drabbling Torchwood
Jul. 11th, 2009 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotRegarding Torchwood: Children of Earth: Um. I don't know. Ask me later.
For now, a drabble. Jack Harkness, post-CoE, so spoilers (if oblique ones).
The Limits of Infinity
Jack wants to go to Alice, put a knife in her hand. A gun. A needle. A stone. Kneel before her, open his shirt and say, here, right here. Again and again, as many deaths as it takes.
He doesn't, because she doesn't deserve that. Not when infinity's not enough.
If the blood he sheds counted for anything, he'd let it all for her.
In a year--a decade, a millennium--it'll hurt less. Memories fade, whatever he promised. Someday, he'll forget everything.
That fact is almost Jack's heaviest sin.
The only one worse is how much he wants to.
For now, a drabble. Jack Harkness, post-CoE, so spoilers (if oblique ones).
The Limits of Infinity
Jack wants to go to Alice, put a knife in her hand. A gun. A needle. A stone. Kneel before her, open his shirt and say, here, right here. Again and again, as many deaths as it takes.
He doesn't, because she doesn't deserve that. Not when infinity's not enough.
If the blood he sheds counted for anything, he'd let it all for her.
In a year--a decade, a millennium--it'll hurt less. Memories fade, whatever he promised. Someday, he'll forget everything.
That fact is almost Jack's heaviest sin.
The only one worse is how much he wants to.
