AU Meme - Day 26 - Doppelgangers

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Doppelgangers are a trope for a reason.

And are canonical in most of my fandoms (like the moment I saw the Gangers in Doctor Who, I knew there'd be a Doctor Ganger because if I was the SFX crew I couldn't have resisted the opportunity. Something about Matt Smith's skull fascinates me.)

And there's two ways you can do a doppelganger story - looks alike and acts really similar or looks alike and acts really differently, and sometimes that is affected by the why of why there's a doppelganger (accidental cloning, evil cloning, evil robot building etc).

Then you can also get the "which of us is the real one?" and identity and self and stuff.

I have chosen to go slightly silly with this one. There is some sci fi background. And I don't go beyond Doctor Who canonical levels of Jack making it obvious exactly what he, his doppelganger and Ianto will be doing.

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Torchwood fic, early season 2.

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"I want to defect," was not what anyone was expecting Jack to say as he came back through the portal to Orlat space.

Then again, they didn't expect Jack to be followed by a second Jack.

Torchwood, understandably, has procedures for this.

Both Jacks were locked into separate chambers, until Ianto could confirm which one was which.

Then again, Jack 1 was insisting he wasn't Jack. He was singing like a canary about the Thezut plan to infiltrate Torchwood. He'd been taken from his moon, and been transformed into Jack by untold painful surgeries, and then had faking being Jack beaten into him.

After the procedures had been completed, Ianto let the Jacks out of the holding area. As he'd been the one running the tests, he was also in charge of the betting pool Owen had insisted on.

"It's got to be him. He already knows." Owen looked at Gwen, "and no bribing him to tell you which one's Jack."

"As if I would."

"I remember the World Cup sweepstake." They all remembered what happened with the World Cup sweepstake.

Tosh gave her vote first. "Left."

Gwen took longer to decide. Right Jack winked at her, but that didn't mean anything because she's reasonably sure Left Jack was busy making improper suggestions to Ianto.

She walked round them. She's not sure. The Thezut did a very good job faking Jack, good enough that she's no idea how they're going handle whichever of the two isn't Jack going forward. She's no reason for it, but she feels like it's left too. "Left."

"Right," snaps Owen.

"Have you just gone with right because we've both gone left?"

"I might have. Or I might have my reasons."

They turned to Ianto and the Jacks. Ianto was putting on his coat, and had pocketed the money from the bet.

"Well?"

"You all owe tea money so I'm taking this for that."

"And we all have better things to do tonight." That was a Jack, but they'd both moved so it wasn't clear which one it was, and even if it was either of them could have said it. The two of them, and Ianto, were going to the exit. "We'll see you tomorrow."



Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel

Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover