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

[neadods]

Oh, this is beautiful. I wish they'd taken a similar route in the show - what Jack is going through right now is killing me!

[wendymr]

Thank you! Yes, it's painful to watch the change in Jack :( And now knowing I'll never get my OT3 back on screen hurts too.

Glad you enjoyed this. :)

[neadods]

And now knowing I'll never get my OT3 back on screen hurts too.

...for everything else, there's fanfic.

Although I do wonder if at the end of the next season we're going to be writing Angry!Jack/Martha/Doctor threesomes. I'm not ruling out the possibility, if just to see if I can do it.

[wendymr]

Well, it's possible. I said in another response that I'm a multi-shipper. At the moment, my main ships are Rose/Doctor and Rose/Doctor/Jack - it becomes OT3 at any point when Jack's with them, really.

I also occasionally ship Jack/Rose, but again only when the Doctor's not around - though I'm toying with the possibility of a Rose/Jack pairing which excludes the Doctor. Jack/Doctor... also a possibility, in a scenario with no Rose.

So, depending what I think of Martha and whether I find her shippable, it's possible that I might write that threesome too...

[neadods]

it becomes OT3 at any point when Jack's with them, really

Ain't that the truth!

They've written themselves into such a hole with the whole new Jack, and knowing that they're going to... I don't know what verb to use here. Address? Undo? ...is making it hard to predict what's going to happen to the character and his relationship with the Doctor. I'm sap enough to want them to at least make peace.

[wendymr]

I'm sap enough to want them to at least make peace.

Oh, I agree; that's certainly what I want to happen, though the Muse seems to want to do slightly different things with Finding Judas. We'll see, though.

Probably, in my little shipper heart, I'd love Jack and the Doctor to go off travelling and fighting threats to the universe together for a century or so, as friends and lovers, until the Doctor finds a cure for Jack's little immortality problem, and then buries him finally somewhere private before finding himself another pet to help him forget this one ;) But, even Jack's anger aside, I'm very curious about what sort of dynamic Jack will have with Ten on-screen.

[neadods]

"Finding Judas"? What a great title

[wendymr]

Well, actually, what the Doctor does and doesn't know isn't entirely clear. There's reason to believe that the Doctor doesn't know Jack's alive - JB gave an interview some time ago suggesting that the Doctor will be surprised, and not happy on general principle, that Jack's alive.

(But I agree: no excuse for not coming back for Jack's body).

I'm writing Finding Judas from the perspective that the Doctor doesn't know.

And, yes, there is talk about a second season of TW; JB, in a recent interview, commented that Jack doesn't get naked in this season (:P) and they're saving that for the second season.

I'd be quite happy with a cured and happier Jack choosing to stay in Torchwood and having the occasional... layover... in the TARDIS, m'self.

That'd be lovely :) Any time the Doctor's between companions ;) And maybe while he does have companions, if they're OT3able *grin*

[neadods]

there is talk about a second season of TW

Despite the flaws, I hope there is one. There's a lot of potential there that they're only now gearing up to show us.