Fic: Regrets 1/1

[wendymr]

Story: Regrets
Author: WMR
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Jack
Rated: PG 
Spoilers: POTW, Torchwood if you squint
Summary: Some time in your future, Jack, you’re going to think I’ve betrayed you.

With thanks to Gillian Taylor for beta :)

Regrets

Most people, he knows, have regrets as they come to the end of their life. He, unusually, has to confront all of

Comments

[wendymr]

Thank you for your lovely, thoughtful review of this. It's a very difficult scenario, really, and I entirely agree with you about the disgrace that was the complete absence of mention of Jack in Season 2. However, that is the tradition of DW, of course. See, too, what happened after Mickey left - though they then spoilt that no-mention thing by having Jackie mention him in L&M and he turns up in the finale.

Jack is coming back; we know that. So they owed him a mention. If nothing else, in GitF when they even ended up in his own bloody century!

Yes, there were times when I was irritated by the giddiness of the Doctor and Rose in S2, principally in Tooth and Claw. I put the lack of mention of Jack down to the writers, though, and let myself believe that they talked about Jack in moments we didn't see. From what's been coming out of hints for S3, I think (despite the CIN Special) that the Doctor believes Jack's dead. I know this story suggests otherwise, but it was an idea that came to me and I wanted to explore it.

And I do believe that there's an awful lot of grief behind Ten's apparent light-heartedness. Remember that moment in Tooth and Claw when he's talking to Victoria about loved ones lost. And then, of course, in School Reunion when he talks about people he loves - and he can't even say the word - dying.

I'm so glad that this fic helps you to come to terms with Ten. I'm really looking forward to seeing Ten and Jack in the next season, but I've been thinking for a while that this isn't a relationship that will go well. :( If they even end up being civil to each other, I'll be surprised - despite Jack obviously still having some kind of love for the Doctor, as witnessed by his obsession over the hand.

[boji]

despite Jack obviously still having some kind of love for the Doctor, it's funny because although you didn't mean it this line resonates to the lyrics of a Will Young song in my mind (yes, I do have dicey taste in music) I suppose a part of me does see this as an 'all time love' pun intended.

I'd love to have seen the Doctor have moments of wretchedness, in series 2 and to have mourned Jack. But then I'd have loved continuity and the downplaying of panto!doctor.

Really, thank you for this.

Would be that I had the time to ask you to attempt co-authorship & write a multi-part fic/opus in which you wrote the Doctor and I wrote Jack.

*grin*