FIC: Torchwood (drabble) - Thou Winter Wind

[fajrdrako]

Title: Thou Winter Wind
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Characters: Jack/Shakespeare
Challenge: tw100, challenge: winter
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Cross-posted to my lj and to tw100.


Thou Winter Wind

It was a bitter January afternoon, but Will Shakespeare and Captain Jack Harkness were cosy under the quilting, entwined in the Earl's second-best guestroom. The wind howled outside the casement window. While the Earl's other guests went hunting, Will and Jack chose to explore another kind of venery indoors. "Blow, blow, thou winter wind," Will said lyrically. "I'll write you a play about winter."

"Smut?" Jack laughed. "I see how you handle cold weather."

"Were winters harsh where you came from, Jack?"

"Harsh and beautiful." In Boeshane, winter sands were crystalline, and shimmered.

"Like you."

"Like life everywhere."

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Lovely. And quite honest, too. Also... you use one of my favorite (and earliest learned) passages. I think I ran across it in Brave New World, and took that as my nudge to go find out more about Shakespeare.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What an interesting way to be introduced to Shakespeare. He does seem to have a lot of good lines about winter - I had a bunch to choose from.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Oh, how wonderful. The first paragraph sets the atmosphere perfectly and the last three lines are bittersweet.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So glad you enjoyed it! I'd been wanting to get those two together for a while.

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Cool!

A Prezzie:
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_display.shtml?novel=124

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you.