Original Fic:
Departures, by
wojelahRemix: Returns (The Megalomaniac God Complex Remix) [Ten (somewhat shippy with Jack and more generally his companions as a whole), 100 Words, Rated G, angst] by
lodessa They are talking about him. The Doctor knows this, and sometimes nothing makes him feel more lonely. He should be glad of it. The guilt can be worse than the loneliness even. It has to be. He's slipped up before.
There's just something about them, stupid apes or not, something beautiful and alive. It's a warmth he longs to live in. Later, later he will justify that Jack isn't one of them anymore, that it is different. It's just a different kind of self-loathing, but for just a brief moment, he basks. Maybe, in a few thousand years. He hopes.