Fanfic / Twilight Storm

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Twilight Storm by Marcus S Lazarus begins when Bella Swan takes her cliff dive in New Moon. Instead of Jacob, Bella is rescued by the Tenth Doctor who, intrigued by the young woman, takes Bella on a journey in the TARDIS across time and space.

The saga currently comprises of 17 separate stories which can be found here, here and here. The fic "The Perils of Lorindar" includes a third crossover in the form of The Princess Series, where the Doctor and Bella travel to another dimension and meet the inspirations for some classic fairy tales.

Twilight Storm contains examples of:

• All Myths Are True: In The Perils of Lorindar, the Doctor and Bella arrive in the pocket dimension of Lorindar, where they meet the women who inspired the tales of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. The Doctor explains that certain particularly popular tales are true in some parallel universe or another and are 'transmitted' to other realities through a suitably perceptive mind, such as the tales of their new associates.
• Babies Ever After: The series concludes with the Doctor going back in time to save Esme Cullen's infant son and bring him into the future to treat his sickness, and he also provides Rosalie and Emmett with the means to have a son, taking samples from them while both were human, so long as they can find a suitable surrogate to carry the baby in the present.
• Birds of a Feather: Meeting some of the Doctor's old companions (such as Sarah Jane Smith and Jo Grant) helps Bella realize she's not the only one often feeling overwhelmed by the Doctor's adventures (and annoyed at his odd behavior).
  • When attending the Doctor's "funeral", Bella sees how Sarah Jane and Jo both had different ways handling moving on from the experience of finally leaving the Doctor.
• Broken Pedestal: There is no single moment when Bella Swan’s opinion changes, but her travels with the Doctor cause her to re-evaluate her old feelings for Edward and conclude that each of them brought out the worst parts of each other, being too dependent on the other for happiness rather than exploring their own identities and desires.
• The Bus Came Back: Numerous old Doctor foes pop up from the Selyoids to The Meddling Monk.
• Cast from Lifespan: In The Perils of Lorindar, Snow White is forced to summon the seven dwarves, which are magical spirits that she can only summon at the cost of seven years of her life; the Doctor is able to transfer some of his life energy to Snow so that she can summon the dwarves without losing any years herself.
• Character Development: The normally passive and self-defeating Bella slowly grows more courageous, compassionate, driven, and assertive while also learning self-love throughout the series.
• Code Name: In Falling Stars, the Doctor goes to see Chate, who he ran into in an earlier incarnation. Rather than explain the whole regeneration thing, the Doctor instead claims that "The Doctor" is simply a code name for "special operatives" in a secret group.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Bella and the First Doctor meet an alternate version of Marcus from the Volturi in an alternate timeline where the later Doctors were briefly erased from existence by the Monk ("Time's Ashes"), the alt-Marcus basically acting as their bodyguard when they have to retrieve the TARDIS. After reality is restored, Bella is initially happy to meet Marcus in the prime reality ("New Dawn") before the Tenth Doctor reminds her that this Marcus hasn't met them before.
• Entertainingly Wrong: The villain of Falling Stars is smug when facing the 'new' Doctor, bragging he had taken precautions if the Doctor showed up but should have no problem with someone else...unaware this is the same Doctor.
• Evil Counterpart: Kwok (of The Legacy of Weng-Chiang) could be considered this to Bella, as both of them were obsessively in love with immortals and lost them; in a misplaced desire for revenge, Kwok has spent the last forty years trying to find the Doctor.
• Exposition Victim: Bella gets this a lot with the Doctor bringing her (and readers) up to speed on various enemies he encounters (many from the novels that casual Who viewers may not have read).
• Heel Realization: When Bella starts arguing with another prisoner in a Dalek labour camp about how the other woman sold the Doctor out to try and save someone else, Bella realizes that she's basically done everything she was angry at the other woman for, as they're both willing to hurt others if it means being with the person they love. This marks the start of a chain of events that will conclude with Bella abandoning her old feelings for Edward even after she returns to her own time.
• Heroic Sacrifice: More of a moral sacrifice than the traditional one, but still an important decision; during the events of "The Day of the Doctor", Bella offers to join the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in their plan to set off the Moment and destroy Gallifrey, Bella reasoning that the three Doctors setting off the Moment together is still the Doctor doing it ‘alone’ and this way she can bear the burden with them.
• Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith has Bella musing on the Doctor explaining that killing Hitler would cause a massive disruption in the time stream that could very well make World War II and its aftermath worse. The Doctor uses it to explain why he avoids such "fixed" moments in history.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Several cases, most prominently in Falling Stars when the Doctor sums up how the villain intends to "free the common man from the corruption of the ruling classes"... by giving up control to an alien race.
• Jerkass Realization: When Bella learns about the destruction of Gallifrey, she feels ashamed of how she let herself become virtually catatonic for months just because her boyfriend left her when the Doctor has been acting so normal in her presence and he actually had to destroy his entire planet to save the universe.
• Martyr Without a Cause: A key aspect of Bella's travels with the Doctor is her growing past this aspect of herself and choosing to actually put her life on the line for something legitimately important.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Depending on how vampires are classified, this may be the best way to describe the Twilight vampires, as the Doctor and Bella learn that they are actually vampire hybrids using samples taken from the Ogri ("The Stones of Blood"), accounting for the vampires' enhanced physical strength and their change to a more silicon-based form.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: The reaction of the Brigadier (who in this point in the timeline has just seen the Fourth Doctor leave following "Terror of the Zygons") to seeing the Doctor with yet another different face.
• Our Vampires Are Different: When they meet a still human Esme, the Doctor is at first outraged when Bella talks of knowing vampires, ranting on what monsters they are. He calms down when Bella explains the Cullens aren't like that, causing the Doctor to realize these "vampires" aren't quite what they seem.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: As ever, the Doctor is a master at this with Bella getting in a good one too in Falling Stars.
• Ship Sinking: Over the course of the series, Bella experiences various encounters that prompt her to take a look at who she was when she was with Edward and realize that she actually doesn't like what she became, so utterly consumed by her desire to be with Edward that she would have abandoned basically everything else in her life. As a result, when she finally returns to Forks, even after Edward explains his reasons for breaking up with her, Bella refuses to get back together, although she does confirm that she wants to still be friends with the Cullen family.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Bella joins the Doctor in interrupting Sarah Jane's wedding, although she takes a moment to clarify that they're not related because she suddenly worries that people will think the Doctor is Sarah's boy-toy and she's their illegitimate daughter.
• Stable Time Loop: The Future in the Past sees Bella convince the Doctor to help her set up the events that will allow Esme to be in a position to be turned by Carlisle, and the two subsequently go back in time to investigate the origin of Bella's 'breed' of vampire. The Doctor and Bella thus end up contributing to the events that will lead to these vampires existing in the first place, to the extent that they 'program' the vampires to hide away from humans.
• Tap on the Head: In The Legacy of Weng-Chiang, Bella manages to knock Kwok out cold with the Doctor's "TARDIS sniffer-outer", hitting Kwok on the side of his head when he's charging for the Doctor.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: It's a Doctor Who story so of course this comes up.
  • Bella meets UNIT in 2010, and they have records of her time with the Doctor from a trip she will make to the Doctor's original UNIT colleagues in the 1970s in her personal future.
  • The Doctor takes Bella to visit his old friend Steven Taylor, but Steven has already met Bella when circumstances in her future led to her going back in time to help the First Doctor and Steven with a crisis.
  • In The Day Of the Doctor, Bella is thrown to meet the Eleventh Doctor who talks of their relationship as something long in the past and has to reconcile that with the Doctor she knows in the present.
  • The Funeral has Bella meeting the Eleventh Doctor in (from his perspective) before the events of Day of the Doctor and then running into the Twelfth Doctor at the end of the tale.
• Token Evil Teammate: Caius is basically this when the Doctor, Bella and the Cullens meet the Volturi, as Aro is more Affably Evil and the Doctor and Bella know that Marcus can be better than this based on their experience with his alternate timeline counterpart, but Caius acts as though humans like Bella and (he believes) the Doctor are only of value as food or new vampires.
• Took a Level in Badass: Bella. The plot largely revolves around her becoming more competent, emotionally and independently, as opposed to her canon fixation on her relationship with Edward. Not only does she become more assertive and capable of valuing her self-worth, she's able to coldcock people and develops a quicker wit. Her trademark clumsiness becomes almost nonexistent throughout the series thanks to the Doctor's adventures inspiring her to improve.
  • Another example; during their time in Lorindar, and with the help of Red Riding Hood's cloak, Bella turns into a large wolf, managing to hold her own against Omega's forces.
• Tough Love: A variation as rather than allow Lady Christina to escape, the Doctor has her arrested. As he explains to Bella, letting her go would only encourage her dangerous behavior (the same reason he refused to let her travel with him), and actually facing some consequences of her actions for a change may sober her up.
  The Doctor: Sometimes, you've got to tell people "no" to help them move on.
  • This also ends up being why Bella eventually breaks it off with Edward when returning to her time as she comes to recognise that it's best for both of them, feeling that their dependence on each other was basically unhealthy and holding them back.
• Transformation Trinket: During The Perils of Lorindar, Talia gives Bella a cloak that gives the latter the ability to shapeshift into a wolf while they battle Omega. This is to give the battle-inexperienced Bella an edge in combat. Turns out said cloak belonged to Little Red Riding Hood.
• Universal Translator: Like many companions, it takes Bella a bit to realize that rather than everyone in the universe speaking English, the TARDIS is automatically translating any language into her mind.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Monk is surely this. He thinks that by infecting the Doctor with a "time virus" to erase him from history, the Daleks will never be created (more specifically, the Time Lords will send another agent on the mission in "Genesis of the Daleks" who will kill them) and thus Gallifrey will be saved. The fact that this means Earth (and numerous other planets) will be destroyed without the Doctor around to save them is considered a "justifiable loss" in the Monk's mind... up until it turns out that Gallifrey was destroyed by the Sontarans this time around, and the aforementioned clones now use Gallifrey's resources to wage a greater war.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Bella is wary of joining the Doctor at first due to responsibilities at home but he promises her he can have her back "before anyone knows you're gone." After what is, to her, months of traveling with the Doctor, Bella does return home in what, to everyone else, is just a couple of hours after she "vanished."