-for the doctor]

[more_flexible]

After Chase...after Ace...Jack was ready to get out before anyone else saw her. Being on the second floor somewhat hindered that as she stood and looked at the Doctor's door. She wondered for a moment if he was the same, or if he'd gotten...feminized.

She knocked gently and called out against the door, her voice a velvety breath. "Doctor? Are you in there?"

[Preplay Genderswitch. Timed to Saturday morning]

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[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

He...well, she now...didn't recognise the voice, which led to the automatic instinct of 'who's in my house, get out', but it was clearly someone who knew her. "Yes," she said finally, voice still startlingly mid-range as it came out (if anything, he would have thought he'd be a soprano). "Come in?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

Jack opened the door and walked in slowly. She'd gotten some clothes from Ace...just a bra and t-shirt and jeans...but none of it concealed the curves, the thick dark hair, or the blue eyes that were the same as ever.

"Hi, um...oh. You too."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor raised an eyebrow at her, and it took a moment to figure out who it was. "Yeah," she replied, eyes rolling. "Hullo, Jack. Nice...outfit."

It looked like she was going to see Cyndi Lauper, whereas the Doctor merely had a button-down of Chase's and her own trousers on. No bra, there wasn't really a point.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Ace's clothes," she said, pushing hair back from her face. "Until I can get to the compound. My jeans wouldn't stay up."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"I wonder why," the Doctor said wryly, looking at her waist. The female Jack was quite similar to any extrapolation she would have had anyhow: thin but built solidly enough, not too tall.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

Jack shrugged. "Rob's a woman, too," she offered. "We woke up this morning and...yeah. Blonde. Strikingly familiar." She'd let the Doctor discover the Jane-likeness him--herself.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor, as it turned out, already had. She might have been smirking. "Yeah, I noticed. Thanks."

God, this was made twice as awkward.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

A smile flashed wide, his teeth just as wide and straight as ever. "No problem. How do you like it? New body?"

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor looked at her, brows up. It was a classic gesture. "I'm not exactly thrilled, as I liked the old one," she said, "but I'll manage. You?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"I kind of like it. Soft."

One hand slipped down her waist and over her hip and she watched it. "I've never been so...curvy."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

Another eyeroll. "You would." The novelty was wearing off, and the Doctor was remembering just why she had been moody at Jack before.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

Jack shot the Doctor a withering look and stood up straighter. "Right, well...I just thought I'd check in on you since I was here. I need to get home."

Except she didn't need to go back to the hut...she just wanted out of the treehouse.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor gave her a look. "Fine, so you knocked to just say, 'hullo, Doctor, I'm a girl now, look at my nice curves, okay, byeeeee'?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"No. I knocked to see if you were all right. Clearly, you're just the same as always," she shot back and turned to leave.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"What, am I supposed to panic and run about the island screaming that I want my cock back?" the Doctor asked. "And I'm not just the same, I'm just recalling unfinished business, which clearly you're not ready to put on the table yet."

She shook her head and stalked over to the bed, flopping down.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"We don't have any unfinished business," she replied from the doorway. "It's constantly two steps forward and one step back with you. When you're tired of dancing? You know where I live now," she said calmly, then closed the door behind her on the way out.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor gawked at her, scrambling to her feet and yanking the door open. "You're so full of shit, Jack Harkness," she yelled (and it didn't have half the gravitas she wanted, this bloody woman voice). "Grow a pair!"

She was tempted, for some bizarre reason, to throw things at her.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

Jack was already downstairs and answered the Doctor with the sound of the door closing. Contrary to what the Doctor might think, Jack had taken the words at the ball to heart.

He couldn't be everything for everyone. Not anymore.

Not even the Doctor.