FIC: Old Enough to Know Better

[starfirefic]

Title: Old Enough to Know Better
Author: starfirefic
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Jack/Martha (Doctor implied)
Word Count: ~360 words
Genre: Angst, angst baby
Rating: PG13 for mentions of sex

Author's Notes:Written for one of the Doctor Who Challenge #10 prompts - "No one knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know

Comments

[unfeathered]

Awwwwwwwww! *hugs Jack and Martha*

At least in the real 'verse they managed to move on. This is an interesting look at what might have happened if they hadn't, if they'd stayed.

[starfirefic]

OK, wow, that was the quickest comment I've had back EVER! Thanks for the feedback :-)

Yeah, this was *supposed* to be a hurt/comfort where, in the process of comforting her, Jack tells her that she has to get out before it destroys her, which then ends up being the catalyst for her leaving speech that I loved so much at the end of s3.

It was also *supposed* to be from Martha's POV, and end with her resolution to make a new life for herself once they get back to Earth, and have her all strong and determined and resolute the way I like her, damnit... Plus, I figured that since I'm having Jack be so much of a bastard over in the Demand-verse, I really owed him a chance to be all sensitive and SNAG-ish in this piece.

Except my paranoid hypochondria demons apparently weren't satisfied tonight with anything less than a total victory for my inner emo, so there you have it. Angst was needed, and yea, verily, angst hath there been. Whether this turns out to be a good or a bad thing for my writing remains to be seen....

[unfeathered]

Your fic was top of my flist when I came to it, and I needed something to read while I was eating my breakfast... *g*

It's weird how fics can end up somewhere completely different from where you intended, isn't it? I do like this one, though. I love 'what-if's.

[starfirefic]

Timing's a wonderful thing ;-)

Yeah... sometimes I know exactly where I want to go with a piece of writing and it more or less behaves exactly how I expected it to. Other times? Yeah... other times it definitely develops a mind of its own!

[maniacal_math]

You get my undying love for this. There is not enough Jack/Martha in this world, even if it's massive teeming-with-angst Jack/Martha.

[starfirefic]

Undying love, check ;-)

Seriously, thank you for the kind words (and for commenting at all... I really appreciate it!)

Yeah, Jack/Martha's totally drawing me as a pairing at the moment - that's two challenges in a row that have just screamed 'Jack/Martha' at me. And I promise, I'm not usually such an angst-bunny. A little, sure... but like Jack, I'm getting a little old for the all-angst-all-the-time brand of fic. It's kinda exhausting, if nothing else!

[janetlin]

"And I promise, I'm not usually such an angst-bunny."

Oh sure you are!

[starfirefic]

*Points to Moments and blows a raspberry*

Look... see... only a little angst ;-P !

[mischief89]

As much as this story is angsty, I LOVED it. If neither of them can have the Doctor, at least they have each other :)

[starfirefic]

*soft smile* - I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for commenting.

Fun as the angst was to play with, I'm kinda glad this *isn't* how things turned out - that they did go off and have their own lives (which I'm looking forward to getting to - I've just seen to ep3 of TW s2 so far, so at least Jack's got part of his life back now... but I'm really looking forward to seeing what Martha does with herself.

[mischief89]

You've only just started watching season two?

[starfirefic]

Yeah, it's only just become... available.

And I've promised the person I'm watching it with that I won't watch ahead until I see them again this weekend. It's a test of will, I can tell you!

[joolz01]

This is a gorgeous pairing, especially in bed *fans self*! They could be good for each other in so many ways. Thanks for the lovely fic.

[starfirefic]

Heh... glad the idea was hot. I had some nice images in mind of the smoothness of their skin as they moved together and the contrasts of light on dark, but somehow TEH HAWT didn't quite fit with the uber-angst I was going for.

But I'm really glad you enjoyed - thanks so much for commenting!

[persiflage_1]

I seem to have lost the capacity to write Martha/Jack myself, so it's nice to see others still can !

Very angsty and bittersweet, yet lovely too.

[starfirefic]

Thanks for the feedback... I think it helps that I'm still right at the beginning of s2 Torchwood, and haven't got to s4 of DW yet... which means Martha, Jack and Ten are still the most recent images I've seen when it comes it comes to writing in the Whoniverse.

I suspect that once I start seeing Martha popping up at UNIT (yeah, I'm kinda spoiled for that already), and see more of Jack in TW, the Martha/Jack/Ten muse will desert me. Which just makes it more important to write this while I still can, I guess :-)

[persiflage_1]

I'm a lot less fond of TW!Jack than of DW!Jack, and that's what is inhibiting me from writing Martha/Jack these days...

(Well that and the fact I seem to be writing Martha with umpteen other characters, male and female !)

[starfirefic]

Heh - truthfully, I'm the opposite - I actually like TW!Jack more than DW!Jack. Then again, I'm fairly sure that comes as a surprise to no-one who knows me... I've always had an embarrassingly soft spot for the bastard anti-heroes, and TW!Jack does this more than enough in cannon to appeal.

It wasn't until the second time around of viewing DW s3 that I really started to see the layered complexity of DW!Jack... up until that point he'd just struck me as pretty and flirty on the surface, but without much there under the pretty to support it. After rewatching the season though, I'm seeing far more of what's deeper down in Jack, and getting quite a few DW!Jack plot bunnies coming through because of it.