A Ticket Home (fic)

[meilin_miranda]

Cross-posted at Teaspoon

Title: A Ticket Home
Author: MeiLin
Rating: R
Characters: Jack Harkness, Shae Han/Miss Dexter (original character), Francine Jones, The Master
Pairings: Master/Shae
Disclaimer: The Beeb owns everyone in here, and a good chunk of me too, apparently. Except Shae! I own Shae! OK I partly own her!

Summary: The

Comments

[x_bluerose_x]

BTW, I forgot to ask earlier... do you mind if I friend you? ^_^

[meilin_miranda]

I'd be honored!

[eumenidis]

Oh, please don't allow yourself to be demoralized, mi amica. We are all our own harshest critics, which is as it should be I suppose, but be aware of your own strengths. You write clear, precise prose, realistic characters & situations, & you have a clear, unsentimental understanding of the dynamics of the characters & their situations. There are many *professional* novelists who don't write anything approaching as well as you.

Speaking of characterization: Shae working for the Master--talk about self-defeating! Her arrogance & stubbornness (& perhaps some shame?) are certainly combining to hoist her high. Thinking of what's going to happen to her doesn't just make my skin crawl, it gets up & walks...

[meilin_miranda]

thank you. I just finished reading S.M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" books and I now know what you mean. ;) My ultimate goal is to write my own universe. I'm just not ready yet, and this keeps me out of trouble until then. I don't know why it was Doctor Who of all things that broke all this out of me, but it did.

Shae STILL doesn't know exactly what she's dealing with here. And you can't spell "shame" without "Shae." ;) Does she get a shot a redemption? Or no? She hasn't told me yet.

[eumenidis]

Do you mean the "Dies the Fire" series is a bad or good example? Anyway, I think that working within someone else's universe is good for discipline, developing research skills, thinking through the implications & believeability of characters & situations, getting a sense of what's necessary for creating a "universe", & every other aspect of writing fiction. That's the major reason that, except in very exceptional cases, I *LOATHE* AU fic, it's usually written because the writer/s are too lazy, careless, untalented to come up with a story within canon.

No, but she knows she's put her foot in it. Up to the chest. If she didn't have Homerically huge (paraphrasing Joss) pride & stubbornness blocking her view she'd probably realize she'd be better off crawling back to TW3 & being locked up than continuing to hang with a psychopathic alien sadist. But she is Homerically proud & stubborn...come to think of it, those were some of Achilles' faults, too...

[meilin_miranda]

Hence the Homer

[larielromeniel]

Why, thank you for the dedication!

You have me feeling a bit sympathetic to Shae now. She's well and truly gotten herself stuck in a situation more dire than just being trapped out of her own time.

[meilin_miranda]

It's a pickle, ain't it? And it gets worse. I'm writing dialogue right now for the next bits--that's usually where it starts, is I hear them talking to each other in my head and it goes from there.

OK it's way too late, I gotta go to bed and Benny Goodman is playing "Goodnight My Love" on my iTunes and the Jack in my brain is prodding me to go to bed. Well. That came out wrong. I'm going to sleep now.

[eumenidis]

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[meilin_miranda]

re: Andred and Leela. I'm thinking there may have been some difference in Gallifreyan society between the commoners and the Time Lords. Sex may have been considered lower class. ;)

And the 8th Doctor said he was half-human on his mother's side. Who knows how canonical that is, but many (most?) fans seem to accept this. It also explains his odd affection for humanity. We're fambly!

Gethenians: I can't remember their origins, it's been years since I read the book. But if memory serves, Gethenians and humans, and humanoid races of other worlds, were from the same rootstock. Whether evolution or genetic manipulation differentiated us, I cannot remember. I do remember that Gethenians looked at humans as being childlike because they didn't have body hair, thus resembling Gethenian children, and as perverts because we'd "choose" a sex and keep it. ;)

>(No, no, I didn't enjoy that at all, I just put on my steel-toed boots & thought of England.)

snort.