Star Crossed

Doctor Who fanfiction crossovers recs & more

His Dark Materials / Philip Pullman May 22, 2011

Title: A Wind From Another World
Author: Poetry
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 27,465
Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Lyra etc.

Long, well-written crossover fic for Philip Pullman’s series.

 

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer – Chalet School April 7, 2011

Title: another time (around the wheel)
Author: thankyouturtle
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 14,377
Characters: Eleventh Doctor, Simone Lecoutier, Joey Bettany, Len Maynard, Con Maynard, Margot Maynard, Elise Lepattre, Grizel Cochrane.

A thoughtful, interesting and properly timey-wimey crossover. (So much so I’m unsure whether to say it will only make sense for CS fans, or whether it actually might be easier to read as a CS newbie in other ways). Sort of AU, sort of not. (I did say time-wimey, yes?)

 

Animorphs / K.A. Applegate April 5, 2011

Title: To Fear the Wolf
Author: Poetry
Rating: All Ages / PG
Word Count: 937
Characters: The TARDIS, Rose Tyler, Rachel Berenson

A brilliantly written short crossover with Rose as Bad Wolf, and mostly told from the TARDIS’s POV.

 

Noddy / Enid Blyton November 26, 2010

Title: There’s No Noddy
Author: Derek Metaltron
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1595
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Second Doctor, Zoe Heriot, Noddy, Big Ears, PC Plod

This makes great use of cutting between The Unicorn and the Wasp to The Mind Robber to make one of the unlikeliest crossovers ever occur. It’s very entertaining.

 

Swallows & Amazons November 23, 2010

Title: Let’s Pretend
Author: vvj5
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 604
Characters: Liz Shaw, Ruth (Nancy) Blackett

Miss Ruth Blackett encounters a group of children playing in the park and rediscovers Captain Nancy.

 

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory September 15, 2010

Title: Amelia and the Gigantic Gobstopper
Author: vvj5
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1176
Characters: Amelia Pond, Willy Wonka

Amelia Pond meets another mad man with a box who wants to talk about food.

 

Mary Poppins October 5, 2009

Title: A Red Travel Bag
Author: Gary Merchant
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 1681
Characters: Sixth Doctor, Dr Evelyn Smythe, Mary Poppins

The Doctor introduces Evelyn to new possibilities and a new acquaintance. You really wouldn’t think there could be two crossovers for this, but the world is a wonderful place, after all…

 

Mary Poppins August 2, 2009

(Books & Film)
Title: A Spoonful of Sugar
Author: Aibhinn
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 644
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mary Poppins

Um, yes. And it actually manages to work.

 

Chalet School April 18, 2009

What the heck, let’s not go too mainstream just yet…! (For the uninitiated, the Chalet School series by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer ran from 1925-1970), the early stories being set in Austria, the last run in Switzerland.

Two CS/DW AUs:
Sarah Jane of the Chalet School by paranoidangel
All Ages; AU
Word Count: 26,065
Characters: Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Joey Bettany, Madge Russell, Grizel Cochrane, Juliet Carrick, James Russell, Jack Maynard (et al.)

Sarah is in need of a job and gets a teaching post at the Annexe of her old school. Meanwhile, Dr Harry Sullivan joins the Sanatorium. (Despite this, it doesn’t end the way Elinor would have ended it.)

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Companions at the Chalet School by hhertzof
All Ages; AU
Word Count: 36,184
Characters: Sarah Jane Smith, Barbara Wright, Josephine Grant, Ace McShane, Tenth Doctor, Seventh Doctor; Hilda Annersley, Joey Maynard, Kathie Ferrars, Althea Glenyon (et al.)

This is in many ways so true to the series and could almost not be an AU if you wanted it not to be. Seven’s actions around the scene (including getting himself a teaching post briefly), Sarah and Ace’s “I think we’re going to be the girls who don’t fit in.” and the loving but merciless employment of just about every Chalet School cliche makes this well worth a read for fans of both series.

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hhertzof has also written this short Chalet cross:

A Letter to Joey
All Ages
Word Count: 937
Characters: Joey Maynard, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, the triplets.

Sarah writes a letter to Joey after the Invasion of the Bane. (I’d match Harry with a different trip, but that’s a minor quibble.) What Sarah doesn’t write is more telling than what she does.