Fic: Sweetest in the Gale (Doctor Who/Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures)

[butterfly]

Story Title: Sweetest in the Gale
Author: butterfly
Summary: That's the thing about these small, tiny humans. They refuse to give up.
Rating: Not any higher than the show. Dark themes, though. PG-13ish.
Warning: Spoilers through Doctor Who 4x11 - "Turn Left"; Torchwood 2x13 - "Exit Wounds"; The Sarah Jane Adventures 1x10 - "The Lost Boy".
Disclaimer: I don'

Comments

[rynne]

Oh, that was lovely. I didn't cry during the episode, but now I'm holding back tears. Wonderful fic.

[butterfly]

Thank you.

[therisingmoon]

ohhhh, this was gut-wrenching to read. the episode was so good and i liked that you expanded on the fates of the alternate reality. i can't wait to see these last two episodes.

[butterfly]

Thanks. I really was glad that all our people went out as heroes in the TurnRight'verse, but it broke my heart that all of them (but Jack) died in the process. Oh, my heroic, lovely people.

[mls03j]

That was… Oh, god. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing it with us. (But you owe me a box of kleenex.)

postscript

[mls03j]

I think I started crying when Maria said, “We saved the world, though… didn’t we?” ’Cause yeah, they did. It’s easy to lose sight of, what with the refugees and the labor camps and all that. But it was these ordinary humans (“there’s no such thing”) who kept the planet more or less in one piece till Donna was ready to go back. Sarah Jane and her team. Jack and his. (And the fact that the Titanic only destroyed London, when the Doctor figured it would wipe out all life on Earth, tells me that something similar happened up there.)

[butterfly]

Thank you (it was hearing that the SJA kids had died that broke my heart when watching the episode -- Maria! Clyde! Luke! Oh, no!). But they were all such heroes.

[mls03j]

I know. I love them all so much. (And we’re going to see them all again on Saturday. I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it.) I’m so glad I watched The Sarah Jane Adventures-they weren’t just names to me. And I owe you another thank you for talking me into watching season two of Torchwood-that scene wouldn’t have hurt half as much if I was still stuck in my season one dislike of Jack’s team. (Plus, I know a lot of people who are desperately trying to get caught up in the next six days.)

[milly]

Oh god, that was heartbreaking. All of it, really, but the Doctor's part just simply broke me.

[butterfly]

Thank you. The Doctor's section was the first one that I started. Seriously, his state of mind in "The Runaway Bride" broke my heart enough before, but knowing now precisely how close to passive suicide he was just kills me.

[beneficia]

You... you made me cry. *sniffle*

[butterfly]

Thank you. Hopefully, the last two S4 episodes will not break all our hearts.