FIC: The Opening Universe (The Awful Mystery) (2/2)

[golden_d]

Title: The Opening Universe (The Awful Mystery) (2/2)
Author: golden_d 
Characters: Jack, Suzie, OCs
Rating: PG-13 for language, dark themes (Trigger warning for suicide)
Word Count: ~9,500 (~17,000 total)
Summary: Welcome to the year 2000 and the first Torchwood team that Jack can call his own-and they’re just as broken as he is.
Author's notes: Beta credit to

Comments

[igrockspock]

This is quite an amazing story! It feels like it really could have happened, and I loved the little hints of what's to come later, like Susie's madness. Your OC is lovely and sad, and the end is so very Torchwood. Makes me wonder about everyone else who came between this and the Torchwood we know.

[golden_d]

Thank you! That's the thing about Torchwood, there's so much history we don't know.

[51stcenturyfox]

Ahhhh this is so awesome. I had to re-read it!

Poor Jamie. I really felt as if I was in Jamie's shoes when I read this, and felt for Jack, even though he's kind of a massive tool here (quite understandably after what he just went through with his former team).

<3

[golden_d]

:D Jack is...definitely not the best leader ever, especially at this point in time. Suzie is probably the sanest character in the story - well: Kenyatta is, really; Suzie is the sanest character who survives the story, which is a little bit scary.

[azn_jack_fiend]

This is an incredible story. I loved it and was absorbed for every single word.

[golden_d]

Thank you!!

[mcparrot]

Here following rec from 51st Century Fox. This is an amazing and so original fic. It was funny and sad and wonderful. Jamie is a fantastic character and her riftuge statis is really clever.

I love the insight into Jack in what is probably one of his darkest hours, he really didn't know what to do with her or with anything there did he?

It also added a real poignancy to the story to know that it had to end badly, that she wasn't going to be working at TW in 5 years time.

I gave myself goosebumps at one stage when I realised that Jamie gave Suzie the Emily Dickinson book. Wonderful little details like that in there.

Loved so much about this.

I'm really hoping you're going to write more.

[golden_d]

Thanks so much! What a great review. :)

he really didn't know what to do with her or with anything there did he?
No, he really didn't! The Jack in this story definitely has some recovering to do.

[neifile7]

Loved this. Fantastically well done. (Will hope to add more later -- this is a drive-by.)

[golden_d]

Drive-by or not, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. :)