Fic: 'No More Heroes' - Torchwood/Life On Mars - Alice Carter/Sam Tyler - PG13

[flurblewig]

Title: No More Heroes
Fandom: Torchwood/Life On Mars
Pairing: Alice Carter/Sam Tyler
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 1,663
Timeline/Spoilers: TW, after Children of Earth. LOM, S1
Warnings: Angst
Notes: Unbeta'd. All comments, nitpicks & crit weclome
Disclaimer: Not mine. No profit, no foul.
Summary: Alice walks into a blue box with a stranger.

ETA: If

Comments

[saintvic]

I really like the way you have woven these worlds and characters together and the way that Alice sees /describes Sam and Gene is great. Thank you.

[flurblewig]

Thank you so much! I do like a bit of outsider POV, and Alice struck me as having a lot of insight to bring. So glad you liked!

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you for writing something so different so well. I love rare pairings, especially when they give new insights into characters we know well. This is really refreshing. :)

[flurblewig]

Thank you so much! I adore rare pairings too, and these two just struck me as having so much in common. So glad you liked!

[dorsetgirl]

Ooh, I'm not sure I've seen a fic from you since Schrödinger's Cat! And such a good one, too!

I've only watched CoE once so far - must do it again soon - and I wasn't sure who Alice was. Is she Jack's daughter, mother of the little boy at the end?

Anyway, I really like the way Alice is so clear-eyed about it all; how she recognises that Sam is too damaged to play a normal full part in a relationship but she recognises that they have such a lot in common. This is a lovely story, and the characterisation is wonderful - Sam and Gene are totally in character and Alice is exactly as one might expect after the events of CoE. I find it sad that she's so bitter about Jack, but obviously she could never be expected to take the same view of things.

Fantastic story, thank you!

[flurblewig]

Whee, thank you! Yes, you're right about Alice -- she's Jack's daughter, and it was her son that he sacrificed to stop the 456. I absolutely adored her. I think she loves Jack and understands that he had to do it, but equally I think she'll never forgive him for it. But like Vince is for Sam, Jack is *part* of her, and it struck me that she & Sam would have an awful lot in common, both in character and situation. I think they'd make the most workable dysfunctional relationship ever *g*

[mountland]

This has /needed/ to be writen for so long, and I LOVE you for writing it so well.

I really can't begin to descripe how much love I have for this fic - it sums up everything I feel about my LoM heroes vs Captain Jack/torchwood.

Thankyou! thankyou! thankyou so much for writing this *gets down on floor to grovel in your awesomness*

[flurblewig]

Squee, thank you so much! It just struck me that the crossover, and the pairing, would work so well -- they'd make the most workable dysfunctional relationship ever *g*

[mountland]

yeah it is a must have cross over (it's almost therapy for me - Ianto and Steven aren't dead they are in 1973 *nods*).

I never thought of having Alice and Sam get together - that was a stroke of genius there. yeah they would get the title of workable dysfunctional relationship (beating my old pairing of pre-suicide Sam/Rose (before she came back all gung-ho).

I always thought of Jack as popping up in 73 whenever he dies and then disappearing as soon as he comes back to life, as a sort of constant companion for Gene (Gene would never like him but would feel comforted that there will always be the same person there to argue with) but now after reading your fic I like your version much better and want Jack to stay away from 1973.

I just want to roll around in the glory of your fic *rolls in it like it is money squeeing loudly*

[flurblewig]

Ooo, love that idea of Jack spending his 'downtime' in Gene's world. Now there's a fic waiting to happen!

[rabecka]

This is fantastic. I barely know LOM, but it doesn't matter. Your Alice is amazing. Just one example... If I quoted every segment that I loved it would be half the fic.

She smiles, and nods, and squeezes his hand in thanks.

And tells him to fuck off, because if she doesn't need a hero, then she needs a father figure even less.

Um... yeah... I can definitely see this after COE. And the last line nails it.

[flurblewig]

Thank you so much! I fell for Alice SO HARD in COE, and the LOM world seemed like a perfect place for her to hide out & lick her wounds for a while. She's such a survivor, you know she would just *deal* with it all -- including poor crazy Sam :-)

thanks for reading!