Fic: Under the Radar 1/1 [G] Doctor Who/Highlander/Torchwood 4

[aeron_lanart]

Title: Under the Radar
Author: A Lanart
Your prompt: Ace walks into a bar and meets... Methos!
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Highlander, Torchwood 4
Characters/pairings: Dorothée Gale McShane (Ace), Methos, Shiv (OC)
Rating/warnings: G. Warnings? My Torchwood 4 universe is rather cracktastic.
Word count: 1,266
Disclaimer: Anything you recognise is not mine

Comments

[mad_jaks]

It's the little things like this
Next time you see him, tell him to stop by for a drink; it would be good to talk to him again, no matter what face he’s wearing.
and
Let me tell you about the time I found him in Greece… he’d not met me yet and I was more than a little irritated at the time to see a certain blue box again…
that tells me here's a man who's really got a handle on the Doctor.

Also? This, just makes me want to be Ace:
Ace was interrupted by the sudden vice-like grip of fingers around her wrist.

edited for coding fail

[aeron_lanart]

There's a certain inevitability to Methos and the Doctor in my brain; I can't think of anyone better than Methos to both understand him and take him down a peg or two when necessary. Plus I think the Doctor's enthusiasm would be a good antidote to the world-weariness that Methos is bound to feel occasionally.

As for wanting to be Ace, I think I know exactly what you mean. *g*

[mad_jaks]

the Doctor's enthusiasm would be a good antidote
It certainly would. Except can you imagine how dreadful they would would be together if Methos met Ten on one of Ten's 'bad' days...?

I think we've all wanted to be Ace at some point :D

[aeron_lanart]

"Oh don't give me all that Lonely God stuff - I got bored with that in the Bronze Age!"

*ahem*

[easilymused1956]

I must confess that I don't know this 'Ace.'

But I love that Methos would show up in an alien's bar. But then, I love ANYTHING Methos with a burning passion, so...

I really liked the story.

Renee

[aeron_lanart]

It's really good you like the story despite not knowing Ace. That's her in the icon, with her Doctor.

Ace is my favourite companion of The Doctor, even now, but then the Seventh Doctor is probably still *my* Doctor too so that ain't surprising. I just picked her up, dusted her off, pinched some of her background from the Doctor Who New Adventures novels and plunked her, older and wiser, in a universe of my making.

The Torchwood 4 series isn't a long one, but it does have a *lot* of original characters in it - you'll learn more about Shiv for a start - as well as guest appearances from the Torchwood 3 team. If you want to read them in 'chronological' order then I suggest using the AO3 link though you do get a nice pic of Shiv's pub (yes it is based on a real one) if you stay on LJ.

And don't forget, there's the beer festival to tempt Methos back (which is also real - and takes place in the crypt of the Roman Catholic cathedral so he'd be drinking beer on Holy Ground).

[easilymused1956]

I'll check those stories out.

OMG, I love the idea of Methos + beer + holy ground!

BTW, did you know that the real Shakespeare & Co. is sited over holy ground? Gives new emphasis to Methos hanging out down in the basement, eh? Lalala

Renee

[aeron_lanart]

I didn't know that about Shakespeare & Co. but it makes an awful lot of sense!

[vipersweb]

Lovely. I like how Ace handles identifying Methos and then how they reminiscence over the Doctor... they both understand him so well!

[aeron_lanart]

Glad you like! I think bumping into the pair of them would either do the Doctor a world of good - or terrify the life out of him.

[midnightmurdina]

apart from one question where i wave the idiot towny flag and say "whats a CAMERA pub when its at home?"

i loved it :D

[aeron_lanart]

CAMRA - CAMpaign for Real Ale.

A cause that would be very close to Methos' heart don't you think?

There are quite a few CAMRA pubs in Liverpool and one of them even has a brewery in the old - possibly used by smugglers - tunnels under the pub; The Baltic Fleet.

[midnightmurdina]

agreed, it would be close to Methos's heart,

[idontlikegravy]

You have put a great big silly grin on my face with this one hon :)

Loved all of it, but particularly this line: not everything interesting had to be alien and she was glad to have had a reminder of that.

And I also liked that her first thought is to contact Jack, but then when she discovers the Doctor knows she defers to his wisdom.

(And I wouldn't be surprised to find the Oxford a CAMRA pub, it always struck me as the kind of place that only has ale on tap and a dusty bottle of white under the counter in case a woman ever wanders in *grin*)

[aeron_lanart]

it always struck me as the kind of place that only has ale on tap and a dusty bottle of white under the counter in case a woman ever wanders in

So an alien publican might not be that far a reach then? *g*

Always pleased to raise a smile! This verse and the Abney Park verse (new parts in that too over the last couple of weeks) are vying for position of feel-good fic verse.