51stcenturyfox | Fic: "Pleased To Meet You" (R)

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Fic: "Pleased To Meet You" (R)

Title: Pleased To Meet You
Author: 51st Century Fox
Pairing: Jack/everyone, Jack/John
Rating: R for language
Wordcount: 360
Summary: Why Captain Jack Harkness really is pleased to meet you, whoever you are. You're gorgeous, you know.
Notes: Time loop to present era. A character study for my TW Forum friends.

Crossposting to

galactic_conman and

torchwood_decaf

That exuberant grin. The randy gleam in his eyes when they zero in on yours. He might grip your forearm as he shakes your hand ...hell, he might even kiss that hand. You have lovely hands, by the way. So's the rest of you, if you don't mind him telling you. He will - if he sees the rest of you at some point - which is not unlikely if your flattered blush and stammered reply are any indication.

If you're attractive, Captain Jack Harkness is happy to make your acquaintance, whatever your name is. What's attractive, anyway? Male, female, both, finned, tentacled? Hey, you're sexy.

"Pleased to meet you, Martha Jones."

"Jack..." the Doctor warns.

"I'm just saying hello!"

"Stop it!"

"But I..."

"Stop it!"

Five years in a time loop will do that to you. Oh, sure, at first he and John found it amusing to reintroduce themselves to the travelers at the bar. But they were the same (mostly) humanoids, and that just became boring.

"Should I seduce him again?"

"Why, itching for a challenge?" John replied.

"Well..."

"You already know what'll work - it'll take a week before he'll even let you slip him any tongue. Plus... crap shag, as I also well know."

"How about her?"

"No challenge at all, that one."

"True," Jack sighed.

"Barkeeper's nan?"

"John, she's nearly 80. She could break a hip"

"I'd be gentle?"

"God, you're worse than I am."

John is damned good in bed. So's Jack. And after they fiddled with the vortex manipulators a few times and ended up in the same spot, at the same time (once again, but the dimensional designator was off or something... oops) with no other life forms, well, it's not like they had any other options.

Sometimes John would get into a snit and cut Jack off, and they would both become so frustrated they'd have a knockdown drag-out battle in the deserted street. Hey, anything they'd destroyed would be back in one piece in 6 days and 14 hours (and 32 minutes) anyhow.

Then they'd have sex. With each other. Again.

Five years. It took five YEARS on their timeline for the Agency to make adjustments to their recall calculations and recover them. (Brilliant debrief that was: "It's only been two weeks. Why are the two of you so angry?")

You know something? You're awfully attractive, but more importantly, yours is a face he hasn't seen before. Ever.

Captain Jack Harkness is very pleased to meet you.

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Hee! That? Is brilliant! Love it. :-)

Thank you, I'm so glad you liked. :)

This is fantastic! The dialog made me laugh and the premise makes perfect sense. Five years could do that to a guy like Jack, I agree!

I think they could do that to me!

Thanks for the feedback, and I love that icon. ;)

Oh, that's just brilliant!

I particularly love this line: (Brilliant debrief that was: "It's only been two weeks. Why are the two of you so angry?")

Nice work!

Time Agency = f's up worse than NASA, because time is wibbly-wobbly.

;) Thanks!

*LMAO* Perfect!

Gotta fill in that backstory. TY! ;)

LOL! Oh this was just hysterical and awesome!

Thank you, Dru m'dear. Glad I could make you laugh. :)

Ahahahaha, that's just perfect. I love the narration of this - you made Jack flirt with the whole internet! :D

Like he wouldn't?

What are you wearing, such_heights? By the way you... smell really fantastic. :x

That is clever and fun and hot and very, very Jack. And explains why I refuse to believe in You Know What!

CANON SUBVERTER.

I'm a gon' tie you up, hotstuff.

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51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com - 2008-12-27 04:40 (UTC) - Expand

Ha!

This rules! ***hug***

Thanks! Where have you been hiding, JC? Ck pm's, ho.

Loved the debrief! brilliant *grins inanely*

Jack would like to "debrief" you...

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51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com - 2008-12-27 23:53 (UTC) - Expand

:) HAHAH that's perfect. And really so very Jack. YES.

Thank you for reading, apiphile. ;)

Oh, I love that :) So Jack ;)

Thank you!! :)

Really cleverly done! Love it!

Thank you! ;)

And I think we, the collective interwebz, are more happy to meet your acquaintance.

And measuring tapes do not lie INDEED.

...and Ianto never washed that hand again.

very good

Thank you!

Hehe, this is really good! Love the last few lines - they are funny and sort of sad (is that the word I want..? i'm not sure but it's the best I can come up with) at the smae time. It does explain why Jack is so happy to introduce himself/flirt with everyone!

Aww, thanks - just saw your comment. I'm glad you liked!

D:
How have I not reviewed this one? I've read it...
Ah well.

Anyway, very nice. It's a good point, actually. How I love your Jack and John.

Thank you, cookies! Appreciate the review.

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cookiesofkarma.livejournal.com - 2009-01-27 17:55 (UTC) - Expand

That makes a *huge* amount of sense.

Awesome. :)

I'm glad you liked this; thank you.

Captain Jack Harkness is very pleased to meet you.

This explains EVERYTHING.

Thank you so very much. (I seem to be careening through your stories. Please forgive my many comments cluttering your inbox.)

Not at all! Comments are love!

Thanks a lot. :)

And here's yet another clever story with an absolute sucker-punchline, but also another piece of the whole time-loop puzzle. I will never be able to watch Jack in DW again (any ep) without thinking of this.

You should give master classes in show not tell, I swear. Every story puts across a little more of the insane frustration and boredom those two lived through, all through dialogue and the tightest snippets of introspection.

I will never be able to watch Jack in DW again (any ep) without thinking of this.

That's an astounding piece of praise. Where should I drop that bag of cash? :D

It's not too difficult to imagine being marooned like this (in my fanon conception of the loop, anyway)... but for these two - trained to do something involving traveling THROUGH time? It would have been hell.

I've been working my way through this today, and got this far but now I must go home. (I love my work!) I'll be reading the rest later.

Anyway, it occurred to me that this loosely connected series is sort of like "drive by ficcing". All these excellent short fic shot out into the internet giving us brief flashes of insight into John and Jack and/or John/Jack. Very, very nice indeed. Thank you.

"...this loosely connected series is sort of like "drive by ficcing". All these excellent short fic shot out into the internet giving us brief flashes of insight into John and Jack and/or John/Jack.

Thank you very, very kindly. This actually is a series of sorts; they're all rather short and were written within the space of one month in sort of an obsessive frenzy. If I'd had ~~any~~ the patience, they would have been chapters or parts of one long story. :)

That was brilliant. Especially the last two lines. ^_^

Thank you! (Sorry, I just saw this comment, because I'm an idiot.)

WHY have I not read this before? This is awesome! Brilliant debrief that was: "It's only been two weeks. Why are the two of you so angry?" HEEEEEEEEEEE. I am very pleased to meet this fic.

New layout looks great, BTW. Very readable.

Thank you! I should probably relabel it Jack/YOU, since that's sort of what it is! Happy that you liked (and thanks so much for reccing it!)

I could read this over and over in a time loop! Brilliant.

Thanks so much! I'm glad to hear you liked it!

Brilliant debrief that was: "It's only been two weeks. Why are the two of you so angry?"
Love it!

And your new journal layout works fine for me btw, I love simple black and white.

Hah, this is brilliant, and so very Jack. *g*

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