Fic: The Shadow of Death (2/2)

[dark_aegis]

Title: The Shadow of Death
Author: Gillian Taylor
Character/Pairing: Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler
Rating: PG-13
Summary: You can't change the past. Can you? And, if you do, can you live with the consequences?
Disclaimer: Don't own them. I just like playing with them...a lot.

A/N: Thanks, as always, to my lovely betas wendymr and ponygirl72. Sorry

Comments

[order_of_chaos]

*beams* That was utterly delightful!

[dark_aegis]

Thank you so much! :)

[souleswanderer]

He’s feeling the potential for a regeneration and it’s far stronger than it should be

There's a line that will haunt me for a long while. Feeling like someone walked over your grave is one thing, but this hits even deeper.

I loved the Ten babble, brilliant Ten. I may have to use that line at work soon, and believe me there are times when the gift of insightfully delightful babbling comes in quite handy when dealing with the public :)

Time lines interspersed and woven so well, fantastic!

[dark_aegis]

Thank you so much! :) Ten babble is a lot of fun. I was actually trying rather hard to figure out how the time change would feel to the Doctor. He's seeing potentials, hearing potentials, but could he feel it, etc. I'm glad that worked for you :)

[a_proclivity]

Wow, this is a great fic. I always get so excited when I see you've updated one.

[dark_aegis]

Aww, thank you so much! :)

[un_sedentary]

Aw, I love this.

The twist is great - that it's nothing to do with Jack's meddling, that the change was someone else's fault and in fact no one was meant to die or regenerate (and a great cameo from the Tenth Doctor *g*).

I LOVE the last scene. :))) I do love any subtle hint of Jack/Rose, haha. But it was all great, the Doctor's part too, of course. :))

[dark_aegis]

Thank you so much! *g* I figured you'd enjoy that Jack/Rose scene ;)

[bulky_monster]

Perfect! I love it. Very good job on the strong, but subtle differentiation between the two Doctors. You made it very obvious who each of them was, without resorting to stereotyping their personalities.

The bit about Jack holding a living Rose was wonderful. I wanted to put something like that in one of my stories, but had to leave it out eventually because I couldn't get it to sound right. You've managed to make this poignant without going over the top, and very in character. Big kudos!

[catsfiction]

One of the many things I love about your stories is that you take me deep inside the Doctor's mind and I see how very different it is from any human's perspective. You add in all the extra senses and I experience them vividly. It always makes me very relieved I'm a mere human and I don't have that weight of responsibility on me.

I find it very difficult to handle the complexities of even a couple of alternative timelines, and your stories, like a beautiful garden, always have a very well-thought-through and solid foundation.

Love the contrast between the Doctor's way of operating and Jack's more violent and impulsive chivalry towards someone he loves - also the way you can switch so effectively from Nine to Ten, yet retain the sense that they are the same character.

[dark_aegis]

Thank you so much! :) I've always had this fascination with the Doctor character since I saw my first Doctor Who episode. I loved Seven's manipulations and Ace blowing things up. But it was only when I started watching Nine that I really started to get curious about the Doctor's abilities. He was able to slow down time. I already knew he was brilliant and could use a type of hypnosis to convince people to do as he wanted, but it was really Nine that opened up all the possibilities for me. I'm so glad that you enjoy those little nuggets of what I think it'd be like to be the Doctor. There's got to be more to being a Time Lord than the title, the TARDIS and the ability to travel in time and space. :)

And thank you so much for the compliments! It's a blast writing Jack and the Doctors. *g*

[dark_aegis]

Thank you so much! :) I'm so glad that you enjoyed the Jack holding Rose scene. I actually struggled with that bit for a while. I was trying to figure out just what Jack would do when confronted by the living Rose rather than his memory. As soon as I figured it out, the rest came easily. Thank you so much again!