Aurora's Sundry Notes

It occurred to me that I'd forgotten to post my this year's wintercompanion fic on AO3 after the challenge ended. Or rather, I'd started posting it but had left it as unfinished draft. So I posted it a few months late. Some of you may have read it when the challenge was ongoing and the fic was posted in the community. Anyway, I'm sharing it now. My first time writing Jack/Twelve, my second time writing the Twelfth Doctor - I think he might be one of my favourite Doctors to write! I suppose it doesn't hurt he's one of my favourite Doctors to watch, either.

It takes place well before S10 for the Doctor, when he's fairly recently come to the university where he ends up staying for quite a long time. As for Jack, takes place whenever-long-after-the-canon-we-have-for-him.


The Doctor, the Flute, and the Library (2185 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Pre-Season/Series 10, Flirting, Kissing, Libraries, Musical Instruments
Summary: In which the Doctor isn’t, strictly speaking, supposed to travel in time and space, and Jack approves of secret library wings.

I've been horrid at posting things and reacting to things lately, and I realized I haven't even posted about Chocolate Box fics, though it's been a month and a half. I've been very low on energy these past few months, and haven't even been much good at commenting on fics or replying to comments. I hope this gets better soon.

I only wrote one fic for Chocolate Box, but I was pretty happy with it.

Study Trips For Miss Potts (1333 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor & Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor & Nardole & Bill Potts
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts, Nardole (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: BAMF Women, Time Travel, Season/Series 10
Summary: Bill appreciates the Doctor taking her to visit awesome women for her education and emancipation. Nardole provides tea and ineffective disapproval of secret escapades.


This was my first time writing (or at least publishing) the Twelfth Doctor; I think I finally started feeling comfortable enough with him to try my hand at him, as I've been watching S8 and S9 of Doctor Who. It was my second time writing Bill, and I completely, unabashedly adore writing her. I need to write more of her. Since her time on the show was cut woefully short, and she's so magnificent, we need more of her in form of fanfic. (Why are my absolute favourite Companions far too little on the show? Donna, Bill, Jack... Not to say I don't love the longer-term ones - especially I enjoy Amy, and absolutely adore Rory - but my favouritest-of-the-favourites never seem to stay for long enough.)

My gift fic was written by the wonderful and talented trobadora (which I had figured out by the first sentence or so), and it is exceedingly amazing. Seriously, this is one of the best Doctor/Jack fics I've ever read, and I've read a lot of them. Even if you don't particularly ship them, it's worth a read for an amazing exploration of the characters of the Tenth Doctor and Jack, and their peculiar relationships to each other, life, death, and time. I still need to write the multi-paragraph detailed comment this fic deserves; I only had the brain for generic gushing when the stories were revealed, and well, I still haven't had the brain for much more. Maybe now that I'm posting about it, I'll get around to it soon?

Time's Very End (8166 words) by Trobadora
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness
Additional Tags: Episode: s04e18 The End of Time (2), Immortality, Time Lord senses
Summary: Damn Jack for playing hard to get now, of all times.

rarepairfest reveals have happened, so I can share my fic! But I've forgotten to share the previous fics I've been able to post before this one, for wintercompanion and torchwood_fest, so I will take this opportunity to post links to all of them. All links lead to stories on AO3.

First, here is the Rare Pair Fest fic. The prompt basically allowed me to write the "Martha and Jack seeking comfort from each other after the Year That Never Was" fic that I've been wanting to write for a long time. Still, it wouldn't have been nearly as good without enkanowen's beta work, which helped a lot both with the language/writing and with the pacing and character development.

Care for Apocalypse Survivors (5797 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1<
Fandom: Torchwood, Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audience
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Harkness/Martha Jones
Characters: Jack Harkness, Martha Jones
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Post-Year That Never Was, Pre-Season/Series 02, Episode: s03e13 Last of the Time Lords, brief appearance by Tenth Doctor, background Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones - Freeform, Mentions of Torchwood Three
Summary: After the Year That Never Was, the TARDIS whisks the Doctor, Martha, and Jack to a safe place to rest and recover. With a year of horrors behind them, Martha and Jack have each other for comfort.




For Torchwood Fest, I wrote my first posted Jack/Ianto fic (I've got a lot of unfinished drafts on my hard drive, most of them darker and angstier than this one). Though the prompt I wrote for was about sex, I tried to make sure the fic had more than just that. Again, much thanks to Enk for helping make the story better.

Fresh Air (2386 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones
Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones
Additional Tags: Fluff, Semi-Public Sex, Morning Sex, Cuddling & Snuggling, Ianto thinking about his feelings
Summary: In a morning after a vigorous night in his flat, Ianto opens the window for some fresh air. He is not taking Jack Harkness properly into account, though.



And for Winter Companions, I wrote a Jack/Ten story. It has a lot of elements that have been brewing in my head for a long time. I didn't feel I quite got it where I wanted, but it has some things I like, nevertheless. It seems Ten isn't that easy for me to write, regardless of how much I've been watching and reading him, but I do want to practice more on him - especially with Jack.

Between (4928 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness
Additional Tags: background Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones - Freeform, Post-Episode: s03e13 Last of the Time Lords, Sex in a TARDIS
Summary: It was a moment when Jack didn't want to hear the TARDIS materializing behind him.
The Doctor comes across Jack in the middle of an alien-hunt, and they work out some issues. In various manners.

First I go to see a performance of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King that is all kinds of lovely and beautiful and exhilerating, and then I get home to see that navaan has written a lovely Ten/Jack fic for me as my Public Call gift! I'm kind of hyper now. Making-pancakes-in-the-middle-of-the-night kind of hyper.

I've been going through my re-watch Doctor Who S3 quite quickly, and ooh, I just watched Blink again. That episode is so. damn. brilliant. And just suitably creepy and exciting. Ah, I can't get over how brilliant it is.

And in the end of the episode, the trailer for Utopia! I actually squeed at seeing those brief moments of Jack returning, despite the fact that I already knew he would and I've already seen the episode and the last time I did wasn't so long ago, and I've quite recently watched all of Torchwood S1 so, um, a lot of Jack there, but all that still didn't stop me from squeeing. Ooh, I think I'm going to enjoy watching the final episodes. Had a bit of a hard time not going on right away, but Blink and Utopia are so different, I think I'm getting the most out of them by watching them on different days.

I've had a lot of fun watching S3. There are a few not-so-good episodes in the early-to-mid part of the series, but from Human Nature onwards it's such brilliance (and I generally enjoyed 42, too, as long as I put the science and logic departments of my brain to sleep). The over-emphasis on Martha's crush on the Doctor doesn't bother me as much this time around, probably because I knew to expect it so it's easier to not pay so much attention to it. I love Martha even more this time around, and besides, Freema is so gorgeous and I love her voice and guh. It's also interesting picking up the Saxon references and other things foreshadowing things in the final episodes, now that I know what's coming. And S3 is the beginning of the Tenth Doctor that I really, really adore. It's maybe odd because he's less likeable here than in S2 - first there's the way he often makes Martha feel second-best and takes half a season to even allow her to stick around (rather than just "one trip more"), and then there'll be the stuff with Jack. But I guess that's exactly what makes it more interesting. Characters with issues are fascinating. Guess that's why I became such an intense Doctor/Jack shipper after this season, too. With that relationship, definitely not running out of issues any time soon.

Anyway, I think Tennant's acting also improved tons between S2 and S3, he's just a lot more detailed and complex and interesting at this point. And while I found much of the Rose/Ten interaction in S2 cute, and enjoyed the connection they had, I also have to say that their "exclusive mutual admiration society" got a bit much and is not half as interesting as the issue-wrought relationships and complexities of S3.

Reminds me, I still need to write up my thoughts on Torchwood S1. Because at this rate I'll be watching S2 very soon, and would be nice to write up my main thoughts before that. Going to try to do it soon.