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Okay, let's put my reaction under a cut as well, but just for everyone else: do yourself a favour and click on the above 'keep reading' to read beautiful fluffy fics with the best ships <3

Mels is only in a single episode, which is the greatest injustice ever 😭 Moffat really introduced her just to kill her off after 10 minutes. Like, she was Amy's BEST FRIEND. And she never appears before lkh OR after. It is such a crime, really.

Anyway Ahhhhhh, I love these so much, honey!! Both snippets!

Vastra is the queen of drama 🥰 like, love, you could literally just move out of the sun and it'd probably be bearable to cuddle. Especially after Jenny had already resigned to cuddle despite the heat. Really, the things she puts up with <3 (I mean, I would, too, Vastra is adorable <3)

I LOVE that they hold hands in the end bc that is exactly what I was envisioning for the prompt. Can't cuddle but NEED TO BE IN CONTACT. Desperately <3 So glad your mind went in the same direction :)

Also, as always, adore their pet names 🥰 They are so married <3

It is completely fair that you couldn't imagine them divorcing - tbf I was struggling with that idea as well - and my, am I happy about the choice you made 😊 Any Doctorriver is good Doctorriver but Marchingband is the best <3 as you know <33

You write Mels really well, absolutely no need to worry about that. She is first and foremost (at least in the way she presents herself) a little (flirty) shit who is here to cause problems on purpose, so suggesting the divorce of convenience is totally what she would do. Also peeking into her future! Very naughty but we know she will continue to do so despite knowing better for all her life :) Can't tell her what to do, can you? 🥰

I love that you wrote the Doctor tinkering on something. Especially on something Mels broke. That's just perfect.

(Mels frying those wires, nodding to herself "Providing enrichment for her enclosure, I am going to get a good grade in companion.")

Generally adore how you write the Doctor. I love how she is a little reluctant to let Mels too close but at the same time has kinda resigned that yes, this will definitely happen and she's halfway gone already - or maybe that is just me interpretating my own headcanons into this, but it definitely works with your themes :)

Good move to lure the Doctor with desserts, Mels, darling; I am a tiny bit surprised it didn't work better, especially since you included lovely organic Sontaran milk!! Who wouldn't want to eat that?! But, I mean, it does work in the end, doesn't it? Or maybe it's just that the Doctor can't say no to Mels?? 👀

It is SO them to get divorced before the wedding, too. Never doing things in the 'right' order, are they? 🥰 This is such a nice parallel to 10River or even 11River, honestly <3 Also, I would LOVE to be that divorce lawyer:

"So, am I getting this right, Ma'am-" "Doctor, please, no Ma'am." "Right, Doctor - am I to understand you would like to get a divorce from this woman? Who you are NOT married to?" "We are married, love. Just not in this timeline - yet." "I am terribly sorry, Doctor, but I can't issue a legal document for another timeline!" "- that sounds like a skill issue on your part, frankly."

And then: Even if the Doctor thought Mels a wonderfully complicated woman who shared a similarly horrible upbringing, they were both much too damaged from that to be suited for any sort of relationship.

Honey, no! I mean, love that for her that she is so rational and reasonable about this. And I love the thasmin parallels of deciding you are not in a situation where you can invest emotionally in a relationship, no matter how much you want to. But, like, hng, just - you could be so good together! 🥺 But, like, they are together, are they not? and Mels is bringing the Doctor joy and that is beautiful <3

And then those kisses on the knuckles - I am weak! I can so see them do that, either to the other and always making the other get wobbly knees <3

No, really, thank you, I should have spent more of this reblog on the (actual) wives, because they deserve (and have) my love as well, but can you blame me, when you are giving me Marchingband?? (I am totally going to continue using that shipping name until it is a thing btw, Pine created art with it) Also, correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are officially the second person ever to write for this specific flavour of Doctorriver! (Which also means I am not alone anymore 😅)

Thank you so much, this has considerably brightened my day <3

Divorce of convenience is speaking to me, I gotta say. For anyone you want but Jenny and Vastra ARE married and COULD get divorced (for convenience sake), just saying.

Too hot to cuddle sounds very cute as well though :)

So, like, if either of these inspire anything - I'd be very excited to read it!

Okay okay! I'm gonna give you the second prompt first as I wrote this for Jenny and Vastra! I did the first one as well and wanted to challenge myself (and treat you), so that'll be the surprise at the end! Both are under the cut because it'd be too long a post otherwise XD

Too hot to cuddle - Jenny/Vastra

Jenny was drawn to the greenhouse by Vastra's disgruntled hisses, and when she found her sprawled upon a warm rock in the sun, Jenny knew she would have to resign herself to cuddles despite the heat as soon as Vastra's eyes found her. "Jennyyyy," Vastra made, her eyes barely opened, her chest heaving and sinking with each breath she took. "It's alright, m'ducks," Jenny said as she began unbuttoning her dress. Really, she ought to get some light summer dresses for Vastra's greenhouse and its oppressive heat. Instead, she soon stood only in drawers and a petticoat in front of Vastra, ready to join her. One upside of having a Silurian wife, she thought, was the blessed coolness of her scales most of the time. Jenny sat next to Vastra who hadn't moved, and she just wanted to wrap her arms around Vastra when she was shoved away. Vastra continued sighing as though she were the unluckiest creature in the world, and Jenny frowned. "What was that for? I just wanted to give you cuddles," Jenny huffed, crossing her arms. If anyone had a right to complain here, it was Jenny. After all, beads of sweat were already forming in her neck. "It's too hot for cuddles," Vastra groaned, spreading her arms wide to soak up the heat of the rock instead. "You're impossible," Jenny said with an eyeroll. "I am not!" Vastra was even too sleepy to sound truly offended, and her eyelids were still half-closed. "I want to touch you but it's too warm…" "We could just get out of the greenhouse then," Jenny suggested. "But it is too cold outside, my love!" Jenny slid off the rock with a shrug. "Then I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to help you, darling…" "Staaaay," Vastra demanded with a whine, and she reached out to grasp Jenny's hand with hers. "Mmmh, I like holding your hand." "Daft lizard," Jenny muttered as she sat back down, now holding only Vastra's hand. "You enjoy being complicated, don't you, m'ducks." Vastra smiled proudly. "Always, my dear."

I hope you enjoyed this!! And now for the second one...

Divorce of Convenience - ???/???

"Well. This is a first," Mels said, waving around a brochure advertising a new restaurant at the edge of the universe. The Doctor pushed her yellow half-moon specs up her nose and frowned. "What's that, love?" Mels leaned back in the armchair she had asked the TARDIS to materialise specifically for her, and she gave the Black woman a toothy grin. "This restaurant's offering a special deal to newly divorced couples." The Doctor frowned. "Newly divorced? As in, the couple coming in together?" "Yup. There's something quite… Alluring about it, don't you think? Getting benefits for breaking up?" "Waste of time if you ask me… And an attempt at commercialising everything you can possibly experience." She turned her attention back to the chronon blaster her… lovely companion Mels had overheated on their last little adventure. The wires had completely fused with the power source, and the Doctor wondered again why she had ever let Mels board her TARDIS. She was dangerous and like fire. Well, the Doctor had always liked playing with fire and could never leave her hands off danger. Despite being more reserved this time round, as a precaution most of all, her behaviour could border on reckless at times, as her recent skirmishes with one Mels Zucker proved. "They even have desserts," Mels lured, something that certainly would have worked on less careful regenerations of the Doctor. She, however, remained unmoved, in part to tease Mels. The Doctor's lips curled into a grin when Mels let out a groan. "They even have Sontaran cheesecake with cheese out of 98% organic Sontaran milk!" As though that was something that would convince her to change her mind. The Doctor blanched at the mere thought of Sontaran cheesecake and its ingredients. "What's the other two percent?" "Or Pting popsicles," Mels continued. "Silurian egg soufflé? Mondas sherbet, or perhaps some Ood chocolate. One of them is something I just made up." "I don't know, love. Putting aside the fact none of that sounds edible, you're forgetting the crucial factor that we aren't divorced. Or married, for that matter." A challenging grin appeared on Mels's face, and she looked the Doctor up and down. Immediately, she arched her back and fixed her blue overcoat. Even if the Doctor thought Mels a wonderfully complicated woman who shared a similarly horrible upbringing, they were both much too damaged from that to be suited for any sort of relationship. "We are in the future, you know," Mels said, and the Doctor nearly choked on her laugh. "We're WHAT???" "Married. You and I. In our future." The Doctor raised an eyebrow and glanced at Mels over the rims of her glasses. "And how would you know that?" "I looked it up." The Doctor was about to start giving Mels a lecture about the damage she could have caused to the timelines with her careless behaviour when Mels slid out the chair and, hips swaggering, approached the Doctor. Distracted, the Doctor missed her opportunity to take a step back, and Mels held her hands and placed kisses to her knuckles before the Doctor could prevent it. She felt her resolve melting, the anger dissipating in a beat of her hearts. "Come on, honey. Let's have some fun crashing a party. And we can get dessert as well." With an eyeroll, the Doctor pressed a sloppy kiss to the corner of Mels' mouth. She pushed past her and keyed something into the TARDIS console. "Hey, what are you doing??" Mels complained, perhaps taking the Doctor's behaviour as rejection of the idea rather than an admittance of defeat. "Ah, hun… I'm finding us the nearest divorce lawyer."

I hope, hope hope I did them justice! It was my first time writing Mels, and only my second time writing Fugitive, I think! I couldn't for the life of me think of any circumstances under which Jenny and Vastra would have a divorce of convenience, so I thought I'd pick characters you adored, and these two do seem more the type! (I was first thinking about doing TwelveRiver or ThirteenRiver or FugitiveRiver, but I thought, why not make it Mels, despite me having very little experience writing her, and it's been a while since I've seen the episode(s?) she's in! Thank you so much for these prompts, they were great fun to write!!