Chicken soup and hot tea and LOTS OF FIC cure a world of ills - I hope you're all starting to feel better! Jack and the Doctor have been calling in sick for a whole month, which means it's time to bring this challenge to a close. If you need one last dose of Doctor/Jack to cure what ails you, click the challenge: plague tag - or just go here.

You all are -fantastic-, absolutely so - I look forward to seeing what you come up with next month. (And I know for a fact we have two great challenges lined up for March and April.) So stock up on Vitamin C and make sure those plot bunnies stay healthy!

Title: Another Time (Part 2/2)
Author: hence_the_name
Challenge: Plague
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Ten/Jack, Ianto/Jack, Martha, Gwen, Tosh, Owen
Warnings: It's kind of gross.  Sorry.
Spoilers: Through S3 of Doctor Who.  Technically takes place after the end of S1 of Torchwood, but no major spoilers.
Summary:  The Doctor works to save Jack after he's infected by an alien parasite.

A/N:  Many thanks to everyone who read and commented on the first installment of this--all of your comments helped me on some sections of the second half that I had been struggling with.

Title: Before The Dawn
Author: seti_drd
Summary: Nobody left to be saved, nobody left to save him
Characters: Jack/Ten, Martha
Challenge: Plague
Spoilers: Set after Last of the Time Lords, but only vague mentions
Rating/Warnings: PG, mentions of death.
Word count: 1110
Notes: Betaed by the wonderful xwingace. After enjoying the fics of this comm so much I felt it was time to give something back, so I hope you like it.

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Title: Another Time
Author: hence_the_name
Challenge: Plague
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Ten/Jack, Ianto/Jack, Martha, Gwen, Tosh, Owen
Warnings: It's kind of gross.  Sorry.
Spoilers: Through S3 of Doctor Who.  Technically takes place after the end of S1 of Torchwood, but no major spoilers.
Summary:  The Doctor works to save Jack after he's infected by an alien parasite.

A/N:  I was going to post this all at once, but the plot bunny spawned by this challenge was large and vicious.  I'll be posting the second half later this week.

Title: Worse Than the Disease
Author: Garrideb
Challenge: Plague
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers/warnings: Some violence and gore, some implied Jack/Ianto
Summary: In order to cure Jack, the Doctor makes some dangerous choices.

( Welcome to Cardiff, Wales, planet Earth. You’ve arrived in the year 2008, just in time to cash in on You Tube stardom. )

 

Title: And So I Fall Into The Blackness Of Death
Author:  rubychan05
Challenge: Plague
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers:  All New Who. No major TW.
Warnings:  Mentions of blood, death, and other pleasant things that come with the plague. ^_^
Summary: It's the Black Death. And Jack's not happy. 
  

 

Title: "Ten Minutes"
Author: dameruth
Challenge: Plague
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None that I can think of.
Warnings: Some ugly plague stuff, bad words, and a few borderline cliches.

Title: What Little Light
Author: vail_kagami[Unknown site tag]
Challenge: Plague
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Set after DW series 3.
Warnings: None, really, except that things are a bit messy and there are a lot of corpses.
Summary: Jack and the Doctor contract a lethal disease when reacting to the distress signal of a space ship.
Notes: New to the community though not at all new to the fandom. I couldn't resist this callenge but the result is not at all what I wanted it to be.

Title: Love is the Cure
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: Plague
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Set after 'Last of the Time Lords'. Not really anything for TW series 2.
Warnings: Sex, cliche, badness.
Summary: Cliched fic plot no.2, the only cure for the illness spreading through Torchwood is sex. And it has to be sex with a person of significant influence. An intergalactic booty call must be made to a certain Time Lord.
Notes: I wrote this fic of what I suspect is immensely poor quality solely to prevent the other 'Plague' plot making it to the page. I sat down and started to type a story where Jack gave the Doctor an STD and I thought 'No! I just can't do it!' And so this was born.

( Love is the Cure )

wojelah said: "I propose a PLAGUE FIC CHALLENGE. Because EVERYONE seems to be sick right now - I'm just over some sort of death flu myself - and because the possibilities are pretty endless - from h/c to fluff to action/adventure."

I had the cold from hell too. Practically everyone at my workplace was sick too. So what better than to inflict the sickness on our favourite characters as well? Because we're evil that way. :D

So there you go: The Plague Challenge!

Think about it: Alien illnesses. Time Lord flu. Or, the most dangerous of all, those seemingly harmless things, children's diseases! The Doctor with measles. Jack with chickenpox. Who's taking care of whom? Can a Time Lord get the common cold? Can Jack get ill, if the illness is non-fatal? What about a real plague? Imagine someone who can't die in the midst of an epidemic.

Endless questions, endless options! As usual, these are just a few ideas to get you started. I'm sure you can come up with something even better! :D

As a gentle reminder, please don't crosspost stories for this challenge to other comms until the challenge closes. (Which, as usual, will be 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!