Fic: Scapegoat 1/1

[wendymr]

Story: Scapegoat
Author: wendymr
Characters: Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler
Rated: G
Summary: "You would serve fifteen years, Prisoner Harkness, while your... friends... would go free.”

Written for canaana for fandom_stocking.

Comments

[scifiangel]

Wow! That was fantastic!

[wendymr]

Thank you!

[honorh]

D'aww! I love it when Jack gets hit by the realization that he's one of them.

[wendymr]

Yeah :) I get the feeling that it's been so long since he's been able to trust someone - if he ever was - that he just misses or misinterprets the signals he's being sent. And, of course, it's not as if Nine would ever have made it very clear, particularly not to someone like Jack *g*

[tracy_lousia]

Beautiful. Just the way he doesn't realise that he's part of the team and how happy he is at the end. Very well written. Thanks.

[wendymr]

Thank you! As I said above to honorh, I think Jack finds it hard to trust, or to recognise when he's with people he can trust. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[veritas6_5]

The Doctor turns Jack's brain to jello. Green jello. I guess everybody has a completely blind spot, and the ninth Doctor is Jack's. He does finally begin to get a clue with the tenth Doctor, thank the goddess.

[wendymr]

Well, that's part of it - though Nine is incredibly difficult to read at times, given he hides away so much of his true feelings. It's really only Rose who is allowed to see at least some of Nine's emotion. As for the Tenth Doctor, I think he's even more oblique where Jack's concerned; it's just that Jack's had a long time, and lots of research sources, to learn more about the Doctor and come to understand the man beneath the many faces.

I think it's much more about Jack having learned through bitter experience that he can't trust anyone, so much so that he can't see through Nine's brusqueness and sardonic humour and he misses the little clues that he's been accepted.

[maniacalshen]

Awww. Very nice! And jeez, Jack, your friends aren't monsters!

[wendymr]

Thank you! And no, they're not - but Jack barely knows them and he thinks the Doctor still heavily disapproves of him. Well, he did think that - not any more!