Lisa Smith

Title: All That Glitters...
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG, gen
Word count: 735
Characters: Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato
Summary: "Toshiko, if you'd care to lead? No time like the present, after all...."
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Notes: Written for pimpmytardis for the 2008 round of fandom_stocking, but it seemed a bit strange to post it in January when everything went live, so it's going out now!

Thanks as always to mimarie for sterling beta work – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

( All That Glitters... )

Title: Pathfinder
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: G
Word count: 875
Characters: Gwen Cooper
Summary: But it was hardly the first time that she had taken a step out into the unknown.
Spoilers: TW Children of Earth; DW 4.12 The Stolen Earth and 4.13 Journey's End
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Notes: Written for the consci_fan_mo comm. Because I love Gwen as a character and I'm really looking forward to seeing where things go next. Gwenwood? Bring it on! :)

Thanks as always to mimarie for sterling beta work – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

( Pathfinder )

Yay! The 2009 TARDIS Big Bang site is now live, with many hefty Who-verse fics and lots of artwork!

For anyone who has been wondering what the heck happened to my usual semi-regular fic posting schedule over the past few months... er, this did. What do you know – apparently I can write long! Novel-length long, as it turns out. There will now follow a lot of catching up with various bits and pieces that have been neglected over the past three months or so....

Title: And Seven for a Secret
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: R for violence and language, gen
Word count: 58,327
Characters: Jack Harkness, OCs
Summary: If you are reading this then I am dead, and with my death dies a promise I made a long, long time ago... When Ben Haldane is left a cryptic note in his grandfather's will, it leads him to a story far stranger than he could ever have imagined.
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Archive: Sure, whoever wants it – just let me know where it ends up!
Notes: This was written for the 2009 tardis_bigbang challenge – the link below goes to their website – and is easily the single longest thing that I've ever produced. The basic idea was one that had been floating around in my brain for a while, but it really took form as I researched the era I was playing with – I had been planning to invent a mad Nazi version of Torchwood, but then found that Himmler had rather beaten me to it! Well, if it was good enough for Indiana Jones.... ;)

Thanks as always to mimarie for sterling beta work, and also to kris4n6 and sffuzzywriter for read-throughs and much-needed encouragement along the way – any remaining weirdnesses (and there are probably a few in my mangling of the German language!) are all mine. Thanks also to neth_dugan and wihluta for the illustrations! Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

~ And Seven for a Secret ~

Title: In the Bleak Midwinter
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG, gen
Word count: 3,376
Characters: Jack Harkness, OCs
Summary: The world was hemmed in, above and below and around, and it just wasn't fair – the war wasn't even two years past, the country still surviving on basic rations and sheer bloody-mindedness, and for a winter like this to hit now....
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Archive: Sure, whoever wants it – just let me know where it ends up!
Notes: I've actually had this one finished a while but had a vague plan regarding illustrations. However, the art isn't working (may try again at a later date) and the weather outside seems to be suggesting that I attempt to look topical, so.... ;) Thanks as always to mimarie for sterling beta services – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

( In the Bleak Midwinter )

Title: Wings
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Word count: 257
Characters: Mickey Smith
Summary: It was funny, the things you got used to.
Spoilers: DW2.06 The Age of Steel, DW4.13 Journey's End
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Archive: Sure, whoever wants it – just let me know where it ends up!
Notes: Written for doyle_sb4 as part of the fandom_stocking community. Thanks as always to mimarie for looking this over for me – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

( Wings )

Title: To the Victor
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: NC-17, slash
Word count: 820
Characters: Jack Harkness, John Hart
Summary: It had ever been like this with them....
Spoilers: TW 2.01 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, TW 2.13 Exit Wounds
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Archive: Sure, whoever wants it – just let me know where it ends up!
Notes: Not got much written this last month or so, but just remembered that I still had this clogging up the hard drive! A slightly expanded version of something small and smutty and violent I wrote for oxoniensis's last Porn Battle, prompt "Torchwood, Jack/John, barfight, punch". These two are rather fun to write – they have such a gloriously screwed-up relationship and they both know it....

Thanks as always to mimarie – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

( To the Victor )

Title: Touching Blue
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Word count: 777
Characters: Jack Harkness, Gerald Carter
Summary: ...and, if there was even one reason to be thankful for his strange immortality, it would be that he had lived long enough to reach this moment.
Spoilers: only for Jack's length of service with the Institute.
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Archive: Sure, whoever wants it – just let me know where it ends up!
Notes: A slightly expanded version of something I wrote for the latest bringthehappy challenge, prompt "Torchwood; Jack; kite". This is something that I've actually wanted to play with for a while (and alluded to somewhat in "Strange Monsters") – Jack has lived through some terrible times and done a lot of terrible things, but it hasn't been all bad.... :) In case anybody is interested, Jack's toy is one of these.

Thanks as always to mimarie – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

( Touching Blue )