Defenders 2/3

[wendymr]

Story: Defenders
Author: wmr wendymr 
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler
Rated: PG13
Disclaimer: Put it this way: if they were mine, Jack would never have been left behind in the first place ;)
Summary: The question is: is it worth putting up with intrusive questions if it means you're not alone?

Third in the Watching Over series; sequel

Comments

[nightrider101]

Another brilliant chapter! I love the maturity that Rose and Jack possess. :)

Please allow me to squee shamelessly over this:

Once, a more foolish, thoughtless him ran from Jack. But since the end of the universe, since the Valiant, since the Titanic, even, that’s all changed. Jack’s a fixed point, a universal constant - but he’s his universal constant. Jack’s a port in a storm, a safe harbour, a place to go and someone to go to when he needs it. Jack knows him better than anyone else - almost better than he knows himself - and around him he never needs to pretend. Often, he doesn’t even need to explain.

I love that description of Jack. It's so easy to picture the Doctor returning to Jack every year or so. Yes, he's his universal constant. Hopefully Rose can become the same thing.

Thank you for another amazing update! Roll on final chapter!

[wendymr]

Thank you! This, of course, is set more than fifty years after Doomsday, which means Rose is a lot older and with much more experience of responsibility. And Jack has lived more than two hundred years since POTW. It's something I have to keep reminding myself to keep in mind as I write, and I just hope I succeed in making it convincing :)

As for the paragraph you quoted, thank you! Much as I love all the individual relationships in this pairing, the Doctor's actions to Jack do - to me - seem to require a little more mending, and so I feel it's important for him to recognise how significant Jack is to him.

Final chapter coming up soon!

[debs7]

I can't believe you left it there when they were finally talking logically and sensibiliy and there was snogging!!!!

You evil, evil wench!!!!!

[wendymr]

LOL! But it has to stop somewhere... and since when has sensible conversation ever continued without an interruption in DW-land? ;)

[lt_kitty]

Oh,that's just beautiful.

Loving it.

[wendymr]

Aww, thank you! Glad you like it.

[cptjacksavvy]

Why must you tease us so? :-D!

[wendymr]

Because it's fun? ;)

[maniacalshen]

The Men: Right, gotta be careful how I handle this relationship thing. Can't screw this up. No big actions. Take it slow.

Rose:
>_>

[wendymr]

It is? It's not showing all bold for me. Very odd. Is it all bold for anyone else?

[nyaaaaaauuuuuuu]

Yeah, I'm getting all bold, too, now that I've commented. It wasn't bold earlier, though. O_o

[catsfiction]

Since you ask, it's in bold for me too.