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Title: Powerless 2/2
Author: rubychan05
Challenge: Power
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Jack/Ten, implied Jack/Nine
Rating: R
Spoilers: To be safe, all episodes of DW and TW to date
Warnings: Non-con, torture, character death, heartbreak and angst
Summary: When Jack is abducted by aliens there's only one thing the Doctor can do to save him. And it breaks his hearts. 

Part One

Title: Powerless 1/2
Author: rubychan05
Challenge: Power
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Jack/Ten, implied Jack/Nine
Rating: R
Spoilers: To be safe, all episodes of DW and TW to date
Warnings: Non-con, torture, character death, heartbreak and angst
Summary: When Jack is abducted by aliens there's only one thing the Doctor can do to save him. And it breaks his hearts.

Inspired by these Kate Winslet quotes; 

"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go." and "Life is short and is here to be lived."

 
Part Two


 

Title: Where Love and Justice Meet
Author: hence_the_name
Challenge: Power
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Jack/Ten, implied Jack/John
Rating: R
Spoilers: S3 of Doctor Who, S2 of Torchwood (major spoilers for 2x13, “Exit Wounds,” and 2x5, “Adam.”)
Summary: In the months following the events of “Exit Wounds,” Jack is becoming a bit unhinged. The Torchwood team call in the Doctor to help.

A/N: Many, many thanks to nightrider101, for being my biggest fan.


“It isn’t easy, it doesn’t count if it’s easy, it’s the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”

--Belize
Tony Kushner, Angels in America


( Where Love and Justice Meet )

Title: Overlords and Time Gods 5/5
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Up to and including 'Last of the Time Lords'. AU after that.
Warnings: It's quite dark, contains dubious-consent (drug-use), slightly dodgy use of slightly underage slaves. Insanity. Character death.
Summary: The Doctor returns to Earth after a long absence to find power has corrupted a once-noble friend. Thanks again to all the people I thanked in the notes of the first chapter, especially vail_kagami.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

( Overlords and Time Gods 5/5 )

Title: Overlords and Time Gods 4/5
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Up to and including 'Last of the Time Lords'. AU after that.
Warnings: It's quite dark, contains dubious-consent (drug-use), slightly dodgy use of slightly underage slaves. Insanity. Character death. Bad poetry.
Summary: The Doctor returns to Earth after a long absence to find power has corrupted a once-noble friend.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

( Overlords and Time Gods 4/5 )

Title: Overlords and Time Gods 3/5
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Up to and including 'Last of the Time Lords'. AU after that.
Warnings: This is part three of a fic about 50 pages long in Word. It's quite dark, contains dubious-consent (drug-use), slightly dodgy use of slightly underage slaves. Insanity. Character death.
Summary: The Doctor returns to Earth after a long absence to find power has corrupted a once-noble friend.

Part One
Part Two

( Overlords and Time Gods 3/5 )

Title: Overlords and Time Gods 2/5
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Up to and including 'Last of the Time Lords'. AU after that.
Warnings: This is part two of a fic about 50 pages long in Word. It's quite dark, contains dubious-consent (drug-use), slightly dodgy use of slightly underage slaves. There's some blasphemy and worshipping of false idols too. Insanity. Character death.
Summary: The Doctor returns to Earth after a long absence to find power has corrupted a once-noble friend.

Part One

( Overlords and Time Gods 2/5 )

Title: Overlords and Time Gods 1/5
Author: sarkywoman
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Up to and including 'Last of the Time Lords'. AU after that.
Warnings: This is part one of a fic about 50 pages long in Word. It's quite dark, contains dubious-consent (drug-use), slightly dodgy use of slightly underage slaves. There's some blasphemy and worshipping of false idols too. Insanity. Character death.
Summary: The Doctor returns to Earth after a long absence to find power has corrupted a once-noble friend.
Notes: Thanks to vail_kagami, supasass, veta_black and nightrider101 for letting me ramble on and on about this fic to you.

( Overlords and Time Gods, Part 1/5 )

Title: Hands of the Clock (2/2)
Author: vail_kagami
Beta: nightrider101
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Minor spoiler for the end of the third series of DW. One of the themes of this fic also appears in The Fires of Pompeii, but it was written before the episode aired and contains no actual spoilers.
Warnings: Violence, non-con
Summary: It's the year 3507 and Jack is getting too old to remain the person he once was. But he's still too human to let historic disaster happen when he has the power to prevent it. The Doctor isn't.
Note: First part is here.

Title: Hands of the Clock (1/2)
Author: vail_kagami 
Beta: nightrider101, who is just that awesome!
Challenge: Power
Rating: NC-17 (in the second part)
Spoilers: Minor spoiler for the end of the third series of DW. One of the themes of this fic also appears in The Fires of Pompeii, but it was written before the episode aired and contains no actual spoilers.
Warnings: Violence, non-con
Summary: It's the year 3507 and Jack is getting too old to remain the person he once was. But he's still too human to let historic disaster happen when he has the power to prevent it. The Doctor isn't.
Note: Split due to length.  A link to the second part can be found at the end of this one.




( Above them the city of Cardiff was struggling with the first storm of Autumn 3507, unaware of the impending doom as it so often was. )

Title: Wolfchild
Author: Garrideb
Challenge: Power
Rating: PG
Spoilers/warnings: Spoilers for Doctor Who season three, and slight ones for 'Exit Wounds'.
Summary: There is power in names, in change, in glances. Jack declines the Doctor's invitation to travel, but that is only the start.

( Even if his heart could beat at this point, he doubts it would make a difference. )

All right, so we tried leaving it to luck, and look how well that went. (Which is to say, spectacularly.) But now it's time to take charge, to grab the reins, to take control.

It's time for The Power Challenge.

The man who's beaten death and a lord of time - they're not just lucky sods. They're men of strange and dangerous power, and I haven't even begun to discuss the strength of 51st century pheromones yet. They make plans, they change lives, they span centuries: they are rare creatures indeed.

And sometimes they're terrifyingly helpless.

So for a month (ish, and it would fit the challenge if I blamed my inability to close last month on time to circumstances beyond my control, for which many apologies), we're placing Jack and the Doctor in your power. Are they gods? Are they pawns? Are they all of the above and something in between? When is too much power a bad thing? How do you recover from feeling like the world is utterly out of your control? When is it safe to turn over control to someone you trust? When is it cathartic to simply have it stripped away?

Regardless, one thing is sure: the power play between the two of them will -never- be boring.

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!

Until then, have at it: the Doctor and Jack await, and they're entirely at your disposal....

Power's a heady thing, isn't it?