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Sorry I'm a bit late! I had some internet connection problems about an hour ago.

Story: What He Didn't Say
Author: wishingstar (

magic_7_words)
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 3045
Author's Summary: Locked in a psychic fight for his life, Jack needs all the help he can get.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness, The Master (Simm)
Warnings: no standard warnings apply

Recced because: The Master tries to take Jack's immortality, all while testing the Doctor's devotion to Jack. I love wishingstar's Master here--his taunting is playful, yet full of malice, and his threats are all too real for the Doctor and Jack.

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Everyone's always busy on Mondays, so let's start week 2 with something short:

Story: Drabbling Through History
Author: Yamx
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 687
Author's Summary: Five drabbles connecting DW/TW characters with historical events/persons.
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (9th), The TARDIS, Jack Harkness, Other Character(s), Rose Tyler, The Doctor (10th), The TARDIS, Amy Pond, Other Character(s), The Doctor (11th), The TARDIS, Jack Harkness
Warnings: Explicit Sex

Recced because: 100-word Drabbles are an interesting form of fiction, and are hard to write well - here Yamx has written six in which the Doctor and friends interact with various historical and legendary events. In view of the shortness of the chapters I haven't included an extract.

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Story: Parting Gifts
Author: navaan
Rating: Adult
Word Count: 8399
Author's Summary: Jack, post COE, tracks down and confronts the Doctor about why he didn't come to save the day. The Doctor, immediately post WOM, is in a really bad place mentally to be having this conversation.
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness/Tenth Doctor
Warnings: Explicit Sex, Swearing

Recced because: Mature look at two traumatized and broken characters. All the emotions and the blaming and evading of issues is handled well in my opinion and the character’s feel very real and in character. It’s deliciously angsty and the sex is angry and not comforting, but the ending is deliciously bittersweet. It’s one of my favorite stories for this pairing.

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This is my last day for recs. Let's end where we began, with a bit of Doctor/Jack:

Story: Tourist Trap
Author: tweedymcgee
Word count: 1166
Author summary: Welcome to the fortieth century, ladies and gentlemen. Jack's found a new job. The Doctor's forgotten to read the guidebook.
Characters: Ten/Jack
Warnings: Explicit sex.

Recced because:
This makes me giggle every time I read it. Jack has a new job, which he excels at, but he's thrown off his game just a trifle when the Doctor, whom Jack hasn't seen for years, happens to wander through his door. But Jack is a professional, so he recovers quickly from his shock, and the Doctor is cheerfully oblivious to his slight discomfort. If Douglas Adams wrote slash, this is how I think it would read. Jack is befuddled but determined to do his job, the Doctor throws himself into local customs with enthusiasm, and the result is hot and funny.

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And two.
I couldn't help myself.

Story: Gallifreyan Style Guide
Author: Pondering Amelia
Rating: Adult
Word Count: 4,022
Author's Summary: Billions of private, pornographic dialects had been annihilated when Gallifrey burned. The Doctor is relearning what it means to build a relationship.
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th), The TARDIS
Warnings: Explicit Sex, Swearing

Recced because: Again, not specifically for the pairing. The Linguist in me just spazzes at fics like these. I've always wondered what Gallifreyen would sound like and, to be honest, I'm glad they never attempted to put it into spoken word in canon, because that gives us writers all the freedom we want when we fanfic. Another thing I like about this is that it 'explains' the Doctor's apparent asexuality. I always assumed it was a telepathic thing, but I like the idea that it might be a linguistic, thing. Gallifreyan is pretty much a dead language now, after all, and I bet it has sounds we humans cannot even pronounce (probably has something to do with bypasses etc.). Language is a huge part of someone's identity and culture and heritage - but what if language was essential to one's sexuality as well? It is certainly an interesting concept.
Just like with the other smutty fic I recced today, there is more to this than smut. We get a window into the Doctor's psychology and thoughts, we get to see him opening up and because the focalisation here is so astute I really did have the feeling I understood, at least to a degree, what the Doctor's motives might be for keeping relationships at a distance. Jack, of course, is being his own straight-to-the-point self.
Pondering Amelia's way of writing captured me a long time ago, because I love the style she has. It's poetic without being soppy, the metaphores fit and add to the atmosphere that this fic breathes. The dialogue works really well, too. The Doctor and Jack trying to make up for a loss of Gallifreyan tradition as well as possible could've seemed really clumsy and awkward when voiced wrong, but instead it just shows intimacy and that only serves to again give us a deeper understanding of the Doctor's point of view.
I think I can just keep on quoting little bits and have nerdgasms over how clever they are until the end of time, but you'll just have to read if for yourself and experience it ;)

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So, today a bit of a shorter fic. I love short fic as much as I love long fic.

Story: All That For A Rubbish Punchline
Author: Nostalgia
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 752
Author's Summary: Err, it might be a DW/Hitchhiker's Guide crossover. Only not. Ten/Jack
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th)
Warnings: Swearing

Recced because: I know, we're not supposed to rec the same pairing all the time. I have not recced this fic for the pairing, however. I've recced it for the crossover (even if the author doesn't actually classify it as a crossover). I think it's fair to assume that people who like Doctor Who have at least heard of the HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (seen the film, read the book(s), etc.). Nostalgia does a great job mimicking the overall Hitchhiker-tone and it really made me giggle (I mean, this is lovely: 'The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about the Doctor: "Freelance chaotic element. If something bad happens to you, it's probably his fault. Has attractive sidekicks."').
This fic is a great start of the day. Today is Wednesday, the middle of the week, often that point in your weekly cycle when you think 'I wish it was the weekend' - this fic is certain to brighten your day. Best read over breakfast (be careful not to splurt your weetabix over your laptop, though.)
The beauty of short fic (and short stories in general) is that a lot can be poured in a very small amount of words - and Nostalgia does a great job. This is just packed with a lot of info that makes both reading and rereading it a joy.

Eloquent, short, funny - the punchline is also good (and not rubbish at all).
(If you're reading this, I recommend pretending Stephen Fry is the narrator.)

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I'm so sorry guys, I completely blanked that it was my week *facepalm* Anyway...on to the recs!

Story: Growing Pains
Author: Adalia Zandra
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: ~30,000
Author's Summary: GPW1.01: After Voyage of the Damned, the Doctor visits Jack. But this Jack is very surprised to see this Doctor.
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Doctor
Warnings: some angst

Recced because: This is a wonderful story that gives us a wonderful view of the relationship between Jack and Ten. They have such a tangled relationship, especially at the beginning with the whole 'wrong' conversation. And yet, when Ten is feeling like he's hit rock bottom he feels like he can only go to one person - Jack. Not his Jack, but Jack all the same. Ten is heartbreaking in the beginning of this story, and Jack is just perfect. Their relationship is wonderful here.

eve11

Hello again! It's me,

eve11, your intrepid recc-er yet again for the upcoming week! On to the first one:

Story: Cell 6710
Author: Nixa Jane
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 7927
Author's Summary: No one goes to Drakoon if they have any sense at all.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Warnings: None
Recced because: This is a dark tale with mystery, suspense, action, and a very creepy and sinister setting. In 8000 words it manages to be surprising and scary (in both situation and character study) as well as heartfelt and hopeful, and it's such an interesting way to address the Wrongness of Jack Harkness, as well as the Doctor's past. It's like watching an episode, where the freedom of fanfic allows the subtext to peek out as straight text at the end. I'm not going to say any more, just that if this had been an episode, I can't imagine anyone in all of the various stripes and corners of Who fandom not finding something to love about it.

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Let's take a break from depressing fic, shall we.

Story: A Quarter of Your Kingdom
Author: Schildkroet
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 8,386
Author's Summary: Jack and the Doctor have saved the world. Again. Now it is up to Owen to save them, on threat of imaginary death. Such is the life of a doctor at Torchwood.
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor/ Captain Jack Harkness, Owen Harper
Warnings: None

Recced because: It's fluffy fluff. But even though I have a very low threshold for fluff, it doesn't bother me or get on my nerves in the case of this story. A Quarter of Your Kingdom manages to be funny and fun and sweet. The Doctor and Jack show up back in Torchwood after an adventure gone somewhat wrong, and for the first part of the story, Owen finds himself being the Doctor's Doctor in a very Owen-ish, sarcastic way. The second part of the story has a lot of entertaining, comic scenes between the Doctor and Jack, and in between the comedy, a lot of sweetness appears.

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Story: Unsinkable
Author:

versaphile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 4329
Author's Summary: Post-VOTD. The Doctor has nowhere to go, and ends up in Cardiff
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Warnings: None
Recced because:

This might have been the first Jack/Doctor I ever read. Three years later, it is still one of my favorites. It is achingly beautiful. The Doctor is the broken one here, but I love the hope that it offers both characters. And there is a wonderful (and wonderfully hot!) sequel as well!

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Story: Mercy of the Fallen
Author: TARDIS Stowaway
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 22190 words over four chapters
Author's summary: If wishes were horses, this spaceship would be even more crowded and smelly. Trying to escape his past, Jack instead comes face to face with it in the form of the Doctor, on the run from his own recent tragedies.
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, a cast of very well-drawn OCs
Warnings: None

Recced because: Another timey-wimey story tonight, though this one's heartbreaking in parts rather than quirky. Imagine a post-456 Jack stumbling on an immediately-post Time War Nine. Yeah. About as angsty and heart-wrenching as you think, but also laden with so many beautiful and even humorous moments. Very true to character, as well, for both of them.

TARDIS Stowaway also creates a very realistic, gritty setting for her story, with alien planets and races, natural disasters and crises from the horrific to the mundane. Her aliens are distinctively alien, but also very naturally so - I never felt that I was getting banged over the head with ''this character is alien' reminders, yet I never forgot either.

It's a gripping story with some lovely yet heartwrenching hurt/comfort. Gritty and realistic, right down to the blocked plumbing on a ship overflowing with refugees, while containing enough humorous and even laugh-out-loud moments to lighten the mood.

And, to give you a taster, here's one of those lighter moments: ( under the cut )

If you enjoy this story, please tell the author!

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Story: The Miracle Series
Author:

trobadora
Rating: Up to Adult
Word Count: 7 separate stories so far, with word counts varying from 918 to 4204.
Author's Summary: "I really don't mind." - A series of encounters between Jack and the Doctor after Last of the Time Lords.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness; also occasionally Jack/Ianto Jones, other Torchwood team members
Warnings: None

Recced because: There are, of course, many stories and series pairing Jack Harkness with the Tenth Doctor. But few of these do it in a believable way: not just taking into account the fact that Jack has a life of his own now, a team that matters to him and a relationship - with Ianto - which also matters very much to him, but also taking into account the history between Jack and the Doctor, and this Doctor's treatment of Jack in the past, as well as his massive avoidance issues. This series truly is a portrait of a dysfunctional relationship between an ancient alien with commitment-phobia and an immortal torn between his Earthbound team and the Doctor. The series is set some time after Last of the Time Lords, with Jack back with his team and the Doctor travelling on, but trying at the same time to build a relationship with Jack. However, the Doctor being the Doctor (and especially Ten), he does this rather backwards, in that they become lovers before there's been any attempt to sort out all the outstanding issues between them - let alone what they actually want from each other. This leaves Jack 'flying blind', as he puts it, because he has no idea if he can believe that this is real, that the Doctor will keep coming back - or that if he happens to say the wrong thing or give any indication that he's expecting too much the Doctor will disappear and never return.

And have a taster! This is from one of my favourite instalments in the series, the fourth, Leave:

( Excerpt below cut )

I hope you enjoy the series - and if you do, please tell the author!

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Story: Second Opinion
Author: DameRuth
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 8732
Author's Summary: Jack is showing signs of stress, and won't take any help from his team; Ianto decides it's time to enlist the help of a certain Doctor.
Characters/Pairings: Ianto/Jack, Ten/Jack, team Torchwood
Warnings:. none

Recced because: This story is my favorite in DameRuth’s wonderful Flowers universe because of fascinating interactions between Ianto and the tenth Doctor. Even if you don’t ordinarily read Torchwood stories, this one is worth a try. Ianto’s point of view reveals how utterly alien the Doctor can be, while at the same time still being entirely the Doctor.

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Story: Starting Over
Author: hence_the_name
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 16,400
Author's Summary: The TARDIS lands in Cardiff with a mysteriously ill Doctor on board.
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ten, Donna, Martha
Warnings: None.

Recced because: Anyone in fandom who knows me for five minutes knows I am the world's biggest sucker for well-done h/c - and this this fic is exactly that, but so much more as well! It's post-Journey's End, so our poor Doctor is in dire need of some comfort.

hence_the_name writes beautifully and has a deft hand with both the characters and their relationships.

I forgot to mention this yesterday, but if you read, please drop the author a comment! It's always lovely to have comments roll in unexpectedly months (or years!) after you've posted something.

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Story: Six Lies The Doctor Told Jack (And One He Told Himself)
Author: A Moment In Subtext
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 636
Author's Summary: Jack is naive, in the same way that all humans are.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/ Captain Jack Harkness. sort of.
Warnings: None

Recced because: As a Jack/Ten slasher with a fetish for canon, I'm usually a very frustrated fanfic reader. Either the slash's not right or the characters aren't. Maybe that's why this extremely long titled story really works for me - it's not really slash and it doesn't really adhere to canon. Instead, it does one of the most important things fanfics are here for, but rarely do well - it shows something that is usually only hinted at by a television show aired on 7 pm on Saturdays, and beautifuly highlights the Doctor himself.

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Story: Hothouse Flowers
Author: DameRuth
Rating: Adult
Word Count: 6,583
Author’s summary: Most flowers can be made to bloom out of season, with the right tools. (Author self-rating: R for sexual themes.)
Characters/Pairings: Ten/Jack, Gwen
Warnings: Alien sex, swearing.

Recommended because: Recipe for a wonderful Ten/Jack story: take one slight AU where Time Lords and humans not only have vastly different equipment in their trousers but also incompatible pheromones, making them unable to even arouse each other naturally. Subtract one Rose, wait a year that never was, and add a few drops of universal aphrodisiac. Throw in healthy servings of strong characterization, moving hurt/comfort, and fabulous humor. Turn the heat up to high. Season with angst and caring.

DameRuth’s entire Flowers series is well worth a read, but I thought I’d just recommend one favorite to avoid intimidating readers who might lack the time for a lengthy series just now (though I hope you'll be so impressed that you go on to read the whole thing). “Hothouse Flowers” convinced me to love the Jack/Ten ship. The relationship between the Doctor and Jack here is like the best chocolate: rich, dark, and just the right touch of sweet. DameRuth has a talent for the little details that add vibrancy to a story. The dialog is spot-on whether the characters are being witty or tender. The Doctor feels genuinely, fascinatingly alien. The biologist in me loves the unique premise of the series, but it’s the quality of writing that keeps me going back to this story over and over.

( A brief excerpt )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Hem, "He Came to Meet Me"

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My final two recs are explicitly ship-fics, but chosen because they stand out among a multitude of ship-fics in the modern Who era. Relationships, romance, even sex, but not as you’d expect, and again stories to make the reader think. If you’re interested in seeing Doctor/companion stories done well, try these last two recs of mine.

Story: At Thirty Paces
Author: Rallalon

Rated: Adult

Author’s summary: He's not coming. Not tonight.

Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, Tenth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, Estelle Cole. Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Rose/Jack; Tenth Doctor/Rose; Rose/Jack; Tenth Doctor/Jack, Jack/Estelle Cole, Jack/Ianto.

Warnings: Adult, Explicit Sex

Recced because: Here, finally, is an explanation for Jack’s ‘wrongness’ that I can accept and completely get behind, and an AU in which the Doctor doesn’t completely abandon him. It’s not an easy story to read, because it’s a painful, tragic love story in which no-one gets a happy ending. Yet it’s haunting, sticking in my mind for a long time after I read it. The Doctor is actually ‘allergic’ to Jack: if he comes any closer to Jack than a distance of thirty feet, he’s in excruciating pain. This is the story, in part, of how the three of them deal with that over the century-plus of Jack’s living the slow path (they space out Rose’s life, ‘rationing’ her so that Jack doesn’t lose her too soon), and it’s also how Jack copes with the slow path, and with his own doomed relationships while he waits. Waits for the Doctor, and for Rose, who almost never come. Tissue-warning, I think.

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Story: My Goddess Fortuna
Author: Tron
Rating: Teen (there is no offical Rating on this, due to the change in Teaspoon ratings, but to memory, I think Teen who serve - please correct me if you disagree)
Author's summary: Is it luck or destiny that the past might repeat itself? Rose's past adventures with the Doctor seem to be replaying themselves in her new Universe. The Autons. The Slitheen. The Gelth. These events seem to be leading up to something, something big. But all Rose has are questions. Why has her past become her future? Why can't she get rid of that pesky phrase 'Bad Wolf'? And who is that man in the cream cricket suit stalking her? And just how does the Tenth Doctor's quest for the Key to Time fit in to all this?
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness/The Doctor (10th), Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, Romana I, Romana II, Rose Tyler/The Doctor (5th and 10th), The Black Guardian, The Doctor (4th), The Doctor (5th), The White Guardian.
Warnings: Swearing, AU

Recced Because: It's an wonderfully weaved story, despite the changes to the original Key to Time story arc to fit into the Bad Wolf story arc. Normally, a story that involves rewrites, aren't well done, but this one really is - in essence keeping to the original concepts, the Author's Notes will keep you well informed of the changes as the story progresses. Also, one of the great things about this, is the wonderfully perceived characterizations of Martha; this was one of the many stories that was written before Series Three aired and the story shows Martha putting her knowledge to good use - with a highly hilarious exchanges between her, the 10th Doctor and Jack.

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What He Didn't Say by wishingstar

Rec - Drabbling Through History by Yamx

rec: Parting Gifts by Navaan

Rec: Tourist Trap

rec: Gallyfreyan Style Guide

rec: All That For A Rubbish Punchline

rec: growing pains

rec: Cell 6710 by Nixa Jane

rec: A Quarter of Your Kingdom by Schildkroet

REC: Unsinkable by versaphile

Rec: Mercy of the Fallen

Rec: The Miracle Series

rec: Second Opinion

Rec: Starting Over by hence_the_name

rec: six lies the doctor told jack (and one he told himself) by a moment in subtext

Rec: Hothouse Flowers

Rec: Praxis by Versaphile

Rec: At Thirty Paces

Rec: My Goddess Fortuna

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