firefly124

Title: Exit Strategy
Author:

firefly124
Artist:

slowsunrise
Series Included: TW through S2, DW through S5 plus a major spoiler from S6
Characters/Pairings: TW team, John Hart, River Song, canon pairings
Rating: T
Warnings/contains: References to canon torture and the experience of being buried alive.
Word Count: 12587
Summary: While she was back in the second century, River Song noticed more felt wrong than the disappearance of stars, and once the universe had rebooted, she went back to find out what it was. She wasn't expecting to dig up what looked like an incompetent Time Agent with a fried vortex manipulator and a TARDIS key in his pocket, never mind one who needed a quick ride back to 2008.
A/N: Written for

tw_classic_bb, this is the sequel, or possibly prequel, to my

who_reversebang story, The Sound of Running Water, but stands alone. Art, as mentioned, is courtesy of

slowsunrise, whose master post is here. Please go give her some love for her gorgeous work. Huge thanks to

canaan for beta-reading and

saracen77 for Brit-picking. Any remaining errors are mine. Also, I don't own Torchwood or Doctor Who, otherwise, this would be canon instead of AU.

Part 1 on LJ

Part 2 on LJ

Art Master Post

PDF version

Current Mood: accomplished

Artists are still needed for the

tw_classic_bb.

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I know my flist is still more HP than TW, but if you're a fanartist and think you might be interested, please go see if any of the unclaimed fics grab you.

(And at some point I'll write an actual post.)

Artists are still needed for the

tw_classic_bb.

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Remember the three insane writing commitments I made a few months back? Here's where they stand now:

Fest	Word Min	Due date(s)	Status	Word Count
who_reversebang	3000	Dec 6 check-in Dec 19 posting starts	Complete and ready to post 12/23	9400
bowtiesnblasters	500	Dec 20	Submitted	6700
tw_classic_bb	7500 mini 15000 big	Jan 10 draft Feb 1 posting starts	In Progress	2700

W00t!

who_reversebang has been posting since Monday, and there's some great stuff over there. I highly recommend checking it out.

Next bit of homework, then, is to rewatch some Torchwood S2 to make sure I'm clear on timelines, then that one can get rolling a bit more. And I may just try to write a stocking stuffer or two for

fandom_stocking in between for a bit of a breather.

Which reminds me, if you have a stocking hanging over at

fandom_stocking, please link me? I make no promises about how many stocking stuffers I'll manage to write, but I would like to try to do a few more this year.

Current Mood: accomplished

Author Sign Ups | Artist Sign Ups

tw_classic_bb

Come on, you know you wanna! *offers a large bar of dark chocolate and steaming mug of coffee*

In other news, while a nice warm epsom salt soak is good for many people's feet, it is apparently a Very Bad Idea when you are prone to eczema. Which, really, I should've figured out before trying it. Oops.

Current Mood: enabling

I didn't make the

5_for_five goal this week, more like 5 for four, but that's still 2000+ words written! All of that was on my

tw_classic_bb and prior to getting my

bowtiesnblasters prompt for Mistletoe & Hallucinogens.

This week's goal is to get M & H fic done, as that's the shortest (or at least shortest word requirement) of the lot. At least a draft, maybe even beta-ed. Definitely hoping to submit it prior to Nov 16, the prompt-claim date for

who_reversebang. If I can also manage another couple thousand words on the

tw_classic_bb before picking up that other prompt, so much the better, but small steps.

Current Mood: accomplished

How is everyone doing? I'm sorry I've been crap at keeping up with LJ. Work continues to kick my ass. I'm in my 3rd week covering for the regular evening supervisor's vacation, which is moderately insane (how am I supervising nurses with 20+ years experience???), and am finally getting a bit less panicky about it all. Hence the reading the flist more and attempting to get back into the swing of things.

So, of course, I went on a writing sign-up binge. I haven't written since the summer, to go by my

5_for_five tracking spreadsheet, and sadly that sounds about right. Mostly I've about had the energy for mindless games when online or passively reading.

I didn't get my act sufficiently together for

tw_bigbang, but I've modified the idea and run with it for

tw_classic_bb. ETA: before anyone else has a minor coronary reading that before they see the banner below, TW=Torchwood, not Twilight. You know, that other batshit big-T fandom. :-D That seems to be taking off better, though I'm hanging onto the 3k or so I got done of the original to play with another time maybe. One of the nice things about

tw_classic_bb is you have the option of a "mini-bang" of 7500 words, which is where I'm aiming for starters. If the characters get chatty, well, then maybe it'll go big.

Also signed up for the

who_reversebang and Mistletoe and Hallucinogens at

bowtiesnblasters. Yes, the deadlines are sufficiently staggered to be sane. Ish.

Fest	Word Min	Due date(s)
who_reversebang	3000	Dec 6 check-in Dec 19 posting starts
bowtiesnblasters	500	Dec 20
tw_classic_bb	7500 mini 15000 big	Jan 10 draft Feb 1 posting starts

Okay, the first two are on top of each other, but if I can't crank out 500+ words of Doctor/River before I even get to claim the art prompt for the other? Something is very wrong. What'll kill me is if either of the smallish fics blows up. Not that my fics ever do that. *eyeroll* At least I'm already on a roll writing the one that's due last, so it should be in good shape even though it'll get set aside when I get my prompts for the first two.

Erm, anyone got a TARDIS I can borrow? Vortex manipulator? Time-turner?

In case I've not yet tempted you to join in the two that are still taking sign-ups, here are their shiny banners: