How it Could Have Happened by Canaan [ - ]
Summary: This is a collection of scenes and stories that are canon-compliant. Everything here can be read stand-alone unless labeled otherwise, but they're all in the same continuity and do sometimes reference each other.
Categories: Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor
Characters: None
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Challenges: None

Ka!verse by Canaan [Reviews - 0]
Jack Harkness, post-CoE - angsty, but will become h/c as surely as it will one day be AU

Characters: None

Amelia!verse by Canaan [Reviews - 0]
"In a week or two, he'd have forgotten the quick grope in the alley, but he knew he'd remember the conversation with the kid for a long time." Set in Torchwood in the middle of the 20th century.

Characters: None

Wishing Well by Canaan [Reviews - 4]
"If I can't see it, do you suppose that'll keep it from falling on me?" pre-Nine/Jack/Rose

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2011.01.11
  • Updated: 2011.01.11
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 606

You Too, Huh? by Canaan [Reviews - 4]
That discussion Rose and Jack had. Prequel to "Unconditional" but can be read stand-alone.

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.06.05
  • Updated: 2009.06.06
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1274

Unconditional by Canaan [Reviews - 17]
How the TARDIS crew became something more. Nine/Jack/Rose

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Mixed

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.05.16
  • Updated: 2009.05.28
  • Chapters: 4
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 6009

More than Just Surviving by Canaan [Reviews - 6]
"He didn't know if he could turn the dream, but he could drive it away with his body." Nine/Jack/Rose

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Mixed, Standalone, Vignette

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.05.28
  • Updated: 2009.05.29
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1257

Sometimes by Canaan [Reviews - 8]
Love isn't always the same from moment to moment. But sometimes, put together, those moments are enough. Nine/Jack/Rose

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.05.09
  • Updated: 2009.05.10
  • Chapters: 2
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 491

Dirty by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
"Bet it sounds dirty."

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.05.13
  • Updated: 2009.05.14
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 201

Marōn by Canaan [Reviews - 3]
It haunts him in the middle of the night. Nine/Jack/(Rose)

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Slash, Vignette

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2010.09.05
  • Updated: 2010.09.05
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 207

On the Subject of Trust by Canaan [Reviews - 4]
"Loving was easy. Jack had practice. It was trust he'd forgotten." Nine/Jack/Rose

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • BDSM, Explicit Sex
  • Character Study, Mixed, PWP, Vignette

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.05.30
  • Updated: 2009.05.31
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 2026

Somebody's Gotta by Canaan [Reviews - 0]
"Somebody's got to." Nine/Jack/Rose

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2010.10.26
  • Updated: 2010.10.27
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 100

In a Tight Spot by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
"If you were pressed up against me this way in the King's audience chamber, I think I'd die on the spot." H/C PWP. Jack/Rose, implied Nine/Jack/Rose

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Fluff, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Mixed, PWP, Standalone

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.08.23
  • Updated: 2009.08.24
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1348

Fighting Dirty by Canaan [Reviews - 3]
Some things, even an 900-year-old Time Lord has a hard time living down. Nine/Jack, implied Nine/Jack/Rose

Characters: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (9th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2010.03.05
  • Updated: 2010.03.06
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 217

Togetherness by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
"He looked good in a suit. That was the first thing Lisa noticed about Ianto Jones." Ianto/Lisa, character study for Ianto

  • Torchwood
  • Teen
  • None
  • Angst, Character Study, Het, Standalone

Characters: Ianto Jones, Lisa Hallett
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.10.18
  • Updated: 2009.10.19
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 2488

The Inside Man by Canaan [Reviews - 6]
"I knew what I'd been offering. I'd known, every step of the way." Angst and dub!con. Ianto/Lisa, Ianto/Jack

  • Torchwood
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex, Non-Con
  • Angst, Character Study, Introspection, Missing Scene, Slash, Vignette

Characters: Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Lisa Hallett
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.12.28
  • Updated: 2009.12.28
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1433

Adjectives, or "Three Times Jack Didn't Shag a Member of His Team and the One Time He Got Played" by Canaan [Reviews - 8]
What it says on the tin. Four character studies from Jack's point of view. Jack/Gwen, Jack/Ianto

  • Torchwood
  • Teen
  • None
  • Character Study, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Slash, Standalone

Characters: Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.12.31
  • Updated: 2010.01.01
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1310

The Reasons Why by Canaan [Reviews - 0]
"It's not like playing around with a stopwatch or handcuffs." Jack/Ianto, references to Ianto/Lisa and Jack/OFC

  • Torchwood
  • Adult
  • BDSM, Explicit Sex
  • Character Study, Series, Slash, Vignette

Characters: Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2011.02.04
  • Updated: 2011.02.04
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 995

Parallax by Canaan [Reviews - 3]
Dying's no picnic. Ten/Jack

  • Tenth Doctor
  • Teen
  • None
  • Angst, Introspection, Missing Scene, Slash

Characters: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2010.03.11
  • Updated: 2010.03.12
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 173

And the Greatest of These . . . by Canaan [Reviews - 7]
"It's what sent him from a graveyard satellite to a time and place with no spaceflight, let alone time travel, all in the hope of seeing a half-mad alien and a blond girl with fabulous hips and a heart three times the usual size again." Ten/Jack

  • Tenth Doctor
  • Teen
  • None
  • Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Slash, Standalone

Characters: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.05.25
  • Updated: 2009.05.26
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 798

The Company He Keeps by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
The Master confronts the Doctor on an issue of propriety during the Year that Never Was. Jack/Ten

  • Tenth Doctor
  • Teen
  • None
  • Drabble, Missing Scene, Series, Slash

Characters: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th), The Master (Simm)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.08.23
  • Updated: 2009.08.23
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 100

Swordplay by Canaan [Reviews - 11]
Slices of character through the last ten minutes of LotTL. Sometimes, you have to open the wounds before they'll heal. Angsty as hell, but is in fact h/c.

  • Tenth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Angst, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Missing Scene, Slash

Characters: Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Other Character(s), The Doctor (10th), Tish Jones, UNIT
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.07.10
  • Updated: 2009.07.23
  • Chapters: 8
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 9352

Reaching Out by Canaan [Reviews - 1]
Jack and the Doctor, after the Valiant, toward the end of LotTL. Spoilers for SoD, as well.

  • Tenth Doctor
  • All Ages
  • None
  • Angst, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Missing Scene, Vignette

Characters: Jack Harkness, The Doctor (10th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.06.11
  • Updated: 2009.06.12
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1100

Mending by Canaan [Reviews - 5]
A series of ficlets about the year following the Year that Never Was. And what happened to the forgotten sister. Jack/Tish Jones

  • Tenth Doctor, Torchwood
  • Teen
  • None
  • Character Study, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Missing Scene, Standalone

Characters: Jack Harkness, Tish Jones
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.06.03
  • Updated: 2009.06.03
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 1370

Death Becomes Him by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
Dead is dead--except when it isn't. Missing scene in the middle of Dead Man Walking.

  • Torchwood
  • All Ages
  • None
  • Drama, Missing Scene, Standalone

Characters: Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.10.13
  • Updated: 2009.10.14
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 198

Leave Only Footprints by Canaan [Reviews - 5]
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." --Henry David Thoreau

  • Torchwood
  • All Ages
  • None
  • General, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Series, Standalone, Vignette

Characters: Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2011.01.09
  • Updated: 2011.01.09
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 705

Three Wishes by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
" . . . it's either a 52nd century sex toy--the kind of practical joke that will really liven up a party--or a primitive Morovian timelock big enough to seal in most of the south coast." Jack/Gwen/Ianto

  • Torchwood
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex, Swearing
  • Introspection, Mixed, PWP, Series, Standalone, Vignette

Characters: Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2010.08.29
  • Updated: 2010.08.29
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 2005

Your Eyes Say by Canaan [Reviews - 0]
She calls him Rhys the Rant for a reason. It doesn't make him wrong.

  • Torchwood
  • Teen
  • Swearing
  • Angst, Het, Missing Scene, Vignette

Characters: Gwen Cooper, Rhys Williams
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.08.28
  • Updated: 2009.08.28
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 153

A Tough Act to Follow by Canaan [Reviews - 4]
The changing face of Rose Tyler while stranded in a parallel universe. Canon-compliant, and therefore angsty.

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Teen
  • None
  • Angst, Character Study, Introspection, Standalone

Characters: Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Rose Tyler
Series: How it Could Have Happened, Twins!verse

  • Published: 2009.06.08
  • Updated: 2009.08.26
  • Chapters: 3
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 2056

Absent Friends by Canaan [Reviews - 3]
"Amy can't resist closed doors."

Characters: Amy Pond, Jack Harkness
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2010.08.31
  • Updated: 2010.08.31
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 220

finis by Canaan [Reviews - 0]
"Done. He was just done." CoE spoilers.

  • Torchwood
  • All Ages
  • None
  • Angst, Character Study, Drabble, Introspection

Characters: Jack Harkness
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.08.25
  • Updated: 2009.08.25
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 98

Empty by Canaan [Reviews - 2]
The bag is empty.

Characters: Lady Christina de Souza, Other Character(s)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2009.08.17
  • Updated: 2009.08.19
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 105

Two Studies for Desire by Canaan [Reviews - 4]
How Amy and Rory came to have bunk beds.

  • Eleventh Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Fluff, Het, Humor, Standalone, Vignette

Characters: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, The Doctor (11th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2011.06.21
  • Updated: 2011.06.21
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 963

Its Eyes Are for the Stars by Canaan [Reviews - 10]
The Doctor thinks he's so old, but Rory remembers two thousand years. Amy/Rory, pre-Eleven/Amy/Rory

  • Torchwood, Eleventh Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Character Study, Het, Introspection, Missing Scene, Mixed, Series, Slash, Standalone

Characters: Amy Pond, Jack Harkness, Other Character(s), Other Character(s), Rory Williams, The Doctor (11th)
Series: How it Could Have Happened

  • Published: 2011.08.28
  • Updated: 2011.08.28
  • Chapters: 1
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 5378