Drabble: Right Place, Wrong Time

[unfeathered]

Title: Right Place, Wrong Time (Drabble)
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchood
Author: unfeathered
Pairing/Rating/Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: The Unquiet Dead
Disclaimer: Not mine. (Wish they were, though.)
Summary: Jack's arrival back on Earth in 1869



It was the roughest landing Jack had ever known. He groaned, and looked round. Snow, a smouldering building, an old guy in Victorian clothes. Gas lamps, horse-drawn vehicles. Nineteenth Century.

How had that happened? He checked his wrist but the co-ordinates were correct. Something had pulled him off course. And burned out his Vortex Manipulator.

It took a moment for that to sink in. No more time-travel. He was stuck in Victorian Britain, over a hundred years before he could expect to find a version of the Doctor who'd remember him. Jack would almost certainly never see the Doctor again.

Comments

[unfeathered]

he might've gotten there just in time to see the TARDIS leave him *again.*

Damn, I didn't think of that! That would have been even nastier!

I did try to give the impression that he'd only just missed the TARDIS - in the first draft, the old guy in Victorian clothes was more obviously Dickens, but words had to be cut.

I'm not sure what's worse: that he doesn't think he'll live to see the Doctor again or that he's yet to figure out what's happened to him.

Yeah, exactly. It only just occurred to me that he didn't know he was immortal till the shot-through-the-head thing, so he really wouldn't expect to live until the last 20th century! Yet another devastating blow for poor old Jack.

Bet he whooped for joy when he did find out he was immortal!

*Off to post this to comms - been out all night at rehearsal*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Damn, I didn't think of that! That would have been even nastier!

Heh--I shouldn't give you ideas. *eg* Oh, wait, of course I should.

[unfeathered]

Ah well, too late now :-)