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

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I agree... even if the lifespan of the 51st century is 200 years... Presumedly Jack waited around on the game station for a bit before trying to go back to the 21st century, even if he didn't you'd think he'd have noticed that he basically hadn't changed in the 23 years from arriving on earth to being killed.

[unfeathered]

Yes, definitely.

I hate this sort of thing. It really wouldn't be that hard for the writers to actually think about these things. Why couldn't he have been shot in 1872? Just a tiny change, and it would have been so much more believable!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

actually 1892 was the earliest they could have it be, that's when Ellis Island opened, before that the emigration port was Castle Gardens and that just doesn't have the name recognition Ellis Island does. But, they could have had him land later (1885 or something)unless they were using 1869 on purpose (due to the rift closing then)

[unfeathered]

And it didn't have to be Ellis Island. Or at least, that didn't have to be his 'first' death...

(And wow, I'll just call you Knowledge Girl!)

And do you think it's time we friended each other? We seem to be spending a lot of time on each other's journals!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Good point! Knowledge girl? *blush*

One friend coming up!

[unfeathered]

One friend coming up!

Right back at ya! :-)