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The Terminus of Prayer by Seanan (PG)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: None, gen.
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cadhla
Author Website: Tagged fics
Why this must be read:
This is an absolutely gorgeous look at Rose, Nine, and Jack during The Parting of the Ways. The language is unbelievably lyrical. This was one of the first Who pieces I read, and I couldn't have asked for a better introduction.
In a way, he's a little bit relieved, because really, deep down -- below the bravado and the cowardace and the flirtation and everything but Jack, Jack himself, Captain Jack Harkness, who flew through time and danced with people who died before he was ever conceived of -- he almost thinks of himself as dead already. Come on, after all; saved from an unexploded German bomb by a crazed Englishman with a big blue box that travels through time and space? A crazed Englishman who travels, mind you, in the company of a gorgeous example of twenty-first century female flesh, all peaches and cream curves, cherry lips and vinegar claws? That's just not possible. Not even if you happen to be Jack Harkness, darling of the beautiful ladies of Madame O'Neil's Interstellar Brothel, only man ever to get a second invitation to one of the Marquis Andromeda's private parties, golden boy...
But it's hard to keep being a legend when you're about to be slaughtered by homicidal pepper pots, and so, regretfully, Jack lets the illusions go. All the stories, all the dances; all that's behind him now. What's left is the gun in his hands, and the people standing with him, and the fact that there's actually no such thing as a good looking corpse. What matters is that you were a man, and you danced well, and you died well. Everything else is just trappings. Everything else is, well...
It's just stories.
The Terminus of Prayer is the middle part of the Travelogue for Exiles series, which also includes Look Upon This Sky (Rose), and Look and Remember (the Doctor and everyone he has loved).
Read The Terminus of Prayer.
Pairing: None, gen.
Author on LJ:
cadhlaAuthor Website: Tagged fics
Why this must be read:
This is an absolutely gorgeous look at Rose, Nine, and Jack during The Parting of the Ways. The language is unbelievably lyrical. This was one of the first Who pieces I read, and I couldn't have asked for a better introduction.
In a way, he's a little bit relieved, because really, deep down -- below the bravado and the cowardace and the flirtation and everything but Jack, Jack himself, Captain Jack Harkness, who flew through time and danced with people who died before he was ever conceived of -- he almost thinks of himself as dead already. Come on, after all; saved from an unexploded German bomb by a crazed Englishman with a big blue box that travels through time and space? A crazed Englishman who travels, mind you, in the company of a gorgeous example of twenty-first century female flesh, all peaches and cream curves, cherry lips and vinegar claws? That's just not possible. Not even if you happen to be Jack Harkness, darling of the beautiful ladies of Madame O'Neil's Interstellar Brothel, only man ever to get a second invitation to one of the Marquis Andromeda's private parties, golden boy...
But it's hard to keep being a legend when you're about to be slaughtered by homicidal pepper pots, and so, regretfully, Jack lets the illusions go. All the stories, all the dances; all that's behind him now. What's left is the gun in his hands, and the people standing with him, and the fact that there's actually no such thing as a good looking corpse. What matters is that you were a man, and you danced well, and you died well. Everything else is just trappings. Everything else is, well...
It's just stories.
The Terminus of Prayer is the middle part of the Travelogue for Exiles series, which also includes Look Upon This Sky (Rose), and Look and Remember (the Doctor and everyone he has loved).
Read The Terminus of Prayer.