FIC: Old Enough to Know Better

[starfirefic]

Title: Old Enough to Know Better
Author: starfirefic
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Jack/Martha (Doctor implied)
Word Count: ~360 words
Genre: Angst, angst baby
Rating: PG13 for mentions of sex

Author's Notes:Written for one of the Doctor Who Challenge #10 prompts - "No one knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know

Comments

[persiflage_1]

I seem to have lost the capacity to write Martha/Jack myself, so it's nice to see others still can !

Very angsty and bittersweet, yet lovely too.

[starfirefic]

Thanks for the feedback... I think it helps that I'm still right at the beginning of s2 Torchwood, and haven't got to s4 of DW yet... which means Martha, Jack and Ten are still the most recent images I've seen when it comes it comes to writing in the Whoniverse.

I suspect that once I start seeing Martha popping up at UNIT (yeah, I'm kinda spoiled for that already), and see more of Jack in TW, the Martha/Jack/Ten muse will desert me. Which just makes it more important to write this while I still can, I guess :-)

[persiflage_1]

I'm a lot less fond of TW!Jack than of DW!Jack, and that's what is inhibiting me from writing Martha/Jack these days...

(Well that and the fact I seem to be writing Martha with umpteen other characters, male and female !)

[starfirefic]

Heh - truthfully, I'm the opposite - I actually like TW!Jack more than DW!Jack. Then again, I'm fairly sure that comes as a surprise to no-one who knows me... I've always had an embarrassingly soft spot for the bastard anti-heroes, and TW!Jack does this more than enough in cannon to appeal.

It wasn't until the second time around of viewing DW s3 that I really started to see the layered complexity of DW!Jack... up until that point he'd just struck me as pretty and flirty on the surface, but without much there under the pretty to support it. After rewatching the season though, I'm seeing far more of what's deeper down in Jack, and getting quite a few DW!Jack plot bunnies coming through because of it.

[persiflage_1]

I just find TW!Jack too dark and broody (and occasionally downright nasty) to be that fond of him. He's much better when he's around the Doctor (whichever incarnation)...

[starfirefic]

Fair enough - to each their own (and I'm sure Jack would be the first to say that there's more than enough of him to go around ;-)

[persiflage_1]

Oh he definitely would !! :D