Title: "Cold Comfort"
Author: dameruth
Characters/pairings: Jack/Lucy Saxon
Rating: Hard R
Series: "Flowers"Disclaimer: None of it's mine but the words and the dark . . .
Summary: Jack receives an unexpected visit while held prisoner on the
Valiant during the Year That Never Was.
Jeez. Here I am, supposed to be writing for the "
Happy Prompt" challenge on the "twdw_ficathon" prompt over on LJ, and then badgerangel gives me the following prompts in the "
story I'll never write" meme going 'round over there:
"Jack/Lucy Saxon.
Ace meets and instantly takes a dislike to Ten.
The Doctor (any Doctor) finally becomes Merlin." While most of my responses to that meme are posted as comments in the original thread (and
as a set over on Teaspoon), the first prompt above gets its own story, set in the "
Flowers" sequence, just before "
Target of Opportunity." If you've read that story, you've got fair warning of the tone for this one. If not -- hard "R" and dark stuff, at least by my standards. It also carries on that series' assumptions about Time Lord biology, but it should still read as a standalone.
Thanks to aibhinn for beta-fu -- now I'm off to be
happy for a bit, then I'll lightly re-edit "ToO" to be in line with this series addition . . .
(Follow the false cut to my journal here . . .)