Happy Christmakwanzasolstikah, everyone! Long time reader, first time poster.

Title: Atonement
Author: sahiya
Pairing/Rating: PG-13, Jack/Ten (mostly preslash)
Word Count: 11,100
Disclaimer: Not mine! They belong to Rusty and the BBC.
Summary: The Doctor goes back for Jack a bit sooner. But sooner still might not be soon enough.
Author's Note: This was written for the AU challenge at wintercompanion. Thanks to the mods for amnesty month, which let me write it! Many thanks also to my beta reader, fuzzyboo03, who made me fix the ending even when I didn't want to.

( Atonement )

Feedback is like Christmas fudge. Once you have a little, you just want more.

It's been a wild, wild month - you all have spanned the realms of possibility and once again blown us away with your visions of "what might have been." But as the Doctor knows too well, the walls between the universes have to close, and now's the moment:

thunk

The AU Challenge is now closed!

moment of silence

Every month you continue to amaze us: for those days when you just swear you were born in the wrong universe, you can find all the entries under the challenge: au tag, or just click here.

New challenge up shortly - we've brought them back, but where on Earth are we bringing them back to? 

Title: To Wander, Between the Stars (3b/3)
Author: vail_kagami
Beta: nightrider101
Challenge: AU
Rating: R (overall)
Spoilers: Series 3 Finale
Warnings: Violence, mentioned rape
Summary: Jack never made that con in 1941. Instead his broken vortex manipulator strands him in the twenty-first century, where he finally meets the Doctor - who's been a prisoner of Torchwood for a long time.

Title: To Wander, Between the Stars (3a/3)
Author: vail_kagami
Beta: nightrider101
Challenge: AU
Rating: R (overall)
Spoilers: Series 3 Finale
Warnings: Violence, mentioned rape
Summary: Jack never made that con in 1941. Instead his broken vortex manipulator strands him in the twenty-first century, where he finally meets the Doctor - who's been a prisoner of Torchwood for a long time.

( “Good to see you awake again, my friend,” the leader of Torchwood said sweetly. “I think it’s time we have a little chat.” )

Title: To Wander, Between the Stars (2/3)
Author: vail_kagami
Beta: nightrider101
Challenge: AU
Rating: R (overall)
Spoilers: Series 3 Finale
Warnings: Violence, mentioned rape
Summary: Jack never made that con in 1941. Instead his broken vortex manipulator strands him in the twenty-first century, where he finally meets the Doctor - who's been a prisoner of Torchwood for a long time.

( The Doctor didn’t trust him but at least he didn’t outright despise him either. It was a start. )

Title: Five Times Jack Catches Up With The Doctor (And One He Doesn't)
Author: ladyames
Beta: gigglestheblood
Challenge: AU
Rating: PG/PG-13
Spoilers/warnings: Let's just say everything through series three of DW and all of TW. (Better safe than sorry.)
Summary: See the title. Or think of it as Five times Ames messes with canon and Jack's timeline (and one time she just makes something up).


( The dust slips between his fingers and his brows furrow. )

Mr Smith and the Captain

Author: Lilithangel

Challenge: AU

Characters: Ten/Jack, Martha

Rating/Warnings: PG Spoilers for TW Small Worlds and DW Human Nature and The Family of Blood. Hopeless schmoop ahead.

Summary: The TARDIS chose Cardiff for the Doctor to hide from the Family. John Smith gets a job at a primary school where a little girl was chosen by the faerie.

( Read more... )

A different path

Author: Lilithangel

Fandom: Dr Who/Torchwood

Challenge: AU

Characters: Jack, the Doctor, Rose, Ianto, Owen

Pairings: Doctor/Rose, Jack/Ianto, Doctor/Jack

Rating/Warnings: PG Spoilers for Torchwood - Small Worlds, Everything Changes, Captain Jack Harkness, Doctor Who - Doomsday

Summary: Sometimes a single decision can change everything and yet you can still end up where you want to be. Jack doesn’t take up Torchwood’s offer and travels on his own for over a century, still touching the lives of some he would have met. He ends up at Torchwood during the battle of Canary Wharf and changes more lives than his own.

( Read more... )

Author: dameruth
Challenge: AU
Rating: PG
Warnings: "Doomsday," fluff, and cute baby TARDIS warnings.
Series: Tales From the Findersverse
Summary: With Rose away, the boys will play!  (Ten/Jack/Rose AU OT3, with a Ten/Jack focus for this story).

 Title: Uti, Utor 
Author: RubyChan05
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Up to Human Nature/The Family Of Blood 
Summary: When Jack meets John, everything changes 
Notes: Inspired by a fanvid I made ages ago....found HERE, and the ripped out pages in the journal seen around the gas mask people pages when Nurse Redfern read it.




Part Two

Title: A Different Kind of Academy Fic 2
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: AU
Rating: PG
Warnings: Bad poetry.
Summary: Craack Highschool AU, part 2. The Doctor dangles from a fence, Rose finds out what TARDIS stands for, the Master hears the call to war, Jack and the Doctor do lunch, and the Doctor is pelted with Shakespearean sonnets.

A Different Kind of Academy Fic 1

( A Different Kind of Academy Fic 2 )

Title: Turning Tide
Author: Dark-Dreymer
Challenge: AU
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers/warnings: Spoilers for the whole of Final Fantasy X. Has characters from season 4, so if you don’t know the season 4 companion don’t read.
Summary: Sin has risen once more to bring punishment to the people of Spira, and the summoners shall once again rise up to defeat it. When Jack Harkness is hired to accompany a young summoner on his pilgrimage he doesn’t realize how much it will affect not only his life, but also the whole of Spira. 

Almost 55,000 words in total so get comfy if you plan to read it in one sitting. Oh, and don't expect an epic for every challenge, I'm normally dead lazy. :P

Glossary
Illustrations

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20

Title: To Wander, Between the Stars (1b/3)
Author: vail_kagami
Beta: nightrider101
Challenge: AU
Rating: R (overall)
Spoilers: Series 3 Finale
Warnings: Violence, mentioned rape
Summary: Jack never made that con in 1941. Instead his broken vortex manipulator strands him in the twenty-first century, where he finally meets the Doctor - who's been a prisoner of Torchwood for a long time.

( On any other day he would have laughed. )

Title: To Wander, Between the Stars (1a/3)
Author:  vail_kagami
Beta: nightrider101, the super-fastest beta ever!
Challenge: AU
Rating: R (overall)
Spoilers: Series 3 Finale
Warnings: Violence, mentioned rape
Summary: Jack never made that con in 1941. Instead his broken vortex manipulator strands him in the twenty-first century, where he finally meets the Doctor - who's been a prisoner of Torchwood for a long time.
Note: Unfortunately I had to split the first part into two posts because it's just a tiny little bit too long. So this story will have two chapters in at least three parts. I'm sorry I have to take so much space again.

Title: A Different Kind of Academy Fic
Author/Artist: sarkywoman
Challenge: AU
Rating: PG
Spoilers/warnings: No spoilers. Warnings for immense crack and use of the word penis.
Summary: We've all seen the Highschool AU done in various fandoms. And now it's here. I'm sorry. I don't know where it's going, how many chapters it will have, whether I'll get it finished or whether I'll need to... but I'm posting what I've done so far and working on more. Hopefully I'll get a fair amount of teen angst out before the challenge closes! There's also a really crappy drawing I did. I'm no artist.

( The Doctor's First Day at his New School )

Title - Five Different Pieces
Author - laurab1
Challenge – AU
Characters/pairings – Jack/Nine, Rose, Jack/Ten, Martha, Eight/Jack, John Smith/Time Agent Jack, John Hart, John Smith/Joan Redfern, the Family of Blood, Jack/Gwen/OMC
Rating – 12/PG-13
Length – 2320 words
Spoilers – to TW 2.12 Fragments
Summary – Five times things happened another way.
Feedback is loved and appreciated :) Enjoy!

( Five Different Pieces )

Title: How the Doctor Got His Friend
Author: donutsweeper
Challenge: AU
Rating: G
Spoilers/warnings: None whatsoever
Summary: Even teddy bears need friends.

( Susan was three when she got the fuzzy teddy bear... )

After all that tech, it's time to come back to what's at the heart of fanfic: Asking "what if?" This month, we're all about what might have been:

Welcome to the AU Challenge!

From the simple questions to the complex, from parallel worlds to alternate timelines to complete AUs: this month, anything goes, except for what really happened.

What if Jack had never stopped travelling with the Doctor? What if he hadn't joined Torchwood? What if the Doctor had gone back for Jack at any point before Utopia? What if they'd met while the Doctor was under the influence of the Chameleon Arch? What if this or that tiny little thing had just happened differently? What if our heroes had first met under vastly different circumstances – say, while Jack was still an active Time Agent?

Or what if they weren't what they are: Time Lord and Time Agent, immortal, regenerating and reviving? What might they be, and still be recognisably them? What if they were ordinary humans? Hell, what if they were vampires? Truly, anything goes. Because it's obvious they belong together in any conceivable version of reality! ;-)

Your mission this month: Show us the Doctor and Jack in any version of reality but the one we know from the show. From a "five things" piece to AU versions of episodes to a full-on alternate universe – ask yourself: "What if?"

As a gentle reminder, please don't crosspost stories for this challenge elsewhere until the challenge closes about one month from now. And don't forget - leave a comment in THIS post and tell us what you think the next challenge should be!