Comments | aeron_lanart: fic: Blue Monday 1/1 [Pg-13] Torchwood 4 (Timestamp fic)

aeron_lanart

fic: Blue Monday 1/1 [Pg-13] Torchwood 4 (Timestamp fic)

Jan 13, 2009 19:09

Author: A Lanart
Title: Blue Monday
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Mostly OCs, mention of Captain Jack
Rating: PG-13 for swearing
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to Aunty Beeb.
Summary: The story behind how Torchwood 4 got lost.
Title from the song of the same name by New Order

A/N: I decided to have a go at the timestamp meme ( Read more... )

meme, torchwood4, timestamp, fic, torchwood

Comments 10

vipersweb January 13 2009, 20:11:59 UTC

this is a lot of fun. I especially like how you get TW-4 to disappear. *g*

aeron_lanart January 13 2009, 22:25:19 UTC

It's been in my head for about 18 months that T4 disappeared in the Dudley earthquake, before landing in the tunnels below Liverpool around the time of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. They were missing for an unspecified length of time as they actually existed outside or time for a while, which is where Ace bumped into them...

Glad you thought it was fun, it turned out a little more serious than I expected it to as I expected it to be complete and utter crack. It's also something of a departure for me to put more than 1 OC in a fic, never mind 6 of them (7 if you include the ex-head of T4).

vipersweb January 13 2009, 22:40:04 UTC

I hear you on that... that prompt you gave me? About Methos/Nine? Yeah. Full of angst and completely serious (hoping to have it done by tonight, but no promises.)

aeron_lanart January 13 2009, 22:43:23 UTC

Ooh Methos/Nine to look forward to! *happy dance* Angst and serious is fine, and perfectly IC for those two.

donutsweeper January 13 2009, 23:21:09 UTC

Oh I love it! And you have tech being referred to as "babies" I'm just a sucker for that! Poor Mitch, command was sort of thrust upon him, wasn't it?

aeron_lanart January 13 2009, 23:43:07 UTC

I'm really pleased you like it. The tech thing seemed natural for these characters, I didn't realise you had a soft spot for it; is that because of Abby in NCIS or did it exist anyway?

When Ace arrives, Mitch will be ecstatic to be passing command over to someone else, particularly a someone else who gets the explosive and gun thing, even if she does make him nervous. Initially I thought he might get blown up with the slug to get him out of the way for when Ace arrived, but the muses informed me otherwise, which pleased me. Having said that I couldn't see Ace just walking into the Torchwood 4 leadership unless none of the rest of them really wanted to be leader in the first place!

donutsweeper January 13 2009, 23:50:50 UTC

Oh, Mitch seems the type to happily turn over the mantle of leadership!

Tech as 'babies' is in NCIS too, but it just seems to really help make the tech more like a member of the team, don't you think?

aeron_lanart January 14 2009, 00:00:14 UTC

Oh yes. And for Torchwood the tech should definitely be part of the team. It's one of the reasons I like merucha's future John Hart, he really does treat the tech as part of the team.

laurab1 January 14 2009, 00:02:40 UTC

Love the banter and the space slug :)

aeron_lanart January 14 2009, 00:21:00 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it.

We've never had an explanation for why Torchwood 4 disappeared and Space Slugs just seemed such a *Whovian* reason. I kept on remembering those maggots from the Jon Pertwee story The Green Death (which I saw in black and white as we didn't have a colour TV).