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laurab1

Torchwood/Doctor Who - fic - The Torchwood Girls, part 7, Jack, Joan Redfern, OCs, PG

Oct 21, 2007 23:48

Thanks again for the lovely comments. I'm happy people are enjoying this. As the war gets closer, the story gets a little darker.

Title - The Torchwood Girls
Author - laurab1Characters/Pairings - Jack, Joan Redfern, OCs ( Read more... )

torchwood girls fic part to be reposted

Comments 18

secbeth October 21 2007, 23:27:43 UTC

Good chapter. Looking forward to more excitment and which of the girls stay

laurab1 October 23 2007, 09:23:58 UTC

Thank you! I'm happy you're enjoying it :)

donutsweeper October 21 2007, 23:33:27 UTC

Jack goes very pale, and scrubs his hand over his face.

awww, poor Jack. He knows so much, too much, and still has to live his life and love the people around him

laurab1 October 23 2007, 09:26:02 UTC

I know :( Thank you.

msp_hacker October 22 2007, 00:15:01 UTC

Er. I know I'm supposed to be on edge about Jack and the upcoming war, but I just keep thinking about the poor lions and whether Jack actually remembered to check whether the photocopier was AC or DC before attempting to power it up.

laurab1 October 23 2007, 09:29:39 UTC

I did mean those things as a distraction ;) Thank you :)

laurab1 May 9 2008, 23:09:55 UTC

I've just posted another 2 parts of the WWI fic, if you want to come and look.

hellenebright October 22 2007, 09:53:39 UTC

I see Eleanor's coming into her own - nice to see her. And poor Jack, through that long summer, just waiting for the sky to fall in.

laurab1 October 23 2007, 09:46:59 UTC

Thank you! I need to create 2 or 3 more girls and start fleshing out them out. Yeah, it's getting bad for Jack, now :(

I can ask you about ranks, can't I? I saw Matthew Pinsent's Who Do You Think You Are? last Thursday (brothers of both his parents died in WWI, and he can trace his mother's line back to Edward I and then William the Conqueror) and I've read the UK forces ranks lists. Can I put Jack's men straight into the Army as Lieutenants? Jack himself appears to able to keep his "fake" rank; Captain's an Army and Navy rank.

I've cast Nigella Lawson as Eleanor, that's her in the icon.

hellenebright October 23 2007, 11:30:12 UTC

Generally if a chap had a decent education he was commissioned as an officer. They would start as subaltern (a second lieutenant or lieutenant) - the military term means a junior officer, and was in wide use at the time of WWI, but went out of use afterwards.

Captain is a fairly low ranking Army officer - a WWI Captain often only had a couple of platoons below them. I think the rank was used where one person commanded say a platoon of infantry and a couple of machine guns.

This page from Wikipedia is quite useful for ranks. To give him a rank comparable to the RAF rank he purported, he would have to be a Colonel.

laurab1 October 24 2007, 09:09:56 UTC

I can ask you about ranks, can't I? I saw Matthew Pinsent's Who Do You Think You Are? last Thursday (brothers of both his parents died in WWI...

That should have been uncles, not brothers, and I meant to say that they'd all been at Winchester, which suffered terrible losses. The oldest boys all went in as Officer Cadets, and all of Matthew Pinsent's great uncles were either 2nd lieutenants or lieutenants.

Thanks for the link and info :) I think Jack's probably going to complain about being called Colonel for 4 years ;)

Thread 7

jovialien October 22 2007, 12:01:19 UTC

Love the photocopier! I don't know why that tickled me so much but hey, there you go.

Another great chapter, looking forwards to more so much!!

laurab1 October 23 2007, 09:49:30 UTC

Love the photocopier! I don't know why that tickled me so much but hey, there you go.

It was meant to be silly ;) And the sum total of the engineering was changing a plug ;)

Thank you :) I'm happy you're enjoying it.