TW/DW Fic: Seagull
Title: Seagull
Author: nancybrown
Characters/Pairings: Steven, Jack, Alice/Jenny
Rating: PG
Words: 3100
Spoilers/Warnings: COE-compliant (but death is only the beginning, after all)
Beta: eldarwannabe
Summary: Steven Carter grows up.
AN: For eldarwannabe, who asked. The rest of the Intersections series is briefly summarised here. (I'm easing back into writing. Weird things are ( Read more... )
Author: nancybrown
Characters/Pairings: Steven, Jack, Alice/Jenny
Rating: PG
Words: 3100
Spoilers/Warnings: COE-compliant (but death is only the beginning, after all)
Beta: eldarwannabe
Summary: Steven Carter grows up.
AN: For eldarwannabe, who asked. The rest of the Intersections series is briefly summarised here. (I'm easing back into writing. Weird things are ( Read more... )
Well, I'll just be super enthusiastic, to make up for the fact that it's entirely possible that I'm the only one that is going to gush. Here goes!
I love the threads (thread in two parts?) of the lost tooth and the startling. The tooth thing is such a good way to begin, very grounded (and everyone has lost a tooth or two, even if we've not died and come back to life to join our mother in time-traveling adventures with her alien girlfriend) and it's a nicely physical thing to relate back to every time you want to mention the feeling of remembering pain or loss. The startling is also pretty physical, for me at least, because I picture poor Steven and Alice and then Jack sort of jerking every time something hits them again.
"Did you die?" he asks her, and she nods her head.
Jenny says, "Everyone we know does, now and then."
HILARIOUS FOREVER. It's like the comic-book-esque revolving door of death. This is not a bad thing. Hee. :)
It's the most gorgeous background to When This Long Trick. Thank you!! *twirls happily*
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You and I are so the only people who are going to read this fic. :)
The startling is also pretty physical, for me at least, because I picture poor Steven and Alice and then Jack sort of jerking every time something hits them again.
I'm glad the physical response worked for you. I run into it with grief when I'm not expecting it. I'll be thinking about someone, and it's this weird shock all over again when I remember that person died.
HILARIOUS FOREVER. It's like the comic-book-esque revolving door of death. This is not a bad thing. Hee. :)
Hee! And it's so a big theme for this storyverse. "Didn't you die?" "Well, yes, but I got better!"
Very happy you liked the story. It's amazing what falls out when I get poked in the brain in just the right way.
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Hahahahahaha! You're funny. ;)
Lovely installment, really.
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Thanks for reading anyway. ;)
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*gestures everywhere and also at your AO3 hitcount*
LOL. NEVER.
And it's so a big theme for this storyverse. "Didn't you die?" "Well, yes, but I got better!"
See, from the first chapter of this 'verse you were clearly bringing people back to life. But then you kept KILLING people and bringing them back! And that's aaaaall you.
It's amazing what falls out when I get poked in the brain in just the right way.
Well, now you're just encouraging me. *poke, poke*
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Well, but Jack hardly counts. If Jack doesn't die at least once in a fic, I feel I don't have enough plot. *cough* And by the time it was Alice's turn, it was tradition. *should kill off Hart at least once*
Well, now you're just encouraging me. *poke, poke*
Work, work, work. ;) *just had an idea for the C plot for That Thing*
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EXCEPT WHEN HE'S STILL MORTAL. No one kills him then! (The moment when Ianto's like "I'd probably be more shocked if this didn't happen all the time" was hilarious.)
And killing Hart is totally acceptable. That will practically cover every named character in this 'verse.
*just had an idea for the C plot for That Thing*
Never too much plot!
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But then I have to bring him back, which is the standing rule of this 'verse, and I have already stretched my credibility on the nanogenes well past the breaking point. Hm.
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:D
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