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No Man's Land by Ellen Fremedon (G)
Fandom: TORCHWOOD/DOCTOR WHO/LORD PETER WIMSEY
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Jack Harkness, Peter Wimsey, Bunter
Length: ~20 000 words.
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ellen_fremedon
Author Website: AO3 / skyehawke
Why this must be read:
In the Second Doctor -era serial The War Games aliens abduct soldiers from various wars in Earth's history and make them fight in a simulated war. It's not too much of a strech to assume that Peter Wimsey and Jack Harkness, who both fought in World War I, might have been amongst those so stolen. In fact, when you think about it, it seems practically inevitable that they were.
On that premise Ellen Fremedon has built an atmospheric and well-plotted story, where everybody is in character and no canon gets violated: This all could have happened on the outskirts of, and just off-screen, of The War Games, and it fits into the canonical backstories of both Peter and Jack without much trouble at all.
Excerpt:
No Man's Land
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Jack Harkness, Peter Wimsey, Bunter
Length: ~20 000 words.
Author on LJ:
ellen_fremedonAuthor Website: AO3 / skyehawke
Why this must be read:
In the Second Doctor -era serial The War Games aliens abduct soldiers from various wars in Earth's history and make them fight in a simulated war. It's not too much of a strech to assume that Peter Wimsey and Jack Harkness, who both fought in World War I, might have been amongst those so stolen. In fact, when you think about it, it seems practically inevitable that they were.
On that premise Ellen Fremedon has built an atmospheric and well-plotted story, where everybody is in character and no canon gets violated: This all could have happened on the outskirts of, and just off-screen, of The War Games, and it fits into the canonical backstories of both Peter and Jack without much trouble at all.
Excerpt:
"You know what this thing is."
"Yeah." Of all Jack's memories, it was the most deeply graven; he'd imagined just this scene on his first night in the trenches, and almost every day thereafter. The TARDIS would shut out the guns and the filth, and take him far away; and the Doctor—
--was almost certainly not Jack's Doctor. That damnable almost had let him down before; he had loitered in alleys and watched in shop windows, waiting hours or days only to see a stranger return to the ship.
The risks, to his person and his timeline, were great; the chance of catching the right Doctor, in the right moment, were beyond slim. And still it took all the strength he had to step back. "Yeah, I know what it is. And we have to get away." He turned and stalked off ahead of Adler, heedless of the revolver trained on his back.
"This is dangerous, this box?" Adler caught him up. "Is it to do with the English weapon?"
"No. It belongs to—to a friend of mine who's looking for the same thing we are," Jack said, and swallowed a curse, for if there was one thing he could be certain of, it was that the Doctor would be up to his eyebrows in whatever was going on.
No Man's Land