FIC: Torchwood (drabble) - Pilrgim

[fajrdrako]

Title: Pilgrim
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack/Jack
Challenge: tw100, challenge: america(n); also at_the_ritz Weekly Challenge #66: 'It's in the past now'.
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for Torchwood episode 1x12, "Captain Jack Harkness". Cross-posted to my lj, to at_the_ritz and to tw100.


Pilgrim

Jack went to New York on business regarding UNIT, telling no one about the side trip he planned. That was his own business.

There wasn't a lot left to see in Albany, Texas. Jack wished he had a working vortex manipulator, to watch a boy growing to manhood in the nineteen-thirties. He wandered, breathing the atmosphere, until arriving at the gravestone he had come to see. In Protestant fashion, it was stark, simple: Jack Harkness, 1912-1941, and below that, For his country.

Jack knelt, eyes closed in remembrance.

Death was cold, but the warmth of love transcended everything.

Comments

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Lovely. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I love both Captain Jacks... it felt good to write about them again.

[shane-mayhem.livejournal.com]

How true, to think...that he'd want to see his namesake grow up, to learn more about his life.

I like this a lot.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

When our Jack met Captain Jack Harkness, the Captain had no future. As our Jack was so well aware. But he did have a past, and I think Jack would want to know it. We know about the toy plane on his desk and the cufflinks and the clippings about Harkness. I think Jack would want still more - as much as he could, to know more about Jack's life than the public face of a soldier.