who_topia: Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. - Sallust, Roman historian, c. 40 B.C.

The Doctor has sex with Jack sometimes. And Jack doesn't mind, and Jack sure as hell doesn't complain, and of course Jack enjoys it, but it's not the way he'd prefer things.

( Love and other socially acceptable emotions are morphine, cleverly concealing primal urges... )

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere. - H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines

Jack never meant to like Alice Guppy. He never meant to like any of them, not after they'd ( Read more... )

"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." - J.D. Watson, "The Double Helix""Oh, baby, you're good ( Read more... )

I suppose it could get worse. I just don't know how.
AU from the end of "Utopia". Does not apply to anything else with Jack, anywhere. Really.

Jack sighed and tossed aside a scrap of Yana's tech - probably very clever, fantastic... brilliant, as this Doctor would say... but absolutely useless to him now. Across the room, Martha stepped delicately ( Read more... )

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Spoilers for "Fragments"Jack didn't hear her coming. That was strange for him, but he supposed it didn't matter much. If he was just going to come back every time someone killed him, there wasn't a whole lot for him to worry about. He glanced over his shoulder, just long enough to identify her - the Scottish one - and then snorted, ( Read more... )

Earth below us/drifting falling/floating weightless/calling calling home... - "Major Tom", Peter SchillingJack's familiar with silence. The silence of lying in bed in the middle of the night, darkness pressing in comfortably around him, where the only things that break it are the sound of someone's breathing, the sound of a heartbeat. Recently, ( Read more... )

Four points.

December 25, 1914Christmas Day in Belgium was cold, to absolutely no one's surprise, but Jack was sweating nevertheless when he dropped back into his trench. He felt overheated and freezing at the same time, and couldn't stop grinning even so ( Read more... )

Write a fic or scene regarding the concept of "high command".Jack met Yvonne Hartman before she took command of Torchwood One. She was twenty-six and coolly professional, a researcher who'd gained respect and rank through ruthless efficiency, a natural air of confidence and command, and a terrifying aptitude for figuring out alien weapons systems. ( Read more... )

In the end, all we have are our memories...There were a lot of things he couldn't remember. The last two years were just the beginning. Thinking back, he couldn't remember a number of things, both big and small, from the exact layout of the home he grew up in to his own name, before all the aliases and cover stories. Worse, he couldn't remember ( Read more... )