The wrong colour
That’s wrong!
And that was a thought Jack Harkness never knew he would have one day. He was Captain Jack Harkness! Immortal Hero! But he looked at her, looked into her green eyes and knew that this is the last thing he wants.
Green is the wrong colour! Blue is the new green, beautiful blue, like a sky on a warm summer day or like the sea after a storm. But green is just wrong. It’s the colour of life, of youth but also the colour of envy and jealousy. And it’s not the colour he wants anymore. He shoved her ungently away, and her green eyes looked hurt and accusing. It is the right decision!
“Gwen, look, maybe I was attracted to you, but this is gone. It’s gone a long time! “
“Jack! You kissed me!”
“No. You kissed me, don’t turn that on me! You have a fiancé at home, he is waiting…”
“I can…”
“Don’t you dare! Don’t say it! I don’t want to hear it Gwen Cooper. This is wrong and don’t want that!”
“But why, Jack? I thought you lov…”
“Love you?”, interrupted Jack her, “oh no! I was infatuated with you, I liked you. But I never loved you. I would shag you and then leave.”
“Why?” Gwen was close to tears, but Jack didn’t care for tears spilled from these eyes.
“You have the wrong eye colour.”
With this words Jack leaved her alone in the dark damp tunnels of Torchwood's Hub. There was only one colour he want to see when he open his eyes and that was blue.
“Coffee, Sir?”
Oh, yes, that was the right colour.
And Jack Harkness smiled.