FIC: Torchwood/Big Eden crossover drabble - "Lake in the Mountains"

[fajrdrako]

Title: Lake in the Mountains
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood/Big Eden
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness (with reference to Jack/Doctor), Pike Dexter
Challenge: tw100, challenge: crossovers
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers Doctor Who 1x13, "The Parting of the Ways", and for the movie Big Eden. Cross-posted to my LJ and to tw100.


Lake in the Mountains

Jack and Pike went fishing, under the wide Montana sky.

Pike was a quiet man who loved stories. Jack heard myths of Pike's culture: dancing maidens becoming constellations. Jack related misadventures among the stars: Time Agents, executioners, a wandering Police Box.

As the sun sank over pink Maxfield Parish mountains, their stories became more personal. Pike talked about Henry, his schoolmate. Twenty years of yearning, and Pike still couldn't forget him. Jack told about the lonely god who left him on a Game Station among corpses and Dalek dust.

"Soldier," said Pike.

"Yeah," said Jack.

They sat in comfortable silence.

Comments

[lunacy-gal.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love!!!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Big happy smile. So glad you liked it.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

And for some reason I had it in my mind that you didn't understand fishing, or the outdoors. Wonder why that was! Sorry!

My dear, this was quite perfect. What a delight to read it. Such elegant structure. Yeah, you're good.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

for some reason I had it in my mind that you didn't understand fishing, or the outdoors. Wonder why that was!

Just because I don't do it doesn't mean I don't understand it. [grin] Besides, you explained it to me. See how well I listen?

I bask in your wonderful comments. Thank you.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Just because I don't do it doesn't mean I don't understand it. [grin] Besides, you explained it to me. See how well I listen?

You're so sweet. [blush]

I bask in your wonderful comments. Thank you.

Enjoy. You earned them. You are wonderful. And you are welcome.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You're so sweet. [blush]

And the whole thing about writing is to appear to know subjects well even when you don't. Illusions, it's all illusions.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Understanding the sense of a conversation means getting the rhythm of it right. Once a person has achieved that, a person can converse in a noisy room and appear to be saying what should be said, while never even being able to hear the other person's actual words.

I like your little story. Want to go fishing sometime?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think I want to go fishing. I don't want to kill fish! (Even less do I want to clean them afterwards.) I like boating, but fishing is like hunting - it involves killing living things.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Please keep in mind several things: I loathe looking at and touching fish as much as you do; I cannot harm something else without feeling it myself, and never forgetting the moment; I would not ask you to saunter off with me and cause harm to any living creature.

My kind of fishing is like this: First, no bait on the hooks. Then, don't even really bother to cast the lines out. Just find a nice spot on the edge of the water, settle in, and breathe and be happy and do basically nothing constructive for ... oh, several hours.

Ok?

I'm sure screwing up this verbal interaction thing lately. Sigh.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Like I said - lounging in a rowboat is a great idea. [g]