where there's smoke there's--

The Diary of River Song series is dead. Long live The Death and Life of River Song. The first installment in this Big Finish series links Silence in the Library's, well, Library, to the early days of the Nerva Beacon (the space station from The Ark in Space).

( Short rundown with review but cut since this audio just came out )

Title: The Best Archaeologist in Mutter's Spiral | AO3
Author:merryghoul
Rating: R
Pairing/Characters: Romana II/River Song, Romana I, mentions of the Fourth Doctor and Jack Harkness
Contains: sexual content
Spoilers: There's a mention of a brief memory of Romana's from the Big Finish audio Neverland.
Summary: Romana needs River to save Gallifrey's zinc hawthorns.
Word Count: 1342
A/N:
For jinxed_wood.

This story doesn't strictly follow Romana II's presidency in the Big Finish audios, so it's safe to say this story is AU and timey-wimey.

With thanks to pollyglump for the quick beta (all other errors my own) and Burn Notice, of all things, for the inspiration for this story.

Reposted because the original LJ entry ended up bunching itself together for reasons unknown.

( The Best Archaeologist in Mutter's Spiral )