amberfocus | Wolf Moon--Better With You--Addendum

So, these are future plans for the series of Better With You which began with Wolf Moon. The moon theme will continue in story tittles. These are NOT SPOILERS, more basic story synopses. I’d love to know what you think. Really, really. The scope hurts my head just a little bit. *smiles*

Wolf Moon of course, based on the first full moon of January, the night the alternate version of Nine shows up on Rose Tyler’s doorstep. They meet, fall in love, are assigned a Quest, become bondmates, get engaged, and complete task number one on their Quest. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS, Romana, Ambigere. Multi-chapter.

Hunger Moon based on one of the names of the first full moon of February. This story takes place on the parallel Earth where task number two must be completed. It will encompass a rather nasty run-in with Rose’s ex-boyfriend Davin and an introduction of the Doctor to Jackie, who’ll have more than a few opinions about the situation...and the engagement of her daughter. It will also have Rose and the Doctor adjusting to having a fully physical relationship with an underlying constant need for each other. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS, Jackie Tyler, Davin McBain, Romana, Ambigere with cameo appearances possible by Pete Tyler, Mickey Smith, and Jake Symmonds. Multi-chapter.

Chaste Moon on the March moon name. Task three will take them to a carefully controlled planet where they will have to keep their amorous behavior under strict control or have it occur in very creative places while in public or risk Very Nasty Things happening to them. Don’t have much more of a plot than that for this one yet. But I have time. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS, Romana, Ambigere, Original Character. Multi-chapter.

Pink Moon on the April Moon (so named for the budding and flowering of the majority of those trees at that time). No task for this story. This one takes place on Earth and will cover the preparations leading up to and the actual event of their Earth wedding. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS, Jackie Tyler, Pete Tyler, Mickey Smith, Jake Symmonds, Davin McBain. Shorter multi-chapter, maybe 7 to 10 chapters, since there is no Quest task.

Thunder Moon based of one of the July moon choices. There were a lot for this one that I liked, Blood Moon, Mead Moon and Moon of Claiming, which I’d change to Claiming Moon. But I decided Thunder Moon is probably the best of the bunch because we will see the Oncoming Storm and there’s no saying I can’t use a different one in the future if I so choose. Very sketchy ideas still other than it will be task 3 for the Quest and there will be some serious jealousy and possessiveness and anger in this story when another man (a powerful alien) tries to make the Doctor surrender Rose to be his mate. Rose will take none too kindly to the alien’s machinations. I am toying with the idea of Rose being forced to kill him to save herself at the end of the story and the repercussions of that playing out in the next story. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS, Ambigere, Romana, Original Character. Multi-chapter.

Lightning Moon based on the August moon name choices. This also has Red Moon and Dispute Moon for name choices that would go somewhat, but since playing off the last one, figured Lightning was the way to go. Dealing with the aftermath of what happens in the previous story whether there is a killing or just dealing with Rose's abduction. No task. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS. Possibly a one shot or a three chapter story.

Story # 7. September moon name choices are Harvest Moon or Nut Moon. I so want to do something somewhat cracky and call it Nut Moon, but I don’t know. It will cover task 4 and hopefully be extremely silly. But alternatively if I can’t think of anything silly, a more somber Harvest Moon it will be. Characters: alt!Nine, Rose Tyler, the TARDIS, Romana, Ambigere, Original characters. Multi-chapter.

Hunter’s Moon based on the October moon name (the Blood Moon is again an option here, and I may choose to change it as much blood is spilled in this story, though not graphically). So timey whimey it might hurt. This will be the Romana/Eight story that will reveal what exactly happened, what Romana knew, what Bad Wolf knew, what the Doctor knew, and it will have in it the end of the Time War and the Disjunction of the Doctor into two versions of Nine. It will also be task # 5 for future alt!Nine and Rose. Characters: Romana, Eight, the Bad Wolf, Ambigere, the TARDIS, the TARDIS type 40, Nine v.1, Nine v.2, future alt!Nine, Rose Tyler. Multi-chapter.

Trading Moon based on the November moon name (though Frost Moon and Dark Moon are choices I may revisit). This at last will be the past history story that will cover Nine v.1 from meeting Rose and his regeneration into Ten and what that version of the Doctor knew as he went along through season one and all of season 2 of the show. I am thinking Trading Moon is the best title for this one, because in the end Ten understands that his time with Rose healing him after the war and rescuing him from the Daleks and causing the regeneration which triggered the changes in Rose that caused her to be so strongly attracted to alt!Nine when she meets him, was a trade off with the other version of him getting Rose as a mate and the continuation of his species. Will be very angst-ridden I’m sure. He will also be fighting it by the end and trying to change it right up until Doomsday when he makes the choice to send her away and she comes back to him. Then he loses her anyway. This one should glove rather nicely into the slots of canon. Characters: Pretty much every main character from seasons one and two. Mutli-chapter.

Story # 10. Task # 6. Name choices for May are: Flower Moon, Panther Moon, Planting Moon, or Bright Moon. No story idea associated with this one yet. But I have time.

Story # 11. Task # 7. Name choices for June are: Strawberry Moon or Rose Moon, though Rose Moon seems a bit of a no-brainer. There is no real story idea associated with this one, though I am thinking of maybe the discovery of a pregnancy if I’ve progressed the time line far enough by this point. Which I probably will have done. Just because story names are taken from each month does not mean that each story takes place in only a month’s time.

Bitter Moon or possibly Long Night’s Moon from the December name choices. Despite the possible first name choice we do have a happy ending for Rose and alt!Nine. I have promised that from the start and I will stick by it. It has all been leading up to this, what the Quest was for, how it saves the fabric of time and space and reality itself. It will have some surprises in it. And it will have huge amounts of angst as well. No character names at this point in time.

So there we are. If anyone wants to make story suggestions for stories 7, 10, and 11, please do so. Also if there is anything you’d like to see happen in this series, I’m open to suggestions. May or may not use them, but sometimes my reader’s have started me down the path to some of my best ideas, even if it was just a springboard to get me there.

I don't think I'll have a chapter of Wolf Moon up tonight, either if anyone is lurking around waiting for it.