You know how
sometimes you have an urge to re-read something you only vaguely
remember? And I mean very
vaguely, like you don't even remember the title.
Well,
now we have the internet and nostalgia can get a but funny. Many
moons ago I remember reading a very odd but very good fan fiction in
which Fitz Kreiner (from the late-90s/early-2000s Doctor
Who novels) gets dumped by the
Doctor during the Time War and ends up living in the modern US, but
here's the twist, as a side character in NCIS.
I vaguely remember Torchwood turning up and Fitz hooking up with Tony
DiNozzo but that's about it. I don't remember much else but I do
remember enjoying it.
So
it turns out that there are 146 stories that come up on AO3 when you
search “Doctor Who NCIS”, obviously not a search term helped by
the fact that “doctor” and “who” are both regularly occuring
words but it turns out there are a fair number of stories
legitimately crossing the two over.
A
lot of them seem to have Abby Sciuto as a companion. Not that I blame
anyone for wanting to write Abby Sciuto as a companion or wanting to
write Abby Sciuto in general, she's probably my favourite character
on NCIS and not just
because Pauley Perrette is absolutely gorgeous. Okay, a bit because
of that. Fine, a lot
because of that, its not actually that interesting of a show watched
episodically.
Moving
on...
The
fact that a lot of different writers have thought these two series
have enough in common to mask them together is... oddly fascinating.
Its not a pairing I ever would have considered (and this is coming
from a man who, somehow, is of the opinion the Chloé
Bourgeois/Alya Césaire
tag is desperately underpopulated at only 29 works) and the very fact
its occurred to so many people is oddly heartening.
And
the Chloé/Alya
things is totally going to be the basis of a post, I should think,
its just too petty of a complaint not to get some entertainment out
of.
