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Delight of Battle by sam_storyteller (NC-17)
Hello! I just got done reccing BSG, and here I am reccing Doctor Who. I like the Doctor, but I love his companions. My recs will cover both old school and new school who, and tend to focus on the companions. Also, I think Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures fall under the same umbrella as Doctor Who, so while all of my fics will focus on Doctor Who characters and settings, elements from the other two Whoniverse shows may show up, as they do in today's rec.
Fandom: Doctor Who, Torchwood
Pairing: Jack Harkness/Ian Chesterton
Length: 5600 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sam_storyteller and copperbadge
Author Website: DW
Why this must be read:
I thought, for the first story of the month, that I should start out with something about the First Doctor! Or rather, one of his companions. Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright were the Doctor's first two Human companions. They were teachers who followed a strange young girl home and ended up trapped in a time machine hurtling through time and space virtually at random, because the girl was the Doctor's granddaughter Susan and her home was the TARDIS. After some time, the Doctor did manage to return them home--and what happened next? They'd fought Daleks, lived among the Aztecs, aliens, and prehistoric humans, fought in the Crusades, sold as slaves in ancient Rome--how do you go from that back to being a schoolteacher in an ordinary London school?
According to Sam Storyteller, it doesn't go well, at least for Ian. Jack finds Ian when Ian starts asking around for the Doctor, and recruits him for Torchwood. This fic does an excellent job of capturing Ian's character, and Jack's, and learning to change from the Doctor's methods to Torchwood.
"So," he said, when Jack stopped snorting. "This Torchwood. I've heard about it. Secret police, they say."
Jack shook his head. "Nothing that sexy. Is that why you're in Cardiff?"
"Just something you pick up. I came down because I heard rumours the Doctor might be here."
"I wish," Jack told him, and tamped down on the longing that never really went away -- for his Doctor, for Rose, for something that would fix him. "You're looking for him?"
Ian shrugged, looking down. "When we came back I thought I'd go back to teaching. Barbara did, she was always better at adapting than I was. I couldn't, though. I got bored," he complained. "I love science, I do, but I got tired of stupid children and parents whining about how I failed little Johnny and my friends were all getting married or having babies and I missed...I missed it."
"Time and space?"
"Everything. Being somewhere else. Somewhere nobody cared," Ian said, a thick sort of yearning in his voice. "Nobody tried to put a name on me, make me be something I wasn't."
"It never goes away," Jack said softly. "I should know. But there are things that make it better."
Ian lifted his beer with a dry smile and took a sip. Jack shook his head.
"Not that. Come back to Torchwood," he said on impulse. "I'll show you what I mean."
Delight of Battle
(Sorry about the multiple postings, LJ keeps eating half of the entry for some reason.)
Fandom: Doctor Who, Torchwood
Pairing: Jack Harkness/Ian Chesterton
Length: 5600 words
Author on LJ:
sam_storyteller and copperbadge Author Website: DW
Why this must be read:
I thought, for the first story of the month, that I should start out with something about the First Doctor! Or rather, one of his companions. Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright were the Doctor's first two Human companions. They were teachers who followed a strange young girl home and ended up trapped in a time machine hurtling through time and space virtually at random, because the girl was the Doctor's granddaughter Susan and her home was the TARDIS. After some time, the Doctor did manage to return them home--and what happened next? They'd fought Daleks, lived among the Aztecs, aliens, and prehistoric humans, fought in the Crusades, sold as slaves in ancient Rome--how do you go from that back to being a schoolteacher in an ordinary London school?
According to Sam Storyteller, it doesn't go well, at least for Ian. Jack finds Ian when Ian starts asking around for the Doctor, and recruits him for Torchwood. This fic does an excellent job of capturing Ian's character, and Jack's, and learning to change from the Doctor's methods to Torchwood.
"So," he said, when Jack stopped snorting. "This Torchwood. I've heard about it. Secret police, they say."
Jack shook his head. "Nothing that sexy. Is that why you're in Cardiff?"
"Just something you pick up. I came down because I heard rumours the Doctor might be here."
"I wish," Jack told him, and tamped down on the longing that never really went away -- for his Doctor, for Rose, for something that would fix him. "You're looking for him?"
Ian shrugged, looking down. "When we came back I thought I'd go back to teaching. Barbara did, she was always better at adapting than I was. I couldn't, though. I got bored," he complained. "I love science, I do, but I got tired of stupid children and parents whining about how I failed little Johnny and my friends were all getting married or having babies and I missed...I missed it."
"Time and space?"
"Everything. Being somewhere else. Somewhere nobody cared," Ian said, a thick sort of yearning in his voice. "Nobody tried to put a name on me, make me be something I wasn't."
"It never goes away," Jack said softly. "I should know. But there are things that make it better."
Ian lifted his beer with a dry smile and took a sip. Jack shook his head.
"Not that. Come back to Torchwood," he said on impulse. "I'll show you what I mean."
Delight of Battle
(Sorry about the multiple postings, LJ keeps eating half of the entry for some reason.)
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I think you meant Ian's character. (Not that Sam wouldn't leap at the chance to be a Companion, I'm sure.)
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