A couple of recs...

[fajrdrako]

Very short fics aren't my favourite thing, but I came across two good ones. Technically one is Torchwood fic and the other is Doctor Who, but both are really in that crossover area which ties them together in the relationship between Jack and the Doctor.

The first is a bit of Torchwood handporn... Now, in the show, I love Jack's concern for the hand and everything it implies. Yup, Jack/Doctor is my thing and the whole canonical hand theme just shivers my timbers. But the idea of handporn fics was just an amusing oddity till I read this one, with (I thought) an inspired premise: That the Doctor can still feel with his lost hand, at least when Jack is touching it. The story: Handporn III by order_of_chaos. For concept alone - and for that, credit goes to cyberamanda, I see - it's an R rating. For brilliance of idea and smutty writing skills, it's A+++ in my book.

The other story, frustratingly short, is Five Times Jack Thought Better of It by lightgetsin, and I liked it so much that I won't even complain about the title. It's a glimpse of Captain Jack, especially in relation to the Doctor and Rose and his life on the TARDIS. There are only a few stories I've found that I think interpret Jack correctly, and this one is perfect enough to make me throw up my hands and think I might as well stop trying to write it myself because this story already said what needs to be said, presenting Jack as I see him. Good lines (and think here of "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances"):

It's funny, in that way of things which are not funny at all, because he used to clean up this sort of thing for a living and he understands all to well what he's done.

And later:

Fucking up isn't new to him - though this scale certainly is - but doing the right thing after is new and strange. But somehow it settles around his shoulders like it's always been there.