I bring you a rec

[51stcenturyfox]

Anya has posted a really epic story, because she doesn't write anything that isn't awesome.  I had the pleasure of beta-reading this with pogrebin and just loved this part of the Jack!verse... this part is set in Victorian Cardiff, where Jack has had the bad luck to land.

1887 

Jack's sauntering near Sophia Gardens one autumn night, thinking vaguely about trolling for a blowjob -- policing of the grounds remains sketchy, with predictable results -- when his attention's caught by a figure loping through the trees; a semi-humanoid shape with an all-too-distinctive profile that he's never seen on Earth: sloping head and fanned gills above a full frock coat. The stigmata of those pan-galactic, hedonistic parasites he's encountered a handful of times, renowned for their ability to imitate local dress and speech and their gusto for petty crime and petty vices.  

 

Jack stops dead.  A fucking Blowfish.  Here in Cardiff.  

 

Title: Calypso
Author: Anya (neifile7 )
Characters/Pairings: Jack/OCs, various historical figures, canon pairings (including some from the Harkness back catalogue)
Rating: R for sex and language
Ingredients/Warnings: references to cross-dressing, bondage, prostitution, violence, underage sex; religious allusions; character death
Disclaimer: Frankly, I doubt that anyone owns Jack. 
Summary: Jack recalls one strand of his life between landing in Cardiff and joining Torchwood thirty years later. Set pre-S1 and pre-Jack/Ianto.