Fic: It's All We Know Now to Never Go Back (1/1, Adult)

[nonelvis]

Title: It's All We Know Now to Never Go Back
Fandoms: crossover between Star Trek: Discovery and Doctor Who
Pairing: Gabriel Lorca/River Song
Word count: 2965 words
Rating: Explicit
Contains: very mild BDSM (slapping, briefly holding someone down)

Summary: The woman, a curly-haired dirty blonde squeezed into white leather and tight trousers, was stretched out on the brig’s bunk with her arms crossed behind her head. She also had an empty gun holster from which Tyler had extracted a compact phaser of unknown origin and which Lorca had already pocketed for future research. “It was very kind of you to provide a pillow, by the way,” River said. “Not every prison’s quite so thoughtful, and I should know.”

Read it on AO3

(It always feels so weird not posting a fic to Teaspoon, but this really is more of a Discovery fic than a Doctor Who one, and therefore doesn't quite belong on Teaspoon.)

Comments

[platypus]

As a crossover, I don't see why it wouldn't belong on Teaspoon. And, as a person who knows only one of the canons involved (well, I've got a little of the other by osmosis, but only a little), I still enjoyed reading it! I can readily tell what the fic has to do with Doctor Who, unlike that endless thing about Picard that keeps popping up.

(BTW, if you're bugged by the AO3 formatting thing where the first paragraph after a section break has unusually narrow line spacing, I found that it doesn't happen if you center the asterisks with p align=center rather than the center tag. I don't know why that fixes it, but we're talking about AO3.)

[nonelvis]

It's not so much that it's a crossover; it's that it felt more Disco than DW to me. But you've convinced me, so it's posted to Teaspoon now. (And thank you, I'm glad you liked it!)

I hadn't noticed that AO3 tic, btw. It looks like something about use of the old-skool <center> tag throws off its HTML generator enough that it adds a blank paragraph above the centered text and then doesn't bother adding a <p> tag to the paragraph that follows it. AO3, man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[profrobert]

As always, you have River's voice here. I don't know anything about Discovery, but I know Jason Isaacs (whom I love as an actor) is Lorca, so I could picture him in the story.

Every time I see the name "Lorca," though, I immediately think Lkiller Lwhale. Sorry.

[nonelvis]

Thank you! I think Discovery is eventually going to air on CBS, so you'll be able to see it then -- Jason Isaacs is terrific, as always, but so is everyone else. (Sonequa Martin-Green is utterly amazing.)