Torchwood 3: traditionally short life expectancy.

Everything here is what you can assume holds true for my baseline canon Jack. Details may change in AU versions, but...

( We're catching bullets with our heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us... )

who_topia: Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. - Sallust, Roman historian, c. 40 B.C.

The Doctor has sex with Jack sometimes. And Jack doesn't mind, and Jack sure as hell doesn't complain, and of course Jack enjoys it, but it's not the way he'd prefer things.

( Love and other socially acceptable emotions are morphine, cleverly concealing primal urges... )

( But I believe the world is burning to the ground... )

who_topia: Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere. - H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines

Jack never meant to like Alice Guppy. He never meant to like any of them, not after they'd ( Read more... )

justprompts: Unintended - Muse

It occurs to Jack every now and then that he doesn't know how this happened. He loves all of his team, but there's a gap between love and in love, and one day he looked up and found he'd slipped somehow from one to the other ( Read more... )

who_topia: If you have to choose, will you more likely pick justice or mercy?Jack's whole body is humming with adrenaline as he jogs up to the bridge of the Valiant. A couple dozen deaths in a row will do that to you, and Toclafane are - were - nothing if not good at killing. Underneath the adrenaline, there's a dull, distant ache that's only going to get ( Read more... )

justprompts: What Do I Have to Do? - Stabbing Westward

he is
the favored son of a favored race.

you are
the forgotten son of a nowhere planet.

( What do I have to do to make you happy? )

who_topia: Rooftop picture
Spoilers for "Fragments"Jack didn't hear her coming. That was strange for him, but he supposed it didn't matter much. If he was just going to come back every time someone killed him, there wasn't a whole lot for him to worry about. He glanced over his shoulder, just long enough to identify her - the Scottish one - and then snorted ( Read more... )

who_topia: Earth below us/drifting falling/floating weightless/calling calling home... - "Major Tom", Peter SchillingJack's familiar with silence. The silence of lying in bed in the middle of the night, darkness pressing in comfortably around him, where the only things that break it are the sound of someone's breathing, the sound of a heartbeat. Recently, ( Read more... )