Hi everyone! Some friends and I decided to start doing Texts From Last Night prompts so I thought having a little ficlet collection for TFLN prompts for my Halfway Out of the Dark series might be quite fun. This will include a variety of the pairings in the series. :)

For newcomers, the significant differences in my HOOTD universe to canon are:

- Esther did the blood transfusion instead and both she and Rex made it out alive in Miracle Day, so she is immortal not him

- The new Torchwood is back up and running in Cardiff with those four plus a doctor called Marion Narke

- John Hart is back on the scene and playing nice to try and get Jack to love him again

- Jenny (Doctor's Daughter) is working at Torchwood

- The Ponds are off living happily with their two children Vincent and Isabella

- The Doctor is travelling with Aliya, a Time Lady who was one of his best friends growing up but they became somewhat estranged when they were older only to eventually reconcile after the Time War, though they still have their rough moments (We'll use the word platonish as opposed to platonic in terms of defining their relationship)

- Due to Aliya's presence, small changes in events resulted in a drastic change of events. Most of Series 6 has not yet occurred at this point and River is already dead, the Ponds are not involved and she is not the Astronaut

In terms of when these little ficlets happen, let's assume they are roughly canon but keep the timelining a bit vague. Just get a ballpark area and don't worry about it too much. This is fun more than anything else.

(856):

We were having a serious discussion about Blue's Clues and I just kept thinking, 'you've seen me naked'.

(Esther Drummond and Eleven)

"You know, I once tried to have my own handy dandy notebook at one point," The Doctor said cheerfully to Esther as he stuffed cupcake into his mouth, "Didn't quite work out, though I drew the TARDIS on the front in crayon and everything."

Esther nodded. "Yeah, I used to watch it with my nieces, so once for their birthday I put the blue pawprints around the house and we went around writing down the clues in a notebook I made specially."

"That's lovely." He beamed at her. "Best Aunt in the world, you are, I bet."

His smile was charming, as it always had been, but all she could think for the life of her was what Jack had said to her that morning, about how not only was she the physical identical of the Doctor's best friend's first body, but of how the Doctor and Aliya had actually been romantically involved at that point in their lives.

He's seen me naked, Esther thought, hoping her awkward and horrified inner thoughts weren't showing on her face, Oh god he's seen me naked, or at least he knows what I look like naked.

That was when she realised he was staring at her expectantly.

"Are you okay? You look worried," He asked.

Resisting the urge to blush - she hoped - and tucking a golden lock of hair behind her ear, Esther just shook her head. "No, not worried at all."

"And now you're blushing," He noted, smiling a little, "You know, even with an identical face and everything you never really looked like her until you did that." The smile was nostalgic and almost more affectionate than she felt comfortable with. "I've missed that blush, but never realised."

"You know I think I can hear Gwen calling for me," She said quickly, "Sorry." She dashed off before the situation could get any stranger. This whole 'genetic spatial multiplicity' thing was really just too much to handle. The only possible explanation was that it was the universe's way of pulling a prank on its inhabitants by creating maximum embarrassment for all involved.

Expect many of the different pairings in this series to pop up with some more normal prompts and some rather ridiculous ones. This is TFLN after all. Hope you guys enjoyed it!

(I am updating IBTS soon, I promise, it's just moving at a snail's pace right now for some reason)

-MayFairy :)

p.s. I have a River/fem!OC Firefly fanfic that continues on after Serenity if anyone is interested. :P