Summer may have just begun (or at least it seems like it here!), but our Super-Sekrit Summer Special has come to an end. Time to return to the normal challenge format here, and perhaps also time for our heroes to return to some sort of normality after everything we've put them through (and that canon put them through) this month ( Read more... )

Title: Defences (4/4)
Author: yamx
Beta: the utterly fantastic wendymr
Challenge: Summer Holidays
Prompt group: 4: sleep - sleeplessness - dream - trance
Rating: PG-13 (no explicit smut, but plenty of innuendo; strong language, including the f-word)
Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction; the characters are the property of the BBC and used here without ( Read more... )

Jack sits up, panting heavily. Can’t remember where he is. Can’t remember what he dreamed, either. Something woke him - what was it…? The TARDIS turns up the lights - just enough for him to look around. He’s in his room. He’s safe. The Doctor’s sitting in a chair by his bedside-

What? He blinks, assuming he’s not fully awake yet, but the Doctor’s ( Read more... )

There can’t be any thought of sleep now. He just lies on his bed, staring at the ceiling, until his wrist comp finally says it’s time for breakfast. Then he puts on a shirt and some trainers and slowly makes his way to the kitchen.

He finds Rose and the Doctor sitting at the table already. Rose gets up to greet him with a hug. “Mornin’, Jack! Do ( Read more... )

Title: Fin de Siècle
Author: wendymr
Pairing: Jack/Ten
Rating: PG
Spoilers/warnings: If you know what’s going to be different about the Doctor in S5, you’re fine.
Challenge: Summer Holidays
Prompt group: 15: memory - the past - absolution - forgiveness
Summary: ( Summary cut for spoilers )

Jack wakes with a strangled scream. He sits up, panting heavily. Can’t remember where he is. Can’t remember what he dreamed, either. The TARDIS considerately turns up the lights in his room - not enough to blind, but enough for him to look around and take in his surroundings. It’s all right, whatever it was. He’s in the TARDIS. He’s safe. He’s ( Read more... )

Title: Cold Comfort
Author: trobadora
Pairing: Jack Harkness/Tenth Doctor
Rating: R
Warnings/spoilers: Consent issues. Spoilers for Children of Earth.
Challenge: Summer Holidays
Prompt group: 15: memory - the past - absolution - forgiveness
Summary: Jack nods, thoughtfully. "So you kill me, you fuck me, and - well, what's next? Thrilling, I have to say."
A/ ( Read more... )

Title: Ritual

Pairing: Doctor 10/Jack Harkness

Disclaimer: Doctor Who and Torchwood belong to Russell T. Davies, though I think it's been proven beyond a doubt that he abuses them. Who's for a custody hearing?

Warning/Spoilers: Children of Earth

Prompt: Prompt Group 14-(Communication-Talk-Telepathy-Touch)

Rating: PG / All Ages

Summary: After the events ( Read more... )

Title: First Time for Everything
Author: aibhinn
Pairing: Ten & Jack
Rating: G
Spoilers/warnings: None
Challenge: Summer Holidays
Prompt group: 14: communication - talk - telepathy - touch
Summary: On a rare, non-dangerous day out, Ten & Jack spend some quality time underwater. (No, not that kind of quality time.)

( First Time for Everything )

Title: Hold Up
Author: plingo_kat
Pairing: 10/Jack-ish. Gen, mostly.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/warnings: none
Challenge: Summer Holidays
Prompt group: 13: price to pay - selling oneself - traffic - bargain
Summary: Snippets of life. The Doctor is never stuck.

( Hold Up )