Fic: Gravity

[dune_drd]

Title: Gravity
Characters: Jack, Nine, Rose
Spoilers: The Doctor Dances
Rating: Mild PG
Word count: 8235 words
Notes: This fic is for shengirl, who won an OT3 fic in the help_japan auction... yes, I am terribly late, I am so, so sorry. Real life (and an absent muse) got in the way, I hope you still like it. If it's any consolation, I really started writing this

Comments

[xwingace]

Good things are worth waiting for. :-)

XWA

[wendymr]

Yeah - if they'd only sat down and talked about everything over a cuppa in the first place, think of all the worry and misunderstandings that would have been avoided!

I love this - but then I love all your Nine/Jack/Rose stories. Jack believing (quite correctly most of the time) that the Doctor doesn't want him around, but staying because he's a big damn hero anyway or because Rose needs him. Rose, as always, the bridge between the Doctor and Jack, and so often the voice of reason. And the Doctor not always as clever as he thinks :) You're also so good at alien worlds and customs, which makes the story so much richer.

*cough*betterwiththree*cough*

[annissag]

That was fantastic! I love the plot and the characterization. This:

""A child’s toy," he said, shaking his head. "All this because of a child’s toy in the wrong child’s hands."

Gave me chills. Just wonderful. Thank you for sharing it!

[joking]

I loved the role of the TARDIS in this story. There's always seemed to be a rapport between her and Jack, and of course it'd make sense to her to suggest tea as a solution to all of their problems. All of the moments between her and Jack were interspersed, out of order, through the story, because what is linear time to her? Yet it all came together by the end: Jack and the TARDIS figured out how he could put himself in harm's way in the Doctor's place.

The "villain" of the story was also perfectly sad. Just a child, lost - like the "villain" of The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.

[firefly124]

This was gorgeous. I love the way you interspersed things keeping the reader a bit off-balance with regard to time, as they all were. That worked really well. Characterization was spot-on, too. And yes, tea!