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Title: To Love and to Lose (2 drabbles)
Fandom: Doctor Who
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unfeathered
Pairing: Jack/Reinette, Doctor/Reinette, implied Jack/Doctor
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: The Girl In The Fireplace
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: "Come on. Madame de Pompadour! How often is a guy going to get that sort of a chance!"
Beta: Unbeta'd
Author’s Note: Set in an AU where the Doctor left Rose on Earth at the end of The Christmas Invasion and went and picked up Jack from the Game Station instead. I got to thinking how The Girl In The Fireplace might have gone just a tiny bit differently.
"Jack! There you are! Come on, we need to get going! What on earth took you so long?"
Jack just grins, eyes dancing. "We were as quick as possible," he murmurs, falling in beside the Doctor as he hurries towards the window into the ballroom.
The Doctor shoots him a wide-eyed look of realisation. "You didn't…?"
Jack's grin just grows.
"Jack." The Doctor rolls his eyes. "Only you!"
"Come on. Madame de Pompadour! How often is a guy going to get that sort of a chance!"
It's only then that Jack sees the Doctor's eyes, and realises what he's done.
* * *
The Doctor forgives him, rather incredibly. Comes bounding back from Reinette's bedroom announcing she'll be coming with them. Jack grins, and waits impatiently.
But she doesn't come.
The Doctor reads him Reinette's letter. They gaze at each other, mourning the chances lost. Jack of all people knows about the cruelty of timelines, which once crossed may not be crossed again. Reinnette's known the Doctor almost her entire life. There's none of it left for him to visit. He's banned from her life. He can never see her again.
Jack holds the Doctor, heart aching, as the tears start to fall.
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author:
unfeatheredPairing: Jack/Reinette, Doctor/Reinette, implied Jack/Doctor
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: The Girl In The Fireplace
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: "Come on. Madame de Pompadour! How often is a guy going to get that sort of a chance!"
Beta: Unbeta'd
Author’s Note: Set in an AU where the Doctor left Rose on Earth at the end of The Christmas Invasion and went and picked up Jack from the Game Station instead. I got to thinking how The Girl In The Fireplace might have gone just a tiny bit differently.
"Jack! There you are! Come on, we need to get going! What on earth took you so long?"
Jack just grins, eyes dancing. "We were as quick as possible," he murmurs, falling in beside the Doctor as he hurries towards the window into the ballroom.
The Doctor shoots him a wide-eyed look of realisation. "You didn't…?"
Jack's grin just grows.
"Jack." The Doctor rolls his eyes. "Only you!"
"Come on. Madame de Pompadour! How often is a guy going to get that sort of a chance!"
It's only then that Jack sees the Doctor's eyes, and realises what he's done.
The Doctor forgives him, rather incredibly. Comes bounding back from Reinette's bedroom announcing she'll be coming with them. Jack grins, and waits impatiently.
But she doesn't come.
The Doctor reads him Reinette's letter. They gaze at each other, mourning the chances lost. Jack of all people knows about the cruelty of timelines, which once crossed may not be crossed again. Reinnette's known the Doctor almost her entire life. There's none of it left for him to visit. He's banned from her life. He can never see her again.
Jack holds the Doctor, heart aching, as the tears start to fall.
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That's what came home to me when I watched it this time - the fact that DW gets round the "Why can't you just travel back in time and fix it?" question by not allowing people to go back and change their own timelines means that the Doctor literally cannot see Reinette again. Ever. That's just... harsh.