I Were The Heavens; Torchwood, PG

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Comments

[luvinthe88and20.livejournal.com]

Great Job, I love Jack influencing his earlier life.

[humantales.livejournal.com]

Splendid as always. I love the way you use the facts of Jack's immortality to wind the story around. And I'm a real sucker for Young!Jack.

[daizy2k2.livejournal.com]

I love Jack back story. And you do it so well.

And Ginger!Doctor!

[offer-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Lost track of the number of references but v v nice indeed

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. Timey wimey to the nth degree. The Doctor doesn't seem to carry much authority at this point.

[jeonggam.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! Twisty and smart and JACK YAY. I'm a sucker for a bit of Jack backstory.

I enjoyed this VERY MUCH. It has quite a BSG-feel to it, to me, too, which was wonderful. You know you're amazing, right?

[iambickilometer.livejournal.com]

Now that was just cool. Jack backstory, I think, is something that doesn't turn up nearly enough in fandom. And it makes sense, that he'd do something like that - though I'm interested to know how he knew he had to do it.

And hey, looks like the Doctor got his ginger hair at last. :D I like this version of him. Rather dry, somber fellow.

[thenines.livejournal.com]

I am... just amazed by the coolness of this. Damn.

[pure-entropy.livejournal.com]

Oh this was wonderful! I when it turned out that Levy was Jack and Jack was Lo, I squealed a bit. Okay, a lot. I just adore your writing, it flows so nicely. The humor is great - not too much, just enough to make reading it enjoyable. Well done :)

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

After reading your synopsis I thought, Omigod, Ender Wiggin grows up to be Jack Harkness and Orson Scott Card's head exploded.

Then I realized that no, Jack Harkness grows up to be Sam Vimes/John Keel, which is even better!

[sanura.livejournal.com]

Genius. God, I love space opera.

You've got one blockade without a k, and then I'm not sure of military assignment titles, but I've heard strategist more often than strategian.

Ginger Doctor! For the win! Also, omnipotent Jack. So much yay.

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

Oh joy! I adore space opera! I've always been a rather fanatical reader of military fic. Hornblower and Sharpe's for sure, as well as sci-fi based stuff.

Love the view of Jack as the unsung hero of the war, and really love Jack helping himself. With all the "poor future Jack" out there, it's nice to read a fic with Jack still living large in the universe and keeping the Doctor on his toes. Now, couldn't you just turn this into a whole series of young Jack fic? Better than Harry Potter I'm thinkin'! :P

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

The Doctor finally gets to be a ginger!

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Time travel gives me a headache. This was worth it. *grin*

[kesomon.livejournal.com]

Awesome tale. I especially like the interaction between Jack and the Doc.

[fuzzyboo03.livejournal.com]

Your Torchwood is my canon. This is fantastic.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, delightful! I didn't guess the twist til Levy revealed it, although I should've. What a Jack thing to do, creating his own backstory...

As soon as you said the visitor was (a) eccentrically dressed and (b) ginger I knew exactly who he was. :-)

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I adore Lo? He's so wonderfully young, and vulnerable, and yet utterly made of steel at the same time. He's very obviously the boy who will become the man, Jack, and yet he's different, too. It's apparent that it's the years of schooling to come, and possibly his partnering with John, that teaches him how to laugh again, because right now he's very bristly and hurt.

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

OOOoh, lovely, and I totally didn't get what was going on until Ginger Doctor showed up.

Also, young Lo just crackled and practically leapt off the page.

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Oh God, Jack makes my head hurt. I literally had to sit here and let my brain spin for a minute before I could read that sentence again.

And ooh, a ginger Doctor!

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that was just fantastic. One thing: you've spelled venomously with an extra e - as venemously.

[cleversimon.livejournal.com]

Does it mean I'm getting old that I liked everything about this except the causality loop?

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Dude. Awesome. I am a fan of the space opera, and that mixed in with Torchwood, mixed in with timey-wimey Jack? I am very impressed.

And little!Jack was just right - cocky, but had been through enough, even at (lordy) sixteen to be aware of the position he put himself in. Does make me regret that Jack doesn't get much of a childhood, but then again he does spend quite a lot of his time as we know him going through various debaucherous (as it were) situations, so I guess in that he's managed to act immaturely when he's felt like it :)

Reminded me a bit of Ender's Game - not so much the psychological side as the alien-presence-not-really-understood stuff, plus the bringing in young men from all over the galaxy. Very neat.

Not sure where you'd go from here with this one, but it's a fun backstory, it'd be neat to see young!Jack's adventures.

And perhaps oddly enough this is the first time I've read a Torchwood fic and it's felt like the Sci Fi Space Opera type stuff you get, it was a really nice change.

[drgaellon]

The Doctor finally got to be ginger! :)

[viverl.livejournal.com]

Very good!
I love it!
Actually I didn't recognize Levy before the Doctor arrived. Very well done!