Rec: Mother Knows Best by Wish Wielder

[dark_aegis]

Story: Mother Knows Best
Author: Wish Wielder
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 26,216
Author's summary: When Jackie makes a flippant comment in the presence of an alien artifact, she wakes up to find her entire world flipped around - and not in the good way. There’s only one man - well, alien - she knows who could possibly fix it, and she’s just wished him

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I've read this now, and I think it would appeal more to hardcore Doctor/Rose shippers than others. I do like the way that Jackie is shown to be loving Pete and missing his absence, but I was hoping for her to be a bit more proactive, rather than having everything resolved by deus-ex-machina. Certain things don't make sense. I know that most of the point of the story is to say how much worse off everyone is if the Doctor didn't meet Rose, but I think the changes would have been more wide-ranging than they were, especially with regard to Jack. Besides the wish-fulfilment ending, I think this would appeal mainly to Doctor/Rose shippers because the characterisations of the other companions seem to be a bit "off".

[dark_aegis]

I didn't find the other characters OOC at all, but that is, of course, my opinion. I enjoyed the story and I don't count myself as a "hardcore Doctor/Rose shipper", though I like the pairing. What I really enjoyed about it was the focus on Jackie. But, as I said, this is my opinion, though you may disagree.

[kerravonsen]

But of course you enjoyed the story! You wouldn't have recced it otherwise.

(ooh, I *love* your icon! Such fun.)