GIFT FOR WOJELAH: Small Moments (Jack/unspecified Doctors) [G]

[trobadora]

Title: Small Moments
Author: gaia_lulia
Recipient: wojelah
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Jack/various unspecified Doctors
Spoilers/warnings: None
Summary: Eternity is a long time. You start to lose things, after a while.

Comments

[wojelah]

Dear author, you are breaking my heart and putting it back together a million times over. Those little points of pain in the middle of happy meetings, and Jack's sense of sadness for losses he can't remember -- I just. And the Doctor, always remembering, and Jack not understanding those little indicators of loneliness and sadness from someone so dear to him. And yet - Jack's joy and insouciance and his eternal recognition of the Doctor - it's a ray of hope in something that could be just about grief. Instead you've given me something about how two impossible things muddle through, and I love it to pieces.

There is a lot of flailing happening on this side of the keyboard, let me tell you what.

Edited to add: Yup. Still flailing.

[gaia_lulia]

I am so glad you liked it! It's a bit shorter than most of the entries, so I was hoping you wouldn't be disappointed. I really loved your prompt, so I'm very pleased that it hit the mark.

[wojelah]

100% not disappointed. You did amazing things with some very meandering prompts, and I think that keeping the vignettes spare and tight -- snapshots, not scenes -- made the whole thing click even harder, because you get a sense of how very fleeting things are in the life of someone who lives for an eternity he wasn't intended to have. Dora was very good about not letting me see it till it posted, and she TOLD me I was going to squee like a madwoman. She was totally right, and you are totally awesome.

[gaia_lulia]

:D Thank you so much. And you are so welcome.

[navaan]

This is one lovely, lovely story. I always like the exploration of Jack's immortality and how his long life would affect his memory. This ancient Jack here makes me both happy and sad and that line is just so beautifully bitter-sweet. I just love it!

[gaia_lulia]

Thank you! I thought Jack would really remain essentially himself, even as he started to lose the memories that had made him that way.

[magic_7_words]

Whatever Jack forgets, seeing the Doctor always makes him smile. So bittersweet. I love it. :-)

[gaia_lulia]

Thank you, lovely person who wrote me a Senet story. XD

[scifiangel]

God, this is heartbreaking. Wonderfully written! Well done.

[gaia_lulia]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[sahiya]

Oh ouch. And yet, even though Jack loses some things, he keeps the things that matter. I loved this.

[gaia_lulia]

Thank you! I sort of had it in my head that Jack's emotional memory would outlast any specific memories of events that he had. So he knows how he feels about the Doctor, even if he doesn't remember why.