Fic: Post-Mortem Part 2: Profiling Jack Harkness
Author: CrabbyLioness
Pairings: Team, Jack/Ianto mentioned, Gwen/Owen mentioned
Summary: In the wake of Jack's disappearance, Owen tries to figure out what to do next.
Rating: R for language. It's Owen, what do you expect?
Disclaimer: Don't own them. Don't even like Owen, but "Quincy" has his
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Ahhh, Owen. Looks like he's not finding transition easy (and discovering the extent of your own ignorance is never pleasant) - but at least he gets to fix something. And Ianto must be the poster child for ulcer-inducing lifestyle...
Reading this I can really see the guys coming together as a team, learning to work together, and learning, too, how hard it is to lead. Might be difficult for Jack when he comes back...
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Reading this I can really see the guys coming together as a team, learning to work together, and learning, too, how hard it is to lead. Might be difficult for Jack when he comes back...
That's exactly how I hope they play it out in the series.
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Cue rest of series involved with him finding a place in that team.
In some ways Jack would be more fun not as the on-paper leader. More as the technical leader, the go-to guy on what an object is, but not necessarily telling everyone what to do. Trouble is can Owen hack it? If not Owen, then who?
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Owen is a specialist. The job really takes a generalist. Owen's used to looking deep but not wide.
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The scene where Jack is excreting carbon monoxide in the shower is a plot bunny that hit me immediately after I saw that episode. I thought about writing it up as a hurt/comfort fic but I'm just too sqeamish. Sometimes a little knowledge of medicine is a very icky thing.
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And probably enough detail really in the medical line(not entirely sure I am visualising exactly *what* sweating out CO is like, but I think I've got a clear *enough* picture...)
Looking forward to the next part...
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Dh has been bugging me about that line too. How's this read?
"So you think that's what happened? Jack's got a private health-care insurer who called him up to have a talk about the latest bill?"
Just finished the final spell-check. I should be cross-posting it later tonight.
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"Uh yeah, they called them," Owen thought for a moment. "'God.'"Having worked in several university offices, oh believe you me, the Admin secretaries know where the bodies are buried and who really signs the checks. And they are the last person in the entire university system you want mad at you ( ... )
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The great thing about the Torchwood characters is that their vices are the flip side of their virtues. The same drive that makes Owen a great investigator also makes him an abrasive cad. He doesn't know how to turn it off.
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And Ianto's ability to appear calm in almost any situation also makes him able to do things like hide Lisa in the basement for months.
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That's why I love these guys. They're so well written.
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