Doctor Who: "The Way We Get By" (1/1)

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Title: The Way We Get By
Characters/Pairings: Jack, Nine, Rose
Rating: PG
Beta: roachpatrol 
Summary: Somehow, even when they're stranded far from home, they find a way to get by.
Notes: Written for wojelah in the dwsanta gift exchange. The title comes from the eponymous song by Spoon, which inspired the fic. One of Jack's lines is blatantly stolen from the activist Kate

Comments

[wendymr]

Beautiful, haunting, atmospheric... brilliantly done! I'm so thrilled that you've reposted it on the comm so more people can see it.

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Thank you very much! I hope you enjoyed the dwsanta exchange as much as I did. Your fic was also a joy to read.

[canaana]

I knew this was yours. :-) I know I commented before, but I have to do it again--I love the character dynamics you managed to portray here.

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Good job guessing! I'm not very subtle in my love of alien planets as setting, am I? It's one of the things I love most about science fiction.

[azn_jack_fiend]

I loved this. One of my favorite things was the way you made the setting come alive.

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Thank you! I've always figured that the fun of science fiction is breaking out of everyday settings and scenarios.

[honorh]

Wonderful. You've written this so vividly, and you have them down. The Doctor having to save his own sanity is a neat twist--he can't take care of Rose and Jack the way he'd like to, so they have to take care of him. I could just feel their relief when the TARDIS was finally theirs again. I loved Jack's dream of the machine turning into a harp, and of him playing her back to them.

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I had a lot of fun with the prompt, which was OT3 H/C with Jack as the strong one who holds it together. Sometimes the Doctor can't come to the rescue - even his own rescue. Thanks for reading.

[firefly124]

Absolutely loved this, and the ending is just haunting.

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I had a lot of fun writing that ending :)