Rec: Public Enemy Number One

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Title: Public Enemy Number One
Word count: 16,676
Author: idelthoughts
Author summary: The prisoner drew himself up tall, facing Jack squarely, and Gwen was suddenly glad he was bound. “Yes, I am the Doctor.” He looked Jack up and down with a stern expression, and his voice was heavy with scorn. “And you’re Torchwood.”
Characters: Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th)
Warnings: Spoilers for Torchwood through season 2.

Recced because:
This is one of my favorite Who stories. It manages to be fun and deep at the same time. It has a heavy dollop of Torchwood, and in fact is written from Gwen's POV. This makes it interesting, because it's a look at the Doctor through the eyes of someone who doesn't know him at all. The characterization for Ten is spot-on in this-- he switches from goofy to angsty in the blink of an eye, just as he does in the series. There's also a lot of nice filling-in of Ianto's story, which was never fleshed out enough in Torchwood to suit me.

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ohh, looking forward to reading this! Thanks for the rec!

[idelthoughts.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you for the incredibly kind rec! Can't believe it's one of your faves, that's awesome. You totally made my week, thank you!

[ellyfanfic.livejournal.com]

I've reread it quite a few times. You really do have a good handle on Ten!

[ciel42.livejournal.com]

Started reading this yesterday, very good fic, now I want to finish it but whofic is down for some reason. Is it archived anywhere else?

[nonelvis]

Hopefully, Teaspoon will be back up in a few hours, so you shouldn't have to wait all that long to read the story.

ETA: it's back now.

[ellyfanfic.livejournal.com]

Glad you're enjoying it. I'm not happy about Teaspoon being down myself; I'm supposed to be reccing a fic and I'm worried I'll forget once the kids come home from school! But as nonelvis said, it will probably be up again shortly.

[nonelvis]

If you already have the link and other info for the rec, you could write it now and queue it for later -- or you could always post two recs in one day, as long as they're in different posts.

Sorry we can't get the site up any sooner. Our engineer just isn't available right now, but should be soon. I think all the server needs is a reboot, so hopefully once the engineer is available, it's a quick fix.

ETA: it's back now.

[idelthoughts.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the party, but it is also posted on my AO3 profile (http://archiveofourown.org/users/idelthoughts).