The Slow Path (Jack/Tosh) 15

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Title: The Slow Path
Pairing: Jack/Tosh
Rating: 15
Warnings: None
Spoilers: up to 'Captain Jack Harkness' for Torchwood and the Doctor Who episode 'Aliens of London'
Summary: Owen can't open the rift; Jack and Tosh are left to find their own way back. Written for the

Comments

[laurab1]

This is lovely :) Great!

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Thank you :)

[significantowl]

oh, pretty pretty! Thank you for writing it!!

The characterizations are just perfect - Tosh is so much herself in her narration, and the way she sees Jack and the things he says feel just right. There's a lovely rhythm to the story, and a hush that fits these two - their happiness, their sadness, their connection, it's all quiet.

I love their post-first-time conversation (hee); I love the 'we'd have to get a pig to fly a ship into the Thames and it could get complicated' (hee again), and oh, I love the way you ended it, right in the middle of Owen and Ianto's argument, right in the middle of back-to-real-life.

Thank you again!!

[_stolendreams_]

You're very welcome :D I actually had a lot of fun writing this in the end.

*grins* I just had to finish their first-time with humour.
And the line about the pig was written down even before I knew how that subject was going to come up or when they'd discuss it, it was one of those lines that just comes out of nowhere.

I'm very glad you liked it. This was my first ficathon so I was so nervous about producing something you'd hate

[anubischick]

Oh how lovely and heart wrenching and sorrowful without being depressing. She made it back so much older and wiser but still Toshiko through and through. I actually really like this pair not necessarily in a romantic sense although I have read a few that carries it off well, but just in the sense that they seem to work so well together. Him all flamboyant exuberance, she quiet determination but both with deep reservoirs of emotion. I really truly adore this, thank you for sharing it with us.

[_stolendreams_]

*nods*
I loved their relationship in the series, they just fit together so nicely as friends. I'd played with this idea before I got the assignment but never quite got anywhere with it, so having something to make me work on it was good.
For me at least, this is the one scenario where they could have a long term relationship, I really believe that Jack would have kept his promise to take care of her. Jack isn't a one true love kind of man, but in a situation like the one I put them I don't think anything could have made him leave her.

I'm glad you liked this. Thank you for the review :)

[emmyaward]

Ooh, really really lovely. I do like some good Jack/Tosh, especially with the frame of that episode. Nice work.

[atraphoenix]

That was so heart breaking and so beautiful and just...yeah, just WOW.

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Thank you :) I'm glad you liked it.