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Drabble: Stranger

Aug 23, 2010 21:19

Title: Stranger
Author: Lindenharp
Rating: All ages
Characters: Rose Tyler, Tenth Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness
Genre: drabble
Word Count: 100
Summary: AU for the regeneration scene in Parting of the Ways
Disclaimer: The sandbox belongs to the BBC. I'm just playing here, in the corner, making little sand-TARDISes. Not making any money, not ( Read more... )

drabble, jack harkness, fic, rose tyler, tenth doctor, stranger!verse, au, episode-related

Comments 20

yamx August 24 2010, 01:45:36 UTC

This hurts, but at least they are together. Things can be worked out now. *nods*

lindenharp August 24 2010, 03:29:59 UTC

There will be a lot to work out. And first, a lot to explain.

yamx August 24 2010, 07:25:43 UTC

*has faith* Jack's very forgiving.

lindenharp August 24 2010, 15:13:57 UTC

He is. He alone, of the three of them, carries no guilt here.

It's the Doctor who will have to make a lot of emotional adjustments.

canaana August 24 2010, 02:20:36 UTC

I really do love that last line.

lindenharp August 24 2010, 03:30:39 UTC

Thanks!

wendymr August 24 2010, 02:21:41 UTC

Yay! They're together!

All the rest can be worked out - what matters is they're together, Jack's not abandoned and they're all alive.

Brilliant! Thank you! :)

lindenharp August 24 2010, 03:32:18 UTC

You're welcome. Yes, there's the promise of happiness, but with a lot of angst and conflict to be conquered first.

juliet316 August 24 2010, 02:45:10 UTC

At least Rose managed to keep the TARDIS from leaving without Jack, but oh, I sense angst ahead.

lindenharp August 24 2010, 03:36:28 UTC

I sense angst ahead.

In short: hell, yes.

Rose and Jack will have to deal with the fact of regeneration. The Doctor will have to deal with the fact-ness of Jack, Jack will have to deal with his immortality, and Rose will have to deal with what she did to Jack. It's not gonna be pretty.

But they are alive and together. Please note this is not tagged as a Changes!verse story. I don't know yet how I'm going to deal with PoTW in the Changes!verse.

honorh August 24 2010, 09:50:50 UTC

Ow. But they're together; they'll work it out.

lindenharp August 24 2010, 15:19:00 UTC

I'm sure they will. (And thank you for the "ow" -- I wanted to provoke that reaction.)

I have two reviews on ff.net suggesting I write a sequel. Maybe I will, but I have Lyonnesse to finish, and then an auction fic to write. And I don't even know if this drabble is Changes!verse or not.

*wanders off, muttering to herself*

wendymr August 24 2010, 23:58:10 UTC

I don't think it's Changesverse - at least, I hope not! I very much hope that the Doctor who held Jack in his arms and would have held him until roots sprung deep into the TARDIS would not for one second contemplate running away from him on Satellite Five :(

lindenharp August 25 2010, 03:42:20 UTC

You are absolutely right. I just realized that this is the first story of the Stranger!verse, which is darker than the Changes!verse. I don't have time to work on it now, but there's at least one sequel that's demanding to be written ( ... )

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