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So a friend of mine elliotsmelliot, did this meme ages ago and I loved it and figured I’d have a crack at it. Like, two years later, I’m finally posting it up.

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. If you have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once. Alphabetize the list. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc. Graphic! Or fanfic, whatever you like. Go nuts!

( Graphiccy/fanficcy goodness under here. )

LOST
I Don't Want To Be Alone Tonight - Gina Jeffreys
Still Here - "I'm Still Here" by Johnny Rzeznik
Are We Dancing? - from "The Happiest Millionare"
Vincent - Don McLean
Innocent Eyes - Delta Goodrem
Yesterday - The Beatles
Suitcase - Joe Purdy
Cry - James Blunt
Friend and Father - "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera
Sing Us A Song - "Piano Man" by Billy Joel
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Shine - David Gray
I Remember - Damien Rice
Remember When It Rained - Josh Groban
Fallen Star - as in "Catch a Falling Star" by Perry Como
Seven Years - Norah Jones
When The Sand Runs Out - Rascal Flatts
Never Alone - Barlow Girl
Fall Away - The Fray
Hold On - Sarah McLachlan
The Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Broken - Seether ft. Amy Lee
Dead Wrong - The Fray
Dedicated To The One I Love - The Mamas and the Papas (INCIDENTALLY ALSO MY 100TH LOST FANFICTION)
Look After You - The Fray
Perfect Strangers - INXS
Suicide Note - Johnette Napolitano
I'm A Sinner, I'm A Saint - "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks
Better Days - The Goo Goo Dolls
Fight For You - "The Special Two" by Missy Higgins
Someone to Watch (Over Me) - George Gershwin
Into The Ocean - Blue October
You Killed It (With I Love You) - "Sunday Morning" by Lily Allen
I'll Be Watching You - The Police
3am - Matchbox 20
You've Got a Friend - Carole King
It's Delicate - "Delicate" by Damien Rice
Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters

WHO
Want and Need - from "I Want You" by Savage Garden
Clock Tick, and Think Of You - "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper
Half A World Away - Secret Garden
That Face - from "The Producers"
(Can't) Let Myself Fall - "Let Myself Fall" by Rosie Thomas
Orange Coloured Sky - can't remember, cbf looking it up :P
It's a new life (and I'm feeling good) - “Feelin’ Good” by everyone and their mother
Under My Skin - "I've Got You Under My Skin" by Frank Sinatra
what happens when the heart just stops? – The Frames
Breathe In, Breathe Out - Polly Scattergood
put the lime in the coconut you drink 'em both up - “Lime in the Coconut” by Jimmy Buffett
Rosie's Got A Gun - “Janie’s Got a Gun” by REM
No I don’t love you anymore (I’m a liar) - “Liar” by 8mm
Nightminds - Missy Higgins
Tapestry - Carole King
cuz I got high - Afroman
he was a punk, she did ballet - "Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne
Can You See Me Now? - tatu
Better Days - The Goo Goo Dolls
And after all; you're my... - "Wonderwall" by Oasis
For you, dear, anything - "I'd Do Anything" from Oliver!
From here you can almost see the sea - David Gray
Fry me kangaroo brown, sport - "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" by Rolf Harris
Held my hand - "My Immortal" by Evanescence
Hold it all when I hold you – "Time and Confusion" by Anberlin
Now You're Just Somebody That I Used To Know - "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye ft. Kimbra
oh, this kiss! this kiss! - "This Kiss" by Faith Hill
She’s touch, smell, sight, taste and sound (or five times Rose Tyler piqued one of the Doctors many senses) - "She's So High" Tal Bachman

OBSERVATIONS
Holy bloody hell I forgot how many Lost fanfictions I actually wrote...I really must go back and re-read them at some point and cringe over their awfulness. I really appear to love "Better Days" by the Goo Goo Dolls as I have used it in two different fandoms. Also, I'm amazed at how many songs by The Fray I used for my Lost fics in rapid succession...weird. I must have been listening to them a lot :P

Any other thoughts from anyone else out there?

Can You See Me Now? Ten/Rose, PG
Travelling with the Doctor is mad, wonderful...and most definitely not a fairytale. Following the shattering loss of Mickey, Rose immerses herself in Disney movies and the Doctor tries desperately to shake her out of funk by taking her to Hal Fador. Happiness, after all, can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light... 2,795 words

( They managed to stay at the Powell Estate for almost a week before the Doctor started going a touch mad. )

He was a punk, she did ballet Nine/Rose AU, PG
There is something so much more to it than that though. It’s in the way his eyes soften when she apologises for wasting trips to go and see another ballet when they’ve already seen a million of them. It’s in the way he watches her dance, how willing he is to sneak her into lessons with exclusive ballet companies using the psychic paper...
Written for this prompt at the TTU fic-a-thon.

( She doesn’t expect him to tackle her as she walks home and wrestle her dancing bag off her though. Or to turn up at her house a few days later to steal her new Pointe shoes because apparently they’ve been manufactured by an alien company intent on taking over the world. )

literal and metaphorical Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose, PG
Two times the swimming pool was in the library before Eleven’s regeneration. One literal, the other mostly metaphorical. Written for this prompt at the doctor_rose_fix summer ficathon.

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A touch that heals Nine/Rose, PG
After a wall collapses onto Nine he is characteristically grumpy and a little bit short with Rose. She of course, forgives him for everything once she sees the bruises and fluff ensues.

( She was never meant to see him like this. )

Prologue, Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six, Chapter Seven, Chapter Eight, Chapter Nine, Chapter Ten, Chapter Eleven, Epilogue
( I’m sure this fic doesn’t need a summary by now so have some authors notes instead )

( Of all sad things of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.” )

We bend and creak but never break Rose/TenII, NC-17
Something angsty with smut thrown in somewhere. Focusing on the new found mortality of TenII. He isn’t here, not really. Physically he’s taking up the bed with his long legs and miles of plastic tubing, but Rose just can’t align this fragile looking creature with her Doctor. 4,919 words.
A/N: rubberbisquit I really tried to just do angst. I did. But for some reason when you tell my muse to do angst she does fluff instead :P so there’s a bit of both.


To feed a starving man on breadcrumbs, Ten/Rose/Bad Wolf, PG
One finger caresses a sweet line of warmth down his cheek, like a tear of molten gold and he tries desperately hard not to crack in two. Her lips trace the slipstream and come to rest on his chin, trembling as it is. She kisses him there, so softly, and draws back to whisper her love to him like the universes greatest secret. 1244 words


Under the Influence Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose, PG-13
“You don’t scare me!” she says and her voice might be small and she might tremble as she says it but she isn’t afraid. Not really. “The Doctor’d never let anything hurt me. An’ I don’t care what you say, he’s still in there and I’ll bet he’s fightin’ you with everything he’s got!” 1,588 words


Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow Nine/Rose, PG
The Doctor sat vigilant at her bedside and read Lewis Carroll until her feverish brain allowed her to rest, but soon enough she was shaking her head at Kipling’s whimsy and being enchanted by the kindness of Sara Crewe and the transformation of Mary Lennox and by the time she had progressed from broth to solids they’d finished off the bookshelf and he was tramping the ten miles or so back to the TARDIS every other day to find new stories for her. 620 words