The Unforgotten Country

TITLE: Somewhere Ages and Ages Hence
FANDOM: Doctor Who and Torchwood
LENGTH/RATING: 187 words, PG-13, Ten/Jack (yes it's possible to have PG Slash, now shush)
SUMMARY: Written for drabbles Day 8 Prompt: Song/Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, but horribly, horribly too long... *mourns*


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Jack's younger the next time the Doctor sees him, centuries younger and still flaunting that unabashed joy in life he never seems to lose. Time travel plays merry havoc with personal continuums and it's hard not to tell him go away, stay away, stop before she breaks you... because the Jack that was and the Jack that is are nothing but distorted images, ripped to pieces by the weft and weave of time.

But Jack is Jack, warnings will only guarantee the inevitable, so the Doctor turns to leave.

"Do I know you?" There's a hand on his arm and blue eyes, earnestly confused.

"Not yet."

There's the flash of a smile, and it's not what he meant, but it's how Jack takes it, and the Doctor already knows he'll be forgotten, because he's already been forgotten, so what does it matter?

The future can wait, just a little bit longer.

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TITLE: Bad Situations (re: Making the Best of)
FANDOM: Torchwood
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG, Gen
PAIRING/WARNINGS: Set after the Season Two finale, "Exit Wounds"
SUMMARY: On the trail of Cŵn Annwn sightings, Torchwood finds itself unexpectedly stranded in the Brecon Beacons National Park... Written for drabbles 30 Days of Drabbles, Day #7 Prompt: Smell: Baking Bread


"You can cook?" Gwen blinked at the oddly domestic campfire scene.

"Sort of hard to live through the nineteenth century twice and not pick up the habit." Jack grinned, crafting what appeared to be flatbreads.

"I suppose." Gwen unloaded her collected firewood, trying not to wonder where he'd scavenged the supplies. "You've gotten the locator beacon working?"

"I said I know how to cook, never said I liked to."

"Which means no."

"Which means it's time for dinner, soon as Rhys and Ianto get back." He paused to test the stew. "Could be worse: we could be out of coffee."

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TITLE: Dreams and Nightmares
FANDOM: Torchwood
CHARACTERS: Ianto
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG
PAIRING/WARNINGS: Ianto/Jack, Semi-spoilers for Doctor Who, Series 3: "Last of the Time Lords" and Torchwood Series 1: "End of Days"
SUMMARY: Pandora's Hope and Orpheus's Eurydice... Some things are worth the price. Written for tw100 challenge 77: Open.


Open the box, the blue, blue box, and out spills Jack and the Doctor and Martha all laughing and happy and glad to be home and--

Open the box, the blue, blue box, and out spills time and space and the sound of drums and--

Open the box, the blue, blue box, and out spills paradox and a fierce bright light and the rift is getting wider and--

Open the box, the blue, blue box, because he's left you once and he'll leave you again and anything's better that waiting behind and--

Open the box, the blue, blue box and--

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TITLE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
FANDOM: Torchwood
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG
PAIRING/WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice in Wonderland


Captain Jack Harkness was the kind of person who could say 'To infinity and beyond!' not only with a straight face, but with an unwavering faith that made you stop and wonder if maybe he wasn't kidding after all.

There were days, back when 'Torchwood' meant 'Torchwood One', and not the Hub, that his devotion had been more worrisome than encouraging. There were believers and then there were believers, and no one was quite sure where Jack's fervor stood. But now, when Torchwood was a shadowed memory of itself, his fire was what kept them going.

To infinity, and beyond.

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