Line #38 Fanfic/TheDoctorsDoctor


1	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8333549/1/The_Doctors_Doctor The Doctor's Doctor]]'' is a crossover fic by Creator/{{KCS}}, merging the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' series, ''Series/DoctorWho'', and the Literature/SherlockHolmes {{Canon}}. The [=FF.N=] summary is as follows:
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3	''John Watson, late of Her Majesty's Army and specifically a tour in Afghanistan, is drifting in London, alone and without purpose, until he meets two very remarkable people who will test his loyalty and change his life forever. Written for sherlockrebang, summer 2012. Triplicate crossover/AU with [=ACDcanon=], DW, and Sherlock. Features Thirteen!Sherlock and Weeping Angels. Gen.''
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5	John Watson, now a police coroner, is good friends with Detective Inspector Lestrade, which makes him aware of an incredible locked-room murder case. What makes it so incredible? The fact that the case consists of ''multiple'' murders, and the death toll continues to rise. John does a bit of investigation and deduction on his own, and realizes that these deaths are somehow related to the angel statues that keep cropping up in the victims' houses.
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7	Enter Mycroft Holmes, who has a proposition for John that grows increasingly unhealthy to ignore as he embroils himself deeper into the locked-rooms case. Thanks to Mycroft, he becomes aware of alien life - the Weeping Angels and the Doctor in particular. The Doctor is now on his final regeneration, and John has to choose a side...
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9	!!This story provides examples of:
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11	%%* ActionDuo: John and the Doctor.
12	%%* ActionSurvivor: Molly Hooper.
13	%%** [[spoiler:And the Doctor - technically, John does not count because he ''is'' touched.]]
14	* AlliterativeTitle
15	%%* AlternateUniverse: Of all three universes.
16	%%* BeneathSuspicion: The angel statues received by mail.
17	* BuffySpeak:
18	-->'''The Doctor:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink You have glowy stuff on you that makes my sonic screwdriver go beeeep]].
19	* CallToAdventure: The Doctor to John, of course, though it probably isn't the kind of adventure you're thinking...
20	%%* ChaseScene: Two, both ripping elements from ''[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study in Pink]]''.
21	%%* TheChessmaster: Mycroft Holmes, in full force.
22	* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Subverted. [[spoiler:John realizes that he ''has'' to stick with the Doctor if he's going to avoid Mycroft's vengeance in the form of psychopathic killer statues. Then an Angel gets him.]]
23	* CompositeCharacter: The thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor, who is basically an alien Series/{{Sherlock}} (yes, there ''is'' a difference).
24	* ContinuityNod: Many, to all three fandoms.
25	%%** DI Hopkins.
26	** "And ''none'' of [my regenerations] [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion were ginger]]!"
27	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Run!]]" (Obviously, it's something of a CharacterCatchphrase for the Doctor, but "Rose" is where it all started.)
28	%%** Dalek Caan.
29	%%** "I prefer to text."
30	%%** "Doctor Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
31	** And one ''gem'' of a line that makes a ''beautiful'' nod to both Doctor Who ''and'' Sherlock:
32	-->"Ah...John. I think you should know that I consider myself in a relationship with my TARDIS, and while I'm flattered by your interest, I -"
33	* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler:Pretty much how John regards VictorianLondon... and the next few decades of history he'll have to live through, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI included.]]
34	%%* DistressCall: Molly's texts to John.
35	%%* DistressedDude: The Doctor, initially, then John near the end.
36	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Thirteen, a ChaseScene followed up by a SherlockScan. Yep, that pretty much says it all.
37	* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:From rocky relationship with the boss to target. Poor John.]]
38	* GenreSavvy: John, to the point where he does a lot of LampshadeHanging. (Unfortunately, it doesn't stop him from grabbing the IdiotBall when he's angry - he should really know better than to stomp away from the Doctor when he's a marked man.)
39	-->"I'll not appreciate my computer blowing up in my face if I try to locate fanbases for this character to gauge public opinion, or my files being wiped if I should try to email one of his former associates."
40	* HiddenDepths: Molly Hooper, in a deliciously serious AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
41	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:After basically rejecting the Doctor, John changes his mind and turns around to go back... ''He never saw the Weeping Angel emerge from the shadows just behind him.'']]
42	%%* HumansAreMorons: Invoked by both the Doctor ''and'' John.
43	%%* InspectorLestrade
44	* InspiredBy: "The Six Napoleons" (from the Literature/SherlockHolmes {{Canon}}).
45	* InsufferableGenius: What else do you expect when it's ''the'' Doctor and Sherlock ''rolled into one''??
46	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Thirteen (the Doctor combined with Sherlock).
47	* LastOfHisKind: Invoked by the Doctor, but really driving the point home by this being his ''final'' regeneration.
48	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: ''Either that was very sound logic, or very bad novel-writing.''
49	%%* MoodWhiplash: More than once, and, ooo, they can hurt your neck!
50	* MythologyGag: ''After all, there was an old saying that when the impossible is ruled out, whatever remains has to be the truth --''
51	* NarrativeProfanityFilter
52	* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking Yourself, TARDIS]]: [[spoiler:But at least John and Doctor!Sherlock Holmes now get to have all those adventures together in VictorianLondon.]]
53	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Overlaps with John's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, when he sees uncomfortable similarities between the Doctor's disregard for patch-up duty and the major world powers in the Middle East.
54	* TheNthDoctor:
55	-->'''John:''' "You are on your last regeneration?"\
56	'''The Doctor:''' "[[WhamLine I am]]. [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion And]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion none]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion of them were ginger]]!"
57	* OhCrap: Again, more than once.
58	-->'''The Doctor:''' "No, John. I mean ''you really need to get out of here, now!''"
59	* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted - the Yard is shown to be more or less competent, but they're dealing with aliens and they don't even know it.
60	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mycroft Holmes... then things go downhill, [[spoiler:and he turns out to be something of a DiabolicalMastermind, or a MagnificentBastard at the very least]].
61	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A truly wince-inducing one from John to the Doctor:
62	-->"You've done nothing to prove [Mycroft's] opinion of you wrong, now have you? Has there ever been a time - where the Earth was threatened and after the threat was neutralised, was there ever a time when you remained behind to help with the aftermath? The stories might be part true, or part lie - but all of them agree, that once you've taken care of the supposed threat, you disappear, and everyone is left trying to salvage the wreckage of what had been their world! What sort of creature does that, leaves an innocent society trying to pick up the pieces of something that was not their fault? Do you condemn me for wondering who is more callous, the alien who directly threatens humanity, or the one who saves humanity only to then condemn it to years, even decades of recovery without any type of help?"
63	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Doctor is revealed at the end to have been the "real" Literature/SherlockHolmes all along, just not who the world ''thinks'' Sherlock Holmes is (i.e. human).]]
64	* SherlockScan: The Doctor upon meeting John, of course (but justified, as the Doctor ''has'' done the scan before, most notably in his [[Creator/DavidTennant tenth]] and [[Creator/MattSmith eleventh]] [[TheNthDoctor incarnations]]).
65	* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/StarTrek'', several times. Doubles as AuthorAppeal, as the author is well-known for her ''Star Trek'' fics (as well as her ''Star Trek''/''Sherlock Holmes'' crossovers).
66	** ''[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Curiouser and curiouser]]''.
67	** "I'd like a name to put with your face, [[DeadpanSnarker unless you'd like to be referred to as]] ''[[Series/TheXFiles Mulder]]'' [[DeadpanSnarker indefinitely]]."
68	%%* ShownTheirWork
69	* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler:In the end, the TARDIS effectively forces the Doctor onto the Slow Path alongside John Watson... not that the Doctor, a.k.a Sherlock Holmes now, apparently minds.]]
70	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In full force - out of two female characters (counting the [=TARDIS=], Molly is the only one with speaking lines.
71	* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:John in Mycroft's machinations to trap the Doctor.]]
72	* [[spoiler:VictorianLondon: John is dropped in January 1881 by an Angel, and the rest of the fic takes place there.]]
73	* WhamLine: More than one, but perhaps most notably this:
74	-->[[spoiler: "According to all records, you disappear without a trace on the night of October 12, 2011 - there is no confirmation of you ever showing back up in your proper time period. [...] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Cannot. Change. That.]]"]]
75	* WhatTheHellHero:
76	-->'''John:''' "And you wonder why I found it hard to choose sides. In the past, your other incarnations at least tried to minimize damage and save the Earth. But we never saw your twelfth incarnation at all, and this one - I know you aren't human, Doctor, but I didn't peg you for nothing more than a ''machine''."
77	* WholePlotReference: To ''[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study in Pink]]''.

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