FIC: Torchwood (drabble) - For Whom the Bell Tolls

[fajrdrako]

Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness
Challenge: tw100, challenge: episode tag
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Episode tag for Torchwood series 1, episode 9, "Random Shoes". Cross-posted to my lj, and to tw100.


For Whom the Bell Tolls

Jack liked funerals.

It was universally accepted as fact that the inevitable outcome of life is death. Jack was the only exception.

Every funeral was a celebration of someone's life, and an acknowledgment of the meaning of their death. Good people, bad people, lonely people, loved people - it didn't matter. They had lived, and that meant something. Didn't matter how they lived.

Sometimes the casket held a lover. More often, a stranger. This time, a curious boy who'd swallowed a Dogon Eye. Stupid, but... charming.

Because life was beautiful, Jack cherished each death as if it were his own.