Title: Healing Author: fajrdrako Characters: Captain Jack Harkness, The Doctor Challenge: #12: shadows Rating: G Words: 100 Notes: Spoilers for the ending of Torchwood season 1. Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.
Nice one. I like the image of the Doctor putting Jack back together again, especially when it seems sometimes at Torchwood than none of them remember how broken he is.
I don't think - at Torchwood - anyone knows how broken Jack really is. They don't know about his childhood/youth in war - only the other Jack knows that. They don't know he lost the Doctor and Rose. They don't know how long he's been alive (and neither do we). They don't know he lost two years of his memories. So they only see the effects, not the causes, and Jack can cover pretty well.
I don't think there's any way for the Torchwood staff to know how broken Jack is. From what we see he shares bits and pieces - tiny bits and pieces - of who he is with them. Like not sleeping, or that he can't die. When it's a real question, a hard one, he just doesn't answer.
What's more they didn't know him when he *had* the Doctor. They haven't seen the man he used to be and there's nothing there for them to compare it to. They only know him as he is, not as he was, so why would they assume he's 'broken' instead of just. Well, Jack?
(All of that said, beautiful drabble. I really love the idea of the Doctor in Jack's mind. Telepathy's an odd kink of mine, and not really a sexual one. There's just something about the *intimacy* and invasiveness that appeal to me)
No, I agree, and Jack doesn't exactly advertise his degree of damage. What he does confide is generally on an individual basis - usually to Gwen, but occasionally to others. And as you say, they have never seen Jack as he was with the Doctor, so they don't know how he has changed. Tosh and Gwen both know he once died and came back to life, but they don't know anything about the Daleks or Satellite Five. They don't know about his being a soldier when you, or seeing his friend tortured. They know... barely the tip of the Jack-iceberg.
I'm so glad you liked my drabble, and the telepathy - yes, I share your attraction for that, and it's another thing among many that I love about the Doctor and his nature.
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What's more they didn't know him when he *had* the Doctor. They haven't seen the man he used to be and there's nothing there for them to compare it to. They only know him as he is, not as he was, so why would they assume he's 'broken' instead of just. Well, Jack?
(All of that said, beautiful drabble. I really love the idea of the Doctor in Jack's mind. Telepathy's an odd kink of mine, and not really a sexual one. There's just something about the *intimacy* and invasiveness that appeal to me)
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I'm so glad you liked my drabble, and the telepathy - yes, I share your attraction for that, and it's another thing among many that I love about the Doctor and his nature.
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This is lovely.
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