Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

Title: The Watchmaker's Daughter (10/?)
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: The Tenth Doctor(John Smith)/Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler, Martha Jones, Joan Redfern, Timothy Lattimer, various original characters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance, HN/FOB rewrite
Rating: Teen (for now, may go up later)
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: At the Doomsday wall an unexpected twist of fate sends Rose and Pete Tyler back to 1913 instead of to the parallel universe. While the Doctor and Martha are hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School for Boys the Tylers try to make a life for themselves in the nearby village.
Author's Notes: Recognizable dialogue is from the episode Human Nature though the characters saying it might be switched about a bit.

Previous Chapters: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/565160.html

( Chapter Ten )

Title: The Watchmaker's Daughter (9/?)
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: The Tenth Doctor(John Smith)/Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler, Martha Jones, Joan Redfern, Timothy Lattimer, various original characters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance, HN/FOB rewrite
Rating: Teen (for now, may go up later)
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: At the Doomsday wall an unexpected twist of fate sends Rose and Pete Tyler back to 1913 instead of to the parallel universe. While the Doctor and Martha are hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School for Boys the Tylers try to make a life for themselves in the nearby village.
Author's Notes: Recognizable dialogue is from the episode Human Nature though the characters saying it might be switched about a bit.

Previous Chapters: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/565160.html

( Chapter Nine )

Title: The Watchmaker's Daughter (6/10)
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: The Tenth Doctor(John Smith)/Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler, Martha Jones, Joan Redfern, Timothy Lattimer, various original characters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance, HN/FOB rewrite
Rating: Teen (for now, may go up later)
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: At the Doomsday wall an unexpected twist of fate sends Rose and Pete Tyler back to 1913 instead of to the parallel universe. While the Doctor and Martha are hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School for Boys the Tylers try to make a life for themselves in the nearby village.
Author's Notes: Recognizable dialogue is from the episodes Human Nature and Family of Blood.

Previous Chapters: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/565160.html

( Chapter Six )

Title: The Watchmaker's Daughter (4/10)
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: The Tenth Doctor(John Smith)/Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler, Martha Jones, Joan Redfern, Timothy Lattimer, various original characters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance, HN/FOB rewrite
Rating: Teen (for now, may go up later)
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: At the Doomsday wall an unexpected twist of fate sends Rose and Pete Tyler back to 1913 instead of to the parallel universe. While the Doctor and Martha are hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School for Boys the Tylers try to make a life for themselves in the nearby village.

Previous Chapters: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/565160.html

( Chapter Four )

Title: The Watchmaker's Daughter (2/10)
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: The Tenth Doctor(John Smith)/Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler, Martha Jones, Joan Redfern, Timothy Lattimer, various original characters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance, HN/FOB rewrite
Rating: Teen (for now, may go up later)
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: At the Doomsday wall an unexpected twist of fate sends Rose and Pete Tyler back to 1913 instead of to the parallel universe. While the Doctor and Martha are hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School for Boys the Tylers try to make a life for themselves in the nearby village.

Ch.1: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/562357.html

( Chapter Two )

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Title: You're What?
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: Nine/Rose, Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith
Genre: Baby!fic, Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut, Hurt/Comfort
Rating: Adult
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: An unexpected pregnancy causes huge emotional upset in the lives of the Doctor and Rose. With Jack the only voice of reason, will this child lead them to happily ever after or tear them apart forever?
A/N: And that's it. That's all she wrote. I have one more big twist up my sleeve. Hope it was worth the wait. Thanks for sticking with this fic for four long years. I'll try to be more prompt in future. Oh, and for those who have asked, my son is recovering quite well from the concussion. He's almost back to his old self.

Previous Chapters: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/262898.html

( Chapter Fifty: Begin as You Plan to Go On )

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Title: You're What?
Author: amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: Nine/Rose, Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith
Genre: Baby!fic, Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut, Hurt/Comfort
Rating: Adult
Betas: amyo67, thetesh
Summary: An unexpected pregnancy causes huge emotional upset in the lives of the Doctor and Rose. With Jack the only voice of reason, will this child lead them to happily ever after or tear them apart forever?

Previous Chapters: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/262898.html

( Chapter Forty-Nine: Rush )

Sometimes I feel like fall/winter is one big cold interspersed with a day or two here or there of actually feeling well.  My mind has pretty much shut down this week, although there have been brief moments of clarity where I did some writing.  LoF is squeaking along slowly but surely.  I've got 3 fics I need to beta but honestly every time I even think about it my mind goes, "Focus?  What focus?"  So hopefully I'll get around to it.  If any of you want to send them to other people I won't be offended.  I'm just so out of it.

It snowed Friday night.  We had about eight inches by Saturday morning.  Now it's mostly just cold and ice with snow on top.  We were pretty much snowed in all weekend because they didn't plow our road until about 4:00 p.m. today.  I went out and got snow boots for T.  He walks home from school so he definitely needs them.  Also waterproof gloves and a hat.

There is just about nothing funnier than watching chickens walk in snow for the first time.  It was hilarious.  The general consensus is that they don't like it.  We scattered some hay on the surface of the snow and they seemed to like that better, but spent most of the weekend in the coop.  The ducks didn't mind it, as long as the ice was broken in their little pond, they were happy.

We spent a lot of time in front of the tube since we were snowed in and it was so cold outside.  We watched all of the kick ass Martha episodes of DW, which means Human Nature/Family of Blood and Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords.  Then we watched End of Time parts one and two (Martha was so, so pretty in that ending scene with Mickey and oh, squee that moment with Rose!) and then the first seven episodes of season Five.  Rose had only seen the first two and T had only seen the first one.  You know what?  I really, really loved season five this time.  Even the Skittle Daleks episode (which was still bad science wise and history wise, but it was way more fun watching it with my children than on my own.  Part of that might have been my daughter's comments.) was enjoyable.

I think it's because I'm so far away from my expectations now.  When it first came out I had such high hopes and such eagerness for it to finally be on the air, and of course a lot of that was disappointed, but it was such a fun romp and I saw so many subtle nuances in it that I missed last time.  There are far, far more allusions to Rose and Donna than I ever saw last time around and even one that I noticed to Martha.  And there is a surprising amount of subtlety to Matt Smith's acting that I didn't notice before, either.  I'm seeing a lot more hidden pain in the Doctor.  If you really watch his eyes and these micro expressions he makes, you see it.

I'm not nearly as annoyed by the big crack either.  It's still omnipresent and in your face, but because I've seen it all play out I don't mind it so much.  I did notice some things referred to in End of Time that came to pass in season five, especially the weeping angels of old reference.  River continues to grow on me.  I find myself falling in love with Amy again.  She's smart (maybe a little unbelievably sometimes) and quick and clever and that's good, usually.  I fell out of love with her towards the middle of the season before, but I'm seeing a lot of little things in her character that I missed before.  Not massive character development, mind you, but knowing how the season ends I am firmly convinced now that that was on purpose.  And Rory, of course, is love and always will be.  We're going to watch the rest of it over the Thanksgiving holidays and I'm actually anticipating it, though I'm not sure if anything will overcome my dislike of the Silurian episodes.

The kids have dentist appointments tomorrow, so that's going to be one big two hour block of boring.  I need to remember to take a book.  I've got some Doctor Who books I've never read so I'll grab one of those.   My son's conference is Tuesday.  I hope they've plowed the parking lot.  I don't want to try to walk two blocks to his school in the ice when I've got a bum knee.  It's doing fine, but if I do anything to twist it or torque it or fall down, who knows what will happen?  They don't expect it to start melting here until Wednesday with rain on Thanksgiving.  Which reminds me, I need to take the turkey out of the freezer.  Better go do that now.  Hope everyone's weekend was nice.