Fic: Through A Glass Darkly 6/6 FINAL

[wendymr]

Story: Through A Glass Darkly
Author: wmr / wendymr
Characters: Rose Tyler, AU Ninth Doctor, AU Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler
Rated: PG13
Disclaimer: Not mine, unfortunately, though I'm willing to pay in instalments...
Summary: It's only when she's finally given up looking for a way back that she finds him.

Written for the incredibly generous wiggiemomsi, who

Comments

[honorh]

I think this may be one of your best stories--and that's saying a lot. I'm in love with this Team TARDIS--with the Doctor, removed enough from his own trauma that it no longer affects his behavior and helps him help others who are going through the same thing; with Rose, who's suffered her own trauma but is learning that she can come home again after all; and with Jack, dear, damaged Jack, who's finding healing where he least expected it. They're all so different from their Prime Universe counterparts, but recognizable nonetheless. Truly fantastic work. I won't bug you for a sequel, but I'd certainly read more of this universe.

[honorh]

Incidentally, I'm wondering if one of the reasons the event is established is that it galvanizes Pure Blood's opponents. I know if I'd been a moderate on Earth, not liking PB but also not knowing just how bad they were, Schattenwelt would horrify me. Even some of those who are nominal supporters might realize this goes too far. If you do a follow-up, I personally would like to see PB get what's coming to it. I'm thinking Rose and the Doctor would, too.

[canaana]

I like this. The story's so complete unto itself, I couldn't imagine where a sequel would go, but you're right, HonorH--this kind of incident becomes a kick to the political anthill, and there's all *kinds* of story hooks in that.

[wendymr]

Well, yes, it could be... and what's making me think in sequel terms is that the Doctor did tell Jack that he's going to take him back to fifty-first-century Earth one of these days...

[wendymr]

And, in fact, this is one of the comments that set me thinking about a possible sequel, so it's not impossible. But certainly not in the foreseeable future, I'm afraid :(

[wendymr]

I'm blushing here, seriously! Thank you so much. As people who BR for me know, I'm a lousy judge of my own stories, and I really have no idea how they'll be received. I was still dithering about this one when I posted the final chapter.

When Wiggie asked me for a Pete's World fic with Nine and Jack, and mentioned Hall of Mirrors as the story that had inspired her, I almost panicked - how could I write a story with the same general set-up and not end up doing the same thing as I did before? But then somehow I came up with the idea of Jack being the newly-damaged, traumatised, sole survivor of a dead world, while the Doctor's loss of Gallifrey was far enough in his past for him to have come to terms with it. I'm just thrilled that it's seemed to work out so well :)

Writing more in this universe? I do have a couple of thoughts, spurred on, in fact, by comments in this thread - but I also have other auction fic to write, and another multi-chapter fic to finish. Though, as I said to yamx, there's always another auction... ;)