Fixing Judas 2/7?

[wendymr]

Story: Fixing Judas
Author: WMR
Rated: Mostly PG13, though one chapter may go higher
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, brief appearances by Martha Jones and others.
Spoilers: Torchwood up to around They Keep Killing Suzie. Doctor Who: all the way to The Runaway Bride, some usage of S3 trailer material.
Summary: He's still doing it:

Comments

[wendymr]

ROFLMAO!

Now, that might be Jack's conclusion... ;)

[squeeepatrol]

I like this a lot, about time the Time Lord got a dose of the message that he's not the centre of everyone's universe. Nicely done, More more more she cries, gripping the side of the laptop...

[wendymr]

Thank you! Centre of the universe? Oh, he wouldn't say that, would he? Just... well, maybe slightly off-centre. ;)

Chapter 3 coming very soon :)

[merlebelacqua]

Guh. I love this story. They are so cute together that it hurts. Poor Doctor, it's really the one thing that he can't have. Now I'm really looking forward to his answer. Nice little cliffhanger!

[wendymr]

Thank you! Jack and Rose... that was top of my list for how Rose would leave the series. If she couldn't be with the Doctor, I wanted her to stay with Jack. Ah well! That's what fic's for...

Oh, and his answer is coming right up :)

[marcasite]

Ah the Jack we know and love is back. And I really love the genuine affection they all have for each other...it's something more than love, I think.

Lovely!

[wendymr]

Thank you so much :) I really, really adored the dynamic between the three of them in Boom Town - they were so close, so caring, so fun together. And so much in tune. In BW/POTW we didn't get to see the three of them together so much, but what was so obvious was that by then - by Boom Town, really - the Doctor and Jack barely needed to communicate out loud to be understood. They read each other instinctively. It's all over the place, but the best example is in the prison cell in Bad Wolf - the Doctor says "Let's do it," and Jack doesn't need any explanation. He doesn't even seem surprised, despite the fact that the Doctor's been apparently withdrawn into himself for the past hour or so. It's as if he knew without needing to be told that the Doctor was biding his time, waiting for the right moment.

Which is why I was so bloody furious to have no mention at all of Jack in S2...

*calms self down*

[marcasite]

Which is why I was so bloody furious to have no mention at all of Jack in S2...

That is the one thing I will never understand. And how will Jack/Dr react in S3? It can't be all roses and champange!! There has to be some tension.

[wendymr]

Oh, I'm afraid that there'll be lots of tension, because John Barrowman said some time ago that the Doctor's not going to be happy on principle that Jack's alive - sounds like Father's Day all over again, in a way. And even if Jack is happy that the Doctor's back at last and he might get his problem dealt with he's bound to be pissed off about being left behind and abandoned.

So I'm expecting it not to end too well... :(

[malaleen]

Why do I get the sense the Doctor really doesn't know what he wants? Part of him is happy that Jack and Rose are together living their lives to the fullest, and yet another part of him wants them to be miserable without him. Sort of makes me what to alternately want to hug him and clock him across the head.

I'm looking forward to seeing where you plan to take this story.

[wendymr]

LOL! But I get the impression a lot of the time that the Doctor doesn't entirely know what he wants when it comes to his friends. He's pushing Rose away one moment and almost begging her to stay with him the next. He clings to her - as Ten as much as Nine - as if his life's empty without her, and yet he tells her, in words and in actions, that she can't stay with him for ever. The only thing that's absolutely clear throughout is that he wants her safe and alive - and yet even then he doesn't do what would keep her safest of all, which would be to send her home. Only in extremis.

Lord of indecisiveness, our Lord of Time ;)