Best TenRose Fix-It Fanfics
The best fix-it TenRose (Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios.
Top TenRose Fix-It Fic Recs
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Electrostatic Potential
Fix-Itby tenscupcake
As the Doctor and Rose traverse time and space looking for adventure, they slowly fall victim to a mysterious energy that can manipulate their emotions. Though confused and unnerved by the cerebral affliction, neither of them understands its cause, or realizes that it could jeopardize their friendsh
Twelve Times a Blonde Lunatic Molested the Doctor... And One Time She Assaulted Him
Fix-Itby Mountainlily00
AKA, Twelve Doctors Rose Tyler Snogged and One She SlappedThis all started with mental image of Rose springing a surprise snog on Six, waltzing with Three and getting married to Two (and Jamie) all while searching for her own Doctor. It devolved from there.
Scratching the Itch
by bendingsignpost
Her mum had always told her that blokes had only one thing on their minds, but this was taking it to an entirely new level.
Connect-the-Dots
by orphan_account
Rose Tyler has a soul mark. The Doctor does not. Consequently, he knows where they stand. Then he regenerates on Christmas, and he suddenly doesn't know anything at all.
Non-Linear Love Story
by bendingsignpost
"Come with me." She's worth it, he thinks. They fit so well together and she already knows how to use a fire extinguisher.
The Choice
by lastincurableromantic (lirlovesfic)
After GitF, the TARDIS brings the Doctor, Rose and Mickey back to Earth to solve an emergency involving the TARDIS herself. But when they see a familiar face, the face of someone who should not exist, they realize the crisis is much deeper than they thought and is one that could endanger the Doctor'
To Make Much of Time
by Chocolatequeen
The Doctor thought he’d removed all traces of the Vortex from Rose, but there was still something of the Wolf about her. What would have changed if he’d been forced to face that–and if Rose had understood what she was becoming? A series 2 canon divergence fic starting with Tooth and Claw and followi
No Rose Without a Thorn
by morningsound15
Rose goes to sleep one night next to her husband, John Smith, the man she has loved for going on three years now, and wakes up the next morning face-to-face with a complete stranger.She just about falls straight out of bed.**Or: Whenever the Doctor regenerates, his human double over in Pete’s World
One Crowded Hour
by allegoricalrose (SilentStars)
"Doctor? Why am I crying?" An hour is missing from both of their memories and Rose is pregnant: the repercussions.
Run and Hide For Your Life
by Rachel_Lu
The Doctor and Rose flee to 1913, where they must hide from the Family of Blood. How the Doctor places Rose in his human self's mind, however, could prove to be more trouble for them than the Family themselves.
The Key
by Vampiyaa
Rose's TARDIS key is proving to have changed just as much as the Doctor has, in his tenth body. She's kept it on a chain that she keeps round her neck, and whenever she's nervous, she sucks on it. Too bad the TARDIS is channelling that straight to him. One shot, Ten/Rose, very silly; Interfering TAR
sad, beautiful, tragic (aka me, you, and us).
by orphan_account
"So, is this it?" Amy asks. "Is this what TIme Lords pray to?" The Doctor glances at the ceiling, then at the TARDIS blue door that holds a remnant of his hearts. "No," The Doctor says, "Only the one." (The door reads 'The Doctor and Rose Tyler'.)
A Shop Girl With A Broken Fob Watch
by LicieOIC
Following an emergency landing in the Dorset town of Broadchurch, the Doctor must hide his Time Lord self inside a fob watch to escape some vicious hunters, leaving Rose to look after his human self, Alec Hardy.
The Consequences of Dreaming
by NoPondInTheForest
Years have passed since the Doctor walked away, leaving the woman he loved behind with his double. Now traveling with the Ponds, his broken hearts are an old secret, hidden away under the guise of the manic, dynamic alien. So when a mysterious threat arises, compelling him to return to Pete's World,
Senses Only Divide Us
by tenscupcake
When the Doctor is rendered temporarily blind and deaf by a hostile sect of aliens, Rose discovers the only way to comfort him is through touch.
Before it Breaks
by Aeolist
The walls between the universes close before the TARDIS reaches Bad Wolf Bay and the two Doctors and Rose have to learn how to relate to each other now that everything's changed.
Don't Leave Me Hanging on the Telephone
by leftennant
“Rose, the rain,” he said running his fingers through his dripping hair, “it’s an aphrodisiac."
Rose Petals
by LicieOIC
Enough is enough. The Doctor loves Rose and it's past time he made a move. But he decides that she deserves a proper courtship and adapts traditional Gallifreyan rituals to fit their situation.
Until Time Makes History of Us
by surrexi
Settled in to life without the Doctor in the alternate universe, Rose Tyler takes a walk in a park and suddenly finds herself in 1913. Then she meets a man, identical to the Doctor, calling himself John Smith. Is he the Doctor's Pete's World doppelganger, or has Rose somehow ended up back in the pro
Three Doctors and a Baby
by NoPondInTheForest
"The Day of the Doctor" with Rose and a baby. That is all.(Part of my "Consequences" series, can be read as standalone.)
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Why Fix-It TenRose Fanfiction Works So Well
Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler — The shop girl who saved the universe and the Time Lord who burned up a sun just to say goodbye — and still couldn't finish the sentence. Doomsday's beach separation remains revival Doctor Who's defining heartbreak, and Ten/Rose fic has been completing 'Rose Tyler, I—' ever since.
Fix-It — Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.
The wall between universes is the whole genre: fans exist to breach it, or to write the TARDIS years before it went wrong. The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios. That's why fix-it TenRose fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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