Comments | flurblewig: Fic: 'You Can't Insure Against Corrosion' - Torchwood/Doctor Who - Jack/Ten

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Fic: 'You Can't Insure Against Corrosion' - Torchwood/Doctor Who - Jack/Ten - PG13

Feb 17, 2010 23:51

Title: You Can't Insure Against Corrosion
Fandom:Torchwood/Doctor Who
Pairing: Jack/Ten
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 2,652
Timeline/Spoilers: Spoilers for 'Children of Earth' and 'The End of Time'
Warnings: Angst
Notes: Written because sol_se wanted broken, dysfuctional post COE/Waters of Mars Jack/Doctor, and that sounded like a great idea. And because I ( Read more... )

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Comments 19

yamx February 19 2010, 23:04:54 UTC

Lovely. Jack needed more from the Doctor than just that note.

flurblewig February 21 2010, 15:43:54 UTC

Thank you so much! He did, didn't he? He really, really did. There was just no way that was enough, that snippet we got. Which is where fic comes in :-)

yamx February 21 2010, 15:52:53 UTC

Exactly!

I love your idea of setting it *during* EoT. I've written a fic that expands on the bar scene, but it's set later, so it's with Eleven, not Ten. Doing it with Ten is much more effective, since he and Jack have been through so much together. Great work.

kita0610 February 20 2010, 05:20:29 UTC

Oh, my poor Jack.

I loved this. Thank you.

flurblewig February 21 2010, 15:45:11 UTC

Thank you so much! There was just no way that the brief snippet we were shown onscreen was enough. Jack deserved so much more than that.

fathomlessspite February 20 2010, 16:46:14 UTC

This is gorgeous :)

flurblewig February 21 2010, 15:45:37 UTC

Thank you so much! So glad you liked :-)

sol_se February 26 2010, 04:01:45 UTC

I love this so much.

eta: I especially loved how you brought it around to the canon scene from End of Time. So wonderful and heart-breaking!

flurblewig February 26 2010, 09:46:43 UTC

Thank you so much! ::bounces::

I watched the Alonso scene in EOT and I thought I could see what they were trying to do -- The Doctor saying 'fly, Jack! Go live your life and be yourself' -- but they were, obviously, doing it for the DW audience. In the context of Children of Earth, I found it horribly simplistic and inadequate. It needed something else beforehand, a proper scene to which what we saw could be the coda.

And then there are my own issues with the idea of immortality, which I find COMPLETELY HORRIFIC. With Jack viewed through that lens, 'Life goes on' isn't an optimistic cheer-up, it's a curse. And thus, fic was born :-)