Fic: Wonderland Universe, by nancybrown
Title: The Wonderland Universe (part of the Rabbithole AU)
I: Six Hundred Seconds
II: Wonderland
III: Morning After
Author: nancybrown
Rating: Mature
Length: 44000 words
Pairing(s)/Character(s): assume the extensive cast (canon characters and pairings) of Torchwood through Children of Earth as well as the Doctor and some Doctor Who cast
Genre/Category: AU
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Children of Earth
Summary: The Doctor gives Jack ten minutes to say goodbye to Tosh, Owen, Ianto and Steven, and in a way, Alice. Along the way, another former Companion gets involved, and "Goodbye" becomes much more complicated. The rest of the series follows from the "complicated".
Why you should read it: First off, to be upfront, this isn't all there is. What started out with Six Hundred Seconds as a standalone became the prequel to Wonderland which in turn became part of nancybrown's Rabbithole AU (word count altogether about 110,000 words). The Universe nancybrown has created doesn't end with Morning After, so there's plenty more to read after these first three stories.
Six Hundred Seconds is a coda to Children of Earth. That's the Children of Earth, where Torchwood as we know it collapsed and everything Jack had built, the people that had become friends, lovers, family disappeared from his life. In CoE Gwen is waiting for the Doctor and he never appears; we're left to assume that Jack is likely doing the same.
Six Hundred Seconds fixes that, but not quite. The events of Children of Earth still happen and Ianto dies and Steven dies and Torchwood still gets torched to the ground, but the Doctor is there after, for Jack, giving him the chance to say the goodbyes he never had a chance to say in the series. If that means playing about with the laws of time and space a bit, well, so be it.
The breath flew out of him as the door to the TARDIS opened onto the scene of destruction. Jack looked away, looked back at the Doctor. "Here?"
"Here. You always come back here."
[...]
Home. Right.
Thus opens Wonderland, and Jack is back in Cardiff. To quote from the summary, Everything is the same and nothing's the same, and Jack knows the price of messing about with timelines.
Any further information would spoil the main appeal of the story, following Jack as he moves through Cardiff and discovering the place, the people, his home for himself (again). The story is labelled AU, I'll leave it to the reader to find out just how AU that is, who the people are and how Jack fits himself (back) into a place he knows so well.
Authors appreciate your comments! Feel free to let them know if you liked their work.
I: Six Hundred Seconds
II: Wonderland
III: Morning After
Author: nancybrown
Rating: Mature
Length: 44000 words
Pairing(s)/Character(s): assume the extensive cast (canon characters and pairings) of Torchwood through Children of Earth as well as the Doctor and some Doctor Who cast
Genre/Category: AU
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Children of Earth
Summary: The Doctor gives Jack ten minutes to say goodbye to Tosh, Owen, Ianto and Steven, and in a way, Alice. Along the way, another former Companion gets involved, and "Goodbye" becomes much more complicated. The rest of the series follows from the "complicated".
Why you should read it: First off, to be upfront, this isn't all there is. What started out with Six Hundred Seconds as a standalone became the prequel to Wonderland which in turn became part of nancybrown's Rabbithole AU (word count altogether about 110,000 words). The Universe nancybrown has created doesn't end with Morning After, so there's plenty more to read after these first three stories.
Six Hundred Seconds is a coda to Children of Earth. That's the Children of Earth, where Torchwood as we know it collapsed and everything Jack had built, the people that had become friends, lovers, family disappeared from his life. In CoE Gwen is waiting for the Doctor and he never appears; we're left to assume that Jack is likely doing the same.
Six Hundred Seconds fixes that, but not quite. The events of Children of Earth still happen and Ianto dies and Steven dies and Torchwood still gets torched to the ground, but the Doctor is there after, for Jack, giving him the chance to say the goodbyes he never had a chance to say in the series. If that means playing about with the laws of time and space a bit, well, so be it.
The breath flew out of him as the door to the TARDIS opened onto the scene of destruction. Jack looked away, looked back at the Doctor. "Here?"
"Here. You always come back here."
[...]
Home. Right.
Thus opens Wonderland, and Jack is back in Cardiff. To quote from the summary, Everything is the same and nothing's the same, and Jack knows the price of messing about with timelines.
Any further information would spoil the main appeal of the story, following Jack as he moves through Cardiff and discovering the place, the people, his home for himself (again). The story is labelled AU, I'll leave it to the reader to find out just how AU that is, who the people are and how Jack fits himself (back) into a place he knows so well.
Authors appreciate your comments! Feel free to let them know if you liked their work.