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Fanfiction: Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice (1sentence)
Because Balthier, Fran and Captain Jack Harkness are without doubt the greatest trio never to work together, I have written fifty sentences of Jack/Balthier for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
1sentence! The Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice do not actually do much time-travelling in these, but I enjoyed writing them, and I hope you enjoy reading.
Title: Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice: In Which Our Heroes' Exploits Must Be Recounted In A Drastically Limited Space
Fandoms: Doctor Who/Final Fantasy XII
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Captain Jack Harkness/Balthier, some Jack/Fran and Balthier/Fran
Summary: Fifty sentences of the relationship between Jack and Balthier.
Notes: Set post-'Parting of the Ways' for Jack and prior to the events of Final Fantasy XII for Balthier and Fran.
1. Comfort
Offering consolation is an area in which neither Balthier nor Fran possess much expertise, but when Jack is particularly preoccupied by this ‘Doctor’ Balthier instructs him to cease his moping and takes him out to hunt marks, and sometimes it seems to help.
2. Kiss
A kiss was not precisely the reward Balthier had expected for freeing their new acquaintance from his imprisonment, but he had certainly had much poorer hauls in the past.
3. Soft
“You are fond of him,” she says, her voice amused, and Balthier rolls his eyes and says, “Quiet, Fran.”
4. Pain
Balthier feels at first that it was foolish to take Jack along – he knows no magicks or technicks, and will probably serve only to slow them down before in all likelihood being unpleasantly killed – but then the man makes barely a murmur of complaint upon receiving a Saurian fang through the shoulder, and that is when Balthier begins to realise that they may have acquired something rather special.
5. Potatoes
As it turns out, the bag of priceless jewels they have liberated is in fact a sack of potatoes, but, Balthier thinks, as he and Jack exchange exhausted smirks, it’s not about the having; it’s the exhilaration of the chase that made him turn to piracy in the first place.
6. Rain
“Thank you, Jack,” Balthier says, when they have extricated themselves from the spectacular but exceedingly dampening Giza Plains, “but I believe I can change my clothes without assistance.”
7. Chocolate
Jack is an incorrigible flirt and quite possibly a lunatic, but, as he raises the cup to his lips, Balthier feels he can forgive him rather a lot for the suggestion that they try sweetening xocolatl.
8. Happiness
Seated at a table in the Sandsea and counting out the spoils (Jack’s share rather smaller than the other two, on account of the ‘were it not for our beneficence you would still have your lodgings in a cell’ tax), Balthier feels that being here, with such companions, is the closest he has ever come to pure bliss; not that he will ever tell Harkness, as the man would be insufferable.
9. Telephone
There were magicks that allowed communication over long distances, but before Jack took it upon himself to educate him the concept of ‘phonesex’ had never occurred to Balthier.
10. Ears
When Jack runs a finger along the furred edge of one of Fran’s ears, she flicks them back and gives him a look that could have encased a Bomb in ice, and from then he sticks to toying with Balthier’s; he complains (“Do stop your fondling, Jack; I’m trying to read”), but at least he doesn’t make Jack feel he’s about to be seriously wounded.
11. Name
“I mean your real name,” Jack says, rolling his eyes, and ‘Balthier’, as he calls himself, looks coolly at him for a moment before saying, “I could ask the same of you, Mr Harkness.”
12. Sensual
Balthier is crouched, his hand splayed on Jack’s bloodied side, feeling the warmth of the magick flowing down his arm; it’s just another healing spell, and the intimacy of it doesn’t occur to him until Jack leans up to kiss him.
13. Death
Fran deems him beyond the help of Phoenix Downs, and she has a keen eye for such things, so Balthier is more than a little intrigued when their recently-deceased companion sits up and begins taking breaths.
14. Sex
When Balthier chanced upon Harkness and Fran copulating on the metallic floor of the hold, Fran still wearing most of her armour, he knew he was envious; the only question was whom he envied more.
15. Touch
It’s nothing Balthier hasn’t tried himself, he thinks, watching Jack wrap himself around the owner of a bejewelled sword they rather hope to acquire, but he can’t help disapproving of Jack’s strategy on some instinctual level.
16. Weakness
“She’s beautiful,” Jack murmured the first time he saw the Strahl, and Balthier, who had intended to reserve judgement on their new companion, found himself immediately much more disposed to like him.
17. Tears
Balthier does not weep after Jack departs in search of his Doctor, but with the loss of the Wood’s voice Fran’s ears have become attuned to his thoughts, and she knows he is feeling his absence.
18. Speed
Forcing the hoverbike to accommodate three is no small task, but when they are blasting through the courtyard, the outraged cries of soldiers below them and Jack’s laughter warm by his ear, Balthier feels it was an effort worth making.
19. Wind
Jack is standing on the edge of the cliff, his long coat flapping in the wind; he has evidently adopted the position purely for the dramatic effect, and Balthier intends to mock him for it incessantly.
20. Freedom
“It could take you anywhere in time and space,” Jack says, and Balthier, patting the side of the Strahl, thinks that command of the skies is all the freedom he needs.
21. Life
Balthier eventually comes to understand that Jack views his immortality as a curse, which causes him to raise an eyebrow; with an existence of skyborne adventure and a companion in the long-lived Fran, he would be happy to take it off Jack’s hands.
22. Jealousy
Balthier can sense that Jack intends to stay only until he hears tidings of his ‘Doctor’, and, although he remains externally calm, it angers him; he has never been satisfied with being second best.
23. Hands
One day, as a reward for Jack’s finally conducting himself in a manner more befitting a sky pirate than a streetwalker, Balthier allows him to handle the Altair, and he is taken aback by how competent and dangerous the man suddenly looks with a gun in his hands.
24. Taste
Balthier’s tastes generally run towards the female of the species, whatever the species in question might be, and so he is certainly surprised when his and Jack’s mocking relationship eventually leads them to a bed, but he cannot say he is displeased.
25. Devotion
“If this ‘Doctor’ of yours left you to your own devices amongst the cadavers,” Balthier remarks, polishing his gun, “perhaps you should reconsider who your real friends are,” and, yes, he may have a point, but Jack knows it’s not that easy to forget.
26. Forever
They don’t discuss his staying, but one day Balthier stops referring to Jack’s room as ‘the guest quarters’, and that’s when Jack realises he has a home.
27. Blood
It is a dark fantasy of Balthier’s, and one he has never before indulged, but having a partner who cannot truly die does rather invite sexual experimentation.
28. Sickness
After a run-in with a Malboro, Balthier is left disease-addled, barely conscious and unable to see, and, although he imagines that being in his presence must be a fairly revolting experience when his wounds will not heal and his skin is slick with oil, Jack never leaves his side.
29. Melody
Fran sometimes sings as they fly, strange wordless melodies that Balthier finds rather soothing; somewhat less soothing is the effect when Jack joins in, but Balthier is too amused to prevent him.
30. Star
The night sky above the Estersand is spectacular, but perhaps not spectacular enough to justify the amount of time Jack has spent staring at it; “Looking for something?” Balthier enquires, and only when Jack fails to answer does it occur to him that, yes, he probably is.
31. Home
“Come with me,” Jack says, his look imploring; “we can find the Doctor together, we can – ” and Balthier laughs, and gestures to the ship around them, and says, “There are things that matter more to me than your company, Harkness.”
32. Confusion
Jack swore repeatedly as Balthier fired a second time at Fran and she barely managed to leap out of the way; this was so not what he had been hoping for when he bought the ‘Charm’ technick.
33. Fear
“I thought you’d left me behind,” Jack says, and Balthier, raising an eyebrow at his haunted expression (this is the man who has faced giants and wraiths without flinching), says, “Well, that would have been a very ignoble act.”
34. Lightning/Thunder
Jack has somehow escaped knowledge of even the simplest magicks prior to their acquaintance, but he is a quick learner, and as Balthier stands on the Giza Plains and watches him calling up a storm he feels something almost like pride.
35. Bonds
They first encounter Jack in an Archadian dungeon, and as Balthier looks distastefully down at the prisoner he does not suspect that the sight of Jack in handcuffs is one with which he is to become intimately familiar.
36. Market
Balthier quickly learns not to ask Jack how he persuades vendors to drop their prices so dramatically.
37. Technology
Jack is a mystery – the things he knows, the impossible device he carries about on his wrist – and Balthier, who has always had a weakness for mysteries, is determined to take him apart and discover everything he is concealing.
38. Gift
“I do not need a licence to wear pants,” Jack said in incredulity, but as it turned out he did, and he didn’t mind too much, either, despite Balthier’s increasingly desperate efforts just to give him some of his own hard-earned licence points.
39. Smile
Before he leaves, Jack kisses Fran, and kisses Balthier, and then hesitates, with a sad, awkward smile; he would stay if asked, Balthier knows, but sky pirates are too proud to beg.
40. Innocence
Balthier has taught Jack of magicks and technicks, the effectiveness of Water against Cockatrices and other things even the tiniest Hume-child knows, but still Jack sometimes looks at Balthier as if he pities or envies him, as if Balthier is the one who knows nothing of the world, and Balthier finds it infuriating.
41. Completion
He and Fran are a unit, a team; it’s them and the ship and the sky, and they need nothing else to complete them, but he’s come to rather like having Jack around, all the same.
42. Clouds
The memory of this Doctor is a constant shadow over their relationship, but Balthier is a skilled pilot; he is convinced that he will be able to bring them above the clouds sooner or later.
43. Sky
It’s a long time before he allows Jack to take the controls, but the man handles her with a gentle touch, weaving her through other ships as if he’s spent all his life in the sky, and Balthier, in spite of himself, is impressed.
44. Heaven
The vista is spectacular, sweeping fields below them and Bur-Omisace rising in the distance, and Jack, leaning on the back of the pilot’s seat, says, “Great view, huh?”; Balthier, feeling perfectly content, replies, “Only the company is wanting.”
45. Hell
“I cannot imagine a more irritating cellmate,” Balthier comments, tapping his fingers on the stone wall; Jack just grins.
46. Sun
Balthier chooses not to mention his time as a Judge, and he knows Jack is keeping things from him; their alliance is bright and blazing and in-the-moment, and all they can do is pretend they suspect nothing of each other’s little darknesses and speak only of what they are willing to expose to the light of day.
47. Moon
“I’m missing two years of my memories,” Jack says abruptly one night, and Balthier considers for a moment before saying, “Well, I suppose we’d better create some new ones.”
48. Waves
Balthier is flying far too low, almost skimming the ocean; Fran is unimpressed, but when Balthier sees Jack’s smirk he knows he is not the only one here with an insuppressible fondness for spectacle.
49. Hair
He’s come a hair’s breadth from death, seen the doors of the beyond opening to receive him, and when he comes choking and spluttering back to the material world he finds himself in Jack’s arms and realises, for the first time, that he is more to this man than ‘not the Doctor’.
50. Supernova
The blast obliterates the Behemoth and rushes past Balthier like a high wind; after a quick glance to check on Fran, he looks at Jack, who grins back at him and says, “Guess I finally got the hang of this Quickening thing, huh?”
(Other tales of the Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice, in order: In Which Our Heroes Meet, In Which Our Heroes Eventually Get Around To What They Came Here For and In Which Our Heroes Spend Some Quality Time in a Dungeon (the last by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thebaconfat (and amazing!)).)
1sentence! The Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice do not actually do much time-travelling in these, but I enjoyed writing them, and I hope you enjoy reading.Title: Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice: In Which Our Heroes' Exploits Must Be Recounted In A Drastically Limited Space
Fandoms: Doctor Who/Final Fantasy XII
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Captain Jack Harkness/Balthier, some Jack/Fran and Balthier/Fran
Summary: Fifty sentences of the relationship between Jack and Balthier.
Notes: Set post-'Parting of the Ways' for Jack and prior to the events of Final Fantasy XII for Balthier and Fran.
1. Comfort
Offering consolation is an area in which neither Balthier nor Fran possess much expertise, but when Jack is particularly preoccupied by this ‘Doctor’ Balthier instructs him to cease his moping and takes him out to hunt marks, and sometimes it seems to help.
2. Kiss
A kiss was not precisely the reward Balthier had expected for freeing their new acquaintance from his imprisonment, but he had certainly had much poorer hauls in the past.
3. Soft
“You are fond of him,” she says, her voice amused, and Balthier rolls his eyes and says, “Quiet, Fran.”
4. Pain
Balthier feels at first that it was foolish to take Jack along – he knows no magicks or technicks, and will probably serve only to slow them down before in all likelihood being unpleasantly killed – but then the man makes barely a murmur of complaint upon receiving a Saurian fang through the shoulder, and that is when Balthier begins to realise that they may have acquired something rather special.
5. Potatoes
As it turns out, the bag of priceless jewels they have liberated is in fact a sack of potatoes, but, Balthier thinks, as he and Jack exchange exhausted smirks, it’s not about the having; it’s the exhilaration of the chase that made him turn to piracy in the first place.
6. Rain
“Thank you, Jack,” Balthier says, when they have extricated themselves from the spectacular but exceedingly dampening Giza Plains, “but I believe I can change my clothes without assistance.”
7. Chocolate
Jack is an incorrigible flirt and quite possibly a lunatic, but, as he raises the cup to his lips, Balthier feels he can forgive him rather a lot for the suggestion that they try sweetening xocolatl.
8. Happiness
Seated at a table in the Sandsea and counting out the spoils (Jack’s share rather smaller than the other two, on account of the ‘were it not for our beneficence you would still have your lodgings in a cell’ tax), Balthier feels that being here, with such companions, is the closest he has ever come to pure bliss; not that he will ever tell Harkness, as the man would be insufferable.
9. Telephone
There were magicks that allowed communication over long distances, but before Jack took it upon himself to educate him the concept of ‘phonesex’ had never occurred to Balthier.
10. Ears
When Jack runs a finger along the furred edge of one of Fran’s ears, she flicks them back and gives him a look that could have encased a Bomb in ice, and from then he sticks to toying with Balthier’s; he complains (“Do stop your fondling, Jack; I’m trying to read”), but at least he doesn’t make Jack feel he’s about to be seriously wounded.
11. Name
“I mean your real name,” Jack says, rolling his eyes, and ‘Balthier’, as he calls himself, looks coolly at him for a moment before saying, “I could ask the same of you, Mr Harkness.”
12. Sensual
Balthier is crouched, his hand splayed on Jack’s bloodied side, feeling the warmth of the magick flowing down his arm; it’s just another healing spell, and the intimacy of it doesn’t occur to him until Jack leans up to kiss him.
13. Death
Fran deems him beyond the help of Phoenix Downs, and she has a keen eye for such things, so Balthier is more than a little intrigued when their recently-deceased companion sits up and begins taking breaths.
14. Sex
When Balthier chanced upon Harkness and Fran copulating on the metallic floor of the hold, Fran still wearing most of her armour, he knew he was envious; the only question was whom he envied more.
15. Touch
It’s nothing Balthier hasn’t tried himself, he thinks, watching Jack wrap himself around the owner of a bejewelled sword they rather hope to acquire, but he can’t help disapproving of Jack’s strategy on some instinctual level.
16. Weakness
“She’s beautiful,” Jack murmured the first time he saw the Strahl, and Balthier, who had intended to reserve judgement on their new companion, found himself immediately much more disposed to like him.
17. Tears
Balthier does not weep after Jack departs in search of his Doctor, but with the loss of the Wood’s voice Fran’s ears have become attuned to his thoughts, and she knows he is feeling his absence.
18. Speed
Forcing the hoverbike to accommodate three is no small task, but when they are blasting through the courtyard, the outraged cries of soldiers below them and Jack’s laughter warm by his ear, Balthier feels it was an effort worth making.
19. Wind
Jack is standing on the edge of the cliff, his long coat flapping in the wind; he has evidently adopted the position purely for the dramatic effect, and Balthier intends to mock him for it incessantly.
20. Freedom
“It could take you anywhere in time and space,” Jack says, and Balthier, patting the side of the Strahl, thinks that command of the skies is all the freedom he needs.
21. Life
Balthier eventually comes to understand that Jack views his immortality as a curse, which causes him to raise an eyebrow; with an existence of skyborne adventure and a companion in the long-lived Fran, he would be happy to take it off Jack’s hands.
22. Jealousy
Balthier can sense that Jack intends to stay only until he hears tidings of his ‘Doctor’, and, although he remains externally calm, it angers him; he has never been satisfied with being second best.
23. Hands
One day, as a reward for Jack’s finally conducting himself in a manner more befitting a sky pirate than a streetwalker, Balthier allows him to handle the Altair, and he is taken aback by how competent and dangerous the man suddenly looks with a gun in his hands.
24. Taste
Balthier’s tastes generally run towards the female of the species, whatever the species in question might be, and so he is certainly surprised when his and Jack’s mocking relationship eventually leads them to a bed, but he cannot say he is displeased.
25. Devotion
“If this ‘Doctor’ of yours left you to your own devices amongst the cadavers,” Balthier remarks, polishing his gun, “perhaps you should reconsider who your real friends are,” and, yes, he may have a point, but Jack knows it’s not that easy to forget.
26. Forever
They don’t discuss his staying, but one day Balthier stops referring to Jack’s room as ‘the guest quarters’, and that’s when Jack realises he has a home.
27. Blood
It is a dark fantasy of Balthier’s, and one he has never before indulged, but having a partner who cannot truly die does rather invite sexual experimentation.
28. Sickness
After a run-in with a Malboro, Balthier is left disease-addled, barely conscious and unable to see, and, although he imagines that being in his presence must be a fairly revolting experience when his wounds will not heal and his skin is slick with oil, Jack never leaves his side.
29. Melody
Fran sometimes sings as they fly, strange wordless melodies that Balthier finds rather soothing; somewhat less soothing is the effect when Jack joins in, but Balthier is too amused to prevent him.
30. Star
The night sky above the Estersand is spectacular, but perhaps not spectacular enough to justify the amount of time Jack has spent staring at it; “Looking for something?” Balthier enquires, and only when Jack fails to answer does it occur to him that, yes, he probably is.
31. Home
“Come with me,” Jack says, his look imploring; “we can find the Doctor together, we can – ” and Balthier laughs, and gestures to the ship around them, and says, “There are things that matter more to me than your company, Harkness.”
32. Confusion
Jack swore repeatedly as Balthier fired a second time at Fran and she barely managed to leap out of the way; this was so not what he had been hoping for when he bought the ‘Charm’ technick.
33. Fear
“I thought you’d left me behind,” Jack says, and Balthier, raising an eyebrow at his haunted expression (this is the man who has faced giants and wraiths without flinching), says, “Well, that would have been a very ignoble act.”
34. Lightning/Thunder
Jack has somehow escaped knowledge of even the simplest magicks prior to their acquaintance, but he is a quick learner, and as Balthier stands on the Giza Plains and watches him calling up a storm he feels something almost like pride.
35. Bonds
They first encounter Jack in an Archadian dungeon, and as Balthier looks distastefully down at the prisoner he does not suspect that the sight of Jack in handcuffs is one with which he is to become intimately familiar.
36. Market
Balthier quickly learns not to ask Jack how he persuades vendors to drop their prices so dramatically.
37. Technology
Jack is a mystery – the things he knows, the impossible device he carries about on his wrist – and Balthier, who has always had a weakness for mysteries, is determined to take him apart and discover everything he is concealing.
38. Gift
“I do not need a licence to wear pants,” Jack said in incredulity, but as it turned out he did, and he didn’t mind too much, either, despite Balthier’s increasingly desperate efforts just to give him some of his own hard-earned licence points.
39. Smile
Before he leaves, Jack kisses Fran, and kisses Balthier, and then hesitates, with a sad, awkward smile; he would stay if asked, Balthier knows, but sky pirates are too proud to beg.
40. Innocence
Balthier has taught Jack of magicks and technicks, the effectiveness of Water against Cockatrices and other things even the tiniest Hume-child knows, but still Jack sometimes looks at Balthier as if he pities or envies him, as if Balthier is the one who knows nothing of the world, and Balthier finds it infuriating.
41. Completion
He and Fran are a unit, a team; it’s them and the ship and the sky, and they need nothing else to complete them, but he’s come to rather like having Jack around, all the same.
42. Clouds
The memory of this Doctor is a constant shadow over their relationship, but Balthier is a skilled pilot; he is convinced that he will be able to bring them above the clouds sooner or later.
43. Sky
It’s a long time before he allows Jack to take the controls, but the man handles her with a gentle touch, weaving her through other ships as if he’s spent all his life in the sky, and Balthier, in spite of himself, is impressed.
44. Heaven
The vista is spectacular, sweeping fields below them and Bur-Omisace rising in the distance, and Jack, leaning on the back of the pilot’s seat, says, “Great view, huh?”; Balthier, feeling perfectly content, replies, “Only the company is wanting.”
45. Hell
“I cannot imagine a more irritating cellmate,” Balthier comments, tapping his fingers on the stone wall; Jack just grins.
46. Sun
Balthier chooses not to mention his time as a Judge, and he knows Jack is keeping things from him; their alliance is bright and blazing and in-the-moment, and all they can do is pretend they suspect nothing of each other’s little darknesses and speak only of what they are willing to expose to the light of day.
47. Moon
“I’m missing two years of my memories,” Jack says abruptly one night, and Balthier considers for a moment before saying, “Well, I suppose we’d better create some new ones.”
48. Waves
Balthier is flying far too low, almost skimming the ocean; Fran is unimpressed, but when Balthier sees Jack’s smirk he knows he is not the only one here with an insuppressible fondness for spectacle.
49. Hair
He’s come a hair’s breadth from death, seen the doors of the beyond opening to receive him, and when he comes choking and spluttering back to the material world he finds himself in Jack’s arms and realises, for the first time, that he is more to this man than ‘not the Doctor’.
50. Supernova
The blast obliterates the Behemoth and rushes past Balthier like a high wind; after a quick glance to check on Fran, he looks at Jack, who grins back at him and says, “Guess I finally got the hang of this Quickening thing, huh?”
(Other tales of the Time-Travelling Sky Pirates of Ivalice, in order: In Which Our Heroes Meet, In Which Our Heroes Eventually Get Around To What They Came Here For and In Which Our Heroes Spend Some Quality Time in a Dungeon (the last by
thebaconfat (and amazing!)).)