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[mondschein1]

Oh my god, this was supposed to be a quick one-shot and yet I've been slaving over it for weeks. Stupid, stupid writer's block, and new fandom block, and ideas that span the whole damn series and thus require me to re-watch every episode, so as to recreate setting properly. I have now totally reached the "YOU ARE DONE NOW, FIC, QUIT MESSING WITH MY

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[fatchickengirl]

I have high hopes for that meeting twixt the doctor and jack I think anger as much as love or even shame??? Nice fic...

[mondschein1]

Yeah, after CoE all I can think about is Jack running into the Doctor again, because he's done so many awful things, and Torchwood is to my mind pretty much the farthest thing from the TARDIS. And Jack does need the Doctor's approval, and the way he's gone about life is all wrong so far as the Doctor's concerned, and there going to be shame and anger and disgust and pity and love and just. EVERYTHING. Glorious emotional mine for fanfic authors.

The only thing that's stopping me from writing it is the regeneration. No idea what Smith's Doctor'll be like, and according to IMDb Jack's only going to show up in Tennant's last episode, so...le sigh.

[fatchickengirl]

Barrowman is in both episode 3rd billing and smith did more than regen filming soooooo...no confirmation if Jack is in season 5 but I wouldn't give up coz who wrote the first jack story??? THE MOFF!

[stuffphile]

This is terrific, so engaging and so spot-on in character.

I love that Jack exposes his story to this stranger he meets in a bar. It took me by surprise, incidentally, because in fiction with immortals (who are often vampires), the usual trope I'm familiar with is: immortal ponders telling a mortal his story, and doesn't, because They Would Never Understand.

So I enjoyed that reversal, intentional or not, and of itself it's a great scenario. I could well believe Jack would look for forgiveness from anyone he could meet after what happened in CoE. I imagine he feels worlds away from the Doctor, whose approval he's tried to earn for so long. So, naturally, I loved the last line a lot. So affecting. Poor Jack! *sympathy tear*

Rambling a bit, anyway... Great fic. :)

[mondschein1]

Oh thank you so much! I haven't written much in this fandom yet, so it's good to hear when I've nailed things. :-)

And I doubt that Jack's going to tell the girl in the bar literally everything -- like, I doubt he's gonna tell her that he's immortal, because that would beg all kinds of inappropriate questions. But so far as his feelings for Ianto were concerned, and the roundabout route they took to getting where they got -- that's just human nature. And so he could tell someone mortal about that, even though in the end she didn't understand. Or at least, Jack thinks she didn't.

And I really need to talk myself out of Jack meeting up with Ten and getting himself fixd up a bit, because I'm just going to get jossed in a couple months. Grumble.

[jo02]

That was really well-done - I'm heart-broken all over again!

[mondschein1]

Yay, thanks! ...and, um, sorry?

*flails at your icon* IANTO! Jack! Noooo...

[jo02]

I love this icon because of the colours and it is perfectly balanced, but yeah, it still breaks my heart when I look at it!