In my head canon, Jack came out of the Bad Wolf experience kind of the opposite of Rose.... Whereas Bad Wolf has been all across the Doctor's life back in the past and into the future, Jack has been removed completely from the flow of time (which I guess is why he's called a fixed point -- though that doesn't make any sense per se!) And if he's no longer a thing within temporality I would think that it would be very disagreeable to a Time Lord, who perceives temportally, to live with him. I think that it would be easier in short doses.
As for why the Doctor ran away from Jack, I just always had the impression he did think that Jack was dead until later when he realized that he wasn't. In fact, if Jack was removed from temporality, then the Doctor really wouldn't have realized he was still alive -- and only later realized that Jack was "alive" (however it is that he is).
Plus, The Doctor has a convenient way of forgetting certain things during his regeneration, doesn't he? Primarily, his attachment to previous companions. Mental and emotional realignment seems to me like one of the key self-defense mechanisms of the regeneration process.
I've really enjoyed reading everyone's interpretations of one of the fuzziest pieces of obfuscation of Nine-Ten era.
One new idea that I've gotten from all this is that possibly it's not so much that Jack becomes a fixed point in time at the Station, but that he is involved in fixed points later -- the most critical being the whole terrifying Children of Earth incident. The Doctor wasn't going to be there and couldn't ever be going to be there because Jack was the key player-- essentially the fixed point at the heart of the whole 4 5 6 incident. It must have been heart breaking for him to realize the fate he will have been leaving Jack to -- Time Lord tenses, you know?
I talk about some of these ideas in my Nine/Rose/Jack story, " Eye of the Storm" (explicit threesome PotW AU where Nine lives and Jack doesn't get left behind) -- it's about the problems the Doctor has perceiving Jack and how they fix it (sex, yay!) :)
As for why the Doctor ran away from Jack, I just always had the impression he did think that Jack was dead until later when he realized that he wasn't. In fact, if Jack was removed from temporality, then the Doctor really wouldn't have realized he was still alive -- and only later realized that Jack was "alive" (however it is that he is).
Plus, The Doctor has a convenient way of forgetting certain things during his regeneration, doesn't he? Primarily, his attachment to previous companions. Mental and emotional realignment seems to me like one of the key self-defense mechanisms of the regeneration process.
I've really enjoyed reading everyone's interpretations of one of the fuzziest pieces of obfuscation of Nine-Ten era.
One new idea that I've gotten from all this is that possibly it's not so much that Jack becomes a fixed point in time at the Station, but that he is involved in fixed points later -- the most critical being the whole terrifying Children of Earth incident. The Doctor wasn't going to be there and couldn't ever be going to be there because Jack was the key player-- essentially the fixed point at the heart of the whole 4 5 6 incident. It must have been heart breaking for him to realize the fate he will have been leaving Jack to -- Time Lord tenses, you know?
I talk about some of these ideas in my Nine/Rose/Jack story, " Eye of the Storm" (explicit threesome PotW AU where Nine lives and Jack doesn't get left behind) -- it's about the problems the Doctor has perceiving Jack and how they fix it (sex, yay!) :)
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But then I'm convinced that he gets turned on by clocks being at the wrong time, so...
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