Old friends meet

[forever_jack]

Characters: Jack Harkness, Martha Jones
Rating: R for disturbing subjects
Time Period: Modern
Location: Martha's room in the castle (Loft, I believe!)
Relative Date: A few days after the party, after Alexei killed Basil and Martha, Eddie and Jack came to deal with the mess and after Martha and Eddie watched Basil's body disappear
Status: Closed for

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[notrosesshadow]

Martha looked up at the knock. She had found a notebook and a pen on the table next to her, and had used it to write down the four messages she had to give. She had been staring at them when Jack knocked... still keeping herself in her emotionless state lest the damn break.

"The door's open," she called. Her voice had an edge to it, the type of edge that typically signaled someone was working really hard to hold themselves together.

[forever_jack]

At the sound of the tension in her voice, Jack braced himself and pushed the door open, pausing a moment once in to take in the room before closing the door gently behind him and crossing swiftly to Martha.

"Hey," he said softly, dropping to one knee beside her and taking her cold hands in his big, warm ones. "I'm sorry, Martha."

[notrosesshadow]

"The body disappeared... I cleaned it up... stitched the wounds... and then it disappeared." When he touched her hand, she felt the damn start to break. A little bit here... a little there. She started shaking as she tried to control herself, but she felt tears start to leak from her eyes. "And we couldn't get it back... just gone."

[forever_jack]

It took him a moment to realise what she was saying. When he did, however, he immediately tried to reassure her. "Shhh," he crooned, moving onto both knees before her so he could pull her into a hug. "It's okay. That happens here sometimes. But it's good! It means he'll be resurrected!"

[notrosesshadow]

And then everything fell away. She felt the sobs come... sobs that had been waiting to come for months now but never had a chance to since she had to be strong for her family. Sobs that had been bad before, and just worsened since coming to the damn castle. She sobbed in Jack's arms, grateful that one of the two people who could maybe understand her was here, holding her.