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littledoglaughd

TW drabble: The Dying of the Light

Oct 23, 2008 23:37

Title: The Dying of the Light
Characters: Gwen, Jack
Rating/warnings: rated G, no spoilers
Notes: Written for tw100 challenge 94, Falling

( Wise men at their end know dark is right )

fic, drabble, captain jack, gwen cooper

Comments 21

travels_in_time October 25 2008, 01:42:24 UTC

Hey! This didn't show up on my flist! If it weren't for the newsletter, I'd have missed it!

Lots of sadness for so few words.

rustydog October 25 2008, 05:31:36 UTC

Whoops, sorry about the flist weirdness. I've been "backdating" most of my drabbles here so that when I post them on tw100 they won't show up twice in a row on people's flists if they have littledoglaughd and tw100 both on there. But I didn't think that through, because there might be some people not reading tw100. May have to rethink... (And it's weird, I've noticed that the newsletter sometimes picks up tw100 drabbles and sometimes it doesn't. I wonder if it depends on the compiler?)

Poor Jack. It's so easy to find sad things about his life.

travels_in_time October 25 2008, 12:45:27 UTC

This isn't the only one it happened to, though...

I've defriended many of the TW comms, both because the newsletter does a good job of roundup, and because mostly the only writers I want to read are on my flist already. :) Maybe that's elitist; if anybody finds anything good, they're welcome to recommend it! There's just too much junk out there to try to wade through it all. Even the newsletter gets ignored a lot, these days.

taffimai October 25 2008, 14:41:37 UTC

Oh, poor Jack.

rustydog October 27 2008, 04:45:20 UTC

Sigh, yes. When I figured out where this was going I just wanted to hug him so hard.

mad_jaks October 26 2008, 19:04:45 UTC

*meeps*

rustydog October 27 2008, 04:45:43 UTC

::pets you::

fajrdrako October 26 2008, 22:51:52 UTC

I like the contrast between Jack and Gwen here. She has only a few significant deaths in her life - possibly only one, before Torchwood. Jack has so many.

rustydog October 27 2008, 04:50:04 UTC

Thank you. I agree - and I think all those contrasts between her life and his are why he wants to protect her "ordinary" life, to keep her innocence in a way, and her relative unfamiliarity with death must figure in.

fajrdrako October 28 2008, 00:26:25 UTC

This may help explain why he was so adamant about keeping his secret from her in "Adrift" - wanting to protect that innocence.