Unexpected OTP: Mycroft Holmes & Jack Harkness
This is an entry in which I discuss slash pairings and such. Since I know that some on my flist don't like slash, I've put it behind the tag. But if you don't mind slash, you're welcome to read and comment, your input will be highly valued.
Sometimes a story takes you in directions you never intended to go. "Iceman & the Coffee Boy" has just spawned the most unexpected pairing I've writen since Boromir/Elladan. The pairing of Mycroft Holmes and Jack Harkness. I've just finished writing a 6-page-scene between the two of them, and again, it's the most intense thing I've written for a very long time.
Now, as "Coffee Boy" is a crossover and an AU, one in which all Whoniverse characters are inserted into the "Sherlock" settings in vastly different roles, the personal dynamics are different, too. In this constellation Jack is the chief of Mycroft's security forces, but otherwise his light-hearted self as known from Dr. Who. A highly capable ex-CIA agent with Scottish roots, thrown out by his homophobic bosses, and also a trained pilot who flies Mycroft's private jet. Well, Mycroft doesn't actually own the jet, theoretically it belongs to the government, but that's basically the same thing, right?
That was the basic setting. I never expected Jack to have had an affair with Dame Diane Holmes, Mycroft's aunt, ten or so years previously, but again, Jack isn't really picky about his bedmates, as long as they're gorgeous enough. And I can imagine that Diane Holmes (originally the female pilot from the TW ep "Out of Time") was still gorgeous enough at almost-60 to have caught Jack's eye.
Of course, Jack isn't an immortal here, and (based on the age of the actors playing the respective characters) they're roughly the same age. Jack just keeps in better shape, as he gets to run around after villains and train in the gym and whatnot, while poor Mycroft has to sit at the desk and struggle with his diet. Neither are they in undying love or whatnot. I think it's just so that Mycroft needs the control to be wrestled away from him from time to time, and Jack can provide him with just that. This is a temporary, open-ended agreement between the two of them; both can walk away from it any time they want, but when either of them does that, then it's over and can't be picked up again.
At least that's how the scene winded down half an hour ago. Further developments can't be foretold at the moment, though. After all, this one wasn't planned, either. *g*
Sometimes a story takes you in directions you never intended to go. "Iceman & the Coffee Boy" has just spawned the most unexpected pairing I've writen since Boromir/Elladan. The pairing of Mycroft Holmes and Jack Harkness. I've just finished writing a 6-page-scene between the two of them, and again, it's the most intense thing I've written for a very long time.
Now, as "Coffee Boy" is a crossover and an AU, one in which all Whoniverse characters are inserted into the "Sherlock" settings in vastly different roles, the personal dynamics are different, too. In this constellation Jack is the chief of Mycroft's security forces, but otherwise his light-hearted self as known from Dr. Who. A highly capable ex-CIA agent with Scottish roots, thrown out by his homophobic bosses, and also a trained pilot who flies Mycroft's private jet. Well, Mycroft doesn't actually own the jet, theoretically it belongs to the government, but that's basically the same thing, right?
That was the basic setting. I never expected Jack to have had an affair with Dame Diane Holmes, Mycroft's aunt, ten or so years previously, but again, Jack isn't really picky about his bedmates, as long as they're gorgeous enough. And I can imagine that Diane Holmes (originally the female pilot from the TW ep "Out of Time") was still gorgeous enough at almost-60 to have caught Jack's eye.
Of course, Jack isn't an immortal here, and (based on the age of the actors playing the respective characters) they're roughly the same age. Jack just keeps in better shape, as he gets to run around after villains and train in the gym and whatnot, while poor Mycroft has to sit at the desk and struggle with his diet. Neither are they in undying love or whatnot. I think it's just so that Mycroft needs the control to be wrestled away from him from time to time, and Jack can provide him with just that. This is a temporary, open-ended agreement between the two of them; both can walk away from it any time they want, but when either of them does that, then it's over and can't be picked up again.
At least that's how the scene winded down half an hour ago. Further developments can't be foretold at the moment, though. After all, this one wasn't planned, either. *g*