Fic: Memories

[mylodon]

This follows on from the exchange of letters fic here. .

Rationale: I don’t believe that really was Gray in the last episode of Torchwood series 2. I think I know the true story.

I don’t own Messrs Kennedy, Hornblower, Marshall, Harkness or Jones. But I do own Thomas Rogerson, dirty neck and all.

Comments

[zamaxfield]

All right my lovely, I'm not even going to read this until I've seen Torchwood, which quivers with anticipation in the queue behind The Professionals and The Sentinel. All you slash ficcers out there have made my life one long rolling ride of Trying To Catch Up. I recently started writing fan fic as a way of letting out my Kundalini when I'm writing the boring bits of my novels. (BTW I'm the abstractrx from the chat the other day.) Well. Since you won't get out there and write the ultimate manlove rugby tell all... (inquires with eyes?) then I will have to watch all this and immerse myself. Oh yeah. I've seen every second of Hornblower.

If you'd ever be willing to look over a piece of admittedly bad Pros fan fic for Britishisms I'd be indebted for life. 13 pages nothing major. A quick question, it's metric in measurements, like meters and kilometers instead of feet? But still pint and quart in pubs but metric in kitchens?

I am saving this post till I can understand it...

[mylodon]

I will not write the ultimate manlove rugby tell all. Some things are too precious and rugger is one of them.

I'd happily look it over, but time's on short commons until June. (Partly because of ogling rugby players.)

Measurements - oh what a can of worms that opens up. When is the fic set? Anything prior to 5-ish years ago and it would be all imperial. Then the EU came along and tried to encourage us to use metric. But beer is still sold in pints and road signs are in miles and most people talk in terms of feet, inches, pounds, etc. Even food packs that have gone metric are often sold in the equivalent to an imperial measure. (So you have a 454g can of veg, for example.) So context and timing would matter enormously.

[zamaxfield]

I read somewhere (alex beecroft) I think that the Britwriter's blog is Britpicking on Friday, and if I can figure out the time difference, I'll ask my questions there so you can go back to your important Rugby Ogling duties.

Since it's a Pros fic, it has to be late seventies, early eighties. I have Doyle in a hundred square foot bio-isolation chamber, pacing it off ten feet one way and then the other. I think that's in keeping with the times, but... well. I'll poke my nose in and ask around.

Back to Rugby and writing... we're all waiting. I can't wait to get my copy of the Antho.

[mylodon]

Britpicking will be doing that very thing. I hope I find time to contribute.

I watched the professionals back when it was first shown and I can't believe Bodie or Doyle did anything but measure in feet and yards.

Wanna bitta Profs trivia? When you see them on the steps of their offices, they're usually on the steps of the Horlicks factory at Slough (or so Horlicks factory legend had it...)

See icon for some nice rugby fluffery.

[lee_rowan]

I like this scenario! I'd rather have that dude turn out not to be Jack's real brother, but I've got a sister who can hit that level of vindictiveness (fortunately she isn't into physical violence and isn't screwed up enough to hurt anyone else to get at me) so I'm willing to believe that the setup could have resulted in Gray becoming a monster. What irked me about the whole scenario is that Jack buys into the guilt thing. I'd have thought he'd lived long enough to let his child self off the hook, even without the 'down and dirty' complication.

Interesting that the story arc took nearly 3 years to explain what had been wiped from Jack's memory. But y'know ... all of that could have been an implant from Adam. What guarantee is there that retcon would work on alien mind-bending? Other folks have remarked that this 51st-century guy had a remarkably mid-20th century childhood.

Personally, I'd be just as happy to have the entire 2nd season be an alien-induced drama and see another 'year that never was.'

[mylodon]

I like this scenario, too. It began to form in my noddle when we started the POB readathon and I decided Marshall reminded me of Barrowboy (middle aged, handsome, gay, Scottish...). The last ep of TW really didn't quite work for me on all sorts of levels. (Not least because the guy who played Gray was so wooden.)

I think he had a remarkably Star Wars type childhood. Shades of Skywalker (pere and fils) all round.

Perhaps Series 2 all took place while Ianto was in teh shower? Although all the J/I bits were nice. :)

[mzcalypso]

He was awful, wasn't he? I couldn't tell if he was supposed to be lacking affect as a symptom of his complete disconnection from sanity or because they hired Pinocchio by mistake.

The J/I bits are about what Ianto would dream up in the shower, I think...

[mylodon]

I prefer the mistake scenario. (And such a shame when you consider how well they can cast some of the lesser characters, like the real Jack Harkness in series one.)

The J/I bits are what you dream up in the shower...

[mylodon]

That Mr Marshall indeed. I borrow him regularly - in my long drawn out LKU fic, he's the master on Horatio and Archie's ship. He gets to be the hero often. (I truly adore him.)

[jestana]

Hee! I figured it out fairly early on. I like that Jack didn't automatically go "Gray! You're alive!" *glomp* Good job! Very lovely work. *hugs*

[mylodon]

Thank you. Well done for guessing the 'twist'.

He wouldn't glomp anyway because a) he's not sure and b) Marshall would probably lump him one. :)

[jestana]

*grin* Well, when the men notice how much Jack and Marshall look like each other... *shrug*

Good point and they'll probably never know for sure. Unless they manage to get some of Marshall's DNA without him being aware of it.

[mylodon]

Yes, although there are remarkable coincidences of appearance, like Jonny Wilkinson and the late Heath Ledger.

Don't give them ideas; they'll be nicking the hair off his head...

[emeraldreeve]

Quite a mystery here! Very intriguing!

[mylodon]

Thank you.

But the intrigue ends there (these lads aren't telling me what happened next so we have to leave it with us wondering whether Marshall is Gray, alas).