to minor details.)

Reasons for reccing: For the Monthly Theme. This is honestly my favorite fic for these two. The writing and details are gorgeous and Five and Nyssa are very in-character. This really shows their realtionship well. (It is not necessary to have heard all the audios, but it helps )

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/2068407

paranoidangel

Title: The Creeping Terror
Creator:

LissyStrata
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1270 words
Creator's Summary: "Hurry, Doctor! We've got just enough time to finish our picnic before the monster gets us!"
Characters/Pairings: Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Adric, Fifth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is a hilarious fic where the group are menaced by an alien that seems like it would be in the series. Except that they notice how slow it moves. The descriptions of the group 'running away' and the way the alien moves are funny.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45518263

romanajo123

Title: Sam's New Year
Creator:

Shivver
Rating: General Audience
Word Count/Length/Size: 10013
Creator's Summary: Sam sits on a doorstep, watching the celebrants heading for the ball drop in Times Square. He isn't joining them. He has more important things to do, like figure out where his next meal is coming from.
Characters/Pairings:
First Doctor
Second Doctor
Fourth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
Eighth Doctor
Ninth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
Susan Foreman
Jamie McCrimmon
Victoria Waterfield
Leela (Doctor Who)
Nyssa of Traken
Ace McShane
Charley Pollard
Rose Tyler

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
Happy New Year! This is a wonderful read. Sometimes it's nice to see the Doctors helping in small ways: like here just making sure someone in need can make it through the night. Everyone is IC and it has just that right bit of heartwarming (and bittersweetness)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13169499/chapters/30121200

Current Mood: calm

lurking_latinist

Title: Remembrance
Creator:

BiJane
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3415 words
Creator's Summary:

The TARDIS on the Doctor.

Stitch it together. Weave a narrative from all the moments. That happened before that, which would have prevented that… It’s not simultaneous, not to them.

Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (multiple regenerations)/The Doctor's TARDIS, mentioned Romana and River Song
Warnings/Notes: (none)

Reasons for reccing: For the Claim a Ship challenge. This is a narrative of the Doctor's relationship with his TARDIS told from the TARDIS's perspective, and it's splendidly nonlinear, using the idea that the TARDIS experiences all her adventures with the Doctor simultaneously. It tells her perspective on various stories from Classic and New Who, synthesizing them into a big arc of their journey together, and it does some really fun things with tenses and nonlinear storytelling.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13623612

paranoidangel

Title: Warmth
Creator:

lurking_latinist
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1223 words
Creator's Summary: Unexpectedly stranded in London and looking for work, Tegan finds a place where she just might fit in.
Characters/Pairings: Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Fifth Doctor, Adric
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: This is a coffee shop AU. Setting change AUs aren't usually my thing, but the characters all fit into the world, with their jobs. Their personalities and relationships are the same as they are in canon.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51688225

paranoidangel

Title: Adventures in Babysitting
Creator:

CeruleanTactician
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1047 words
Creator's Summary: Team Five attempts to take care of a baby.
Keyword, of course, being “attempts.”
Characters/Pairings: Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka, Fifth Doctor, Adric
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1980, Adric's first episode. This is fun with most of them having no idea what they're doing. And also sweet at the end.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51666502

romanajo123

Title: Sand and Water
Creator:

Chryse73
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2715
Creator's Summary: Missing scene from the MA novel ‘The Sands of Time’, by Justin Richards. Spoilers throughout.

The Doctor and Tegan have rescued Nyssa from the clutches of Nephthys and all seems well, but waking from a four thousand year coma isn’t as simple as expected...

Characters/Pairings: Fith Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: Like the Summary said, Spoilers.

Reasons for reccing: Bonus rec for 1996 (since it's when the novel was published). Sands of Time might be my favorite Fifth Doctor novel ( well, it or Cold Fusion). And this is a lovely, in-character missing scene for it. The images are detailed and vivid, and it's actually a bit heartbreaking at points.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13494452

thisbluespirit

Title: Two Hearts
Creator:

emeraldarrows
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4325 words
Creator's Summary: Reflections on the past and the two hearts of a Time Lord.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa, Turlough, Adric, Kamelion, Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble.
Warnings/Notes: Angst.

Reasons for reccing: For 1981, the year that we first met Tegan Jovanka and the Fifth Doctor, as well as for the multi-era theme. This is a gorgeous set of haunting vignettes looking at their relationship, their bond, and its impossibility. It's a beautifully melancholic piece.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9523115/chapters/21534560

paranoidangel

Title: I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek
Creator:

touchdownpossum
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2:42
Creator's Summary: 10 Doctors, 30+ companions, and the special-est special effects you'll see this holiday season.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara WrightIan Chesterton, Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, Ben Jackson Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton, Mike Yates, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Romana II, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown, Ace McShane, Rose Tyler, Adam Mitchell, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song, Sara Kingdom, Davros, Jack Harkness

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1975, the year Davros, the Dalek creator was introduced. This is a fun vid to a fun song, with the images matching the words. And the addition of some fun hashtags.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/579189

felis

Title: Save the Date
Creator:

astrogirl
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1,811 words
Creator's Summary: The Brigadier has quite a few messages on his answering machine today. And all of them are from the same person. Well, more or less.
Characters/Pairings: Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Doris Lethbridge-Stewart, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: The Brigadier, retired and just returned from a holiday, finds a lot of messages from the Doctor on his answering machine. This was written for the "Unsent Letters" exchange in 2022 and the concept is just great, super well executed, and so much fun to read. Lovely and hilarious.

(It is set sometime after the Seventh Doctor episode "Battlefield" - from the Brigadier's point of view, anyway! - which means it technically takes place in 1989, BUT, since that year is already covered, I'm submitting it for 1968, the year when one Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared. Also fits this month's multi-era theme!)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38299363

paranoidangel

Title: Cheating Grief
Creator:

Heimeldat
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 3391 words
Creator's Summary: When the chaos settles after Castrovalva, Nyssa finally has time to think about Traken, and the Doctor helps her come to terms with losing her entire world.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1982, when Castrovalva first aired. It's a story of the Doctor getting to know his new self, which is interesting to see. And also comforting Nyssa. It feels exactly like something that must have happened - after all, losing your world is a pretty big thing to deal with.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43216936

scifirenegade

For the Unrequited square on my Reccer's Bingo card.

Title: Inanimate Love
Creator:

goldenrod (under the pseudonym Palgrave)
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 254 words
Creator's Summary: The doomed, tragic one-way romance between a hatstand and a Time Lord.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/his hatstand
Warnings/Notes: n/a

Reasons for reccing: It's just so funny, and the fact that it's written seriously makes it even better (ie. crack treated seriously).

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/579200

felis

Manifesto Title: Mini-Manifesto: Identity, Continuity, and Change
Creator:

felis
Notes/warnings/spoilers: Stays pretty vague, but contains a few details regarding the Tenth and Twelfth Doctors in the recs section.

( Identity, Continuity, and Change )

thisbluespirit

Title: Regeneration
Creator: Andriy Griffin
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: 4.48 mins
Creator's Summary: This October sees the next great change in Doctor Who, so this is to remember all the times we've said a tearful farewell to our beloved Doctors. In tribute to all the amazing people who've worked on this show on & off for the last 60 years, and in memory to Bill, Pat and Jon, the three who started it all. Hope you enjoy.
Characters/Pairings: Doctors 1-13, plus various other companions and villains.
Warnings/Notes: Regeneration stories, so (temporary) death etc, some guns & gunfire.

Reasons for reccing: It's Doctor Who's anniversary - 59 years old today! So I had to rec a multi-Doctor vid, and this one fitted the bill perfectly. It focuses on the goodbyes (and hellos) of regeneration stories over the decades, featuring all the Doctors and a good many companions and adversaries (especially those in the Regeneration episodes), and at the end brings us right up to date with Thirteen. And isn't one of the greatest strengths of this old show of ours, the notion of regeneration - the ability to continually change and grow that's let it carry on for decades, and even regenerate itself after what looked like the end? This is a beautiful exploration of that, in loss and grief - and the joy of renewal.

Happy birthday, Doctor Who! ♥

Link: https://youtu.be/9Kh1hlYajZ4

romanajo123

Title: Life's Little Mysteries
Creator:

auronlu
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 520
Creator's Summary: The Doctor reflects on how they came to this.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Sharing a Bed box on my Bingo card (which if I'm right, means I completed a Bingo :)) . This is beautiful and poignant, a great portrait of them and look at their bond.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/6715303

romanajo123

Title: Eleven Secret Rooms
Creator: ninewood
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 3409
Creator's Summary: Ever wonder what's in some of the rooms in the TARDIS?
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Adric, Donna Noble, Grace Holloway, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Peri Brown, Rose Tyler, Susan Foreman, Tegan Jovanka, The Doctor (10th), The Doctor (11th), The Doctor (1st), The Doctor (2nd), The Doctor (3rd), The Doctor (4th), The Doctor (5th), The Docto

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
For the box "Secrets" on my Bingo card. This is lovely and delightful. The details of each room are nice and each little moment paints a great picture of each Doctor.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

quailfence

Title: Child Swap
Creator:

dragonwings948
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 3,899 words
Creator's Summary: The Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS is going haywire without reason, and things get even weirder when she comes face to face with friends from her past. Meanwhile, the Fifth Doctor tries to calm his own TARDIS when three strangers appear in the places of Nyssa, Adric, and Tegan.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Graham O’Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Nyssa or Traken, Adric, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: My first entry for the Claim a Character seasonal challenge. I really like the Doctor meeting past companions, and this was a fun take on the idea.

Link to fic:
Link

paranoidangel

Title: Sunrise Yoga
Creator:

dragonwings948
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 551 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor has an exercise routine planned for his crew, and it involves sunrise yoga. However, getting them all to participate doesn’t go exactly as planned.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a short amusing fic that really shows the characters of all four of them.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20720963

quailfence

Title: Unrevealed Truths (The Coronation of the High Hierophant)
Creator: circular time (

auronlu)
Word Count/Length/Size: 51,331 words
Creator's Summary: On a human colony where Baroque France and classical Rome are so far in Earth’s legendary past that both are mined for “wisdom of the ancients,” the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa are swept into a fantastic world of pageantry, allegory, advanced gravitational engineering, dance and court intrigue.

The Doctor believes Nyssa has found true love. Nyssa believes she has found someone who needs their help. After the Doctor leaves Nyssa to her new life, she’s forced to embrace the masquerade far more deeply than she had intended. Will the Doctor defy the Web of Time to extricate her from the jaws of history?
Characters: Fifth Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Original Male Character
Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Nyssa
Warnings/Notes: Pregnancy. Minor spoilers for: Big Finish 1001 Nights, Demons of Red Lodge, Circular Time "Autumn," Eternal Summer, Spare Parts.

Reasons for reccing: The story has some very good descriptions, and a very interesting and well-written alien culture. There’s some good twists and turns, and overall a very enjoyable read

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7544761

felis

Title: Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Turlough
Creator: StormChanneler
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 3:28
Creator's Summary: n/a
Characters/Pairings: Vislor Turlough, Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: The song choice! I knew nothing about Turlough when I first watched this vid and it intrigued me. I like how it presents a clear and interesting take on his character, with some fun vidding choices.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8v5Itepg8

paranoidangel

Title: Carried Too Far
Creator:

Andraste
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 6400 words
Creator's Summary: Forced intimacy clichés are no match for the Doctor. (Most of the time.)
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Third Doctor/The Master, Jo Grant, Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Fifth Doctor, Vislor Turlough, Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair, Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's all the intimacy tropes, but involving the Doctor, who can be guaranteed to make them not at all intimate. It's fun all the situations the Doctor and his companions find themselves in.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17714207

thisbluespirit

One for my seasonal challenge ship claim!

Title: An illustration/experiment (untitled)
Creator:

mentalrhapsody
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: Tegan and Fivey and…Feels.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: It's rare to find many fanworks for Five & Tegan these days, but this is a lovely one. It's a very sweet piece of art (of Tegan kissing the Doctor's forehead), but unsentimental, and the style works well for the subject, with the contrast of the moon & stars glow illuminating their outlines with the muted evening palette. Surely guaranteed to make you go 'aww' a least a bit, whatever your take on their relationship.

Link: https://mentalrhapsody.tumblr.com/post/96551982906/an-illustrationexperiment-tegan-and-fivey