Mind the long comment?! Who would mind such a comment? It completely blew my mind! I can see why fans of Jack wouldn't like this. But such a thing is always easiter to write than to read.
I think it gets forgotten too often, even is the show, that the Doctor is an alien and I like to fucus on that little difference. I also had the following thought (admittedly after I finished this story): We only know two former time agents but both of them, John Hart and younger Jack, were at least of questionable morals if not downright psychotic. So maybe you had to be like that to be accepted into the agency. Imagine, as a time agent you travel through time and keep people from messing with history. Have to keep them from changing things, even bad things. So you need someone to do the job who is able to sit back and let historic desaster happen. When one of them dies you need to be sure that his friends won't be tempted to travel back in time to save him and thus mess with history. So every time agent is, from a human point of view, a bastart. Of course they'd leard everything about the consequences of meddling with time but for most nice people the tempation would still be there. Jack had his vortex manipulator before, but the Doctor only disabled it after Jack had shown that he had developed into a man capable of taking responibility and of caring for his team. Only then there was a risk of him doing things with it he shouldn't. He was willing to use the hand to bring Owen back. It's not hard to imagine him travelling back in time to keep him from getting shot in the first place had he had the chance.
Now I'm writing long comments myself. On to your request: My stories do end like that often, don't they? I completely agree with you. Try to reduce it a bit but it keeps popping up. When I wrote this story I thought about how to end it and originally planned to have Jack kill the Doctor. But then I thought "No! I can't do that, not like that!" So it ended like this instead, with potential for a sequel I have in mind but might never actually write.
I have a story planned in which Jack and the Doctor are ambushed and imprisoned in a room that's located outside of time. Outside the room time doesn't move at all and the Doctor is completely cut off from it. All he has now to hold one to is his own timeline and Jack's 'wrong'one and it's quickly driving him mad. It would be psycological torture but no physical one. Still not what yo had in mind, I imagine, but it might count as a step in the right direction. The Doctor would end up moderately fine by the way.
And... just thanks for the comment! It made my day!
And... just thanks for the comment! It made my day! You're very, very welcome. I've been trying to dream combining Planet of the Ood with Rickston Slade for the past two nights (since I saw Planet of the Ood). You loved the handcuff scene (me too), but I keep reliving the crane chasing the Doctor to exhaustion through the factory. It was so cruel. Then Rickston coming. So you're making my nights very agreeable.
"Still not what yo had in mind, I imagine, but it might count as a step in the right direction" Hey, well written captive Doctor will have me spellbound regardless. I'll look forward to it.
I have a story planned in which Jack and the Doctor are ambushed and imprisoned in a room that's located outside of time. Outside the room time doesn't move at all and the Doctor is completely cut off from it. All he has now to hold one to is his own timeline and Jack's 'wrong'one and it's quickly driving him mad. It would be psycological torture but no physical one.
I can see why fans of Jack wouldn't like this. But such a thing is always easiter to write than to read.
I think it gets forgotten too often, even is the show, that the Doctor is an alien and I like to fucus on that little difference.
I also had the following thought (admittedly after I finished this story): We only know two former time agents but both of them, John Hart and younger Jack, were at least of questionable morals if not downright psychotic. So maybe you had to be like that to be accepted into the agency. Imagine, as a time agent you travel through time and keep people from messing with history. Have to keep them from changing things, even bad things. So you need someone to do the job who is able to sit back and let historic desaster happen. When one of them dies you need to be sure that his friends won't be tempted to travel back in time to save him and thus mess with history. So every time agent is, from a human point of view, a bastart. Of course they'd leard everything about the consequences of meddling with time but for most nice people the tempation would still be there.
Jack had his vortex manipulator before, but the Doctor only disabled it after Jack had shown that he had developed into a man capable of taking responibility and of caring for his team. Only then there was a risk of him doing things with it he shouldn't.
He was willing to use the hand to bring Owen back. It's not hard to imagine him travelling back in time to keep him from getting shot in the first place had he had the chance.
Now I'm writing long comments myself. On to your request:
My stories do end like that often, don't they? I completely agree with you. Try to reduce it a bit but it keeps popping up. When I wrote this story I thought about how to end it and originally planned to have Jack kill the Doctor. But then I thought "No! I can't do that, not like that!" So it ended like this instead, with potential for a sequel I have in mind but might never actually write.
I have a story planned in which Jack and the Doctor are ambushed and imprisoned in a room that's located outside of time. Outside the room time doesn't move at all and the Doctor is completely cut off from it. All he has now to hold one to is his own timeline and Jack's 'wrong'one and it's quickly driving him mad. It would be psycological torture but no physical one. Still not what yo had in mind, I imagine, but it might count as a step in the right direction. The Doctor would end up moderately fine by the way.
And... just thanks for the comment! It made my day!
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You're very, very welcome. I've been trying to dream combining Planet of the Ood with Rickston Slade for the past two nights (since I saw Planet of the Ood). You loved the handcuff scene (me too), but I keep reliving the crane chasing the Doctor to exhaustion through the factory. It was so cruel. Then Rickston coming. So you're making my nights very agreeable.
"Still not what yo had in mind, I imagine, but it might count as a step in the right direction"
Hey, well written captive Doctor will have me spellbound regardless. I'll look forward to it.
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I sooo want to read this!
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