Dark Retrospect by jer832 [ - ]
Summary: The gift that Rose Tyler had been given isn't the simple little bit of pretty chain and beads it seems to be; and when the Dreamers wake hungry, Rose's and the Doctor's fantasies make a perfect meal. Under the Dreamers' control, they act out dark hungry passions. The aftermath is pain and hurt that the Doctor and Rose can't seem to stop inflicting on each other, themselves, and Jack Harkness. At the center of a maelstrom of emotional torment and devastation, guilt, and self-loathing is a Time Lord who blames himself for everything.

Please note that the Dreamers' domination makes their original tryst apparently unconsenting. Those two chapters are so noted and can be skipped, though issues of intention, responsibility, and guilt are subsequently addressed.
Categories: Ninth Doctor
Characters: The Doctor (9th), Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Other Character(s)
Genres: Angst, Character Study, Drama, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Series
Warnings: Explicit Sex, Explicit Violence
Challenges: None

DARK RETROSPECT, Book 1: "I watched it happen. I made it happen." by jer832 [Reviews - 11]
Just another day of world saving, followed by lust, unconsenting passion, recrimination, and cascading guilt. Part 1 of the 3-part novella, the title is from Nine's dialog in Robert Shearman's "Dalek".

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex, Explicit Violence
  • Angst, Character Study, Drama, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: Dark Retrospect

  • Published: 2013.08.10
  • Updated: 2013.10.12
  • Chapters: 7
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 10057

DARK RETROSPECT, Book 2: "Coward. Any Day." by jer832 [Reviews - 4]
(Part 2 of 3) Imprisonment and torture are the high point of the Doctor's and Jack's day, a temporary lull in the trio's self-torture. As they wait for Rose to rescue them, battered and barely able to breathe without coughing up blood they finally can begin to talk. Later, still wracked with guilt over what she'd let herself do to him, Rose asks the Doctor to take her home, and the Doctor implodes. Jack plays his biggest, most dangerous con ever and finds himself facing the fury and savage strength of an out-of-control Time Lord. The title is from "The Parting of the Ways" by Russell T. Davies.

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Violence
  • Angst, Character Study, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Series

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: Dark Retrospect

  • Published: 2013.11.15
  • Updated: 2013.12.11
  • Chapters: 5
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 25114

DARK RETROSPECT, Book 3: "This is Who I am; Right Here, Right Now." by jer832 [Reviews - 1]
The final book in DARK RETROSPECT. Stripped of all pretence and preconceptions, the Doctor and Rose finally face each other and all the consequences of the fantaisie sinistre. As for Jack Harkness - Finding himself kicked down further than he'd ever thought he could fall, Jack decides to get himself up and get far away from the two people he's come to love enough to die for. The title is from Nine's dialog in Russell T. Davies' "The End of the World".

  • Ninth Doctor
  • Adult
  • Explicit Sex
  • Angst, Character Study, Drama, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Mixed, Romance

Characters: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th)
Series: Dark Retrospect

  • Published: 2013.12.12
  • Updated: 2013.12.15
  • Chapters: 4
  • Completed: Yes
  • Word count: 11938