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Iamjabberwok: Ghost Seconds (10/Jack) PG

Mar 18, 2010 22:31

Title: Ghost Seconds
Author: Jabber
Challenge: 2010 Doctor/Jack Fest
Prompt Used: I go back to the house for a book by Billy Collins
Rating: PG
Spoilers/warnings: none
Word count: 285
Summary: Jack is confronted with the wimey-ness of time.
Author's Note: Not the fic I intended to write for this challenge (that WILL be finished before the challenge ends ( Read more... )

author: iamjabberwok, challenge: 2010 fest, pair: jack/10th doctor, fanfic

Comments 8

scifiangel March 19 2010, 05:38:20 UTC

Cool idea to have Jack be able to sence timelines. Well done.

iamjabberwok March 19 2010, 16:20:23 UTC

Oh, awesome. I hadn't thought of it that way, but what a cool interpretation. Definitely this piece was supposed to be relatively open to interpretation...

I based this heavily on Billy Collins' idea that once you make a decision, that breaks you off into possibilities. So in my head, Jack wasn't so much sensing timelines, but knew clearly (because he understands time) that in an alternate universe the Doctor died that day. But I like the idea that he's seeing echoes of alternate timelines much better :)

I haven't gotten around to reading your fic yet, but as soon as I do I'll leave a review, promise. I'm all about reciprocal reviewing.

ebineez01 March 19 2010, 08:51:53 UTC

I liked it. Looking forward to the rest

iamjabberwok March 19 2010, 16:21:51 UTC

Well, this was just a one-shot, but the other piece I'm working on should be finished in a week or so. It's proving a lot more difficult to get out on paper... and my beta is away in the US...

Glad you liked it!

knm1234 March 19 2010, 18:46:32 UTC

Love this - so much depth in so few words. I have absolutely no idea who Billy Collins is - I need to find out now! Nice work.

PS: I just followed your link, and now I know. You filled the prompt beautifully, and I learnt something today!

ent_alter_ego March 19 2010, 20:23:17 UTC

This is great. Very Jack, of course, and I like how it shows his understanding of time.

mahmfic March 20 2010, 02:07:09 UTC

i love how we used the same prompt, and came up with different ideas, yet the central character we both used was jack. i wonder why we both chose jack. it's not like the doctor's time line wasn't messed up.

the idea i took from the poem, was about turn left. that's why i wrote about the team's death scene.

i think jack has to think about this kind of stuff often, or at least he may have used to. like if i didn't do this i'd be dead right now... again. so i think this fic was rather realistic. awesome job!

iamjabberwok March 20 2010, 15:29:42 UTC

Jack's immortality replaces the fear of death with the fear of being alone, so when someone he loves dies... higher stakes. Although, you know, the central idea (timelines altering because of the Doctor's death) was the same. Just approached from completely different angles, which is completely awesome. And the whole point of fandom.