attack of the muse

Yeah, this one.

Surprise surprise, it's not Geordi-Leah this time *gasp!* shocking, I know. The muse got hold of me after I saw one line in a quirky sort of drabble... how to explain it. It was five-word ficlets that made up two drabbles, and two of the lines were "Sarah and Harry travel." "More daleks, Sarah abandoned abruptly." And naturally the part of me that feels like Sarah Jane had something to say about that. I got inspired, commandeered the computer and wrote this. It follows on in the same universe as shape Shifting, obviously, and I confess I was writing *me* as much as I was her. My RL life and daydreams are uber-visible, I know. This just... had to get written.

And the tongue twister that gets de-twisted and changed as part of Sarah's thought processes actually goes like this:

Say this shortly, say this sweetly,
say this softly, say this sharply,
say this sixteen times in succession.

but I flaming well wasn't going to have four do *that*!

And there's a song with the same title as this fic, that's where I got it. That and... life.

When The Dawn Breaks
Author: Chanter
Series: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Pairings: very faint (one-sided?) Four/Sarah
Summary: How did she leave, and why? Sarah Jane clears up a myth.
400 words

( When The Dawn Breaks )