fics by Erin Ptah

Title: I Want My MTV (5/6)
Rating: PG (again, bit o' swearing)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: Jack carries young Stephen for a while; Four and Sarah Jane have little success at diplomacy; and adult Stephen begins to realize that this is not the Jon he knows.

A clip from '96: young!Jon talks about aliens.

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( 'Just trust me. They're interstellar morons.' )

Title: I Want My MTV (3/6)
Rating: PG (bit o' swearing)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: Young Stephen is surprised that Jack didn't leave him; adult Stephen is surprised that young(er) Jon made him leave; and Jon is surprised by Stephen in general (as is the alien with the laser).

Pretty much all my knowledge of the Jon Stewart Show comes from the fabulous JSS Ultimate Guide.

(By the way: three cheers for President-elect Arthur Winters! Too bad Harry Saxon's gonna be shooting him in a month or two...)

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( Jon racked his brain, to no avail. If they had met, he had been in one of those states of mind where you say a lot, remember none of it, and wake up in the next state wearing somebody else's pants. )

Title: I Want My MTV (1/6)
Rating: PG
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: Jack tells young Stephen a bit about Torchwood; Ten extols the merits of planets that look like rock quarries; and Sarah Jane observes that Stephen is starting to get awfully moony.

For those trying to guess the arc word, I should clarify something: the comic that kicked this all off is not one of the serials (think of it as an intro for the first serial), and the word (well, three-word phrase, if you want to be technical) does not appear therein.

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( 'You would think a race of cybernetically enhanced turtles would be cooler. They aren't even ninjas!' )

Title: I'm Your Moon (8/9)
Rating: PG
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: Stephen gets some unexpected support, and not a moment too soon: he's the only one who can save Four and Sarah Jane, if he can pull himself together in time.

Contains more Red Dwarf allusions. Also, (David) Ten(nant) is a pretty, pretty person. Just sayin'.

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( 'If the Doctor could fix everything by himself, why would he travel with human companions in the first place?' )

Title: I'm Your Moon (6/9)
Rating: PG-13 (angst, language)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: Four, Sarah Jane, and the Wørd start fighting through the wilds of Stephen's psyche; Jack finally learns who Stephen is, and Ten says a bit too much.

(A couple of people have been trying to guess the arc word. Note that it appears at least once in every serial—which really narrows your options, because the first serial doesn't have all that many words.)

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( 'A bit bruised. Scratched. Sore. I've got a touch of rope burn from letting go that branch, and I'm choking on the physical evidence of Stephen's impending terrified breakdown. Other than that, never better.' )

Title: I'm Your Moon (4/9)
Rating: PG (the wet and soapy kind)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: Young Stephen's situation gets soapier; adult Stephen's predicament gets scarier; and Four and Sarah Jane learn just who on the psi-moon has been sentenced to death.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin

See also: wallpapers! Four and Ten.

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( 'So you're lost and alone and it's dark and cold and there are things out there that might possibly want to eat you. So what?' )

Title: Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space: I'm Your Moon (2/9)
Rating: PG (the wet and soapy kind)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S3/Torchwood S2 is fair game.
Summary: On the unidentified planetoid, Four and Sarah Jane meet their very charming host. On Earth, Jack, Ten, and young Stephen visit a Turkish bath, which, as you might expect, gets pretty gay.

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( People told Stephen he was white, and he believed them, because nobody had ever burned a cross on his lawn. )

Title: Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space: deleted scenes
Rating: G
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Summary: A couple of young!Stephen moments cut from the beginning of the third serial.

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( As there was no other audience in the room, he was addressing his reflection in the full-length mirror. )

Title: Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space: How Many Time Lords Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb? (7/8)
Rating: PG (with ropes on)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S4 is fair game.
Summary: Stephen's pro-fascism leanings are drawing him to the Master, until Sarah Jane asks the classic question: WWJD?

A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.
The Master (The Five Doctors)

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( 'I'm sure he only took them over for their own good. They were probably freewheeling hives of liberal excess that needed a little rule-of-law to whip them into shape.' )

Title: Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space: How Many Time Lords Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb? (5/8)
Rating: PG (with ropes on)
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Anything through New Who S4 is fair game.
Summary: Ten pulls a few Time Lord mind tricks to keep the young Stephen from snapping. Thanks to the Master, adult Stephen appears live on television for the first time in over a thousand years.

If you're not very invested in Who continuity, you can just sit back and enjoy the ride. But for those keeping track: The Master (Ainley version) and the Rani are just coming from the end of Time and the Rani, which is why they're together on a broken TARDIS. Four at this point has mostly encountered Delgado!Master. However, Ainley!Master has been met by all three of the Doctor's previous incarnations, during The Five Doctors.

Stephen's morbid streak has appeared as far back as 2000 (thanks, rissaofthesaiya!); but for the recent, and really unsettling, stuff, check out his one-sided conversations with his gun.

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( 'Did they frequently tie him up on his show?' inquired the Doctor. 'He doesn't seem the type. At least, not in public.' )