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TW Fic: These Are the Days (of miracle and wonder)

Mar 06, 2011 13:28

Title: These Are the Days (of miracle and wonder)
Author: nancybrown
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Tosh, Owen, Suzie
Rating: R (language)
Words: 4800
Warnings: songfic
Summary: Farting aliens, dead civilisations, and a million memories: five days in the lives of the members of Torchwood Cardiff.
Beta: beesandbrews and queenfanfiction helped put this together, fide_et_spe brought it home ( Read more... )

suzie costello, owen harper, ficathon, torchwood, toshiko sato, jack harkness, ianto jones

Comments 41

golden_d March 6 2011, 19:51:04 UTC

Miracles and wonder indeed! <3 Loved this.

nancybrown March 6 2011, 19:55:16 UTC

:) Thanks. I'm glad it ended up turning out okay.

fide_et_spe March 6 2011, 20:42:09 UTC

Oh Jack's made Ianto a selection tape, bless! (Hah, I knew I could find a way!) I think the culmination of this is so moving and lovely. I really like how Jack is so in character with his new recruit, it's like when Gwen joined and we see him take her outside to see the dawn, to encourage her not to lose that wonder. I also like how you capture the fact of Ianto being incredibly knew, and clearly none of them have any concept of him at all, even to the extent of not getting his name.

nancybrown March 7 2011, 02:05:14 UTC

:D Thanks for helping me with it. I've been rewatching a lot of the early eps on BBC America lately and I think much of what we saw with Gwen's early days would honestly be typical for all of them.

fide_et_spe March 7 2011, 20:15:39 UTC

Ha ha I just noticed I wrote knew, instead of new. Great beta I am. I think you have a point there. If it weren't for the producers and their bizarre worship of Gwen and her unique point of view, despite the others being characterised as normal people, I think we would have got that point at the time.

nancybrown March 8 2011, 01:52:00 UTC

Lois decided not to point that out to you. ;)

humantales March 6 2011, 21:11:45 UTC

Spooky, but lovely. A lovely image to end on.

nancybrown March 7 2011, 02:03:53 UTC

:) Thanks! There was a story I read when I first got into the fandom where Jack-as-Boe took the people he loved with him along as a song, and I think that influenced this story heavily.

humantales March 8 2011, 01:53:22 UTC

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's a beautiful story.

nancybrown March 8 2011, 01:55:23 UTC

If it's pinging in your memory, it's probably the same one. :)

rabecka March 6 2011, 21:20:13 UTC

Great look at the pre-S1 team. I really liked your before-the-glove Suzie. Not insane, but the seeds were there. And everyone else came thru beautifully. Also, sort of neat that your song fic ended on a song *grin*.

Loved the whole alien swan song segment actually. It's huge and wonderful and heartbreaking all at the same time. The tie in to Jack really worked, both his remembrance of the song from his own history, and to his current existence.

nancybrown March 7 2011, 02:02:36 UTC

I think Suzie got a raw deal in the canon, sadly. I don't write about her much, but she's so much fun to explore.

Glad you liked the story!

elainasaunt March 6 2011, 23:03:39 UTC

What a lovely piece of work. It's so revealing of how Ianto must have been in his early TW3 days, but the details about the others are telling as well. Even Jack, although he's more opaque here than anyone else. And then the Jaronnites just sort of overwhelm everything and everyone for a brief moment, and their story would seem to have a lesson for the team if they could just figure it out. It's tragic to feel the effects of that fade away - but at least they fade slower for Ianto.

nancybrown March 7 2011, 02:01:38 UTC

Thanks. :) The image of the team listening to the message was really what drove the story for me, so I'm glad the build up to that worked.