GIFT FOR LINDENHARP: Need (Ten/Jack) [PG-13]

[trobadora]

Title: Need
Author: trobadora
Recipient: lindenharp
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Spoilers/warnings: none
Summary: He drowns in a sea of twisting space and potential time.

Comments

[lindenharp]

This is wonderful! I love that Jack's "wrongness" provides the perfect counter to the weapon's effect on the Doctor's time sense. And Jack's loyalty and steadfastness is exactly what the Doctor needs emotionally, even if he's too pig-headed to admit it.

The final scene, in bed, is gentle and tender, and very, very satisfying.

Thank you so much for this lovely gift!

[trobadora]

Thank you so much! I'm glad this worked for you. I've been fascinated with Jack's "wrongness" since what feels like forever, and can never resist a chance to play with it some more. :)

[rhia_starsong]

Painful yet sweet, and a little hopeful. I like it.

[trobadora]

Thank you very much! :)

[magic_7_words]

Ohhhhhh. Jack's factness being exactly what the Doctor needs--I LOVE it. And "hope already has him in its grasp." Wonderful.

[trobadora]

Awww, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this.

[wojelah]

Where do I even start? The weapon itself. Jack's not-quite-a-signal. Jack's life going on, and going on with love and relationships and affection. Jack generally - his steadiness, which has always been there and which gets underplayed, I think. The Doctor, wounded and snarling and in such turmoil, making bad decisions and repenting of them. You can see the Nine in Ten here, if that makes sense. And the sense of the two of them - apt title, I think, because there is a part of each of them that only fits in place with the other, and that undefinable rightness is why I love them so much -- and why the end of the fic is such a fitting coda. Seriously, we could be here for days.

[trobadora]

You flatterer, you! Seriously, though, I'm really happy you enjoyed this. And of course I couldn't agree more about that "undefinable rightness" - there's something about these two that just fits, and I can never get enough of it.

Seriously, we could be here for days.

As if I'd complain! ;)

[joking]

I just love that this story is all about finding the positive and the beautiful in who and what Jack is. Maybe being a fixed point isn't wrong, but so very right. It works for me.

[trobadora]

Thank you so much! I suppose I can never resist righting a wrong. ;)