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The Thousandth Man, by athousandwinds.
PG. Implied Ten/Jack and Doctor/Rose/Jack.
Jack's a people person, but he's always ended up alone.
Spoilers: Parting of the Ways.

Halfway round the universe with only a backpack for company made anyone a loner. Making connections just wasn't worth it when you were only going to spend the day. There wasn't time.

"There's always time!" a man whom Jack met once insisted. "I mean, look how fast we became friends!"

"Sure," Jack said, amused. He kissed the guy's shoulder (he was way too skinny and had the chirpy, curious look of a clumsy baby bird) and added, "Why did you hug me?"

"No reason." The sharp face took on a guilty cast. "I like hugging people. Is it illegal here?"

"It's Victorian England."

"Oh." The man considered this. "Nah, it's fine. I'll just tell 'em I'm French."

Cavewomen, by uktechgirl.
PG-13. Martha/Gwen.
Gwen’s having a craptastic Christmas – and that’s before Jack sends her on a team-bonding trip with no one but Martha for company
Spoilers: DW Last of the Time Lords, TW ep 106.

Gwen's narration is so much fun and so refreshingly Gwen, and as a Martha fangirl I loved seeing her through Gwen's eyes.

Where Ever I May Roam, by irenak.
PG. Martha, Jack, Ten, Torchwood team.
In which there are phone calls, text messages, friends who let friends drunk-dial and Torchwood.
Spoilers: Last of the Time Lords

Text Message 1:39 AM GMT

I’m still awake, so that’s hardly impressive. Also what’s the point to all of this text nonsense? It’s like taking a perfectly good form of communication and making it twice as difficult just for the sake of –

Text Message 1:43 AM GMT

-Character limit exceeded? What does that even mean? Well, fine, just be that way. Stupid phone.

Text Message 10:35 AM GMT

MEANS U TALK 2 MUCH EVEN IN TXT. – M.

Both sweet and hilarious.

Everyman, by basingstoke.
Hard R. Jack/the known universe.
It starts on a beach and ends in a city.
Spoilers: Last of the Time Lords

Jack fell in love for the first time when he looked up from a martini and saw an alien dancing with a human girl in a spaceship like no other he'd ever seen, and he realized they had come to rescue him, and he realized he was forgiven, and he realized he would do anything for them. He thought that meant killing for the Doctor, but it didn't, because the Doctor couldn't stand death. Not the death of a butterfly; not the death of his enemy. He'd been all for killing Daleks, when Jack first knew him, but Jack wondered if he would push the metaphorical button now.

Takes that new bit of Jack canon and makes it right. Dare you not to tear up by the end.

Timely Advice, by itinerant_vae.
PG-13. Jack/Ianto.
Ianto finds a letter box that sends post back in time. He uses it to correspond with Jeeves.

Mr. Jones,

Thank you for your prompt reply. Your attention to duty is most commendable. Mr. Wooster is not in the habit of engaging in such activities with military gentlemen. However, I do feel that perhaps your gentleman requires more personal monitoring than Mr. Wooster, and wish you the very best of British luck in maintaining his reputation. Should you ever require advice on the matter, I would be delighted to be of service, in the interest of restricting any further invitations.

R. Jeeves

Later, in the small, dark room under Jack's office, Ianto paid close attention to monitoring Jack very personally.

Paris, by reina_isabella.
PG-13. Nine/Rose, Nine/Jack.
Jack is keeping secrets.
Spoilers: the Doctor Dances

Jack sighed and handed the glass to the soldier. "Sorry, kid. I have to go." The young man glanced at the Doctor and bent to whisper in Jack's ear. Jack groaned and looked over pleadingly. "Can't I have an hour?" he asked. "Half an hour?"

Arms folded, the Doctor glared at him. "Now."

"Six minutes in the alley out back?" he muttered.

A fun, funny, and sexy romp with our three through Paris.

In the Mood, by chicafrom3.
PG. Jack/Toshiko.
The Captain Jack Harkness AU that every Jack/Tosh shipper had to write. Jack and Tosh are stranded in the '40s.
Spoilers: Captain Jack Harkness

Fact: He promised to keep her safe, and he will keep that promise, Toshiko Sato, so stop arguing.

So she quiets, and thinks about it. And when he comes home that night, she smiles at him a little and says that she at least wants a ring.

Very pretty and satifying: a stuck-in-the-past AU that's shippy, in a believable way that builds on the quiet connection these two have in canon.

All Things in Time, by poisontaster.
PG. Brief Jack/Toshiko, implied Jack/Ianto.
Spoilers: For 1.12 "Captain Jack Harkness" and S4 of Footballers' Wives.
AU from "Captain Jack Harkness."

Toshiko doesn't really know when she understood that there would be no rescue, no eleventh hour save. She'd seen so many extraordinary, miraculous things…it seems impossible that there wouldn't be one for her, for them, her and Jack.

She does remember excusing herself to go into the ladies' sometime close to the dirty, peeping dawn and have herself a good cry though.

I really can't stay, by iamsab.
Jack/Hand, Jack->Ten.
PG?
Spoilers: Doctor Who - Runaway Bride. Torchwood - Cyberwoman.

The hand celebrates its first birthday alone. It was born on Christmas, in the United Kingdom which it now calls home, and in Cardiff on Christmas Eve it has a little party for itself, in its jar, in the dark. It remembers the Doctor and it dances its fingers when no one is watching.

Jack/Ten from the point of view of the hand. It's as awesomely cracky as it sounds, and very well done.

And How Tonight We Will Turn In, by mireille719.
FRT. Gen.
The members of Torchwood Three don't sleep much.

Torchwood Three works late into the night, even when there's no crisis. There's always data to be analyzed or tests to be run or even filing to be done, and they rarely look at the others, taking in the shadows under their eyes or the weary slump of their shoulders, and suggest that they go and get some sleep.

None of them likes sleeping very much, these days.